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HKU weekly notice (from March 15 to March 22, 2013)

15 Mar 2013

 

“Will You be My Valentine?” Women, Modernity and Cultural Essentialism
The talk will explore some contemporary controversies in India relating to women and sexuality. Prof. Niranjana will analyse the arguments being made around the recent Delhi rape case, the Guwahati molestation incident, the Mangalore resort attack, (all 2012), the Pink Chaddi Campaign (2009), Slutwalk (2011) and other such events. While asking why the question of women’s sexuality is being foregrounded so strongly in public discussion in present-day India, she will discuss its pre-history through the debates in third-wave Indian feminism from the 1980s onwards. She will use material from blogs, TV, video and cinema to make her argument, and suggest throughout the talk the kind of comparisons that could be made with other Asian contexts.

The speaker Professor Tejaswini Niranjana is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, and Visiting Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

Date: March 19, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 4 to 6 p.m.
Venue: Rm929, 9/F, The Jockey Club Tower, HKU
Language: English

For enquiries, please contact Ms Connie Ko by email at connieko@hku.hk or by phone at 39172309.
 
HKU Faculty of Dentistry to hold World Oral Health Day event for public
To mark World Oral Health Day on Wednesday, 20 March 2013, the Faculty of Dentistry at The University of Hong Kong is organising an “Oral Health Info Desk” for the general public at the entrance of the Prince Philip Dental Hospital.

The “Oral Health Info Desk” will provide the public with oral health leaflets, brushing and flossing demonstrations and tips, quizzes to check oral health knowledge and teeth-cleaning technique, an opportunity to interact with Faculty dental students, and prizes and souvenirs (while stocks last).

Taking part in the all-day event will be the Faculty’s Knowledge Exchange Unit, representatives of the Dental Public Health Committee of the student Dental Society, and members of the Faculty’s Student Knowledge Exchange Team for Baby Oral Health.

The details of the “Oral Health Info Desk” are as follows:

Date: March 20, 2013 (Wednesday)
Times:
9:00 am to 6:00 pm (including special segment from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm, run by the Faculty’s Student Knowledge Exchange Team for Baby Oral Health — for parents and carers of babies and young children)
Venue: Main lobby of the Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Address: 34 Hospital Road, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
Languages: Cantonese, Putonghua, and English

World Oral Health Day campaign website: www.fdiworlddental.org.

For queries about the event, please contact the Faculty of Dentistry Knowledge Exchange Unit, E-mail: dentke@hku.hk; Tel: 2859 0455.

For media contact: Ms Sau-wan Cheng, Knowledge Exchange Officer, HKU Faculty of Dentistry; Tel: 2859 0410; E-mail: dentke@hku.hk

Seminar: A Prosecutor in a Modern Society: Upholding the Rule of Law and Respecting Rights and Freedoms
Speaker: Kevin Zervos, Director of Public Prosecutions, Hong Kong Department of Justice

Mr Zervos has conducted the full ambit of trials and appeals in all fields of law. In trial work he has specialized in commercial crime, including credit card and currency frauds, banking and corporate frauds, infringement of intellectual property, money laundering and corruption. In appeal work he has conducted cases involving constitutional law, human rights, administrative law as well as most aspects of the criminal law and law of evidence. He has presented numerous papers and given talks on a variety of legal topics including human rights, appeals, commercial crime, fraud, money laundering, corruption and sentencing. In this talk, he will discuss the responsibilities of the modern prosecutors in upholding the rule of law and rights and freedoms.

Date: March 20, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, HKU

For enquiries, please Ms contact Flora Leung by email at fkleung@hku.hk or by phone at 3917 2941.

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition
Wandering Spirit: Lyrical Landscapes by Li Xubai (22.3.2013 – 12.5.2013)
Li Xubai is a contemporary literati painter, well-versed in both western and Chinese traditional arts. He taught himself oil and watercolour painting in his early years, and began studying Chinese classical literature, poetry and landscape painting under the tutelage of the female artist and poet, Liu Heng (1895–1998) in the early 1960s. Li moved to Hong Kong in 1979, and worked as editor of art magazines before migrating to Canada in 1996.

Li’s paintings have a unique artistic and poetic appeal, incorporating stylistic elements reminiscent of works by masters such as Gong Xian (1618–1689). Li’s lyrical landscapes are subtle literary allusions that demonstrate the dialogue between literary and visual imagery.

The exhibition features Li Xubai’s ink and colour landscapes from the past two decades, including recent landscapes painted in bright colours and wet washes that express his distinctive and mature style, and articulate his exploration of more abstract compositions.

The exhibition preview will take place at the Museum at 6:00 pm on Thursday 21 March, 2013. The artist will present a lecture on the poetic and picturesque qualities of his landscape paintings at the Museum at 2:30 pm on Saturday 27th April, 2013.

Please visit http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/for the opening hours of the Museum or call 2241-5500 for more information.

Singapore's Death Penalty Changes - Too little too late or the Beginning of the End?
History was created recently in Singapore when, for the first time, changes were made to death penalty laws which reduced the reach of capital punishment for murder and drug offences. They were admittedly modest in scope, but the important question now is whether it is a foretaste of greater restrictions and eventually abolition, or merely evidence that this is about as far as the Legislature is willing to go in the foreseeable future.

Michael Hor is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Hong Kong University. He has taught and researched in criminal law, criminal evidence and criminal process for over 25 years, but is still discovering that there is much more to learn.

Date: March 22, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Venue: Room 724, 7/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

For enquiries, please f contact Flora Leung by email at fkleung@hku.hk or by phone at 3917 2941.

“Encounters” Twentieth-century Chinese art from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection Guided Tours
The exhibition is held from 23 February to 7 April 2013 at the University Museum and Art Gallery, aiming to honour Professor Sullivan’s considerable contributions as a pioneer of Chinese art history and especially the study of twentieth-century Chinese painting. The collection features in particular works that explore the relationships between western and Chinese media and expressions. Among the exhibits will be paintings by artists such as Wu Guanzhong, Huang Yongyu, Pang Xunqin, Wu Zuoren, Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Zao Wuji, and Lü Shoukun; sculptors Zhu Ming and Wang Keping, as well as Hong Kong artists Wan Qingli, Chu Hing-wah, Wucius Wong, Tan Zhicheng and Nancy Chu Woo. The selection also includes two albums that were created and gifted to the Sullivans by artists in Hong Kong. Guided tours by Ms Tina Yee-wan Pang, curator of the Museum, will provide an overview of the collection.

Guided Tours
Date : March 24, 2013 (Sunday)
Time :
2:00 to 3:00 pm (in Cantonese)
3:30 to 4:30 pm (in English)
Date : April 3, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time : 1:00 to 2:00 pm (in English)

For details, please visit http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/lectures_events1_01.html