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HKU weekly notice

03 Nov 2017

 

HKU to hold Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions 2017
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold an Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions tomorrow (November 4, Saturday) to provide an opportunity for prospective students to understand the academic programmes offered at the University for the 2018-19 academic year.

An opening ceremony to kick start the day's activities will be held at the Grand Hall of the Centennial Campus at 9:15am. Officiating guests and participants include Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Tam, Vice President (Global) Professor John Kao, Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) Professor Ian Holliday, Registrar Mr Henry Wai, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Undergraduate Admissions and International Student Exchange Professor John A. Spinks, and Chairman of University Admissions Committee Dr Philip Beh.

Information booths will be set up by the ten Faculties and talks will be held to introduce a wide variety of academic programmes. Visitors can download the "HKU Admissions" app and plan their activities in advance.

To download the "HKU Admissions" app:
iOS (9.0 or above)：http://apple.co/2su3RsN
Android (4.0.3 or above)：http://bit.ly/2stSRLP

Admission talks details
JUPAS
First talk (in Cantonese)
Time: 9:15 to 10:30am (admission begins at 9am)
Venue: Grand Hall, the Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Centre, HKU

Second talk (in English)
Time: 11am to 12 noon (admission begins at 10:45am)
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, HKU

Non-JUPAS (in English)
Time: 11:30am to 12:30pm (admission begins at 11:15am)
Venue: Grand Hall, the Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Centre, HKU

For more information about the Information Day, please visit: http://www.infoday.hku.hk/.

For media enquires, please contact Ms Melanie Wan of the Communication and Public Affairs Office at 2859 2600 or email to melwkwan@hku.hk.

Conference on "Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Meeting the Global Challenge of AMR"
HKU’s Centre for Medical Ethics and Law and School of Public Health are co-organising a two-day conference “Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Meeting the Global Challenge of AMR” with following details:

Date: 9 & 10 November 2017
Time: 9am to 6pm (Programme is enclosed)
Location: Large Moot Court, 2/F, Faculty of Law, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
Language: English

The threat posed by AMR is rising at an alarming rate. The potential toll in terms of deaths, human suffering and economic loss is enormous, with 700,000 people a year dying from resistant infections and a burden of US$20 billion placed on the US healthcare system alone. The Conference will examine the future implications in human, clinical and economic costs if current trends are not reversed or contained. It will highlight problem areas such as public and professional awareness in both public and environmental health. The Conference will also cover developments in technologies such as pathogen genomics as well as exploring international best practice.

Professor Sophia Chan Siu-Chee, Secretary for Food and Health, will be the Guest of Honour. Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer of England will deliver keynote presentation on the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance. Subject-matter experts locally include Professor Yuen Kwok-Yung, Chair of Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong and Dr Howard Wong, Director of Centre for Animal Welfare, City University of Hong Kong.

For media enquiries or arrangement of interviews with the speakers, please contact Ms Melanie Cheung (Email: melmlc@hku.hk / Tel: 3917 4345)

UMAG exhibitions
1. Fibres of Life: IKAT Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago Following the footsteps of a vanishing craft

Period: Now till November 26, 2017 (Sunday)

Looking at Peter Ten Hoopen’s Pusaka Collection from a scholarly point of view, it is worth acknowledging how it illustrates the concept of ‘unity in diversity’, which the young state of Indonesia chose as its motto upon independence. Here, the interwoven-ness of styles from its islands matter, as do their marked individuality and idiosyncrasies. Moreover, it allows for the study not just of the people’s finery, but also of their daily attire, which is lamentably absent in most collections.

An ironic illustration of the effect of this collecting method comes from Ili Mandiri on Flores. As its dark red bridewealth sarongs have been prized and venerated by the local population, this is what most sophisticated collections have aimed to obtain. The simple but lovely indigo sarongs for everyday use have been almost entirely ignored by collectors. Hence they nearly always end up worn to shreds and very few survive — rarer now than the precious and respected, hence eagerly collected, bridewealth sarongs.

What knowledge is conserved about ikat textiles and their use in the Indonesian archipelago consists primarily of the records of missionary and scientific fieldwork, predominantly compiled by non-Indonesians. The coverage is thin— many weaving regions are covered by only one or two sources, and several regions have never been studied in any detail. Much traditional knowledge is being lost, especially in the more remote island regions in the Indonesian archipelago, which require concerted effort if any trace of their culture is to survive.

Venue: 1/F T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

2. Hong Kong by Guo Zhiquan: Cityscapes in Ink

Period: Now till November 12, 2017 (Sunday)

Born in Leshan (Sichuan Province, China) in 1942, Guo graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and has exhibited widely in China. This is his first solo show in Hong Kong. Guo is a member of the Henan Artists Association, the Chinese Academy of Poetry, Painting and Calligraphy, and he is affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, as well as the East & West Artists Association. He worked as the Dean of the Fine Arts Department of Luoyang University in 1986, where he specialised in landscape paintings, as well as bird-and-flower work and art criticism.

Guo is regularly the subject matter of art critics. For example, in 1993 Muxun LU, a renowned Chinese contemporary theorist, wrote an article titled ‘Boundless World Shaped by the Soul of Mountains and Rivers’, engaging with the artist’s exemplary landscape paintings. Subsequently, Guo exhibited at the National Art Museum of China and Tsinghua University, among other more academic institutions, and his work has been reviewed and praised by many established critics.

Venue: 2/F Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam

Opening Hours:
09:30 – 18:00 (Monday to Saturday)
13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday)
Closed on University and Public Holidays
Tel/Email: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry) / museum@hku.hk
Admission: Free

Media enquiries:
UMAG Communications Officer Miss Elena Cheung, Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk
UMAG Programme Assistant Miss Chelsea Choi, Tel: (852) 2241 5509, Email: cchelsea@hku.hk