Lingnan University e-News

Campus news

• Chinese New Year Media Luncheon 2014
• Lingnan University featured in QS World University Subject Rankings for Philosophy, Modern Languages, and Accounting & Finance
• Lingnan University takes up challenge at Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2014
• “ZOOMANITY” exhibition of sculptures
• Painting exhibition reflects changing faces of Myanmar
• Lingnan local and non-local students celebrate Spring Festival 2014
• Lingnan University Sports Day 2014
• President Leonard K Cheng attends inauguration of Student Hostel Association cabinets
• Tuen Mun primary school students attend Business lecture at Lingnan University
• Sharing reception of Lingnan Education Organization Ambassadors Programme
• Lingnan alumnus and “wedding master” Mr Tim Lau shares his job experience at “Tuesdays with Mentors” dinner

Research and academic activities

• Hong Kong children happier in 2013 but happiness index tempered by pressure from schoolwork and extra-curricular activities
• Visual Studies seminars on museum curatorship and visitor experience

Awards and people

• Lingnan student receives “Hong Kong Young Historian Award”

Publications

• Book launch of BETWEEN: Collaborative Haiku and Picture Postcards

Upcoming events

• Lingnan Arts Festival 2014 (27 February – 27 March 2014)
• Seminar on “Aesthetics and Governmentality: Issues in Kung Fu Cinema” (6 March 2014)
• Conference on the Study of Confucian Classics and Chinese Poetic Art (7-8 March 2014)
• Rehabilitation Service Week (10 – 14 March 2014)
• Public Seminar on “Ann Hui and Her Hong Kong” (11 March 2014)
• “Television Culture and Hong Kong Society”: Screenings and Talks (11 March – 8 April 2014)
• Public Seminar on “Corruption: Demand-side and Supply-side Solutions” by Prof Avinash Dixit (21 March 2014)
• Seminar by Writer-in-Residence 2014 on “Literature, in Small Times, in Great Times” by Mr Su Tong (25 March 2014)
• Seminar by Writer-in-Residence 2014 on “From RAISE THE RED LANTERN to THE ORIOLE” (10 April 2014)