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HKU weekly notice (from January 15 to January 22)

14 Jan 2011

EAS Information Day
HKU will hold an information day on the Early Admissions Scheme for 2011. Admissions talk, experience sharing session by students, and information sessions by various faculties will be held to brief interested students and parents on the scheme.

Date: January 15, 2011 (Saturday)
Time: 9am to 1pm
Venue: HKU campus

Opening remark and admissions talk

Time: 9 am - 10:30 am
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, HKU

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 (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk

HKU Libraries' Reading Club Book Talk: Coming Full Circle - a return to Chinese origins
"Beneath the Banyan Tree" is a daughter's personal account of her family's story through four generations and a turbulent era. It is also the personal story of a family, told simply, with candor and affection. As the Filipino identity and a sense of nationhood were forged in the Philippines, the Lichauco family played a role in the creation of the nation. Beginning with the coming of her Chinese ancestor Thomas Lichauco from Tongan, in Fujian Province in the early 19th century, and her Spanish antecedents from Galicia, the author traces the multi-racial and multi-cultural tapestry that created the blending of eastern and western elements of her family.

Theme Book : Beneath the Banyan Tree, my family chronicles
Speaker : Mrs Cornelia (Nelly) Lichauco Fung, the eldest daughter of the late Philippine Ambassador Marcial Lichauco and his Cuban-American wife, Jessie Coe.
Moderator : Dr Anthony Ferguson (Consultant for the JURA)

Date: 20 January 2011 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F Main Library, HKU

For further information, please visit: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2011_02.html

For enquiries, please contact Marina Yeung by email at mstyeung@HKUCC-COM.hku.hk

Forum for Young Chinese Constitutional Law Scholars 2011
More than 10 Mainland young legal experts will in the two-day forum discuss a wide range of issues from environmental control, privacy protection, criminal justice system, grievance address system, child protection, and land and property system.

Date: January 21 and 22, 2011 (Friday and Saturday)
Time: 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
Venue: Council Chamber, 8th Floor, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
Language: Putonghua

For enquiries, please contact Cecilia Man by email at cman@hku.hk

Leading Change: A Forum on Cultural Leadership
HKU and the British Council will welcome the UK's leading artistic and cultural professionals to share their experiences of leading change within the sector, at a public forum on cultural leadership. The forum will address these local issues by drawing on UK expertise through real life examples from professionals in the sector. The speakers, presented by the HKU's Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme and the UK's Clore Leadership Programme, will offer their insights into how they have anticipated, and responded to, change within arts and cultural institutions. During the panel discussions, regional and local respondents will interact with UK's cultural figures and exchange their experiences in addressing the issues facing Hong Kong. The forum‘s keynote speaker, Sir John Tusa, is Chair of the Clore Leadership Programme, and a former Managing Director of the BBC World Service and of the Barbican Centre in London. Other speakers sharing their experiences include John Newbigin, Chairman of Screen England and Culture24, Fearghus O'Conchuir, an independent Choreographer and Dance Artist and Sue Hoyle, Director of the Clore Leadership Programme, who has held several senior arts management positions.

Date: January 21, 2011 (Friday)
Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue: Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, HKU

For enquiries please contact: Ms Candy Wong, Public Relations Manager -- email: culture@hku.hk / tel: (852) 2857 8221

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