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香港大學每週活動推介

2017年10月20日

 

「戲有益」幼稚園社交情緒學習計劃發佈會
「戲有益」幼稚園社交情緒學習計劃旨在裝備家長成為義工遊戲導師，讓他們在校內協助老師，加入遊戲元素，與兒童一起玩遊戲，令課堂更添趣味。根據集體遊戲必需要合作和紀律才能順利地完成遊戲的原理，導師引導學生學習遵從規則，令學生體驗有紀律地合作的樂趣和重要性，讓他們能全面發展。曾參與計劃的家長及教師均認為自己對遊戲教育的知識及技巧增進良多，並將遊戲導師的角色延伸至日常生活，增強家校合作之餘，更能提升親子關係。這計劃還有一個額外的好處，就是能及早辨識有社交困難的學童，從而適時介入協助。

「戲有益」幼稚園社交情緒學習計劃由「香港優質教育基金」資助，並由香港大學教育學院融合與特殊教育研究發展中心策劃及執行。本計劃的聯合研究員廖秀卿博士自2003年開始研究互動團隊遊戲如何發展兒童社交能力，她將聯同本計劃的首席研究員袁文得博士於發佈會中分享研究成果。

發佈會詳情如下：
日期:   2017年10月21日(星期六)
時間：下午2時30分至4時30分
地點：香港大學黃麗松講堂
講者：袁文得博士 融合與特殊教育研究發展中心總監
          廖秀卿博士 名譽教育顧問，香港大學教育博士

傳媒查詢，請聯絡香港大學教育學院高級經理(發展及傳訊)張可恩女士(電話: 3917 4270 / 傳真: 2517 0075 / 電郵: emchy@hku.hk)。

HKU and University of Zurich collaborative events
The University of Hong Kong and the University of Zurich will jointly hold a series of events on HKU campus and at outside venue on October 25 and 26, 2017 (Wednesday and Thursday). Media representatives are welcome to attend and interview participants.

October 25, 2017 (Wednesday)

Working together towards the WHO Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020 – 2030
Public Forum

Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, the University of Hong Kong

The World Health Organization (WHO) has set one of its goals to push for a 2020-2030 “Decade of Healthy Ageing”. The concept represents a paradigm shift in international thinking about ageing and health. Instead of focusing on illness symptoms alone, it puts the functional abilities of ageing individuals in their real-life environments on the centre stage. It requires innovative ways to measure healthy ageing in real life environments and provides a framework for systematically tailoring and incentivizing individualized healthy ageing interventions to improve real-life functioning on a population and global scale. The public forum will highlight the opportunities open to the two universities of combining high-level expertise on big health data with state-of-the-art conceptual frameworks, allowing to determine on the population scale how our environments can be designed to maximize opportunities for healthy ageing in both regions and worldwide.

The forum will be hosted by Professor Terry Lum, Head of Social Work and Social Administration, and Associate Director of the Sau Po Centre on Ageing at the University of Hong Kong; and Professor Mike Martin, Professor of Gerontopsychology, Director of the Gerontology Competence Center, and Managing Director of the Dynamics of Healthy Aging University Research Priority Program (URPP) at the University of Zurich. Both professors are members of the WHO’s Working Group on Metrics and Research Standards for Healthy Aging. They are currently working together to plan a study to develop a new approach to health metrics that is to become the international standard.

Date: October 26, 2017 (Thursday)

Two workshops jointly organised by the Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law (ITSL) of the University of Zurich and the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) and the Law and Technology Centre of the University of Hong Kong.

FinTech and Data Ownership: Legal Issues of Digital Business Models
Public Workshop

Time: 2:30pm to 5pm
Venue: Academic Conference Room, Faculty of Law, Centennial Campus, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, the University of Hong Kong

“FinTech” refers to new technologies that are used in the financial services sector that have the potential of being a transformative force to traditional financial services. Some of these new financial technologies have focused on ways of easing payments, whether domestic or trans-border, investments, asset management or on novel ways of lending credit by using peer-to-peer platforms. This workshop will feature a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners in both Hong Kong and Zurich working at the cusp of this new financial transformation. The workshop will explore FinTech from both the Asian and European perspectives, as well as the role that the ownership of data could play in the FinTech environment and in many other sectors of the digital economy, especially when data becomes ever more valuable as the technologies to analyse such data evolve.

The Future of Privacy Public Symposium

Time: 6pm to 7:30pm
Venue: Academic Conference Room, Faculty of Law, Centennial Campus, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, the University of Hong Kong

Rapid advances in information and communication technology have made information more accessible, bringing tremendous changes in people’s daily life. Nowadays, individual users can access easily information content, shop, book holidays, find directions, or track one's fitness simply by typing words or voicing questions. However, at the same time, how each person searches for and later uses the information can be tracked, collected and stored by third parties. Our digital footprints have raised important privacy concerns which are made even more critical in light of the seemingly ubiquitous internet, the increasing connection between things and people, and the ease with which personal data can be transferred across jurisdictions. The symposium features presentations on privacy by four leading scholars/practitioners working on the topical issue of privacy and data protection in Switzerland and Hong Kong. This symposium aims to address different dimensions of privacy challenges in today’s environment and will conclude with a lively panel discussion on the future of privacy.

October 26, 2017 (Thursday)

Before the Screen, Behind the Curtains: Ye Si and Postcolonial Culture. A Conversation about Roasted Chestnuts in Zurich and beyond

Time: 6pm to 9pm
Venue: Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central, HK

“All I bought was a bag of roast chestnuts from a stand / the crisp shells and sweet kernels are like the local scenery of my hometown” (“Roast Chestnuts in Zurich”)—Leung Ping-kwan (Ye Si) magically connects Zurich and Hong Kong through roast chestnuts that can be found in both cities. Being a renowned writer and scholar in Hong Kong, and a recipient of the Honorary Doctoral Degree conferred by the University of Zurich, Leung Ping-kwan himself is certainly an exemplar of how Hong Kong and Zurich cross path with one another, culturally and intellectually. Leung’s creative works thereby serve as an entry point to explore how Hong Kong literature and culture are perceived, and interpreted in various local and global contexts. Following an introduction by Ben Wong who directed Boundary, a documentary on Leung Ping-kwan which was partly filmed in Zurich and Switzerland, guest speakers from Zurich and Hong Kong will give insights on the poet’s relation to the two cities.

Media contact:
University of Zurich
Beat Müller
Head of Media Relations
University of Zurich
Phone: +41 079 536 66 00
E-mail: beat.mueller@kommunikation.uzh.ch

The University of Hong Kong
Melanie Wan
Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office
Phone: 2859 2600
Email: melwkwan@hku.hk

香港大學美術博物館展覽
1.《生如錦繡：印尼群島的伊卡絣織》 保存消逝中的工藝

展出日期：即日至11月26日（星期日）

從學術角度出發，便可見胡彼得先生的普撒卡收藏，展示了年輕國家印尼於獨立後所持「多元一體」的座右銘。普撒卡收藏呈獻出印尼境內群島的織品，不同風格相互交織的同時，每個地方亦別樹一格，不僅讓人能夠探討群島居民豔麗的衣飾，更讓人了解到於其他大部分收藏中罕見的日常服裝。

大部分傳統的收藏側重華麗的服飾，例如同是在弗洛勒斯島上的「伊利蔓德拉」，深赤色的聘禮用圍裙備受當地人及收藏家的重視與推崇，然而精緻的靛藍色日常用圍裙卻幾乎完全被收藏家所忽略。導致這些精緻的日常用織品隨著歲月而變得殘破，其存世數量相較於那些備受珍視、尊重與積極收藏的聘禮用圍裙稀少。

有關伊卡織品及印尼群島人們對織品的用法等知識，主要來自傳教士的記錄及科學實地考察，當中絕大多數由非印尼人士撰寫。這些記錄涵蓋範圍較為狹窄——許多織造地區只有一、兩處資料，某些地區甚至從未被仔細考察。許多傳統知識，尤其是屬於印尼群島較偏遠島嶼的，正逐漸遺失；故需研究者同心協力以保存他們的文化。

地點：香港薄扶林般咸道90號港大美術博物館徐展堂樓一樓

2.《墨韻城市：郭志全在香港》

展出日期：即日至11月12日（星期日）

郭志全，1942年生於中國四川省樂山，畢業於四川美術學院，其作品曾於中國各地展出，而此次港大美術博物館呈現郭志全首次於香港的個人展覽。郭志全是河南省美術家協會理事、文化部轄下中國詩書畫研究院研究員、東西方藝術家協會常務理事。1986年時任洛陽大學美術系主任，並於該校專攻風景畫與花鳥畫的創作，以及藝術評論。

郭志全的藝術亦是藝術評論研究的焦點之一。例如中國當代著名理論家魯慕迅先生於1993年撰文《山魂水魄意茫茫——讀郭志全的山水畫》，闡述郭志全的經典風景畫作。隨後郭志全於中國美術館、清華大學等多個學術機構舉辦展覽，其作品更贏得眾多蜚聲全國的評論家及雜誌報刊的好評。

地點：香港薄扶林般咸道90號港大美術博物館馮平山樓二樓

開放時間：
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
電話：（852）2241 5500 (一般查詢) ／ 電郵：museum@hku.hk
費用：免費入場
詳情請參閱：http://www.umag.hku.hk/tc/

傳媒查詢
港大美術博物館傳訊主任張寶儀小姐，電話：（852）2241 5512，電郵：elenac@hku.hk
港大美術博物館項目助理蔡倩蘅小姐，電話：（852）2241 5509，電郵：cchelsea@hku.hk