Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1995

Lectures Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. Wimal Dissanayake, senior fellow at the East- West Center in Honolulu, gave a lecture on 'Cultural Studies: The Challenges Ahead for Asian Scholars' on 6th October 1994. • Prof. Robert A. LeVine, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development and professor of anthropology at Harvard University, presented a public lecture titled 'Human Nurture: A View from Psychosocial Anthropology' on 3rdNovember 1994. • Prof. Jon Elster, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor ofPolitical Science and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, delivered two public lectures titled 'Marxism Today' and 'The Constitution-Making Process' on 15th and 17th November 1994 respectively. • Prof. Brian John Caldwell, professor and associate dean (research) of the Institute of Education at the University of Melbourne, gave two public lectures titled 'Strategic Issues in the Global Transformation of School Education' and 'International Perspectives on the Impact of School-based Management' on 8th and 12th December 1994 respectively. • Two professors from Boston University delivered public lectures in February 1995. Prof. Gail Carpenter, professor of cognitive and neural systems and mathematics, spoke on 'A Brief History of Neural Networks' on 20th February. Prof. Stephen Grossberg, Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, talked on 'How Does the Brain Learn to Recognize Objects?' on 23rd February. • Prof. Chen Jie from the Department of Pathology of the Beijing Union Medical College, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, presented a public lecture titled 'Nerve Growth Factor-induced Differentiation ofNeuroblastoma Cell Lines' on 6th March 1995. • Prof. Douglas North, Nobel laureate in economic science, spoke on 'Economic Performance through Time' on 7th March 1995. • Prof. Michael N. Apple, John Bascom Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, delivered a lecture titled 'Educationand Power' on 13th March 1995. Professorial Inaugural Lectures • Prof. C.A. van Hasselt, professor of surgery (otorhinolaryngology), delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Silence, Sound, Balance' on 7th October 1994. • Prof. Chiao Chien, professor of anthropology, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Difficulties and Prospects in the Development of Chinese Anthropology' on 28th October 1994. • Prof. Joseph Lau Wan-yee, professor of surgery, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Surgeons and the First Sovereign Thrones' on 25th November 1994. • Prof. ChanKai-ming ,professor of orthopaedics and traumatology, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Citius, Aldus, Fortius — The Challenge of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine' on 9th December 1994. • Prof. Sydney S.C. Chung, professor of surgery, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Through the Looking Glass' on 6th January 1995. • Prof. Mark Tso On-man, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'From the Elixir of Emperor Qin Shi Huang to the Neuronal Rescuers of the Twentieth Century' on 3rd March 1995. Other Lectures • Prof. James Chin, professor of epidemiology at UC Berkeley, was invited by the Department of Community and Family Medicine to give a talk titled 'Epidemiology and Natural History of HIV/AIDS' on 1st October 1994. • Sir Michael Atiyah, head of the New Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University, gave a lecture on 'The Algebra, Geometry and Physics of Spinoss' on 5th January 1995. • Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in chemistry, Prof. Richard R. Ernst of the Eidgen ö ssische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland, delivered two lectures entitled 'Revealing Insights into Molecules, Materials, and Men by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance' and 'Intramolecular Dynamics in Liquids and Molecular Order in Solids Investigated by NMR' on 13th March 1995. Conferences/Symposia/Workshops • The University's Hong Kong Centre of Sports Medicine and Sports Science and the Hong Kong Sports Institute jointly organized 'The First Chinese Sports Medicine Summit' on 14th November 1994. • An international conference on violence against women was held from 16th to 19th November 1994. The conference was jointly organized by the Hong Kong-America Center, the Gender Research Programme of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia- Pacific Studies and the David C. Lam Institute for East West Studies of Hong Kong Baptist College. • The Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies coorganized a symposium on 'Global Change and the Commonwealth' with the Commonwealth News in Brief 45