Media

HKU weekly notice (from April 5 to April 11, 2014)

04 Apr 2014

 

Seminar Series on Electing the Next Chief Executive of the HKSAR in 2017: Proposals for Electoral Reform 

The Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (“CCPL”) will host a seminar series to all those who have proposed models for electing the Chief Executive in 2017 to come and explain their proposals to the public with a view to further elucidating their proposals and to offer insights as to why their models are appropriate for Hong Kong at this juncture. The seminars will each comprise presentations by 3 to 4 proposers of their own models, followed by Questions and Answers from the audience. The purpose of this series is to offer a platform for engagement with members of the university community on the various proposals that have been publicized since the announcement of the public consultation exercise.

Date: April 3, 8, 16, 22, and 29, 2014

Time: 5:30 to 7:30pm

Venue: 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

(Sessions conducted in Cantonese – Simultaneous Interpretation available to a limited number of pre-registered participants.)

Date: April 7, 2014 (Monday)

Time: 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Venue: 11/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, University of Hong Kong

(Session conducted in English)

For the list of participants, please visit:http://www.cpao.hku.hk/media/Poster_Pol_Series_April_2V2.doc

Please register with Ms Joyce Fung in advance at email：joycef@hku.hk. For enquiries, please contact Ms Sharron Fast at email: sfast@hku.hk  (Tel: 3917 1938).

Professor Germaine Greer to deliver Second Century Lecture

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.

HKU Centre for Comparative and Public Law to hold Panel Discussion on the Hong Kong Basic Law and Civil Nomination 

In light of the current heated discussions on civil nominations and requirements of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (“CCPL”) is organising a Panel Discussion to serve as an impartial and organised platform for leading figures who have expressed views on this topic to explain their views. We aim to fully manifest the spirit of rational discourse, which the CCPL is committed to enhancing at this crucial stage of Hong Kong’s constitutional development.

There will be four panelists in the discussion: the Hon. Secretary for Justice, Mr. Rimsky Yuen, Ms. Audrey Eu SC, the Hon. Priscilla Leung Mei-fun and Mr. Benny Tai, Associate Professor of Law, HKU.

Attendance limited to current HKU Staff and Students. This may be subject to change depending on registration numbers closer to the date.

Date: April 9, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:30 to 7:30pm
Venue: 2/F Large Moot Court, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, University of Hong Kong
(Panel conducted in Cantonese – Simultaneous Interpretation available to a limited number of pre-registered participants.)

Please register with Ms Joyce Fung in advance at email：joycef@hku.hk. For enquiries, please contact Ms Sharron Fast at email: sfast@hku.hk  (Tel: 3917 1938).

HKU to release 2014 Second Quarter Hong Kong Macroeconomic Forecast

A press conference is scheduled on April 9, 2014 (Wednesday) to announce the "Hong Kong Macroeconomic Forecast", supplying headline macroeconomic indicators for Hong Kong's economy in the second quarter of 2014.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the forecasting project is managed and prepared by the APEC Studies Program of the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy. It provides the community with reliable, transparent and useful forward-looking economic information to gauge the movements and effects of Hong Kong's activities on a quarterly basis.

The forecasting system has proved to be very useful in tracking the short-term fluctuations of the economy, particularly in predicting turning points of the business cycles.

Media representatives are cordially invited to the press conference, the details are:

Date: April 9, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Room 1&2, the United Conference Centre, 10/F., United Centre, 95 Queensway, Admiralty

For media enquiries, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk  or Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk .

Deacons Archives Exhibition

Deacons is Hong Kong's oldest and largest commercial law firm. It has deposited its archival records permanently at HKU. The collection contains the bulk of the early surviving records of Deacons and its predecessors, including client files, deeds and papers, legal documents, accounting records, letter books, photographs, etc. The date range of the collection is from 1846 to 2007.

Deacons Archives is organized into 65 series, with over 160 boxes of records occupying about 35 linear metres of shelf space. The documents on display are various types of records relating to HKU, wills of local renowned entrepreneurs, land lease and land sale deeds, and other intriguing records ranging from the 1900s to the 1960s.

Date: April 4 to April 28, 2014
Opening Hours:  09:00 to 22:00 (Monday –Friday); 09:00-19:00 (Saturday); 10:00 – 19:00 (Sunday and Public Holidays)
Venue: Special Collections 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Free Admission

For media enquiries, please contact:  
Mr. Gary Chin, Tel: 2859 2211 / Ms. Marina Yeung, Tel: 2859 8903
For details of the exhibition, please contact: 2859 2207 (Special Collections, Main Library)

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.

Exhibition period: February 26, 2014 (Wednesday) to May 4, 2014 (Sunday)
Opening Hours:  09:30 to 18:00 (Monday – Saturday); 13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday). Closed on University and Public Holidays
(For details, please visit http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/about_us.html)
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong (For location, please visit: http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/location.html)
Tel: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry)
Free Admission

For media enquiries, please contact:
Miss Elena Cheung (Communication Officer), Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk       

For details of the exhibition, please contact:
University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong, Tel: 2241 5500, Email: museum@hku.hk.