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HKU weekly notice (from January 5 to January 11, 2013)

04 Jan 2013

 

Dedication Ceremony-cum -Inaugural Concert for the Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre
A Dedication Ceremony-cum-Inaugural Concert will be held at the Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre this Sunday (January 6, 2013) to honour Dr the Honourable Lee Shau Kee, GBM, Chairman of the Henderson Land Group, who will be present at the ceremony as officiating guest. HKU would like to take this opportunity of expressing its gratitude for his long standing and staunch support.

The new Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, a focal point on the Centennial Campus, will transform the educational environment at HKU with its state-of-the-art facilities and multi-use lecture rooms for academic and cultural explorations.  At the heart of the Lecture Centre is the Grand Hall, a 1,000-seat venue for both academic and cultural activities, expertly designed with flexible acoustics to support events ranging from lectures to concerts to film galas.

Details of the events are as follows:

Date:       January 6, 2013 (Sunday)
Time:       3:15 pm          Dedication Ceremony (Media registration will start at 2:45 pm)
                 4:00 pm          Inaugural Concert, featuring the Hong Kong Philharmonic
Venue:    Grand Hall, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus, Pokfulam, HKU

Media organisations are cordially invited to send representatives to attend the ceremony.

Remarks:

1. Please stay in the media zone during the ceremony. Since the media zone will be 20m from the stage, photographers should bring their long lenses.
2. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held inside the Grand Hall of Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre before the Inaugural Concert. Media representatives will be able to enter the hall to take photos of the ceremony. Please refrain from taking photos or filming during the Concert.

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 .

The Enigma of Zhou Enlai: A round table "Zhou Enlai and China's Prolonged Rise"
In 1976, public mourning for China's fabled premier Zhou Enlai sparked riots and protests that marked the beginning of the repudiation of Cultural Revolution policies in China. Today, Zhou's memory is still greatly venerated in China, and he is presented as the most farsighted and humane of its Communist leaders, effectively the PRC's only secular saint. Others, however, claim that he was as deeply implicated as Chairman Mao Zedong in the disasters of the Great Leap Forward, the Great Famine, and the Cultural Revolution. Chen Jian, the latest biographer of Zhou Enlai, joins several other historians in asking: Who Was the Real Zhou Enlai?
 
Featured Speaker: 
Prof. Chen Jian, Biographer of Zhou Enlai 
Visiting Research Professor, University of Hong Kong 
Michael J. Zak Chair of the History of US-China Relations, Cornell University
 
Commentators:
Frank Dikötter, University of Hong Kong
Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong 
Philip Snow, University of Hong Kong 
Zhang Shu Guang, Macau University of Science and Technology

Date: Jan 10, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 15:00-18:00
Venue: Convocation Room, MB218, Main Building
Language: English

For further information, please visit: http://www.history.hku.hk/news/2013roundtable-chenjian.html