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

Conversation Series: Just Reading- Coffee, Tea, and Texts

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

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)