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香港大學每週活動推介（2014年1月18日至24日）

2014年01月17日

 

First Annual Hong Kong Public Interest Law Conference: Advancing Social Justice
 The conference will bring together civil society and non-governmental groups with the legal profession in Hong Kong to engage in an open dialogue on advancing public interest law and practice in Hong Kong. It aims to promote best practices and innovation in advancing social justice, connect lawyers with public interest groups, and promote a culture of public service in the legal profession. 

The conference will begin with a keynote address by Mr. Colin Gonsalves, the Founder of Human Rights Law Network in India and a Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. It will then include the following three panel discussions led by local champions of public interest law: 1) What is the need in Hong Kong – Identifying the Gaps in Access to Justice; 2) What are the obstacles to meeting the need – Access to the Law and Public Interest Lawyers; 3) Where do we go from here – Advancing a Public Interest Law Culture in Hong Kong. 

The day will conclude with a keynote address by Honorable Mr. Justice Kemal Bokhary, Former Permanent Judge, Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.

This event is free and open to the public.
Date: 18 January 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 8:45 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower HKU

For media enquiries, please contact Ms. Flora Leung, Centre for Comparative and Public Law, HKU (Email: fkleung@Hku.hk).

HKUL Book Talk - Steps to Paradise and Beyond: Hawaii to China, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and elsewhere

Speaker: Dr. Verner Bickley, MBE
Moderator: Dr. Gillian Bickley, Editor and Publisher
Date: January 23 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15pm to 9:00pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F Main Library
Language: English

About the Book
Steps to Paradise and Beyond, the second volume of Dr Verner Bickley's autobiography, describes some of the fascinating experiences and cross-cultural insights derived from his work and travels in many Asian and Pacific countries, including his official visit to China in November 1979 and his experiences in South Korea just before the assassination of President Park Chung-hee. He writes briefly about President Obama’s mother as an East-West Center grantee during Verner's time as Director of the EWC Culture Learning Institute and the President’s own education in Hawaii. Verner concludes with a brief description of how the Institute of Language in Education (now incorporated into the Hong Kong Institute of Education) was set up (in the early 1980s) by the Hong Kong Government "to raise substantially the professional standards of English and Chinese in the schools" of Hong Kong.

About the Speaker
Dr. Verner Bickley, MBE has lived in Asian and Pacific countries for over fifty years, enjoying a long and distinguished career of service in Singapore, Burma, Indonesia, Japan, Hawaii, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong, including influential and path-breaking work on behalf of the British Council, the US federally-funded East-West Center housed at the University of Hawaii, and the then Education Department in Hong Kong. In his work at the East-West Center, in particular, he was at the forefront of a pioneering effort to embrace cross-disciplinary knowledge on the cutting edge of what subsequently became the "Pacific Rim" in academic and wider discourse. In Hong Kong, he was first director of the Institute of Language in Education (now incorporated in the Hong Kong Institute of Education) and contributed much to the understanding of the standard of English in Hong Kong.

For registration, please visit: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2014_01.html

For further information, please visit:
http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2014_01.html

For enquiries, please contact Marina Yeung by email at mstyeung@hku.hk

「針情線韻：中國少數民族服飾與背帶」展覽與講座
香港大學美術博物館於由2013年12月15日至2014年2月9日於美術博物館徐展堂樓一樓展出展出李美賢庋藏的中國傳統服飾、銀飾及背帶。無論是色彩之豐富、技藝之精湛，風格之獨特，展品均體現出中國少數民族傳承至今於服飾工藝的巧奪天工。展覽配以精美圖錄。展覽與圖錄均由香港大學博物館學會慷慨贊助，藉以慶祝博物館六十週年及香港大學博物館學會二十五週年紀念。

苗、侗、水、壯這些源自貴州、雲南和廣西等中國西南省的少數民族，其服裝和背帶均繡以色彩絢爛、針工細膩的刺繡，有時甚至附以銀飾點綴，反映出當地悠久而別具特色的傳統文化。由於部份少數民族缺乏文字記錄，其織品展示的象徵涵義和色彩寓意，形成一種視覺語言，使之成為人類文化和文物遺產發展至今的重要基礎。

博物館開放時間為星期一至星期六，上午9時30分至下午6時；星期日，下午1時至6時。大學及公眾假期休息。

針情線韻
日期：2014年1月18日(星期六)
時間：下午3時至4時30分
地點：香港大學美術博物館徐展堂樓一樓
講者：李美賢 (粵語)

詳情請瀏覽www.hkumag.hku.hk 或致電2241-5500 查詢。

傳媒查詢，請聯絡博物館傳訊主任張寶儀小姐，電話: (852) 2241 5512，電郵: elenac@hku.hk