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HKU weekly notice (from April 26 to May 2, 2014)

25 Apr 2014

 

HKU Young Brain Scientist Program to hold fifth public lecture for secondary school students - “Sleep”

I sleep therefore I am. Everybody sleeps, but everybody does it differently. Some people are able to sleep through the night and wake up refreshed, but some toss and turn during the night and constantly doze off during the day. Some people are morning birds while others are night owls. Are all behaviors just a matter of habits or are they determined by our brain? This lecture will cover - how do we adapt to the day-night cycle? Why do we sleep? What neural mechanisms regulate sleep and waking? What happens when sleep goes wrong? How can we sleep better? Come join us uncover the mysteries of sleep!

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Young Brain Scientist Program is the first project in HK designed for secondary students, delivered by public lectures to increase their awareness of the potential impact from brain science research. With the success of previous lectures: Attention, The Asymmetries in Our Mind, Optical Illusions, False Beliefs, HKU Young Brain Scientist Program will deliver the fifth public lecture - sleep, to discuss and uncover the secrecies of sleep.

Title: “Sleep”

Date: April 26, 2014 (Saturday)

Time: 12:45 pm to 2:15 pm

Venue: CPD 3.04, 3rd Floor, Central Podium Level, Centennial Campus, University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Dr. Esther Y Y Lau

Language: English

HKU Young Brain Scientist Program

The University of Hong Kong (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 the HKU Department of Psychology speak on their expertise areas in public lectures lasting from December 2013 to June 2014. Participating students will receive a certificate from HKU Young Brain Scientist Program, and selected students will be invited to join privileged brain science lab tours and workshops.

Other talks in the “Brain Science” series include:

·         ŸGender development (Dr Ivy Wong) (Upcoming on May 3, 2014)

·         The Asymmetries in Our Mind (Dr Janet Hsiao) (held on January 24, 2013)

·         Attention (Dr Chia-huei Tseng) (held on December 13, 2013)

·         Optical illusions (Dr Sing-hang Cheung) (held on March 1, 2014)

·         False Beliefs (Dr. Jeffrey Saunders) (held on March 29, 2014)

The lectures are free of charge. More details are available at: http://www.psychology.hku.hk/hkuybs/

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”) is currently hosting a series of public seminars on proposals for political reform that have been garnered as a result of the ongoing public consultation exercise on the subject of electoral reform for the upcoming election of the Chief Executive of the HKSAR in 2017. During these seminars, individuals and groups who have proposed models for political reform will have the opportunity to present and elaborate their model to the audience and to offer insights as to why their models are appropriate for Hong Kong at this juncture, particularly in light of imperatives under the HK Basic Law, the 2007 Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and international standards. The seminars will each comprise presentations by proposers of their own models, followed by Questions and Answers from the audience.

A seminar will be held on April 29 (Tuesday), participating groups and individual include Scholarism, Voice of Loving Hong Kong, League of Social Democrats and Dr Law Chi-kwong

Date: April 29, 2014 (Tuesday)

Time: 5:30 to 7:30pm

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

(Session 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).

Book Talk: Going against the stream and counteracting mainstream culture

Speaker:  Dr Ho Sik Ying, Petula

Date:  29 April, 2014

Time:  7:00– 9:00pm

Venue:  Special Collections, 1/F Main Library

Language:  Cantonese

Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2014_03.html

Special guests:

Chan King Fai (Commentator/Social Critic, Activist, the Author of the book “草木皆兵”)

Wong Kin Wai, Anthony (Business Director, Policy Research and Advocacy, Hong Kong Council of Social Sciences)

About the Author

Dr. Petula, Sik Ying HO is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. Her main research and teaching interests are in the area of homosexuality, gender and sexuality issues. She has made important contributions to the development of a dynamic theory of gender and sexuality in the international arena that will help problematize feminist theories and resist Western hegemonies through empirical case studies that make connections between discourses, cultural practices, political economy, and social change.

Dr. Ho’s current projects also include using documentary films to explore the integration of arts and scholarship. She has produced 48 documentary films based on various research projects. They include: 22 Springs: The Invincible; Whatever Will Be Will Be; Hong Kong Calling Tokyo and The “Kong-lo” Chronicles. They represent new ways of collecting data, producing new knowledge and disseminating findings. 

Her new book, co-edited with Ka Tat Tsang is entitled Love and Desire in Hong Kong. It is published in English and Chinese by Hong Kong University Press and China Social Science Press in 2012.

Website: http://sikyingho.socialwork.hku.hk/

About the book

This is a story of cruelty, cruelty to oneself and onto others. This is also a story of love, as love and cruelty manifested towards each other. Ho Sik Ying’s story as a female scholar and her past 55 years of life – love for a gay man, and then a married man, her experience of colonial education and her struggles in a lower-middle class family openly demonstrates how painful, but also, how joyous, her life-long project has been, despite of all the difficulties, social pressures and expectation. Every one of us, in our own ways, tries to forge a level of being that is honest with ourselves as well as coherent with our conception of good. Some of us are more successful, more diligent, or vigilant than others. The alternative is to live according to the rules and boundaries laid down for us in our society that is heavily conditioned by capitalist values, equivalent to a loss of self-dignity. Ho’s writing is an affirmation and encouragement for us to lead our own lives rigorously, thoughtfully, to the fullest, and the best of our ability. You will also find a voice which you may or may not resonate with, but of which you will most certainly be shocked, provoked, and moved. 

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.