Media

HKU weekly notice (from November 30 to December 6, 2013)

29 Nov 2013

 

A Multi-Stakeholder Seminar Series on Population Policy for Hong Kong
Aim: To provide a platform for discussion among multiple stakeholders of the consultation document on population policy for Hong Kong

Moderator:  Prof. Paul Yip (葉兆輝教授), Professor, Social Work and Social Administration, HKU

Speakers:
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 required: 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 required: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=27581

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

HKU Swallowing Research Laboratory to release survey findings on “Facilitate aging in place: safe swallowing in the frail elderly living in the community and in nursing homes”
The Swallowing Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Education Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has recently completed a study on safe swallowing in the frail elderly living in the community and in nursing homes.The study was funded by the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme.It aims to promote community awareness of swallowing problems in elderly people and help policy makers formulate proper policies and services on elderly care.Findings on three main areas will be presented in the media briefing:

1. Prevalence of swallowing problems among the elderly;
2. Swallow management knowledge and skills of nursing home frontline staff and family members of the frail elderly; and
3. Recommendations to improve services provided to elderly people who have swallowing problems.

Professor Edwin Yiu and Dr Karen Chan, co-directors of the Swallowing Research Laboratory, will introduce the research background and present the results of the study.  Media representatives are cordially invited to the press briefing, with details as follows:

Date:      December 3, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time:      11:00am
Venue:   Room 408A-410A, Ming Wah Complex, Main Campus, HKU
Speakers:       Professor Edwin Yiu, Professor, and D. Karen Chan, Assistant Professor, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, HKU
Language: Cantonese and English

For media enquiries, please contact Ms. Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) at Tel: 22194270/Mobile: 92205840/E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk

Design Democracy Hong Kong Website
Public Launch Briefing and Press Conference
The Design Democracy Hong Kong website was built by the Centre for Comparative and Public Law (“the Centre”) in the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong to promote a lawful and constructive bottom-up approach to constitutional and political reform in Hong Kong.  It provides an online platform for anyone to learn about, design, discuss and debate different models of universal suffrage.  With the official public launch, users can design a system of electing the Chief Executive by working through a series of critical design questions.

Professor Simon Young and his team from the Centre will hold a public launch briefing session and press conference on December 3, 2013, to introduce the key features of the website, demonstrate the design functions of the “decision tree” and answer questions from the media.

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the briefing. The details of the public launch briefing session and press conference are as follows:

Date: December 3, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 1pm
Venue:   11/F Academic Conference Room, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Language: English

For media enquiries, please contact either Ms Flora Leung (3917 2941 or fkleung@hku.hk) or Ms Sharron Fast (3917 1938 or sfast@hku.hk).

 “Study on the Future Development of Retirement Security in Hong Kong” Public Forum (The 1^st Forum – New Territories)
Professor Nelson Chow of The University of Hong Kong and his team is now conducting a Study on the Future Development of Retirement Security in Hong Kong (the Study), which was commissioned by the Social Security and Retirement Protection Task Force of the Commission on Poverty in March 2013.  Collecting views and opinions from the society through Public Forums is one of the important tasks of the Study.  The details of the first Public Forum are as follows:

District of the public forum	Date/Time	Venue	Target Audience	Remarks
New Territories	7 Dec 2013 (Sat), 3:00 to 5:00pm	Tuen Mun Primary School, Siu Hong Court, Tuen Mun, N.T.	General Public	The venue provides 300 seats. The activity will be conducted in Cantonese.  Advance registration is not required.  Registration will be started at 2:30pm.  Seating is on a first come first serve basis and subject to capacity.

For more information about the public consultation exercise of the Study, please visit http://retirement.socialwork.hku.hk.

Members of the media are cordially invited to cover the event.  For enquiries, please contact “Future Development of Retirement Security in Hong Kong” Study Team, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU (Tel: 92606744 or 92607309 / Email: retirement@socwork.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

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:  museum@hku.hk