Description of talk: In fall 2022, Michelle Fung (https://www.michelleksfung.com/) went to the world’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen, to participate in the Arctic Circle, a 17-day residency program where international artists, filmmakers and musicians lived and worked on-board a ship. For fourteen days, the group sailed off the uninhabited international territory of Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees latitude from the North Pole.  They made daily landings to work on their projects.  They  rode inflatable boats called zodiaces, watched icebergs, hiked, and thus observed and researched the Arctic land as well as the sea.During her residency, Michelle created woodcuts for Northlandia, one of the five imaginary countries in her ongoing 2084 world-building project. She then an extra ten days in Longyearbyen,  for more inspiration and artistic work.In this talk, she will share on her personal Arctic journey and on the Northlandia Arctic Woodcuts she created there. She will also share her scholarly and journalistic insights on climate change and the delicate Arctic landscape.Registration link: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/index.php/event/9676/About the Speaker Michelle Fung (馮捲雪): An interdisciplinary artist, Michelle Fung’s lifelong oeuvre revolves around a grand dystopian world-building narrative set in year 2084. Her works have been presented extensively in international museums, galleries and university exhibitions and film festivals. A friend of HKUST,  her solo exhibition  Plastic, Plastic, Every Where was held at HKUST in 2019 (https://www.michelleksfung.com/hkust-2019). She holds a BFA, The University of British Columbia, Canada and MVA, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

座談會簡介圖書館五月的iTalk，邀請了香港歷史愛好者兼收藏家鄭寶鴻先生分享香港往昔多姿多采的飲食文化。鄭先生將透過多幅珍貴的舊照片，細談香港百多年來令人勾起無窮回憶、卻已消失的美食，以及簡述不同食肆的始末及演變，讓大家了解香港不同時期市民的飲食潮流。其近作包括《回味無窮 : 香港百年美食佳餚》及《香江知味 : 香港百年飲食場所》，將於講座即場發售 (付款方式：現金或PayMe)，歡迎參加者向鄭先生索取親筆簽名。是次講座將以實體形式進行，名額有限，請從速報名(https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9375)。The talk will be recorded and photos will be taken during the talk.This is a recognized event in the “Self-directed Experience” component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.5 hours. 講者簡介鄭寶鴻於一九四零年代末出生，是香港歷史愛好者，錢幣、郵票、歷史照片、明信片等的收藏家，對香港殖民地時期、日治時期的歷史及文化、地方誌等有專家級的認識，常獲不同機構邀請主講有關香港歷史掌故題材的講座。現為香港歷史博物館、香港文化博物館及香港大學美術博物館名譽顧問、香港錢幣研究會副會長兼義務秘書、香港郵票錢幣商會副會長及香港收藏家協會名譽顧問。出版著作：《回味無窮 : 香港百年美食佳餚》、《香江知味 : 香港百年飲食場所 》、《馬照跑舞照跳 : 百年香港的娛樂遣興》、《觸景生情 : 幾代香港人的生活記憶 》等 (https://lbdiscover.hkust.edu.hk/search/a?SEARCH=鄭寶鴻)。

講座簡介是次講座以西貢區的鹽田梓天主教客家村為例子，闡述原來已經離散的村民，在特殊條件之下回到荒廢的小島上發展文物保育，與外界合作聯結，推動社區復興。講者並會以他近期在大嶼山大澳和䃟頭村推行的文物保育項目進行對比，探討邊緣鄉郊復興的問題和策略。鄉郊社區的活化，為有興趣參與的市民和香港科技大學學生提供對另類的生活空間和社會關係，以致身份認同建構的寶貴知識和經驗。講座進行期間將被錄影及拍照出席此座談會的同學可獲CORE1905課程中"Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness"的1.0小時學習時數。同學須於入場及離場時出示學生證以作記錄名額有限,請各位報名留座講者: 張兆和副教授張兆和副教授多年來在香港科技大學人文學部從事人類學教學和研究工作。研究範圍主要是中國西南地區及香港族群社區歷史文化和身份認同。