Annual Report 2006–07

學術發展 Academic Development 27 A book titled Sanwen yanyu sheng was published in July 2007, featuring the literary works of the winners of the Third Global Youth Chinese Literary Award for the New Century organized by the Faculty of Arts in 2006. Prof. Serena Jin, chairperson of the Organizing Committee of the event, was the editor-in-chief of the book. The Centre for Cultural Heritage Studies (CCHS) was established by the Department of Anthropology in 2006, which provides a platform for systematic and holistic studies on cultural heritage. CCHS aims at encouraging more academic research and exchange in the area, and promoting public understanding of the significance of cultural heritage. It also plans to provide student internship programmes to help students gain experience in heritage preservation and management. The Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies received a major grant of HK$64 million from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in August 2006 to operate the ‘Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme’. The centre, through research grounded in sign linguistics and language acquisition, aims at establishing an alternative model for deaf education that sets out to resolve the long-standing problem of low literacy skills and education attainment among deaf students in Hong Kong. The Department of Cultural and Religious Studies received a donation of HK$4 million in July 2007 from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness of Hong Kong for funding a professorship in Indian religions and culture for five years. • • • • Several major academic events and conferences were organized or co-organized by departments or units of the Faculty: ‘The 7th International Symposium on Japanese Studies & Japanese Language Education’ (29–30 October 2006, Department of Japanese Studies in collaboration with the Society of Japanese Language Education of Hong Kong) An international conference on ‘Eastern Culture and Modern Society: Philosophical Dialogue among Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism’ (23–24 November 2006, co-organized by the Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture under the Department of Philosophy, Institute of Oriental Philosophy and the Institute of Oriental Philosophy (Hong Kong Centre)) An exhibition of ‘The Lotus Sutra—A Message of Peace and Harmonious Coexistence’ (25–30 November 2006, co- organized by the Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture, Institute of Oriental Philosophy, Soka Gakkai International of Hong Kong, and St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) ‘History and Memory: The International Conference on Modern Chinese Literature’ (January 2007, Department of Chinese Language and Literature) A series of public lectures on ‘History and Business in China’ (January to February 2007, co-organized by the Department of History, the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business and Hong Kong Public Libraries) ‘International Conference on Couplets, Tie -rubbings and Chinese Calligraphy’ (16–17 March 2007, co- organized by the Art Museum and the Department of Fine Arts, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Institute of Chinese Studies and the 50th anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts) ‘The Alumni Art Exhibition Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Fine Arts Department and the 25th Anniversary of The Alumni Association of Fine Arts Department, CUHK’ (12–20 May 2007, Department of Fine Arts) Academic Conference ‘Teaching Art When Art is Everywhere: Secondary and Tertiary Art Education in Hong Kong’ (18–19 May 2007, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Department of Fine Arts) • ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ ❍ 「賽馬會手語雙語共融計劃」啟動儀式 The launch ceremony of Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme