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The Problem of Moral Luck, Anthropologically Speaking
Date: 20 April 2018 (Fri)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: G24, Arts and Humanities Hub, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Language: English
Abstract: Why do people take personal blame for consequences for which they were not responsible? How do they come to see themselves as responsible for things they clearly could not have controlled? This talk explores answers to this question with reference to literature, cross-cultural research, and the work of the philosopher Bernard Williams. “Moral luck” and “agent-regret,” concepts developed by Williams, refer to human problems and experiences that may be universal. They relate to how blame and responsibility get distributed in the face of misfortune, and how, I will argue, the moral actor participates in the larger web of life that constitutes one’s history.
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Getting Ready for Change: Hong Kong Public Museums in Face of Cultural and Managerial Challenges
Date: 16 March 2018 (Fri)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: G24, Arts and Humanities Hub, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Language: English
Abstract: It has been more than a decade since we expected to see a new museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District. The wait is long, and it has been a rather alarming period for existing Hong Kong public museums in the face of excitement and increasing demands from the general public. In this project, which investigated the series of changes that local museum were adapted to (for example, in terms of interactive technologies and blockbuster exhibitions), I discovered that something of higher importance has been overlooked—our own permanent collection. Objects are the core business of a museum. Why was it neglected? And what were the impacts of taking focus off the permanent collection? These questions invite many thoughts that ought to be sorted out before plans are set to build better museums.
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Cognitive Tutoring for English as a Second Language: Connecting Applied Linguistics with Learning Sciences
Date: 9 March 2018 (Fri)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: G24, Arts and Humanities Hub, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Language: English
Abstract: A recent trend in research of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is to incorporate established experimental methodology as well as new methods in learning sciences to produce demonstrable improvements in second language (L2) learning. This new method is referred to as eCALL (experimentalized CALL). This talk introduces two empirical experiments that examined the effectiveness of two versions of an eCALL tutor that provided training on English article usage for L2 learners in China. The Article Tutor was designed based on the Competition Model, a psycholinguistic model for language acquisition. The tutor incorporated a Bayesian knowledge tracing model to achieve individualized student tracking and adaptive learning. Data were analyzed through behavioral measurements and methods of educational data mining. The studies generated significant theoretical and pedagogical implications in second language learning.
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Prof. Pai Hsien-yung on The Beauty of Kunqu Opera.
For details please refer to the Chinese version.
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Prof. Pai Hsien-yung on Dream of the Red Chamber
For details please refer to the Chinese version.
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The End: How a Language Dies
Date: 15 Dec 2017 (Fri)
Time: 1:00 - 2:30pm
Venue: Swire Hall 1, Fung King Hey Building
Language: English
Prof Don Kulick is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University and head of the Engaging Vulnerability research program. His research and writing cover a wide range of topics and disciplines, including sociolinguistics, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, queer studies and human-animal communication.
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The Faculty offers the following two courses in 2017-18 to all undergraduate students:
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The Faculty offers the following course to MPhil and Ph.D. postgraduate students from all departments in the Faculty of Arts.
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