Upcoming Events
Knowledge Exchange Exhibition
Transcendence Journey: Incarnation of Charm and Elegance
Exhibition period: 15 - 30 November 2021
Venue: G/F, Main Library, HKU
Opening Ceremony: 15 November 2021
Time: 8:00 pm
Venue: Library Extension 3 (LE3), Main Library, HKU
Knowledge Exchange Exhibition
Tour through Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2021 | 香港人權藝術獎 2021巡禮
Exhibition period: 16 - 29 November 2021
Venue: Run Run Shaw Tower G/F Gallery, HKU
CGED Research Seminar Series
Book Talk — Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation and Subjectivity
Speaker:
Geng Song, Associate Professor, School of Chinese, HKU
Respondent: Alvin K. Wong, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Moderator: Angie Baecker, Department of Art History, HKU
Date: 8 December 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:00 PM | On Zoom
CGED Spotlight
HKU Historian Becomes First Scholar of Japan to Win Prestigious International Book Prize
Dr. Janet Borland, Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies, has won the 2020 Grace Abbott Book Prize for Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020). The prize is awarded annually by the Society for the History of Children and Youth for the best book published in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed). Dr. Borland is the first scholar of Japan to win this prestigious international book prize.
Knowledge Exchange Series
Listening through the Unheard: A Reflection on 100 Years of U.S. Women’s Suffrage and its Connections with Asia
Panelists
Professor Louise Edwards, Emeritus Professor of Chinese History, University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Professor Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and Professor at the SNF Agora Institute, The Johns Hopkins University
Panelist and Moderator
Dr. Brenda Rodriguez Alegre
Lecturer in the Gender Studies Programme, HKU
Date: 18 August 2021 (Wednesday) Zoom recording now available
CGED Research Seminar Series
The Gendering of the Cultural Revolution: The Barefoot Doctor in High Socialist Narrative Feature Film
Speaker:
Angie Baecker, Lecturer, Department of Art History, HKU
Respondent: Vivian Sheng, Department of Art History, HKU
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: 26 May 2021 (Wednesday)
Zoom recording now available
Gender/Diversity/Democracy
The Gendered Pandemic in China A Feminist Online Ethnographic Study
Speaker: ZHAO Feng Chenzi, PhD Candidate, Western University, Canada
Moderator: Laura Meek, Assistant Professor, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, HKU
Date: 14 May 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