5 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Head, Department of Government and International Studies
Hong Kong Baptist University
Since the outbreak of the Sunflower Movement a year ago, Taiwan politics had witnessed important change...
4 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015
6:00PM – 7:30PM
1ST FLOOR
(CANCELLED)
Panelists:
Hervé Deguine, Amirali B. Nasir J.P. FHKIoD, Eric Wishart
The killings in January of 11 people including celebrated cartoonists at the offices of Charlie Hebdo shocked many around the world, and led to an outpouring of supp...
2 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Jeannie Cho Lee
Asian Master of Wine, Professor of Wine, HK Polytechnic
How had China’s entry into the wine industry, both as a major consumer and producer, encouraged the black market for fake wines? How prevalent was cou...
26 Feb 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015
6:30pm – 7:30pm
1st Floor
We've received positive feedback about this well-attended event that covered everything from easy-to-employ strategies to safeguard your data and devices, to tools for encrypted instant messaging and phone calls on smartphones. Afterwards, sev...
9 Feb 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Dr. Barry Kerzin
Buddhist Monk / Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong
Practicing meditation and compassion help relieve stress. So what is meditation? It is a mental activity that focuses our mind and brings clar...
29 Jan 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, January 29, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Lawrence Brahm
Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, PRC
Author, Chief Economist of the New Earth Institute
Mr. Brahm will outline the severity of China's climate change crisis and the pathways t...
16 Jan 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Friday, January 16, 2015
3:30pm – 5:30pm
1ST FLOOR
Writers from the PEN American Center in conversation on the ethics of literary expression and freedom in writing across the globe. PEN will also release a report on the situation of freedom of expression in Hong Kong over the past year.
Peter God...
13 Jan 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Aymo Brunetti
Department of Economics, the University of Bern
Former Chief Economic Advisor, Switzerland
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Mario Draghis, President of the European Central Bank, had a famous “whatever it takes“ quote more than ...
12 Dec 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker
Speaker: Sebastião Salgado
Photographer
FriDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014
12:30PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
(NOTE: Lunch has been moved up to allow for a 22 minute slide show of Mr. Salgado’s work before his talk.)
Sebastião Salgado, one of the world’s most respected photographers, will ...
5 Dec 2014 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Rex Tso
Super Flyweight Boxing Champion
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2014
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Meet super-flyweight boxing champ Rex Tso, fresh from his recent victory in Macau this month after defeating top Indonesian boxer Espinos Sabu in an eight-round unanimous decision ...
