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HKU weekly notice (from February 22 to March 1, 2014)

21 Feb 2014

 

Conference on Corporate Governance in East Asia
Japan and Korea Programme 2014 discussion topics include:

• Kawasaki Heavy Industries Case - Is the Outside Director Necessary in Japan?
• Exercising Voting Rights by National Pension Fund and Corporate Governance in Korea
• Outside Directors of Korea: An Alternative or Cosmetics?
• Enhanced Transparency in Corporate Governance under the Korean
• Commercial Code
• Shareholder Derivative Actions and Securities Arbitration in China
• Designing Stakeholder Board
• Current Issues in Corporate Attribution

Date: February 22, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 9:15 am to 12:30 pm
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, HKU

For registration and enquiries, please contact Ms Flora Leung by email at fkleung@hku.hk or by phone at 3917 2941.

University Museum and Art Gallery public lecture: Woven Paintings in the Qing Dynasty with Dr. Florian Knothe
This lecture focuses on the visual relationship between woven panels and discusses cross-cultural influences in the weaving of tapestries in East and West. Whereas China has a rich tradition of producing colourful embroidered textiles, the weaving of tapestry, or kesi, was comparatively rare. During the Qing dynasty, European tapestries – then one of the most treasured of all art forms – became known in China through a diplomatic gift received by Qianlong in 1767. From then on, this ‘exotic’ set of textiles, together with a group of European Jesuit painters in the Imperial City, seems to have had an influence over Chinese kesi production and the introduction of linear perspective in painted as well as woven paintings. 

Speaker :
A scholar of Western European art, Dr. Knothe is the Director of the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG). He received his PhD with a thesis on the royal manufacture and production of art and propaganda in 17th century France. From 2005-2008, he worked as research fellow and associate in European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During his appointment in 2009 as curator of European glass at The Corning Museum of Glass, he devoted time to research his long-established interests in cross-cultural influences in art and workshop practices in Western Europe and East Asia. This work culminated in his East Meets West exhibition in 2010, and related lectures and conference papers that were presented in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. In his role as Director, Dr. Knothe aims to connect UMAG internationally so that future collection-oriented research and programming reflect the university’s unique geographic and cultural position between East and West.

Date: February 22, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Place: 1/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU

Cost: Free admission. All are welcome. 

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition: “Surviving Evil: The Pictorial Language of Sara Atzmon”
The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre, the University Museum and Art Gallery and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong are organising a major exhibition in Hong Kong of artworks by Sara Atzmon, a Shoah (Holocaust) survivor who was born in Hungary and now resides in Israel. Ms. Atzmon’s artworks, many of which are large-scale, highly impactful paintings, reflect the artist’s memories of her horrible experiences during the Shoah. In 1944, Ms. Atzmon was first deported to Auschwitz and from there she was sent to Bergen-Belsen under terrible circumstances.

As an adult, Ms. Atzmon became a talent painter dedicated to use her, often very dramatic and explicit, paintings, to bring awareness to the cruel times in our fairly recent past, and to educate a young generation to treasure and practice tolerance, and foster understanding and compassion between people of different religions and cultural backgrounds.

Ms. Atzmon will visit HKU to give lecture and to engage with HKU members and high school pupils.

Opening Ceremony 

Date: February 25, 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 6pm
Place: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong 

Exhibition period: 26 February 2014 (Wednesday) - 4 May 2014 (Sunday) 

Please visit www.hkumag.hku.hk or call 2241-5500 for more information.

S.C. Fan Memorial Lecture: Addressing the Challenges in US–China Relations
Both American and Chinese leaders affirm that they are committed to managing tensions effectively and maximizing cooperation where possible.  But despite the fact that US–China relations now have a very strong base, dangerous short term and corrosive long term challenges remain.  This presentation will identify the key challenges and suggest ways to address them.

Date: February 27, 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Lieberthal, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution

Website: http://www.socsc.hku.hk/scfan/2014/index.htm

Enquiries: Ms. Florence Luk (Email: floluk@hku.hk)

HKU Young Brain Scientist Program third lecture “Optical Illusion”
HKU Young Brain Scientist Program is the first project in HK designed for secondary students to increase their awareness of the potential impact from brain science research. Six professors from HKU Psychology department will give public lectures on their expertise from December, 2013 to June, 2014 (free of charge). The content and format of the lectures are tailor-made to suit the tastes and knowledge level of our secondary school students. Participating students will receive a certificate from HKU Young Brain Scientist Program; selected students will be invited to join privileged brain science lab tours and workshops.

After the success of our first and second lecture, we will now be hosting our third public lecture (in English) on Optical Illusion (by Dr Sing-hang Cheung). It will be held 10:00 am - 12:00 nn Saturday, March 1, 2014 at HKU. Space is limited and registration is required: <http://www.psychology.hku.hk/hkuybs/register.html>.

The premier series of “brain science” talks topics include:
1. Attention (Dr. Chia-huei Tseng)
2. The asymmetric brain (Dr Janet Hsiao)
3. Optical illusions (Dr Sing-hang Cheung)
4. False beliefs (Dr Jeffrey Saunders)
5. Sleep (Dr Esther Lau)
6. Gender development (Dr Ivy Wong)

More details are available at: http://www.psychology.hku.hk/hkuybs/

We also welcome schools’ invitation to deliver our lectures to your classrooms on demand. Please call Angelina Mok at 9233-7071 or email at hkuybs@hku.hk.

Collateral event of 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Hong Kong (UABB) named “On Urban Fringe: In Search of the Ideal City”
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.  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. 

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 enquiries, please call 3917 7853