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 CUHK 50th Anniversary |
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2013 marks the Golden Jubilee of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). To celebrate this landmark, the University has launched the 50th Anniversary Fair from March to November, which is a roving exhibition around town. The exhibition aims to showcase the achievements and contributions of CUHK in the past 50 years and to present its future plans to the public. The Kick-off Ceremony officiated over by Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor and President;
Prof. Michael Hui, Chairman, 50th Anniversary Celebration Co-ordinating and Working Committee and Pro-Vice-Chancellor; and Prof. Hau Kit Tai, Chairman, 50th Anniversary Fair Steering Committee and Pro-Vice-Chancellor,
was held on March 15 at Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui. Many students, teachers, alumni, friends and partners of CUHK also attended the ceremony and shared the joyful spirit of the 50th anniversary celebrations.
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Contents of the roving exhibition include four key areas: ‘CUHK’s Background’, ‘Heritage’, ‘Humanities’ and ‘Innovations’. Exhibition panels and interactive games have been prepared to illustrate the work of many of our teachers and students, who, in successive generations, have left their distinguished and indelible marks on regional, national and even international history. The exhibition also aims to demonstrate how members of CUHK shoulder their responsibilities as citizens of the world when the call of benevolent humanism beckons. The second exhibition of the series will be held from April 15 – 19 at the Star Atrium, Hollywood Plaza, Diamond Hill. Please visit the exhibition together with your family and friends.
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The Anniversary Fair also features eight public lectures to be given by distinguished CUHK professors at Hong Kong Central Library. The first lecture by Prof. Lee Ou-fan and Prof. Kwan Tse-wan has already been held on March 9. Coming up next is the lecture of Professor Emily Chan who will share her experience on community work in rural ethnic minority in China.
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Hosted by CUHK as part of its golden jubilee celebration, the annual Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) Conference and Exhibition was held for the first time in Hong Kong from March 11 to 14, 2013 at the AsiaWorld-Expo.
The largest ever international education conference held in the region, on the theme of “An Ascendant Asia-Pacific: International Higher Education in the 21st Century”, brought some 1,200 educators, policy-makers and experts from all over the world to gather in Hong Kong to discuss the new developments and changes in international higher education. Over 150 exhibition booths from different education institutions showcased the higher education landscape in different parts of the world. Both the numbers of participating delegates and exhibitors in this year’s conference reached a record high.
The four-day conference featured two keynote addresses, some 50 parallel sessions, a large-scale exhibition, a Presidents’ Roundtable where over 70 university leaders and education experts shared views, and a ‘Global Dialogue’ session gathering heads of international education associations from five continents to exchange ideas. The opening ceremony on March 12 was officiated over by Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and Prof. Gordon Cheung, APAIE President and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK. Professor Sung also gave a keynote address to enlighten the audience on the impact and lessons brought by SARS to Asia. On March 13, another keynote speaker Madam Zhang Xiuqin, Director General, Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China, also spoke on the development and globalization of higher education in China.
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The outbreak of SARS 10 years ago has raised public consciousness about the prevention of infectious diseases. The Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) and The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care of the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK jointly organized the “SARS A Decade On: A Conference for the Health Professionals” on March 12 to address the positive effects on the prevention of infectious diseases that SARS has brought to Hong Kong and other countries.
The conference offered an opportunity for health professionals to review the SARS experience and improve infectious disease preparedness. Renowned speakers from mainland China, the UK, Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong and the World Health Organization (WHO), who were involved in the battle against SARS in 2003, shared their experience and views on various challenging aspects of the epidemic.
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There were four major themes in the conference: public health and policy; clinical and virology; personal sharing of patients and frontline medical practitioners; as well as leadership and crisis management. Chairmen and speakers at these sessions included Dr. Che-hung Leong; Prof. Richard Yu, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK; Prof. Sir Cyril Chantler, Co-chairman of The SARS Expert Committee during SARS outbreak; Prof. Eng-kiong Yeoh, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK; Dr. Thomas Tsang, former Controller of the Centre for Health Protection, HKSAR; and Dr. Nikki Shindo, WHO Headquarters, Switzerland.
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The Shun Hing Lecture Series in Arts and Humanities aims at promoting cultural knowledge and scholarly pursuits in the arts and humanities. The first lecture of the series was presented by world-renowned scholar in Confucianism, Prof. Tu Weiming, on March 7 on the University campus. It attracted an audience of over 450, including CUHK staff and students, educators and members of the public.
The subject of Prof. Tu’s lecture was ‘A Truly Meaningful “We” in Cultural China: How Is It Possible?’ . Prof. Tu shared his views on the sense of cultural identity in the global Chinese Community. The Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and in the global community have endeavored to embrace and to advocate their precious culture, while building a strong sense of cultural identity. He hoped such a cultural identity could be established in a humanistic spirit of freedom, diversity, inclusiveness and self-reflection, and most important, incorporating a vision of communal, critical, rational and benevolent self-consciousness.
Since its establishment, CUHK has committed itself to upholding the humanistic spirit. Through a wide selection of programmes on offer in general education, exchange and social services programmes, as well as different kinds of lectures and conferences. CUHK strives to encourage students and the public to become more humane by thinking critically and appreciating different cultures and philosophies. The Shun Hing Lecture Series in Arts and Humanities launched by CUHK and the Shun Hing Group aims to inspire participants to understand and appreciate the art of living, to review their present condition and explore their prospects, so that they become all-round global citizens with a strong sense of social responsibility and a heart to serve.
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Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2012-13, Prof. Richard J. Davidson from the University of Wisconsin-Madison spoke on “Change the Brain by Transforming the Mind” at Shaw College, CUHK on March 6 2013, sharing how one can transform the mind through meditation and thereby alter the brain and the periphery in ways that may be beneficial for mental and physical health. The lecture attracted an audience of around 450, including professors and students from local universities, as well as experts in related disciplines.
Prof. Davidson was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2006. He shared with the audience some of his interesting findings, such as the voluntary cultivation of compassion, practitioners’ efficient neural processing following a retreat and the effect of compassion training on the brain. The lecture ignited heated discussion in the Q&A session and ended in a burst of applause.
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On March 2, on the University campus, Prof. Tsang Wing-kwong delivered a lecture entitled “The Institutionalization of the Hong Kong Teachers' Professional Education: the practice, narrative and tradition of the Faculty of Education, the Chinese University of Hong Kong”.
The lecture reminded the audience that CUHK was established in 1963 and the Faculty of Education, the first professional school, was set up two years later. While the university and the faculty are celebrating their 50th and 48th anniversaries respectively, they should reflect on one fundamental question: “What is worth celebrating?”
Applying the concepts of Alasdair Maclntyre, Prof. Tsang reviewed the history and development of the Faculty of Education from three aspects: Hong Kong teachers’ professional practice, identity narrative and the institutional tradition of CUHK. He reflected on whether these practices, narratives and traditions could achieve the virtue of professionalism in teachers? A review and reflection on professional practice, identity narrative and institutional tradition and more essentially the virtue of education, which the Faculty of Education should have embedded, is especially revealing within the current dominance of global ranking and competition among higher-education institutions.
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CUHK is honored to have invited Grand Master Hsing Yun, Founder of Fo Guang Shan Monastery, to have a dialogue with Professor Joseph J Y Sung and student representatives of the University. The subject of the dialogue will be “Embrace our Culture; Empower our Future: A Dialogue with CUHK Students on Humanistic Concerns at its 50th Anniversary”. Details are as follows:
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Date:
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April 8, 2013 (Mon)
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Time:
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5:00pm
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Venue:
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Lecture Theatre 1, G/F Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK
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Moderator:
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Professor Joseph J Y Sung (Vice-Chancellor and President, CUHK)
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Please click the link next to the title for online registration.
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CUHK is honored to have Prof. Ezra F. Vogel, a renowned sociologist and scholar in East Asian Studies, to be the speaker of the third 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture. The subject of the lecture would be “Can China and Japan Make Peace?” Details are as follows:
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Date:
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March 28, 2013 (Thu)
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Time：
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2:00pm
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Venue：
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Lecture Theatre 6, 1/F, Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK
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Please click the link next to the title for online registration.
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