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香港大學每週活動推介（2013年11月23日至11月29日）

2013年11月22日

 

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

香港大學舉行第一百八十九屆學位頒授典禮

香港大學(港大)將於11月26日(星期二)舉行第一百八十九屆學位頒授典禮，由校長徐立之教授主禮，頒授學位予7,882名畢業生。

今年獲頒授學位的畢業生中，其中429人獲博士學位，4,081人獲碩士學位，學士學位畢業生有3,372人。

現誠邀傳媒蒞臨採訪，典禮詳情如下：

日期： 2013年11月26日(星期二)
時間： 下午2時30分至4時
地點： 亞洲國際博覽館 一號展館 

請注意 :
- 新聞界接待處位於亞洲國際博覽館一號展館一樓入口處
- 進場採訪，請於下午2時15分前 (即典禮開始前十五分鐘)到達接待處登記
- 攝影記者宜配備長鏡頭拍攝
- 典禮進行期間請避免進出會場

傳媒查詢，請聯絡港大傳訊及公共事務處助理總監(傳媒)徐佩瑩女士 (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)尹慧筠女士 (電話︰2859 2600/電郵︰melwkwan@hku.hk)。

Contemporary China Studies Public Lecture
Red Dawn: The Power and Peril of Chinese Capital in Africa

Drawing on data collected through comparative ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese investments in Zambia in the past five years, this talk seeks to answer the questions: What is the peculiarity of Chinese capital?  What are the impacts of Chinese investments on African development?  Rejecting both the Western rhetoric of “Chinese colonialism” and the Chinese self-justification of “south-south collaboration”, Professor Lee examines the mechanisms, interests and limits of Chinese power through a double comparison: between Chinese and non-Chinese companies, and between copper and construction.

Date:              November 27, 2013
Time:              6:30pm | Tea reception at 6:00pm
Venue:           Social Sciences Chamber, 11/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Speaker:         Professor Lee Ching Kwan, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Website:         http://www.socsc.hku.hk/ccspl/cklee

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

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 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

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

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)。