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HKU weekly notice (from February 15 to 21, 2014)

14 Feb 2014

 

HKU Baby Scientist Program – Parent Talk
The visual world of 0-1 year old babies
Babies need good vision to learn to walk and talk. However, newborns are color-blind and nearsighted. They see objects such as their parents in a blur, and everything is colorless. 
 
How and when do they start to be able to see color, depth, and motion during the first year of life? 
How do developmental psychologists study these developmental milestones? 
How do these milestones enhance infant’s learning and movement? 
 
In this free public talk held particularly for parents, Director of the HKU Baby Scientist Program Dr. Chia-huei Tseng will share the visual world of 0-1 year old infants with interested parents. 
 
The Baby Scientist Program was started in 2010 by the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong.  Baby Scientists aged between one to 12 month-old have been recruited to help researchers understand how human perceptual and cognitive abilities develop and mature. To date, there are more than 500 baby scientist alumni members.

Details of the parent talk are as below. 
Date:   Feb 15, 2014 (Saturday) 
Time:  2 to 4 p.m.
Location:  HKU Centennial Campus Central Podium LG -61 
Speaker:  Dr. Chia-huei Tseng, Director, HKU Baby Scientist Program 
Medium: English (supplemented with Cantonese) 
Charge:   Free 
 
Space is limited. Registration required at:
http://www.psychology.hku.hk/pall/publictalk.html 
Registration deadline: February 11, 2014 (Tuesday) 
 
Enquiries can be sent to hku.pal@gmail.com or call 3917-8043 for Diane. 
 
More information about HKU Baby Scientist Program can be found at 
http://www.psychology.hku.hk/pall/bbintroduction.html, or 
https://www.facebook.com/HKUbb

Professor Chang Show-foong named HKU School of Chinese Writer for the year 2014
Under the Writer-in-Residence Scheme in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, each year a writer of high renown is invited to come over to the School and to engage in a variety of activities, which include giving a public lecture, meeting the media, conducting seminars and serving as adjudicator for the creative writing competition. The main objective of this initiative is to foster students' interest in and further their knowledge of literature.

Professor Chang Show-foong is the Writer for the year 2014 and an exhibition entitled "The Aesthetic World of Chang Show-foong", which will showcase her creative works, will be held in the Hong Kong University Main Library during the period February 17 to March 3, 2014.

At the exhibition’s opening ceremony, to be held on February 17 (Monday), Professor Chang will deliver an address and students will do recitations. Details are as follows: 

Date:    February 17, 2014 (Monday)
Time:   6:00 p.m.
Venue: Atrium, G/F, Main Library, HKU 

For enquiries, please contact Miss Alice Sze (tel: 39175174; email: szecw@hku.hk )

“On Urban Fringe: In Search of the Ideal City” Exhibition at HKU Visitor Centre – Gallery
The collateral event of 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Hong Kong (UABB) named “On Urban Fringe: In Search of the Ideal City” is held at the Centre until February 28 (Friday).

This collateral event continues the exploration under the exhibition’s main theme—Beyond the Urban Edge: “The Ideal City?”. Being an extension of the Fringe Urbanism Exhibition at the Main Kwun Tong Pier Biennale Site, the HKU event focuses on the current border conditions of four cities—Hong Kong, Taipei, Osaka, and Kuala Lumpur.

The HKU Visitor Centre – Gallery houses exhibits on Pokfulam Village – the last historic settlement on the highly urbanized Hong Kong Island. In this section, residents from the community will demonstrate their alternative living style rarely found in Hong Kong, or even around the world, for the lives in a village recently named among other historic settlements including Venice and Yangon in the World Monuments Watch List 2014.  Faculty members and students from the Division of Landscape Architecture, HKU, with the support from Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Centre of the University, shared their experience on the experiment on how a sustainable community could be co-built with the community through projects realized hand-in-hand with the villagers in the Fall Semester 2013.

In the Run Run Shaw Heritage House, Artist-sociologist Alice Ko from Taipei revisits her curated works “Reverse Niche – Dialogue and Rebuilding at the City’s Edge” on three Asian regions (Hong Kong, Osaka, Taiwan), in the specific context of urban development, to examine how the urban culture of the excluded, the poor, the minority, and the disfranchised are respond to nowadays.  What types of enticing framework for dialogue can artists construct that would invite the participation of these underprivileged groups and become a bridge to rebuild the public arena?  And how can art highlight social public issues in order to move towards a progressive political discussion and practice?

Date: February 14 to 28, 2014
Time: 10 am to 7pm daily
Venue: Visitor Centre and Run Run Shaw Heritage House, G/F, Centennial Campus, HKU

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 .