Power, History, Diaspora | Workshop for Graduate Student Scholars of Hong Kong and its Diasporas
Date: Tuesday, 07 October 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library (Eighth Floor, 130 St. George Street, Toronto)
With Peter Baehr, University of South Florida
Graduate students in the Greater Toronto Area are welcome to participate this in-person event.
Students will read three suggested texts in advance of the workshop, make their own textual connections and then generate from them two good questions for discussion.
Lunch will follow the discussion.
Space is limited. Please register at this link by 03 October 2025
This event is organized by the York Centre for Asian Research and the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library.
About Dr. Peter Baehr
Born in Malaysia, educated in England, Peter Baehr is currently a fellow of the Center for Social and Political Thought, University of South Florida. In previous lives he taught in Hong Kong (for 22 years), and in Coventry and Newfoundland (a decade a piece). Baehr works on the interface of politics, history, and sociology, and, particularly, in the areas of political and social thought. His work has been translated into 10 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian. Baehr is an advisor and consultant to Oxford University Press’s Social Science Digital Research initiative. Presently he is writing a political biography of jailed Hong Kong activist, Joshua Wong, and preparing an anthology for Penguin Classics on the history of dictators since the age of the Caesars.