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Professor Germaine Greer to deliver Second Century Lecture

12 Mar 2014

 

HKU Faculty of Arts has invited Professor Germaine Greer, author of one of the most influential texts of the feminist movement, The Female Eunuch (1969), to deliver the Second Century Lecture at the University. In this public lecture, entitled “Creativity and Gender,” Professor Greer looks at how the art activity of men is valued when compared to that of women and asks what this tells us about gender and creativity in today’s world.

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the event. Details are as follows:
Date: April 8, 2014, Tuesday
Time: 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm
(Tea Reception and Registration start at 5:45 pm)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, the University of Hong Kong
Language: English

About Professor Greer:
Germaine Greer was born in Melbourne and educated in Australia and at Cambridge University. Her first book, The Female Eunuch (1969), took the world by storm and remains one of the most influential texts of the feminist movement. Germaine Greer has had a distinguished academic career in Britain and the USA. She makes regular appearances in print and other media as a broadcaster, journalist, columnist and reviewer. Since 1988 she has been Director (and financier) of Stump Cross Books, a publishing house specialising in lesser-known works by early women writers.

About the Second Century Lecture Series:
The Second Century Lecture Series aims to maintain the momentum of the University's Centenary celebrations by bringing the most distinguished scholars in their field to share their experience and world-class expertise with the University and the public.

The Second Century Lecture is organised by the Faculty of Arts and supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hong Kong International Literary Festival, and Swindon Book Co Ltd.

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Georgina Challen, Public Affairs Manager, Faculty of Arts (tel: 3917 4250 email: gchallen@hku.hk) or Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk.