About the Talk  - Powerpoint slidesDaoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life (Register here)The early Daoist text the Daodejing is popularly and anachronistically thought to speak in direct ways to ecology and the environment. Such prevalent ways of reading the text persist even as they are frequently criticized in the Sinological and Daoist scholarly community. While the Daodejing was composed across different historical contexts with diverse purposes in mind, the text continues to speak to questions of how to individually and socially live and interact with human and inhuman life and the natural world.In discussing my new book Daoism and Environmental Philosophy: Nourishing Life, I reexamine the extent to which the Daodejing and other early Daoist texts can be suggestive for addressing the contemporary environmental crisis. I consider whether and how early Daoist conceptions and practices of emptying (xu 虛), stilling (jing 靜), and making plain (su 素), responsive attunement (wuwei 無為), and nourishing life (yangsheng 養生 ) can be interpreted and reimagined in critical ecological models that indicate different more nurturing ways of dwelling and becoming with our environment and the myriad things (wanwu 萬物), in their own respective tendencies and ways of becoming (ziran 自然). Notes: (i)HLTH 1010 - HKUST students may attain 1.5 hours credit for the Healthy Lifestyle Course after attending the talk. (ii)This event will be recorded using video and photography. About the SpeakerEric S. Nelson is Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, having joined in 2014. He received his PhD from Emory University. His areas of teaching and research include modern European, East Asian, and intercultural/comparative philosophy and religion. He is particularly interested in questions of communication, interpretation, and social interaction (hermeneutics and ethics). His other book, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought, was published in 2017 and he has published over seventy articles and book chapters on Chinese, German, and Jewish philosophy.

座談會簡介「運動」與「營養」是近年香港人的熱門話題，常見問題包括：空肚跑步可消脂？如何預防跑步時腸胃不適？跑步後吃甚麼好呢？跑步減肥最有效嗎？大眾經常接觸到很多有關運動和營養的資訊，然而有些訊息是不正確的，亦欠缺科學數據的支持。《運動+營養：講是又講非》是雷雄德博士與林思為營養師於2019年出版的作品。兩位作者將於座談會上為我們拆解一些有關運動與營養的謬誤，並分享如何利用運動營養學去増強運動表現及加速運動後康復的情況。當然也會教大家如何在新冠肺炎的影響下，有效地配合營養飲食和運動來控制體重及保持健康體魄。出席此座談會的科大同學可獲HLTH1010課程中"Activities"單元的"Wellness and Personal Enrichment"1.5小時學習時數。 此座談會將使用視頻和攝影記錄。已報名的同學和同事會在座談會前1天下午5點經電郵收到 Zoom meeting ID 和 passcode。報名請往 https://lbcube.ust.hk/ce/index.php/event/7382/如有查詢，請聯絡 Ms. Celia Cheung (lbcelia@ust.hk)。講者簡介雷雄德博士，畢業於美國麻省春田大學，考獲理碩士及體育博士學位，主修體育及運動科學。現職香港浸會大學體育及運動學系副教授。曾為《明報》、《經濟日報》、《蘋果日報》，及現時於《星島日報》，撰寫「運動與健康」的專欄文章；曾獲得香港教練培訓委員會「優質教學獎」及行政長官社會服務獎；定期為香港電台主持體育及健康節目。林思為營養師，畢業於澳洲悉尼大學營養治療碩士課程，現為香港執業註冊營養師。有近20年為有體重問題、心臟病、糖尿病患者、飲食失調及相關人士提供營養飲食評估及治療的經驗。現擔任香港營養師協會對外事務主任，亦是香港運動醫學與運動科學學會理事會成員及食衞局降低食物中鹽和糖委員會委員。她常為各大媒體和網上解答及推廣最新營養資訊，曾編著十本營養書籍以上。

About the Talk (Powerpoint slide)In this talk, Professor Gietel--Basten will discuss his recent book, The Population Problem in Pacific Asia. This book is one of first to look in-depth at the issue of low fertility in Pacific Asia.  Considering  the whole region in context, there is also a focus on China, where he addresses such questions as , "why does the "two-child ideal" turn into a "one-child intention?" and  whether the two-child policy is Chinas "silver bullet".A lively speaker, Prof Gietel Basten uses qualitative and quantitative data and examples from newspapers and other media to help us come to a better understanding of the so-called population problems in the region.You can register at Library Event RegistrationHLTH1010 HKUST students may attain 1.5 hour credit for the Healthy Lifestyle Course after attending the seminar.This event will be recorded using video and photography.About the SpeakerProfessor Stuart Gietel-Basten is the Director of the university’s Center for Aging Science; and is Associate Dean (Research) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.His research covers the interplay between changing population dynamics and public and social policy. He is is especially interested in the fertility transition; conceptual approaches to ageing; and population policy. He is the co-ordinator of the GGS-Asia project, which seeks to run the Generations and Gender Survey in Asian settings – including Hong Kong.He received his education at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD in historical demography. Before coming to HKUST, he was an Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford. He has also been an adviser in Population and Development at the UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology and a Research Scholar at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.