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Public Programme

 

HKUST Public Humanities Lectures

Venue: Lecture Hall, G/F, Hong Kong Museum of History
Time: 3 – 5 pm
Enrolment: 139 seats; first come, first served.
(Audience will be admitted 15 minutes before each lecture starts)
Fee: Free admission
 

All lectures will be conducted in Cantonese, unless otherwise specified. The Museum makes no representations on the content of the lectures.

Co-organized by
Hong Kong Museum of History
Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

This is a series of public lectures by the faculty from HKUST to share with the increasingly better educated public in Hong Kong the advanced knowledge in the domain of multidisciplinary humanities, which is for the public, of the public, and by the public.

Date Topic Speaker

6 / 4(Sat)

Charisma: The History of a Concept (in English)

Professor Joshua Derman

21 / 4(Sun)

Understanding Taiwanese Identity through Pop Culture (in Putonghua)

Professor Shaw May Yi

28 / 4(Sun)

The Inheritance and Characteristic of Chan Buddhism

Professor Simon Wong

25 / 5(Sat)

When East Meets West: English Loanwords in Cantonese

Professor Carine Yiu

1 / 6(Sat)

Babble and Rumor: Eileen Chang's The Little Reunion (in Putonghua)

Professor Chen Li Fen

22 / 6(Sat)

Western Opera Education in Hong Kong

Professor Oliver Lo