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HKU weekly notice (from November 23 to November 29, 2013)

22 Nov 2013

 

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

HKU to hold the 189th Congregation

The 189th Congregation of the University of Hong Kong will be held on November 26 (Tuesday) to confer degrees on a total of 7,882 graduands this year. HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui will preside over the Congregation.

Among the graduands to be conferred degrees this year, 429 are at the doctoral level, 4,081 are at the master level and 3,372 at the bachelor level.

Members of the media are cordially invited to the event, the details are as follows:

Date : November 26, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time : 2:30pm to 4pm
Venue : Hall One, AsiaWorld-Expo, Lantau, Hong Kong


Note:
- Press Reception Counter is located at the entrance of Level One, Hall One, AsiaWorld-Expo
- Reporters and photographers should arrive for registration no later than 2:15 pm (15 minutes before the start of the Congregation).
- Photographers are reminded to bring their long lenses.
- Please refrain from leaving or entering the hall when the Congregation is in progress

For media enquiries, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk  or Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: 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 (Wednesday)
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

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 .