Speaker:
Dr. Yuanyu KUAN (PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa);
Dr. Priscilla TSE (PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

2:00 pm Dr. Yuanyu KUAN “Resisting, Traveling, and Musicking: Indigenous Taiwanese Making Waves in Oceania”

3:30 pm Dr. Priscilla TSE “Performing Androgyny: Cross-Dressing Actresses, Fandom, and Queer Sensibility in Hong Kong Cantonese Opera"

Zoom link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/92659132836?pwd=MmtFLy9Vei9jZ3duYW44QnRUMVhUQT09 
Meeting ID: 926 5913 2836
Passcode: 442244

This paper examines the diffusion and replication of metropolitan cultures, and their dynamic interplay with local cultures, in the Roman and Han Empires. It argues, first, that the distinctive cultural forms most often pressed into service to express power and prestige, in both metropolitan and local contexts, were quite different in the two empires, and second, that these forms were more tightly controlled in the Han Empire. The paper concludes with a discussion of how large-scale patterns in acculturation can shed new light on the different strategies of rule employed by the two imperial systems.

Speaker
Prof. Carlos NOREÑA
Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Conducted online via ZOOM
(Meeting ID: 990 8868 4183) 
https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99088684183

First Lecture: 
Company Law, Legal Standards of Accounting and the History of Business Enterprise in China: Viewpoints of Max Weber and Yu Ying-shih
Date: 4 April 2022 (Monday)
Time: 4:00 pm
Moderator: Prof. LAU Kwok Ying (Department of Philosophy, CUHK)
Language: Putonghua

Second Lecture:
The Ideal and Practice of Lineage: A Perspective from Historical Anthropology
Date: 9 April 2022 (Saturday)
Time: 3:00 pm
Moderator: Prof. CHEUNG Sui Wai (Department of History, CUHK)
Language: Cantonese

Speaker
Professor David FAURE
The Emeritus Professor, Department of History
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

RPg Workshop (I)
Date: 1 April 2022 (Friday)
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm

RPg Workshop (II)
Date: 1 April 2022 (Friday)
Time: 2:30pm-5:30pm

RPg Workshop (III)
Date: 8 April 2022 (Friday)
Time: 2:30pm-5:30pm

Conducted online via ZOOM
(Meeting ID: 926 4240 6754) 
https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/92642406754

A research seminar will be held in late-March by Dr. Li Long. The topic is “One book, many covers: A diachronic, social-semiotic approach to the study of translated book covers”. 

Speaker
Dr. Long LI, The University of New South Wales
Dr Long Li is a Lecturer in the Translation & Interpreting program at The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in Australia. He holds a B.A., an M.A., and a PhD (Macquarie University) in Translation Studies. Dr Li is a NAATI Certified Translator (Chinese<>English) and Interpreter (Mandarin<>English) with expertise in legal and healthcare discourses. He also currently serves as the UNSW representative on the Education Committee of AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators). His research interests include the translations of successful English works by Chinese migrant writers, contrastive linguistics between English and Chinese (esp. Systemic Functional Linguistics), corpus linguistics, and multimodality.

Zoom Link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/93572619530?pwd=Tlh6bWkycDJmZnM2UGVuVjBXUnZGZz09

Let's check out Prof. Douglas Matthew GILDOW upcoming webinar at 11:30am, on Mar 23 (Wednesday). The topic is The Birth of Chinese Buddhist Modernism. He is going to share about origins of Chinese modernist Buddhism, including its features and relationships. It is conducted in English.
Due to the new social distancing measures introduced by the Hong Kong government, the webinar will conduct online.

Speaker 
Prof. Douglas Matthew GILDOW

The ocean is a crucial component of food security, employment, and economic activity in China. Fisheries and aquaculture make up approximately 10% of China’s total gross agricultural output and employ nearly seven million fishers. However, due to unchecked development and irresponsible aquaculture practices over the past 70 years, fishery habitats and biodiverse marine ecosystems have degraded at an alarming rate: China has lost 57% of its coastal wetlands, 73% of its mangroves, and 80% of its coral reefs since the 1950s. Many species are also endangered during this economic development process. What is the way to sustainably develop the society without sacrificing the nature?

Speaker
Patrick Yeung, Ocean Program Expert Consultant, WWF-China 

Patrick Yeung obtained his PhD in Biology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since 2006, he participated in various research projects on coral, seaweed and dolphin ecology. He joined the marine conservation team of WWF Hong Kong in 2014, to study on marine litter problems as well as coastal biodiversity in Hong Kong through citizen science activities. Based on the survey results, new strategies were developed to solve the marine litter problem with different sectors, and to facilitate the regional cooperation. Besides, he closely engaged with local marine experts and scientists to review Hong Kong’s marine ecological data, which helped identify marine ecological hot spots for government’s reference as the basis for conservation and research works. 

He has joined the WWF China’s team in 2019 to advance the ocean conservation program. In particular, he is leading the projects on marine habitat/species conservation, sustainable fisheries and ocean plastic. To tackle the territory wide issues in this big country, WWF is actively building partnerships with NGOs, research institutes, industry associations to provide more comprehensive and in-depth solutions and to amplify influences of ocean conservation. With the Blue Planet Fund established in 2018, the team is supporting effective and innovative marine conservation projects, in order to facilitate the society to take scientific-based actions to protect the ocean together.

The talk will provide an introductory overview of the legal aspects of working in the art industry. Topics covered include authenticity, agency relationship, resolution of art dispute, intellectual property and moral rights, and legal issues related to NFTs.

Speaker
Mr. Val Chow (周翩洋大律師), Temple Chambers
Val has a broad civil and commercial legal practice and is experienced in advising listed companies, regulators, financial institutions, liquidators, directors and shareholders on a range of financial, securities, company, trust and regulatory matters. He has been named as a Leading Junior Barrister for Commercial Disputes in Hong Kong by The Legal 500 (2021) and is a member of the pool of arbitrators of The Court of Arbitration for Arts at The Hague. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators.

Speaker 
Dr. ZHANG, Yijia, Lecturer, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute

ZOOM meeting ID: 913 2308 0481 (Passcode: 904206)

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