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香港大學每週活動推介（2013年11月2日至11月8日）

2013年11月01日

 

HKU to hold Equal Opportunity Festival 2013
The Equal Opportunity Festival 2013 will be held from November 5 to November 22 at the University of Hong Kong.  The theme of this year’s Festival is “To build an inclusive society with respect to sexual equality”.  Events covering talks, forum, exhibition and book exhibition and film show will be organized by the Equal Opportunity Unit in collaboration with the Library, CEDARS and General Education Unit during the Festival.

The Opening Ceremony of Equal Opportunity Festival 2013 will be held on November 5, 2013 (Tuesday) in Sun Yat Sen Place (Happy Square) from 12:45pm to 2:00pm. Dr. York Chow, Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission and Professor Roland T. Chin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, HKU will officiate at the Opening Ceremony. The Opening Ceremony will be featured by the Inauguration Ceremony for Equal Opportunity Student Ambassadors. This is a new programme launched this year, where a group of students with different backgrounds will work together to maintain an accessible, equitable and diversified campus for all.

For media enquiries, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk; Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk; or Ms Rhea Leung (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2857 8555 email: rhea.leung@hku.hk .

Contemporary China Studies Public Lecture
Public Finance, Local Governments and the Challenges Facing China in the 21st Century
One of the dominant narratives of the early 21st Century has been “the rise” of China.  During the first decade, China became the world’s second largest economy, largest exporter and manufacturer, and second largest importer while building massive amounts of infrastructure and laying the foundations of a modern welfare state.  Following this decade of extraordinary growth and achievement, though, the country is suddenly seen as marred by significant fragilities – with inefficiencies, corruption, local government debt and social divisions that threaten systemic risk.  This lecture explains the starring role played by local governments in both the achievements and risks, and offers a guided tour through the Chinese fiscal system and intergovernmental relations to discover how partial, incremental reform has distorted incentives and led to these detours enroute.

Date:   November 6, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time:   6:30pm | Tea reception at 6:00pm
Venue:  Social Sciences Chamber, 11/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Speaker:  Professor Christine Wong, Professor of Chinese Studies, Director, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies HKU

Website:  http://www.socsc.hku.hk/ccspl/chwong

Enquiries:   Miss Nikki Wong (Email: nhywong@hku.hk)

Contemporary China Studies Public Lecture
Moral Implications of Immorality in Contemporary Chinese Society
Focusing on the issue of immorality that has largely been a focal point in public discourse in Chinese society yet understudied in scholarly research, this lecture first examines two types of immoral behaviour, drawing on cases that widely agreed upon by ordinary people to be morally wrong.  Next, it takes a close look at the moral experiences and moral sentiments of immorality among individuals who either were victims of immoral acts or recalled their own feelings of being immoral.  Ethnographic evidence shows that immorality tends to be intuitive and emotional in actual social actions but in recollections of moral experiences it is reflected upon with rational reasoning and justification.  Immorality is essentially the violation of the social, which may explain why ordinary people use immorality to define and defend the social behaviour in their everyday life.  The increasingly intensified public discourse on immorality also reveals the contested areas of the changing value system and moral behaviour in the context of social transformation in China. 

Date:   November 7, 2013 (Thursday)
Time:   6:30pm | Tea reception at 6:00pm
Venue:  Social Sciences Chamber, 11/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Speaker:  Professor Yunxiang Yan, Professor of Anthropology, Director, Center for Chinese Studies,University of California, Los Angeles

Website: http://www.socsc.hku.hk/ccspl/yyan

Enquiries:   Miss Nikki Wong (Email: nhywong@hku.hk)

香港大學2013年本科入學資訊日
香港大學2013年本科入學資訊日將於11月9日(星期六)舉行。開幕禮將於上午10時正在中山廣場(開心公園)舉行。

本科入學資訊日旨在介紹港大的課程、活動及校內設施等，讓公眾人士，尤其是中學生、老師及家長能藉此機會加深對港大的認識。新校園的設施﹑大學內各教學部門及宿生舍堂亦將開放，讓參觀者對港大的校園及舍堂生活有較具體的瞭解。

講座
大學聯招
時間： 上午11時至中午12時
地點：百周年校園李兆基會議中心大會堂

非大學聯招
時間：下午2時至3時
地點：百周年校園李兆基會議中心大會堂

開放日詳情，請瀏覽：http://www.infoday.hku.hk/

傳媒查詢，請聯絡港大傳訊及公共事務處助理總監(傳媒)徐佩瑩小姐 (電話︰2859 2606/電郵︰pychoy@hku.hk )或港大傳訊及公共事務處高級經理(傳媒)尹慧筠小姐 (電話︰2859 2600/電郵︰melwkwan@hku.hk); 或港大傳訊及公共事務處經理(傳媒)梁菁栘小姐 (電話：2857 8555 /電郵：rhea.leung@hku.hk)。

意大利國寶級文藝復興盛期不朽藝術名畫
波提切利《維納斯》－ 意大利文藝復興盛期大師作品首度來港展出

意大利駐香港及澳門總領事館、香港意大利領事館文化處及香港大學美術博物館將攜手呈獻意大利國寶級藝術傑作 － 佛羅倫斯畫派名家桑德羅‧波提切利（Sandro Botticelli, 1445 - 1510）之力作《維納斯》（約1482 年），將於10 月18 日至12 月15 日假香港大學美術博物館展出。

展覽詳情 :
展出日期: 2013 年10 月18 日至12 月15 日
時間: 周一至六，早上9:30 時半至下午6 時;
周日，下午1 時至6 時
地點: 香港大學美術博物館
查詢: (852) 2241 5500
費用: 全免

傳媒查詢，請聯絡港大美術博物館Miss Elena Cheung (電話︰2241 5512;/電郵︰ museum@hku.hk 或港大傳訊及公共事務處經理(傳媒)梁菁栘小姐 (電話：2857 8555 /電郵：rhea.leung@hku.hk)。