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HKU weekly notice (from June 8 to June 14, 2013)

07 Jun 2013

 

Commit to Act, Commit to Change: Walk the Mile with Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Recent reports reveal that incidents of sexual harassment and violence are on the rise. Moreover, increasingly vulnerable populations are being targeted for such abuse. Despite these occurrences, such abuses are seldom reported. Where complaints are lodged, most victims are likely to withdraw the complaint, from the process of giving evidence and sometimes, even from support groups they join to seek solace. For the few that remain on course to seek justice, the system fails them with the outcomes being less than satisfactory in terms of offering closure, protection, and justice. This trend is suggestive of the critical gaps in Hong Kong’s efforts to tackle such abuse.

This year’s Spring Workshop brings together experts from multiple stakeholder groups to examine the realities and challenges of prevention, protection and punishment of these offences in a range of contexts, including schools, the workplace, and homes.

Date: June 8, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 9:30am to 1:30pm
Venue: A901, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, HKU

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

HKU Faculty of Education workshop “Cross-cultural Understanding and Classroom Teaching”
Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research (CACLER), Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold a workshop on “Cross-cultural Understanding and Classroom Teaching” on June 8 (Saturday).  The focus will be on enhancing the intercultural sensitivity in understanding the Non-Cantonese Speaking (NCS) students and the meaning and challenges of cultural integration.

In this workshop, the following issues will be touched:

• Explore the concepts of cultural integration and intercultural education
• Share experiences and understanding of NCS students’ cultural characteristics
• Discuss the communication difficulties due to differences in culture and identity
• Share experiences in adding cross-cultural considerations into the school curriculum

The speakers are Dr Ki Wing Wah, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, HKU and Dr Tai Chung Pui, Post-doctoral Fellow, Division of Chinese Language & Literature, Faculty of Education, HKU and invited principals, teachers as well as parents.  

Media representatives are cordially invited to the seminar, the details are as follows:

Date: June 8, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Venue: Room 205, 2/F, Runme Shaw Building, HKU
Language: Cantonese and English

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk).

HKU Faculty of Education seminar “Between Free Education and Private Tutoring: Dilemmas and Choices for Parents”
The HKU Faculty of Education of will hold a seminar on “Between Free Education and Private Tutoring: Dilemmas and Choices for Parents” on June 8 (Saturday).  The focus will be on how to strike a balance between free education and private tutoring. The following issues will be discussed:

• What are the driving forces for payment beyond free education?
• What is best for my child?
• What are the opportunities for partnership?

The speakers are Professor Mark Bray, UNESCO Chair Professor in Comparative Education at HKU; and Dr Ora Kwo, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Education at HKU.  They have conducted extensive research on private tutoring in both international and local perspectives.

Media representatives are cordially invited to the seminar, the details are as follows: 

Date: June 8, 2013 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Language: Cantonese and English

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk).

Three Minute Thesis (3MT^®) Competition 2013
42 research postgraduate (MPhil and PhD) students will participate in the Competition this year.  10 finalists to be shortlisted from the heats will enter the final competition to compete for 5 prizes.  Each contestant will have only 3 minutes to explain his/her research project, using no more than one static PowerPoint slide and in language that is appropriate to a non-specialist audience.  Apart from the top three winners, there will be a People’s Choice Award, to be determined by audience ballot at the final competition.  In addition, the Online People’s Choice Award will be opened for voting via YouTube after the event to promote the 3MT concept to young researchers and the public.

Prof. Paul Y. S. Cheung, Associate Vice-President of HKU, will be the officiating guest of the Competition.  The adjudicating panel will comprise both internal and external members.  Mr Man Cheuk Fei, HKU Council Member, and Ms Linda Yeung, Education Editor of the South China Morning Post, are the external members on the adjudicating panel of the final competition.

Date: June 11, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Language: English

For enquiries, please contact the Knowledge Exchange Office (tel: 2299 0172; email: keoffice@hku.hk .

HKU Faculty of Education Distinguished Lecture “The Effects of Early Childhood Education on ‘Learning How To Learn’”
By Professor Kathy Sylva, Professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Education, University of Oxford
Every child is unique with different developmental needs and abilities. What kind of early childhood education would be the best to lay the foundation for children's future learning as well as to prepare them for the fast-changing world? In addition to whole-person development, a major question regarding early childhood education is the impact it has on children's longer-term academic progress. In what ways can the quality of kindergarten affects children's academic performance, disposition to learn and ability to learn when they move on to primary and secondary schools and beyond?

In this Distinguished Lecture, Professor Kathy Sylva will share the findings of longitudinal research in the UK that clearly demonstrates the long-term benefits of high quality early childhood education and will explore the possible implications of such research for Hong Kong.

Date: June 11, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Venue: Hui Pun Hing Lecture Hall, Library Extension Building (LE1), HKU
Language: English

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications) (Tel.: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / Fax: 2540 6360 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk ).

HKU to Present Long Service Awards to Senior Staff Members
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold a Long Service Awards Presentation Ceremony on June 11, 2013 (Tuesday) to present awards to senior staff members. Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui will officiate at the ceremony.  

Long Service Awards are presented to staff members who have served the University for more than 25 years, 35 years or 40 years. Awardees include teachers and professionals from various academic and support service departments. A total of 43 staff members will receive the awards this year.

This is the 20^th year the University holds the Long Service Awards Presentation Ceremony for senior staff to extend its appreciation to loyal colleagues and to recognize their contributions.

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend the ceremony, details are:

Date: June 11, 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:30 p.m.     
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, Main Building, HKU

For a full list of the recipients, please visit: http://www.cpao.hku.hk/media/130611LSA.doc

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

Distinguished Lecture by Professor David Der-wei Wang - “Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia: A Hong Kong Perspective”
 Professor David Der-wei Wang, Edward C Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at the Harvard University, will deliver a distinguished lecture entitled “Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia: A Hong Kong Perspective” at Rayson Huang Theatre at The University of Hong Kong on June 13, 2013 (Thursday).

The lecture is sponsored by the “Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities” Scheme and organised by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Incorporating the Centre of Asian Studies).  Members of the public are welcome to register and attend.

Details are as follows:

Date: June 13, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 5:30pm to 7:00pm (Reception at 5:00pm)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, HKU
Language: Putonghua

Website: www.hkihss.hku.hk/davidwang

For media enquiries or arrangement of interview with Professor Wang before the lecture, please contact Ms Kitty Wong, Director (Development), Development & Alumni Affairs Office, at 2859 7062 or kittyw@hku.hk; or Ms Trinni Choy, Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office, at 2859 2606 or pychoy@hku.hk.

Abstract
The lecture seeks to interpret the dialogic between contemporary Chinese literature and politics from the perspective of Hong Kong. It calls attention to the way Hong Kong has been represented though modern times, ranging from utopia to dystopia, from “heterotopia” to “supertopia,” and reflects on the dynamics of such representations in light of the changing political imaginary of China.

About the speaker
David Der-wei Wang is Edward C Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at the Harvard University and Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology, USA. In 2004, Professor Wang was elected Academician of the Academia Sinica. His specialties are Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, Late Qing fiction and drama, and Comparative Literary Theory.

Modernity – Modern Architecture in an International Context
In connection with its present exhibition of René Burri’s photographs of architects and architecture, The University Museum and Art Gallery is pleased to announce an evening devoted to ‘Modernity – Modern Architecture in an International Context’ on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 6-8pm.

6-6.30pm: Tour of the René Burri – UTOPIA exhibition with the Director of the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), Dr Florian Knothe
6.30-7.15pm: Lecture on What is Modern Architecture? A Starter by Dr Hoyin Lee
7.15-7.45pm: Round-table discussion on Modernity – Modern Architecture in an International Context with Professor Lynne DiStefano, Dr Hoyin Lee and Dr Florian Knothe

Dr Florian Knothe, Director of UMAG, will guide through the recently opened exhibition of photo-journalist René Burri’s images of master architects and masterpiece architecture of Modernism, in order to explain the relation the photographer build up with some of his subjects and the richness of imagery that resulted from his long-term documentation of some of the world’s most spectacular modernist buildings.

Dr Hoyin Lee, Director of the Architectural Conservation Programmes (ACP) at The University of Hong Kong and a scholar of Hong Kong’s heritage modernist architecture, will lecture on the artistic, decorative and social aspects of modernist architecture, and their meaning and presence in contemporary urban planning, city development and building design.

Professor Lynne DiStefano, Adjunct Professor of ACP and an ICOMOS-appointed evaluator of nominated UNESCO World Heritage Sites, will join Lee and Knothe for a round-table discussion on modernist architecture, its international presence and enduring importance in Hong Kong and abroad.

Free to all. No reservations necessary.

For further inquiries please contact:
University Museum and Art Gallery
The University of Hong Kong
90 Bonham Road
Pokfulam, Hong Kong

phone: (+852) 2241 5500
email: museum@hku.hk