What food can best represent Hong Kong? Egg tart, Pineapple bun, or milk tea? In this casual academic dialogue, we will move beyond these cliched representations of the city and critically engage with the complexities of postcolonial identity from a gastronomical perspective. While previous studies on food and Hong Kong identity have mostly relied on […]
Date: 29 March 2023 (Wednesday) Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm Venue: CETL Learning Lab (RRS 321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU) Speakers: Ms. Sylvana Lee, Professional photographer Facilitators: Mr. Simon Boynton, Lecturer, Centre for Applied English Studies, HKU Mr. Donn Gonda, Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, HKU Dr. Michelle Raquel, […]
Public Lecture - Part of CCCH9051 Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China Speaker: Dr. Florian Knothe Director, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) Date and Time: Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Venue: KB223, Knowles Building, HKU All are welcome. No registration required.
Join us for this social event to network with fellow tutors, play with Generative AI applications, and enjoy coffee and light refreshments. Welcome all HKU tutors! Registration required: https://forms.gle/hqthYBzkBE75XMQB7
Focusing on transdisciplinarity-in-action, we will explore collaborative learning, contact points for research across disciplines, and innovative examples of institutional programming. How might the transdisciplinary help us enact flourishing and connected futures? A Panel Discussion with Winnie Yee (Comparative Literature, HKU) Julian Tanner (Director, Common Core, HKU) Rick Dolphijn (Philosophy & Art, Utrecht University) Gray Kochhar-Lindgren […]
Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to join the Join-the-Conversation: A great presentation gives smart ideas and advantage on 20 April 2023. The event is co-organized by Communication Intensive Courses (CiC), Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), and the Common Core. Date: 20 April […]
April 26 Wednesday, 11:30 am-2:30 pm @ Haking Wong Podium The Student Festival will showcase students’ innovative work in tackling issues which required them to integrate knowledge, methods, and media across disciplines. These exemplary projects come from different undergraduate courses and include posters, videos, podcasts, models, and more. Come Meet the Students!
Date: 3 May, 2023 (Wednesday) Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Venue: Digital Interactive Lab, Main Library Target Audience: All HKU staff (including those who have badged CIC courses and those who haven’t) >>Details and registration Programme Time Activity 9:30 – 9:35 Opening Speaker: Prof. Ian Holliday Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), HKU 9:35 – 10:20 Keynote: […]
Following its adoption by the US earth sciences community at the turn of the century, the concept of the ‘critical zone’ has been central to a so-called ‘terrestrial turn’ in the arts as well as the sciences. Originally defined as the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living […]
Earth Stories: Hong Kong WEBINAR A Transdisciplinary Art, Ecology, and Research Project Earth Stories: Hong Kong explores new habits of thought and feeling that emerge along the edges of Hong Kong’s cultural and natural worlds. Based at the KFBG Green Hub in Tai Po, the project includes expressions by flora and fauna, sky and earth, poets, film-makers, voice-artists, […]
Let's all celebrate an evening full of motion picture experiments and exchange of visual ideas. This international cooperation showcases a selection of 24 short films produced by students from various film-based courses from The University of Hong Kong, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Vienna University of Technology. The screening will be […]
Monday, 29 May 2023, 12:45 pm – 2:30 pm Room 202, Runme Shaw Building or Zoom All are welcome Pre-registration required for joining via Zoom https://bit.ly/crowdsourcingSDG Abstract: Crowdsourcing is vital in facilitating the sustainable development goals of digital humanities projects. In this talk, I will start with a literature review on cultural heritage crowdsourcing. A […]