Lingnan University e-News

Campus news

• President Leonard K Cheng assumes office
• Visit by University Grants Committee members
• APIAS commissioned by Government of Macao SAR to study and develop 10-year ageing policy framework
• Vice-President discusses future of Chinese and global economies in newspaper interview
• Lingnanian Career Mentoring Programme 2013/14 Kick-off Ceremony
• Ms Yookie Wong shares experience in tough battle with cancer at “Tuesday with Mentors” dinner
• The 13th and 14th Seminar for Senior Administrators from East Guangdong Region

Research and academic activities

• First University Assembly 2013/14
• Mr Adam Wong speaks on “The Way We Should Be – New Identity of Hong Kong Film”
• Seminar on “Hong Kong literary works I wish most to be adapted to film”
• Seminar on “Spirit of Science and Socially Responsible Scholarship” by Prof Anne Tsui

Awards and people

• Lingnan University to confer honorary fellowship upon five distinguished individuals
• New appointments/re-appointments to the Council and the Court
• Lingnan University appoints eight honorary Court members

Publications

• Centre for Humanities Research’s New Publication: In Search of a Flat: An Anthology of Hong Kong Urban Short Stories (translated from Chinese)
• Dr Mary Wong launches new book on Hong Kong film and literature
• The 15th Volume of “Slant”

Upcoming events

• Seminar on “Income Attraction: An Online Dating Field Experiment” (4 October 2013)
• Seminar on “The Founding of the June 4 Memorial Museum” (4 October 2013)
• Postgraduate Salon of the Arts (4 October 2013)
• Seminar on “The Root of US Grand Strategy after the Cold War” (8 October 2013)
• Seminar on “Daily Objects and Artwork” (8 October 2013)
• Seminar on “INTER-VIA – Encountering Taipei’s Performance Artists at Lingnan” (10 October 2013)
• “Walking with Lingnanians” Fundraising Walkathon 2013 (20 October 2013)
• Honorary Fellowship Presentation Ceremony 2013 (21 October 2013)
• International Day (23 October 2013)
• Seminar on “British Anti-Communism versus Communist Anti-Colonialism: The Origins of the Cold War Youth Race” (23 October 2013)
• Artist-in-Residence Exhibition “Cloud World…where anything is possible” (24 October – 2 November 2013)
• Inaugural Lecture on “Competitive Pearl River Delta Port System and the Future Direction for Hong Kong Port” (25 October 2013)
• Information Day (26 October 2013)
• Tin Ka Ping Mainland Scholars and Senior Administrators Exchange Programme 2013 (3-9 November 2013)
• Assembling Lingnan Logo by 1,000 Lingnanians celebrating 125th Anniversary of the Founding of Lingnan University (16 November 2013)
• Lingnan Alumni Day Gala Dinner celebrating 125th Anniversary of the Founding of Lingnan University (17 November 2013)