Stuart M. McManus

Looking forward to finally seeing my edition of one of the landmark texts of Jesuit scholarship on Asian languages (the first comparative grammar of two Indian vernaculars) in print over the summer: hup.harvard.edu/books/97806743…

Join us! #CUHK #WorldHistory Seminar "What Was Philosophy? Rethinking Early Western Thought" w/ Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins). 📌14 Apr 2026, 8pm via Zoom 982 9976 4121 history.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event/world… 🔍Engage, Explore, Excel in #History at tiny.cc/macph

📢 OPEN APPLICATIONS for an Early Career Research Network on Mediterranean Slavery at Oxford! We will cover travel and accommodation in Oxford (May) and Paris (June) for up to 12 early career researchers. Please share, it will be fun series of events! unseen.web.ox.ac.uk

My CRF-funded lab is looking for 2 postdocs to work on China-Western relations in the early modern period using NLP, AI and big data! 3 years, good salary, funding for conference travel, etc. Please share widely! cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/…

His Majesty The King has approved the appointment of Prof Wim Decock, of the Universities of Louvain and Liège, as the new Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. He will take up the post on 1 October 2026 and succeeds Prof Wolfgang Ernst ⬇️

Heartfelt congratulations to Professor McManus (CUHK History) for being awarded the 2025/26 CRF Young Collaborative Research Grant, with funding of HK$4.49m. Click to learn more about Professor McManus' important research initiative: bit.ly/3LLDko0. #CUHK #CUHKArts

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of Prideaux Fellow David M. Webb MBE (1983, Mathematics), who passed away yesterday. David was a distinguished Exonian whose legacy will not be forgotten. 🔗 Read the Rector's tribute: ow.ly/HXIA50XWF50

Humanities Postdoc (Open Field), in the RIH, CUHK networks.h-net.org/jobs/69546/chi…

🚨JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor, Ancient history, any geography, any focus 1000 BCE - 500 CE 2-2 teaching load, ~US$140,000 salary. All teaching in English. cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/…

📜Join the #WorldHistory Seminar(2025-26) on "A Victorian Ecumene of Cosmopolitan Science: The Purposes of Natural History in Colonial Asia" by Prof. CHAN Ying-kit from #NUS! 📍ZOOM ID 982 9976 4121 🔍Engage, Explore, Excel in History at tiny.cc/macph

[Conference] HKADH2026 kadh.org/conference-hka…

📢 Congratulations to Exeter College alumni, David Webb (1983, Mathematics) and Robert Noel (1981, Hebrew), who were both recognised in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours. 🔗 Read more ⬇️ exeter.ox.ac.uk/exeter-college… #ExeterCollegeOxford

The HKADH 2026 Conference is now calling for papers! Theme: Distant Reading | Viewing | Perceiving | in the Age of AI 23 - 25 Jan 2026 @ CUHK Submission deadline: 31 August. Visit 2026.hkadh.org for details @StuartMcmanus @CUHKLibraries @CUHKArts

Ruh roh. Open-weight LLMs can quote nearly all of a Harry Potter book from memory. Lawyer up Meta. @afedercooper, @SkyLi0n, @percyliang et al. spill the copyright beans. ~thread~ arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546

1st-year DH student final projects for this term: lots of interesting tutorials and reviews of DH projects to peruse: @HistoryforTomorrow-1701" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@HistoryforTom…

Looking forward to finally seeing my edition of one of the landmark texts of Jesuit scholarship on Asian languages (the first comparative grammar of two Indian vernaculars) in print over the summer: hup.harvard.edu/books/97806743…

🔊#WorldHistory Seminar 2024-25🔊 📍 Virtue at the Dawn of Modern Capitalism: Richard Price’s Idea of Prudence and How Numbers and Finance Became Moral (1750-1790) 📆20 Mar(Thu) 16:30 - 18:00 🏨Room 918, Esther Lee Building, CUHK (ELB 918) 👤Prof. Jacob SOLL, USC

📢 JOB OPENINGS! 📢Come work with me at Oxford! As part of my ERC project UNSEEN, I am recruiting a full-time 5-year project admin, two 3-year post-docs and one fully-funded PhD. The first position is already advertised, the others will follow shortly my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour was shrouded in fog over the weekend - readers shared photos of the skyline with HKFP. Photos: Waddle Kong, Walter Leung, Alan Kwok & Sean Cheng.