Archives
This page is a historical archive indexing some of the past projects and events from the Common Core.
2019 – 2020
Conversation: Listening and Sharing Sessions – Talking about Hong Kong… (27 August, 10 September, and 24 September 2021)
Responsive 4 U Sympoisum (22 June 2020)
2018 – 2019
Competition: Common Core x UVision Video Contest
Workshop: Curious About Creating a Common Core Course?
Conversation: Pizza, Pinot, and Pedagogy – A Snack-n-chat for Teachers and Tutors (8 October 2018)
Seminars Series: Common Core Plus
- Contagious Health: A Transdisciplinary Student-Led Project on Hepatitis (03 April 2019)
- Contagious Cities (13 March 2019 & 27 March 2019)
- Evaluating the Impact of a Cultural Project (20 March 2019)
- Politics and Volcanoes: How Geology Makes Society (29 January 2019)
- Digital Dunhuang (28 November 2018)
- A Sustainable Way of Living and Well Being (12 October 2018)
- Extraordinary Career Series – Sometimes to find your answer simply means to travel (5 October 2018)
Conversation Series: Just Reading- Coffee, Tea, and Texts
- Aesthetics & the Anthropocene “The Origin of the Work of Art” by Martin Heidegger (31 January, 21 February & 21 March 2019)
2017 – 2018
Conversation: Common Core Staff-Student Consultative Meeting (27 March 2018)
Seminar: Finding My Hygge – Infinite Ways to Live Well
Seminar: Three Seminars on New Materialism and the Arts (April/ May 2018)
Workshop: Use the Camera You’ve Got With You (28 March 2017)
Conversation: Pizza, Pinot, and Pedagogy – A Snack-n-chat for Teachers and Tutors (15 March 2018)
Conversation: Pizza, Pinot, and Pedagogy – A Snack-n-chat for Teachers and Tutors (5 February 2018)
Seminar: Innovation in the Liberal Arts and Sciences in China (16 November 2017)
Workshop: Teach by Design 2 (11 November 2017)
Conversation: Pizza, Pinot, and Pedagogy – A Snack-n-chat for Teachers and Tutors (9 November 2017)
Seminars Series: Common Core Plus
- Mobile Filmmaker and Youtubers (22 March 2018 & 19 April 2018)
- Stair Quest: A Mobile Game (6 March 2018)
- Internationalizing the Curriculum – An Informal Conversation Session (7 December 2017)
- Research Paper Launch: “What’s for Sale? Tracing the species composition of Hong Kong’s shark fin retail market through DNA genetic analysis” (31 October 2017)
- Humanist Photography: The Path to Self-Discovery (10 October 2017)
- World-Making Religion, Anthropology, Fiction – A Book Launch and Conversation (23 November 2017)
- Our Place in the Universe Book Launch Party (27 September 2017)
- Upholding the Core Values of University Education (27 September 2017)
Conversation Series: Just Reading- Coffee, Tea, and Texts
- On Greek & Chinese Philosophy The First Two Seminars: On the Universal, the Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures by Francois Jullien (25 October 2017 and 4 December 2017)
2016 – 2017
Film Screening: The US and the New Middle East (31 March 2017)
Conversation: Pizza and Pedagogy – A Snack-n-chat for Teachers and Tutors (23 March 2017)
Seminar: The Cracks of the Contemporary: Deleuze on “The Wound” (21 April 2017 & 28 April 2017)
Seminar: China Under Mao – History vs Myth (23 Nov 2016)
Conversation: Pizza and Pedagogy – A Snack-n-chat for Teachers and Tutors (10 November 2016)
Seminars Series: Common Core Plus
2015 – 2016
Exhibition: CCHU9048 The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment (4 December 2015 – 31 January 2016)
Exhibition: The First Annual Common Core and Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Student Festival (27 April 2016)
Exhibition: The First Annual Institute of the Contemporary: A TransDisciplinary Student Research Exchange (11 – 15 April 2016)
Conversation: Pizza and Pedagogy – A Book Club for Teachers and Tutors (28 April 2015)
Seminar: Intense Deleuze: The Logic of Sense (12 April 2016)
Seminar: Benny and the Apps- Gamification and Student Learning (5 April 2017)
Conversation: Pizza and Pedagogy – A Book Club for Teachers and Tutors (26 November 2015)
Workshop: Common Core@HKU Coding Camp (November 2015)
Seminar: Women + Film – Exploring the Transdisciplinary University (8 October 2015)
2014 – 2015
Conversation: Assessment in the Common Core Curriculum (12 May 2015)
Conversation: Common Core Sharing Session (6 May 2015)
Conversation: Open House with the Director of Common Core (10 April 2015)
Art Exhibition: Prospect Myanmar – Painting A Transitional State (12 March 2015 – 2 April 2015)
Workshop: Inventing the Transdisciplinary University (17 March 2015)
Seminar: Umbrella in the Common Core Lounge – History, Context, and Comparative Analysis On Women + Activism (2 December 2014)
Seminar: Umbrella in the Common Core Lounge – History, Context, and Comparative Analysis On Civil Disobedience (2 December 2014)
Seminar: China under Xi Jinping: A Cultural Historian’s Assessment of His First Two Years (6 November 2014)
2013 – 2014
2012 – 2013
Common Core Theatre (2012- 2013 Distinguished Lecture Series and a selection of student works)