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HKU weekly notice (from January 25 to 30, 2014)

24 Jan 2014

 

Book Talk Series 2014: The Religious Question in Modern China
The Religious Question in Modern China integrates historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives to highlight the parallels and contrasts between historical events, political regimes, and cultural movements to explore how religion has challenged and responded to secular Chinese modernity, from 1898 to the present.

Author: Dr. David Alexander PALMER
Discussant: Dr. Xiaoli TIAN

Date: January 28, 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 1pm to 2:20pm
Venue: Rm929, 9/F, the Jockey Club Tower, HKU
Language: English

For enquiries, please contact Ms Connie Ko by email at connieko@hku.hk or by phone at 39172309.

Meeting Famous Germans at HKU – Meeting with German Olympic medallist Marcel Nguyen 德國奧運體操名將阮馬素
Marcel Nguyen, born on September 8, 1987 in Munich, Germany, is a German gymnastics champion and Olympic Medallist. In the 2012 London Olympic Games, Marcel won double Olympic gymnastics silver medals for Germany after competing in the Men's artistic team all-around, floor and parallel bars. Marcel Nguyen collected the first all-round gymnastics medal for Germany since the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin.

In 2002, Marcel started training for the Junior National Team. In 2005, he became German junior champion on parallel bars, runner-up on rings and third in the vault. That same year he took part in the World Championships in Melbourne for the first time and was ranked 16th on the parallel bars. After the World Championships, Nguyen spent a year at the sports boarding school in Stuttgart in order to prepare with his teammates under the coaches Anatoli Jarmovski and Klaus Nigl for the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus.

He is popular not just in Germany, but also in Hong Kong. His online videos have gone viral on social networks since the summer 2012.

Marcel Nguyen will be coming to HKU to meet with students of the German Programme and the University. Mr. Nguyen will share his experiences with students and they will have a chance to talk with this famous German native speaker in person.

Date: January 29, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30pm to 4pm
Venue: CPR-2.42, Centennial Campus, HKU
Language: German and English

For enquiries, please contact Ms. Evelyn Lo by email at evelynlo@hku.hk or by phone at 39174403.

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition: "Embroidered Identities: Ornately Decorated Textiles and Accessories of Chinese Ethnic Minorities"
The exhibition presents traditional Chinese costumes, baby carriers and silver ornaments drawn from the collection of Mei-yin Lee. It demonstrates the wealth of colours, techniques and styles found in the on-going traditions of Chinese minority groups. The display is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, and the production of both exhibition and book has been generously supported by the HKU Museum Society in celebration of the Museum's 60th and Society's 25th anniversaries respectively.

Elaborately embroidered costumes and baby carriers, most of which originate with the Miao, Dong, Shui and Zhuang ethnic tribes of the south-western Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi are decorated with richly coloured, stitched and sewn ornamentations - and sometimes silver applications - indigenous to the particular culture and long-lived traditions they derive from. As some ethnic minorities lack a written script, the symbolism and colour-coding found in their textiles form a visual language that presents an important cultural and anthropological development and heritage still in practice today.

The exhibition will be held at 1/F T. T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), 90 Bonham Road from 15 December 2013 to 9 February 2014.

UMAG's opening hours are from 09:30 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday and 13:00 to 18:00 on Sunday. The Museum is closed on University and public holidays.

For media enquiries, please contact UMAG Communication Officer: Miss Elena Cheung, tel: 2241 5512, email: elenac@hku.hk .