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"Critical Thinking in Action" -- Is the World Readable?

09 Sep 2008

 

Can social, cultural and political phenomena be interpreted like a text? To what extent is the world that we are living in readable? Cultural critic and editorial director of MUSE magazine Perry Lam tells us why for him writing criticism is an intellectual quest. Mr Lam is the author of the Chinese book Critical Thinking in Action (《能說「不」的秘密》).

This talk is co-organized by the Hong Kong University Libraries' Reading Club and Project for Public Culture of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU.

Date: September 11, 2008(Thursday)
Time: 7:15pm to 9pm
Venue: 1/F, Main Library, HKU
Language: Cantonese

Admission is free, for details and online registration please view :
http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2008_9.html

For enquiries, please contact Ms. Velentina Ma, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU (Tel: 2219 4012 / 9123 0252) or Ms Carmen Tsang, Hong Kong University Libraries(Tel : 2859 2211)