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HKU weekly notice (from Nov 23 to Nov 30, 2012)

23 Nov 2012

 

HKU to hold 187th Congregation
The Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Dr the Honourable Leung Chun-ying will confer honorary degrees upon three outstanding individuals at the 187th Congregation on November 27, 2012 (Tuesday).

The three honorary degree recipients to be conferred at the Congregation are the Hon Mr Justice Syed Kemal Shah Bokhary, Dr Henry Cheng Kar-shun and Mr Yao Ming. The Degrees on Class of 2012 of HKU’s ten Faculties will also be conferred at the Congregation.

Honorary Degrees are awarded to individuals in recognition of their distinguished service and commitment to the University, the community, and to academia. They are also conferred to those who have made valuable intellectual, social and cultural contributions to society and the world.

Details of the 187th Congregation
Date: November 27, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30pm to 4:30pm (Media registration from 12 noon to 1pm) 
Venue: Hall One, AsiaWorld-Expo, Lantau, Hong Kong

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.

Yaoming on Yaoming @ HKU
Join in a dialogue with Yaoming
World-famous basketball superstar Yao Ming will on November 28 (Wednesday), the second day of his receiving an Honorary Degree from the University of Hong Kong, join in a dialogue with HKU staff members and students.

Media representatives are welcome to the Dialogue. Details are as follows:
Date: November 28, 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: 4pmto 5:30pm
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, HKU
Language: Talk (Putonghua)
Q & A (English/Putonghua)

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.

HKUL Centenary Book Talk: Forging a HKU Identity, 1905-1945
Theme Book:  History of the University of Hong Kong, Volume 1, 1911-1945
Speaker/Author: Dr Peter Cunich, School of Humanities, HKU
Moderator: Mr Peter Sidorko, University Librarian, HKU

As the first university to be established in Hong Kong, the early decades of HKU's history represents the foundation of the whole higher education system in Hong Kong, a system which now boasts a larger percentage of world-ranked institutions than any other country in the world. The book has much to say about both colonial education and Hong Kong in general, and it tracks the fortunes of the colony from the peak of the British Empire's power to the destructive effects of the Japanese occupation between 1941 and 1945.

Peter Cunich has been teaching history at HKU for nearly twenty years. His main field of research is late medieval and early modern English history, but he also has an interest in British missionary activity in China and Australasia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Date:  29 November 2012 (Thursday)
Time:  7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  Main Library, HKU
Language:  English
Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2012_07.html

Enquiry:  Ms Marina Yeung (reading_club@lib.hku.hk)
Media Contact:  Ms. Carmen Tsang, Tel: 2859 2211

Public talk by Professor Lung Yingtai "My Hong Kong, My Taiwan"
Professor Lung Yingtai, Minister of Culture of Taiwan, will deliver a talk entitled “My Hong Kong, My Taiwan” at Loke Yew Hall at the University of Hong Kong on December 1, 2012 (Saturday).

The talk is co-organised by the Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Centre. Members of the public are welcome to attend and can register on line at http://100.hku.hk/yingtai.

Details are as follows:
Date: December 1, 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 7 pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, Main Campus, HKU
Language: Putonghua

Registration: http://100.hku.hk/yingtai

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.

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