About the TalkProfessor Ying Chau will share her first-hand experiences with mentorship, the joy of mentoring students and how she has been shaped by her own mentors. She hopes to encourage students to seek mentors in their own life journey. Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/index.php/event/9353/ NoteThe 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 1.0 hour. About the Speaker Ying Chau is Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Her current research interests include the design and translation of drug delivery approaches and biomaterials for ocular applications and immunotherapy, as well as self-assembled nanostructures derived from polymers and biomolecules. The technologies developed from her lab are now being commercialized by start-up companies in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Currently, she is serving on the board of directors of the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (Hong Kong), the editorial boards of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Elsevier), and as Associate Editor of Drug Delivery (Taylor & Francis) and Frontiers in Drug Delivery (Frontiers). Professor Chau is deeply interested in education innovation and a strong advocate for empowering students for impact creation. She is the Founder and Director of Student Innovation for Global Health Technology (SIGHT) at HKUST. She and her team were recognized as finalists in the 2021 UGC Team Teaching Award. She was named the “Leading Woman in STEM” at the 2021 Annual Women of Influence (WOI) Conference & Awards organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham).  

簡介以講者自身在百老匯演出的親身經歷，介紹並闡述：舞臺藝術—-特指表演藝術—-的魅力與奧秘；中國舞臺藝術與百老匯舞臺藝術的異同；百老匯舞臺上千奇百怪、莫衷一是的演繹方式、觀摩體驗、以及足以顛覆你觀念的反傳統舞臺實驗。是次講座以網上形式進行，名額有限，請儘早報名。語言: 廣東話，穿插普通話、英文 (This talk will be conducted in Cantonese, supplemented by Putonghua and English) 講者：張磊作者簡介畢業於上海戲劇學院表演系，曾工作于珠江電影製片公司、廣東電視臺、芝加哥藝術劇院，柏克萊藝術劇院、紐約百老匯劇院，美國生活工作近三十年，幾經輾轉，極盡掙扎，憑著對表演藝術的由衷熱愛與不懈努力，從蹭別人的演出到辦自己的劇社，從開辦培訓班到建立創作中心，從社區小團契到頂尖學府的年度盛典，從編排節慶小節目到與心理學專家聯手創作心理劇系列巡演，最終得償所願，登上紐約百老匯舞臺， 成為極少數在百老匯舞臺上馳騁的純華裔演員，表演經驗豐富，英文流利，近年來轉戰回國，憑藉舞臺表演功力和多語言優勢(國語、粵語、英語)， 參演過多部影視作品，其中扮演過的“大一鑽”人物成為了現今中國西北農村現象級代名詞，並以此精彩演繹獲得國際電影節演員大獎，給萬千觀眾留下深刻印象。

About the TalkIn this talk, Professor Du will share on her latest research about the animated film-making activities of the North China Film Company (a branch of the Manchukuo Film Association (株式會社滿洲映畫協會) also known as Manying (滿映) between 1937–45), which was located in wartime Peking.Focusing on a Chinese cartoonist and animator named Liang Jin (?–1972), as well as a few Japanese animators at the North China Film Company, she will show that although Manying’s animated filmmaking followed a philosophy of "territorialization" and localization, it  still made a fantasy world distanced from the wartime realities of China and Japan. This enabled the animations to transcend wartime political controls, persist through a tumultuous regime change, and assume multiple afterlives  as "ghosts" animating Chinese socialist cinema, despite institutional efforts to erase them from the history of Chinese animation and live-action filmmaking.Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9298Notes: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 1.0 hour.No photography by the audience or any recording of this talk and its examples is allowed. About the SpeakerProfessor Du received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012 and joined the faculty of the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. Her book, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s, (2019) is available in the Library in both paper and e-book format. She is currently working on two other books tentatively titled Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (1937-1945) and Suspended Animation.She is interested in animation, film, media, feminist film criticism, critical race/ethnicity studies, transnational film studies, modern Chinese literature and visual culture, women/children/animal/machine/technology, travel/migration/diaspora, and modernity/modernism studies.Recently she started a new research project on women animators in China and is editing a few volumes about animation and new media. She is also the founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, which is dedicated to introducing and promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.  

About the Talk:Singapore appears to be moving towards a more open, competitive democracy. But this obscures the resilience of a conservative ruling party that has proved itself adept at accommodating popular sentiments without significant democratisation or political liberalisation.What are the prospects of political reforms in a liberal-democratic direction in a country that has long defied the predictions of modernisation theory? How resilient is Singapore’s model of illiberal democracy or soft authoritarianism? And will such reforms undermine the strong state and economic success that have been the hallmarks of Singapore?Prof. Donald Low of HKUST will discuss these topics, covered in his recent book, PAP v PAP : the partys struggle to adapt to a changing SingaporeRegistration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9064This 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 1.0 hour.Photos will be taken during the talk. The Chinese edition of the book,  威權政治之困境 : 新加坡未來政治想像 = PAP v. PAP... will be available for sale at the talk for HKD $100 (cash only).  Enquiries: Victoria Caplan (lbcaplan@ust.hk) About the Author:Donald Low is a senior lecturer and professor of Practice in Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as director of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies.. He is the author of Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (2014), in e-copy in our collection; and the editor of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (2012) in hard-copy in our book collection (HC445.8 .B45 2012)