Results of the Small Grants Scheme (Spring 2024)

We are pleased to announce that we received a high-quality selection of applications for the Small Grants Scheme (Spring 2024). A sub-committee was formed to review and assess these submissions, and eight awardees are selected::

• Dr. Thibault Fontanari (UCLouvain University and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  “Poetic and Musical Infrastructure: Compositions and Circulation of Wakhi Songs in the Karakoram Mountain Range (Pakistan)
• Ms. Yijun Gai (University of Hong Kong)
  “Local Participation in China’s Solar PV Construction: Case Study of Trade and Recycling of Retired PV Panels”
• Ms. Ye Hua (University of Hong Kong)
  “Knowing the Mountains: How Geomatic Knowledge Consolidated Imperial Power (14^th-16^th Century)”
• Dr. Anthony Po-shan Leung (Island Studies Network HK)
  “島嶼研究計劃之──青衣街渡及擔杆山路船廠區”
• Mr. Qiyuan Liu (Yale University)
  “In Search of Theory: The Genesis of Chinese Documentary Photography (1976-1989)”
• Dr. Rundong Ning (University of Hong Kong)
  “Is Africa Changing China? An Explorative Case Study of Hunan”
• Dr. Anna Notsu (Leiden University)
  “Troubled ‘Soils’: More-than-human Healing in Highland North East India”
• Dr. Mélanie Sadozaï (University of Regensburg)
  “The Borderlands of Central Asia and Afghanistan: Maintaining Cross-border Contacts Under the Taliban”