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HKU weekly notice (from November 2 to November 8, 2013)

01 Nov 2013

 

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)

HKU Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2013
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold an Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2013 on November 9, 2013 (Saturday). An opening ceremony will be held at 10am in Sun Yat Sen Place (Happy Square).

The Information Day aims to showcase HKU’s academic programmes and curriculum, activities and facilities to the public, particularly to the secondary school students, teachers and parents. New teaching and learning facilities of the Centennial Campus, teaching departments and halls of residence are open to the public for a better understanding of the campus life at HKU.

Admission Talks

JUPAS Admission
Time: 11am to 12 noon
Venue: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, LG/F, Centennial Campus

Non-JUPAS Admission
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Venue: Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, LG/F, Centennial Campus

For details, please visit the Information Day website at:  http://www.infoday.hku.hk/

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 .

Sandro Botticelli’s Venus – An Italian High Renaissance Masterpiece
The Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau, the Italian Cultural Institute and the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong are honoured to present to the public one of Italy’s “national treasures” - Venus (ca. 1482) by Florentine Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) from October 18 to December 15, 2013 in the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong.

Exhibition details:
Period: October 18th through December 15th, 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
Enquiry: (852) 2241 5500
Admission: Free admission

For media enquiries, please contact  Miss Elena Cheung (HKU University Museum and Art Gallery) tel.: 2241 5512; email: museum@hku.hk or  Ms Rhea Leung (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2857 8555 email: rhea.leung@hku.hk .