Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1997

• Seminar on Chines e M dicine— Education , Research and Application , 2nd May, CUHK ； • Semina r o nChildAbuse, 10th May, Department of Psychiatry ； • 97 Symposiu m o nResearch in Sport Scienc e an d Physical Education ： Southeast-Asia Perspective , 10th May, Department of Sports Science and Physical Education ； • Semina r o nChinese Languag e Teachin g in Hon g Kong , 15th-17th May, Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the Ng Tor-tai Chinese Language Research Centre of t he Un i v e r s i t y, t h eH o n g K o n g Examinations Authority, the Curriculum Development Institute, the Advisor y I n s p e c t o r a te o f t he H o n g K o n g Education Department ； • Towards Equal Employment Opportunitie s — Idea l and Reality , 24th May, Gender Research Programme of the Hong Kong Institute o f Asia- Pacific Studies ； • Asian Pacifi c Cardiovascula r Updat e 1997 Symposium , 5th and 6 t h J u n e , t h e D i v i s i o n s o f Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiology at the Prince of Wales Hospital ； • The Futures o fAnthropology ： Reflection s on Anthropologica l Researc h an d Teaching i nSouth China, 10th and 11th June, Department of Anthropology, New Asi a College ； • Globa l TelemedicineConferenc e — Movin g with the Sun, 30th June and 1st July, Faculty of Medicine ； • Symposiu m on Oesophagea l Cancer ， 30t h June ， CUHK Faculty of Medicine, the Hong Kong Society o f Digestive Endoscopy ； • The Fa rEaster n Meeting o fth e Econometric Society, 24th-26th July, Department of Economics, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ； • International Conference o n the Economic Developmen t and Transformation o fthe Eas t Asian Economies , 27th a nd 28th Ju l y , Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics ； • Second Medical Educatio n Conference, 1st and 2nd August, Faculty of Medicine ； • ' 9 7Pacific Congress on Marine Science an d Technology , 6th—8th August, CUHK as coorganizer ； • Internationa l Congress in Algebra s and Combinatorics , 1 9 t h - 2 3 r d August, Department o f Mathematics and Chung Chi College as cosponsors. Lectures Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at I r v i n e , gave a l e c t u reo n 'Globalization an d the Study of English a n d C omp a r a t i v e Literature ： Implications for Their Uses i n the Present Day University' on 3rd April. • Prof. Daniel C. Mattis, professor o f physics at the University of Utah, gave a lecture on 'Magnetism, from Compass to High-temperature Superconductivity' on 9th April. • Prof. John M. Swales, professor o f linguistics and director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan, gave a lecture on 'Language, Science and Scholarship' o n 11th September. • Prof. Hen r y M. Levin, Dav id Jacks Professor o f Higher Education and Economics at Stanford University, gave a lecture on 'Accelerated Education for an Accelerating Economy' o n 26th September. News in Brief 47