Lingnan University e-News

Campus news

• 41st Congregation
• “Walking with Lingnanians” Fundraising Walkathon 2011
• Lingnan welcomes 14,000 visitors on Information Day
• Celebrating cultural diversity on International Day 2011
• Prof Livingston speaks on art appreciation
• Winners of “Lingnan Snapshots” Photo Competition announced
• Lingnan hosts Korea Forum 2011
• Outstanding Young Person Legward Wong speaks at “Tuesdays with Mentors” dinner

Awards and people

• LU Sports Team snatches two bronze medals in women’s ball games
• Lingnan students topped the Providence Foundation Outward Bound Training Awards 2010/11

Publications

• The 26th Volume of "Cultural Studies@Lingnan"

Upcoming events

• Seminar on “Semantic Stability and the Autonomy of Philosophy” (3 November 2011)
• Movie-screening and public lecture on “Sailing in the Darkness”: Life writing and Alzheimer’s Disease in John Bayley’s Iris (3-4 November 2011)
• Inauguration Ceremony of Simon and Eleanor Kwok Building (4 November 2011)
• Tin Ka Ping Mainland Scholars and Senior Administrators Exchange Programme 2011 (6-12 November 2011)
• Public Lecture on “Work Engagement through Job Crafting” (7 November 2011)
• The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Business Forum on “How to Build Winning Business Networks in Mainland China” (8 November 2011)
• Conference on “Work-life Balance and Social Policy” (8 November 2011)
• Forum on “Et tu, Translators! Acts of Literary Betrayal – A Joint Presentation by a Translation Team” (8 November 2011)
• Public Lecture on “The ‘White Terror’ in Taiwan Film and Fiction” (9 November 2011)
• Public Lecture on “The US Political Climate and a Culture of Assessment” (9 November 2011)
• Seminar on “Women’s Life of Tang and Song Dynasties as Seen in Unearthed Artefacts” (11 November 2011)
• University Assembly: "Service Leadership of the Post-industrial Age" (14 November 2011)
• Lecture on “Late Ming and Early Ching Literature" (14 November 2011)
• Public Lecture on “Bias in the Implementation and Interpretation of Assessment Results” (14 November 2011)
• Seminar on “Is China Heading in the Wrong Direction Economically?” (15 November 2011)
• Conference on “What Environment Do We Want? Environmental Aesthetics and Its Implications” (17-20 November 2011)
• Honorary Fellowship Presentation Ceremony 2011 (21 November 2011)
• Inaugural lecture on “Harold Bloom, Resentment, and the Somatics of Literary Criticism” (24 November 2011)
• 2011 AIB Southeast Asia Regional Conference on “Economic and Political Transformation: Implications and Impact on Global Business" (1-3 December 2011)