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HKU weekly notice (from November 16 to November 22, 2013)

15 Nov 2013

 

“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).

Gansu secondary school principals attend training programme
on Hong Kong education and practices
The Centre for Educational Leadership and Wah Ching Centre of Research on Education in China of the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have jointly organized the Training Programme for Principals from Gansu Province 2013-14. The Training Programme aims to stimulate principals’ reflection on the everyday practices in schools and the rationale behind, helping them to identify the most appropriate way to improve education quality in schools.

As part of the Training Programme, 20 principals of junior secondary schools from Gansu will participate in a series of activities including seminars, sharing meetings, presentations and school visits from November 11 to 21, 2013. School visits will be conducted in the last four days of the programme to Creative Secondary School (November 18), Tin Shui Wai Methodist College (November 18), Chinese YMCA Secondary School (November 19 and 20), Po Leung Kuk Laws Foundation College (November 19 and 20) and Diocesan Boys’ School (November 21) to observe the schools’ teaching and learning, civic and moral education as well as student life in boarding school and its management. A closing ceremony will be held on November 21 (Thursday) for participants to share experiences.

To strengthen and actualize the learning experience gained in the Training Programme, the participating principals will have to develop an action plan applicable to their schools when they return to Gansu. Moreover, unprecedentedly, Gansu government officials have been joining the whole programme for a good understanding of the very different practices under the Hong Kong education system. It is hoped that they would in such case be better able to support the changes and new policies adopted by their principals in schools. The Training Programme is supported by Tin Ka Ping Foundation.

Details of the closing ceremony are as below:  
Date: November 21, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 9 am to 12 noon
Venue: Room 405, Meng Wah Complex, HKU

Media representatives are cordially invited to join the secondary school visits. For arrangementsof visits and enquiries, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk) or Ms Charlotte Li, Executive Officer of Centre for Educational Leadership (Tel: 2859 8012 / Mobile: 60318140 / Fax: 3013 8694 / Email: 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

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 .