Upcoming Events
CGED Knowledge Exchange Series
Missing Opportunities: A Review of Gender Diversity on Hong Kong Boards
Speaker:
Mohan Datwani, Solicitor, Deputy Chief Executive, The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS), and Member, Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
Moderator: Jackie Wang, PhD Candidate, Department of History, School of Humanities, HKU
Date: 13 April 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:00 PM Delivery: via Zoom
CGED Research Seminar Series
Security's Porosity
Speaker:
Timothy Gitzen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Faculty of Arts, HKU
Respondent: Alvin K Wong, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Moderator: Mercedes Vázquez, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, HKU
Date: 19 April 2021 (Monday)
Time: 7:30 PM Delivery: via Zoom
CGED Research Seminar Series 2020-2021
Second Semester Zoom Seminars
Speaker:
Angie Baecker, Lecturer, Department of Art History, School of Humanities, HKU
Date: May 26, 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:30 PM (Hong Kong)
CGED Spotlight
Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize (HKHRAP) 2021
Justice Centre Hong Kong x Goethe-Institut Hongkong
This year's submissions are invited on the theme of 'Shared Future'
Entries will close on Thursday, 15 April 2021, at 5pm Hong Kong time.
Call for Nominations
International Gender Equality Prize 2021
The third International Gender Equality Prize will be awarded at the end of 2021. The Finnish Government is now accepting nominations for the next recipient. The prize will be awarded to a person or actor who has promoted gender equality in a globally significant way. The prize amounts to EUR 300,000, which the recipient will assign to a cause that strengthens gender equality.
Nominations close on May 16, 2021.
Knowledge Exchange Series - Women & Leadership
Gender Equality in Finland and the EU:
Successes and Challenges
Speaker: Johanna Karanko, Consul-General of Finland to Hong Kong and Macao
Moderators: Teele Rebane and Bidhya Shrestha, Gender Studies Majors, HKU / Li Chong, SMLC, HKU
Date: 9 March 2021 / Zoom recording now available.
CGED Knowledge Exchange Series
Marginalisation & Empowerment: Voices of HK Women
7 March 2021 (Sunday)
Panel 1 - Class, Race and Gender: Intersectionality and Women in Hong Kong
Panel 2 - Visual Storytelling: Photography as Empowerment
Zoom recording now available.
Established in November 2016, the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity works with organizations both within and outside of the University of Hong Kong to lead the way on gender and diversity, and realize the full potential of our academic community.
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Enquiries and comments are welcome and can be sent to:
Ms Cathy Wong
CGED Secretary
Email: cathynkw@hku.hk
Ms Georgina Challen
CGED Research Assistant
Email: gchallen@hku.hk
Mailing Address:
Committee on Gender Equality & Diversity
Faculty of Arts General Office, Room 4.05
Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Faculty Office Tel: +852 3917 8977
CGED Email: artscged@hku.hk
CGED Research Seminar Series 2020-2021
Imperial Romance: Desire and Intimacy in
Korean Literature, 1905-1945
Speaker: Su Yun Kim, Korean Studies, SMLC, HKU
Respondent: Lin Pei-yin, School of Chinese, HKU
Moderator: Brian King, School of English, HKU
Date: 24 February 2021
Zoom recording coming soon
Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster: Victorian Studies, Asia, and the Pacific NAVSA Virtual Series
March 19: 9 am HKT (March 18, 9 pm EDT)
April 15: 9 pm HKT (9 am EDT)
May 14: 8 pm HKT (8 pm EDT)
Following from the recent call to “undiscipline” Victorian studies, this series of virtual events asks how scholars can move beyond the framework of metropole/periphery in thinking about the relationship between nineteenth-century Asia and Britain.