傳媒

香港大學每週活動推介（2013年11月16日至11月22日）

2013年11月15日

 

“If Henri Cole is ever making an appearance in your neighbourhood, go: his reading is really a kind of singing, in a reedy, drifting, ethereal voice.”
Sasha Weiss “The New Yorker”
Award-winning American poet Henri Cole is making his first visit to Hong Kong this November for two complementary events in the University’s Convocation Room. In the first, Henri will read some of his most beautiful works and share the inspiration behind them. The second is a more informal Q&A session during which he will answer your questions about his life as a writer.

Tuesday, 19 November, 6:30 pm
Henri Cole: A Master Poet
Reading and Talk
Convocation Room, Main Building, HKU

Wednesday, 20 November, 6:30 pm
Meet the Poet Henri Cole: The Life of the Writer
Informal Q & A
Convocation Room, Main Building, HKU

Henri Cole was born in Japan and raised in Virginia. “I grew up in a household where another language besides English was spoken, so I grew up kind of fascinated with languages.” He received his BA from the College of William and Mary, his MA from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and his MFA from Columbia University. Cole's awards and honors include the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Camargo Foundation in France, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Henri Cole is the author of numerous collections, including The Jackson Poetry Prize winner "Touch: Poems" (2011); LA Times Book Prize finalist "Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems 1982-2007" (2010); Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize winner "Blackbird and Wolf" (2007); and Pulitzer Prize finalist and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner "Middle Earth" (2003).

From 1982 until 1988 Cole was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since then he has held many teaching positions and has been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Smith College, Reed College, Brandeis, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale. He currently teaches at Ohio State University and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also the poetry editor of the magazine "The New Republic".

For registration, please visit: http://arts.hku.hk/henricole/. All are welcome.

For enquiries, please contact Mr Cyrus Chan (Tel: 3917 4984 / Email: cyrusc@hku.hk).

甘肅省校長培訓計劃
深入探討香港中學教育理念和實踐

香港大學教育學院教育領導研究中心及華正中國教育研究中心合辦，甘肅省校長培訓計劃已於2013-14年度展開。計劃由田家炳基金資助，旨在讓校長們通過到香港學校考察及培訓，刺激他們重新思考平日覺得理所當然的做法及其背後理念，繼而找出合適的方法改進學校工作及提升教育質量。

接受本次培訓的除了20名甘肅省初中校長外，甘肅省的教育官員亦罕有地全程參與，他們親身接觸跟內地主流不同的理念及做法，得以加深理解校長們改進計劃背後的想法及原因，對學校日後的改進計劃自能作相應支持及配合，長遠達到提升教學質素的目標。

計劃於本年九月至明年七月期間舉行，重點有別於一般單向授課式培訓，課程涵蓋講座及赴港學校考察，並設定期小組分享，在導師及專家帶領下，參與校長可共同探討如何將所學所得轉化成行動。此外，每位校長均須設計一個行動計劃，將培訓及考察所學，或理念的改變，應用到各自學校的實際環境。培訓尾聲設總結會，參訓校長可於會上分享學習經驗及成果、推廣成功經驗及做法。

參訓校長已於11月11日來港，他們將參與一系列本地學校考察，並於11月21日(星期四)舉行總結會暨閉幕禮。現誠意邀請傳媒一同出席活動，詳情如下：

學校考察：

日期	時間	地點/短訪學校	活動
11月18日(一)	9:30 - 15:30	啓思中學	短訪 - 教與學
	9:00 - 16:30	天水圍循道衛理中學	短訪 - 公民及道德教育
11月19日(二)	9:00 - 17:00	中華基督教青年會中學	深入考察 - 教與學
	9:30 - 16:30	保良局羅氏基金中學	深入考察 - 公民及道德教育
11月20日(三)	8:00 - 16:00	中華基督教青年會中學	深入考察暨研討會 - 教與學
	9:30 - 16:30	保良局羅氏基金中學	深入考察暨研討會 - 公民及道德教育
11月21日(四)	14:00 - 17:00	拔萃男書院	短訪 - 學生宿舍生活及管理

總結會暨閉幕禮：

11月21日(四)

9:00 - 12:00

港大明華綜合大樓4樓 MW405室

總結會暨閉幕禮

傳媒查詢或參與學校考察，請聯絡香港大學教育學院高級經理 (發展及傳訊) 黃麗萍女士 (電話：2219 4270 / 手機：9220 5840 / 傳真：2540 6360 / 電郵：qlpwong@hku.hk) 或香港大學教育領導研究中心執行主任李菀君女士(電話：2859 8012 / 手機：60318140 / 傳真：3013 8694 / 電郵：educel@hku.hk)。

HKUL Book Talk - Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada
About the Speaker
The Honourable Dr. Vivienne Poy is an author, entrepreneur, historian, fashion designer, and community volunteer. In 1998, she became the first Canadian of Asian descent to be appointed to the Senate of Canada where she focused on gender issues, multiculturalism, immigration, and human rights, and was instrumental in having May recognized as Asian Heritage Month across Canada. After her retirement from the Senate in September 2012, she continues to be actively involved with communities across Canada.

She is Chancellor Emerita of the University of Toronto, member of the Board of ORBIS (Canada), Member of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights National Advisory Council, Hon. Co-chair "For All Canadians" - Canadian Blood Services, Hon. Patron of Chinese Canadian Historical Project -SFU, Hon. Chair of Advisory Committee of "Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents Project,1962-2012,” Advisor to the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum of Migration Society, Member of the Advisory Committee of Journal of Modern Life-Writing Study, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

About the Book
Voices of Chinese women immigrants (from south China and Hong Kong) to Canada, after the 2nd World War to the present. Their immigration and settlement experiences, juxtaposed with the changes of Canadian immigration law and regulations.

The book also explains how the status of the Chinese Canadian communities changed from Chinese exclusion to today.

Speaker: Dr. Vivienne Poy
Moderator: Professor C. F. Lee, GBS, SBS, JP, Director, HKUSPACE
Date : November 23, 2013 (Saturday)
Time : 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Venue : Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Language : English

About the Guest Speakers
Ms Anna Wu , GBS , JP
-- Member of Executive Council , Hong Kong
-- Chairperson , Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority
-- Chairperson , Hong Kong Competition Commission

Dr Elizabeth Sinn, Ph.D., BBS, Hon. Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. Her latest book is PACIFIC CROSSING: CALIFORNIA GOLD, CHINESE MIGRATION, AND THE MAKING OF HONG KONG (2013).

Dr. Marie-Paule Ha -- Research Scholar, Honorary Associate Professor, HKU School of Humanities, with a special research interest in Women Studies.

For registration, please visit: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2013_06.html

For further information, please visit: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2013_06.html

For enquiries, please contact marina yeung by email at mstyeung@HKUCC-COM.hku.hk

From Photography to Music: a Creative Dialogue between David Clarke and Chan Hing-yan
This exhibition consists of a series of photographic images depicting flowers and fruit. Photographer David Clarke originally generated these pictures using Polaroid instant film, with the resultant images then being scanned at high resolution and printed at a larger scale as giclée (high quality ink-jet) prints on a suitable artist paper. No digital manipulation took place after scanning - the images that were printed were simply records of the impact on film chemicals of whatever light was allowed through the lens during exposure. These photographs are all receiving their first public showing now, at a point in time when the visual world of Polaroid instant film has disappeared definitively into the past.

The photos are being presented here as part of a creative dialogue with the composer Chan Hing-yan, who has produced a new musical composition entitled Adieu Sequence in response to this body of works. Since the works themselves were produced by a migration from one medium to another (Polaroid film to digital print) they were already open to the idea that creativity might come from the shift between mediums, and thus were ready for an engagement of this kind, but of course a shift from photography to musical sound is an altogether more radical jump, and exciting for that very reason. Drawing on Clarke's images as a point of departure, Chan endows his Adieu Sequence with delicate sonic fragments and bids a musical farewell to a vanishing medium.

Exhibition details:
Period: November 12 through December 1, 2013
Time: 9:30am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday; 1 pm to 6pm on Sunday
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong

Admission: Free admission

Enquiry: (852) 2241 5500

A Multi-Stakeholder Seminar Series on Population Policy for Hong Kong
You are cordially invited to attend A Multi-Stakeholder Seminar Series on Population Policy for Hong Kong at 12:45 to 14:00 on four Mondays from Nov. 18 to Dec. 9, 2013.

The details of the seminar series are as follows:
Aim: To provide a platform for discussion among multiple stakeholders of  the consultation document on population policy for Hong Kong
Speakers:
November 18 (Monday): Imported Labour: to be or not to be?
Ms. Grace Chan (陳文宜女士), Chief Officer on Elderly Service, Hong Kong Council of Social Service
Mr. Henry Shie (謝偉鴻先生), Executive Director, Hiu Kwong Nursing Service Ltd.
Registration:  http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=27572

November 25 (Monday): Family-friendly Working Environment: a myth or a reality?
Mr. Timothy J. Peirson-Smith, Managing Director, Executive Counsel Limited
Dr. Karen Cheung (張筱蘭博士), Hon. Asst. Professor, Social Work and Social Administration, HKU
Registration:  http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=27574

December 2 (Monday): Extension of Retirement Age: pros and cons?
Dr. K.C. Cheung (張祺忠博士), Chairman, Academic Staff Association, HKU
Prof. Richard Wong (王于漸教授), Chair Professor, School of Economics and Finance, HKU
Registration:http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=27578

December 9 (Monday): Removing Barriers to Fertility: how far can we go?
Dr. Celia Chan (陳凱欣博士), Assistant Professor, Social Work and Social Administration, HKU
Dr. Susan Fan (范瑩孫醫生), Executive Director, Family Planning Association of Hong Kong
Registration: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=27581

Moderator:  Prof. Paul Yip (葉兆輝教授), Professor, Social Work and Social Administration, HKU

Time:    12:45 to 14:00 
Venue:  Room 533, 5/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

For enquiries, please contact Mr Sam Lee at 3917-2097

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時30分至下午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)。