Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1996

LECTURES Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. Moses Chow, professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of Connecticut and director of drug information service at Hartford Hospital, delivered a lecture entitled 'Improving the Pharmacotherapy of Cardiac Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Challenge for the Present and Future' on 13th October 1995. • Prof. Kenneth Frampton, War e Professor of Architecture from Columbia University , presented a public lecture on 'Critical Regionalism Revisited: the Case of Iberia’ on 2nd November 1995. • Prof. Rene M. Stulz, Ralph Kurtz Chair in Finance from Ohio State University, gave a lecture entitled 'Does the Cost o f Capital Differ Across Countries? — Cases of the US and Japan’ on 21st November 1995. • Prof. Leo P. Kadanoff, John D. Mac Arthur Distinguished Service Professor of Physics from the University of Chicago, delivered a lecture entitled 'Little Worlds: Investigations of Reality i n Computer Models w i th Examples Drawn from the Physical Sciences' on 6th March 1996. • Prof. Jerry J. Weygandt, Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accountancy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, spoke on 'Future Directions i n Financial Reporting' on n t h March 1996. • Prof, C. Warren Hollister, professor of history and medieval studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara, gave a lecture entitled The Decline and Fall of the Middle Ages: Reperiodizing European History' on 28th March 1996. Professorial Inaugural Lecture • Prof. N. M. Hjelm, professor of chemical pathology, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Looking after Biomolecules' on 12th January 1996. Li and Fung Lecture • Prof. Harry Harding, dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, gave a lecture entitled The Asian Challenge' at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on 25th September 1995 as the guest speaker of the L i and Fung Lecture organized by the MBA Programmes of the University. CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA/ WORKSHOPS • The Faculty of Business Administration organized an intensive workshop on behavioural business research from 5th to 7th September 1995. • The University's Chinese Law Programme and the French Centre on Contemporary China in Hong Kong jointl y organized the Symposium on Centralization and Regionalism: Social and Legal Recomposition in China and Europe from 22nd to 23rd September 1995. • The University organized/co-hosted the following functions: - A World Health Organization training course on the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of drug abuse from 11th to 20th December 1995. - A symposium on the Hong Kong Science Park on 14th December 1995. - A sexual harassment workshop from 15th to 17th January 1996. Prof. Margaret L. Andersen, professor of sociology and women's studies and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Delaware, was invited to conduct the workshop and delivered a lecture entitled 'Sexual Harassment: Purely Academic?' on 16th January. • Chung Chi College coorganized the following conferences: - ‘ T h e Seventh International Conference on the Cognitive Processing of Chinese and Other Asian Languages', along with the Department of Psychology from 14th to 16th December 1995. - ‘ T h e International Conference on Elderly Care, the Family, and Human Values in the Twenty-first Century', along with the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Hong Kong Universit y of Science and Technology from 8th to 10th February 1996. 44