“Mapping Historical Hong Kong: Digitally Preserving a City’s Heritage”: What new directions do spatial digital tools offer for researching a city’s history and preserving its heritage? How might these tools be used to streamline access to the historical record at a moment when Hong Kong’s colonial past is being suppressed? And how, critically, can this research engage historians and the public alike? These questions were at the root of the Mapping Historical Hong Kong (MHHK) project launched in January 2023 in collaboration with the University of Bristol’s Hong Kong History Centre. Still in its development stages, MHHK uses digital mapping to integrate historical data, visual materials, archival records, and collaborative research initiatives into an intuitive open-access mapping platform that depicts Hong Kong’s growth between 1841 and 1997. For this ConneXions series presentation, Dr. Tom Larkin will explain the ideas behind this project, introduce the demonstrator platform, and share the future for MHHK in collaboration with researchers from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the University of Prince Edward Island.

The presentation will take place on November 15, 2024, at 2:30 pm, in SDU Main Building, Room 320.