Media

HKU weekly notice (from April 18 to April 25, 2014)

17 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 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.)

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).

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.