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Australia; • Conference on ‘Love, Sexuality, Culture ’, 1st and 2nd December 1999, by Department o f Mo d e r n Languages and Intercultural Studies and Office of General Education; • Conference on 'Charitable Services and Social Forces i n H i s t o r y ' , 6 t h to 8th December 1999 , by Department of History and New Asia College; • I n t e r n a t i o n al Language in E d u c a t i o n Conference 99, 17th to 19th December 1999, by the University; • Symposium on 'Cervical Cancer Screening in the New Millennium', 15th January 2000, by Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology; • Symposium o n 'Malaria — Problems and Potential Solutions', 8th February 2000, by Division of Clinical Pharmacolog y o f the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics; • International Symposium on Chinese seals, 9th to 11th March 2000, by A r t Museum; • The 32nd Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference on Public Health Education in the 21st Century, 22nd to 24th Ma r c h 2000, sponsored by Chung Chi College; • The 17th Me e t i ng o f the I n t e r n a t i o n al Academy of Tumour Marker Oncology and the F i f t h Annual Scientific Symposium of the Ho ng Ko n g Cancer Institute, 23rd and 24th March 2000, by Department of Clinical Oncology and Department o f Biology of the H o n g K o n g Un i v e r s i ty o f Science and Technology. Lectures Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. John R. Mallea, president emeritus o f Brandon University in Canada, delivered a lecture en t i t l ed ‘ G l o b a l i z a t i o n, Trad e Liberalization, an d Higher Education in No r t h America' on 26th October 1999. • Prof. Raymond Boudon from the Teaching and Research Uni t of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris I V ) delivered a lecture en t i t l ed 'Multiculturalism and Value Relativism' on 7th November 1999. • Prof. Ian Roger Gough, professor of social policy f r om the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath in the U K , delivered a lecture entitled T h e Needs of Capital and the Needs of People: Can the Welfare State Reconcile the Two?’ on 19th November 1999. • Prof. James R. Mo r r ow Jr., professor and chair of the Department o f Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation of the Un i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h Texas in the US , delivered a lecture e n t i t l ed ' Ph y s i c a l Activity: Increasing Quality of Life Through L i f e s t y l e Be h a v i o u r s a n d P r e v en t i v e Medicine' on 10th Ma r ch 2000. • Prof. Tien Chang-lin, university professor and N E C D i s t i n g u i s h e d Professor o f Engineering at the University of Berkeley, a n d f o r m e r c h a i r m a n o f t he C h i e f Executive's Commission on Innovation and Technology of the H K S A R , delivered a lecture on T h e Synergy and Development of Knowledge-based Economy in Greater China' on 21st Ma r c h 2000. • Prof. W i l l i a m D a v i d Ma r s l e n -W i l s o n , director of the Cognition and Brain Sciences Un i t of the Medical Research Council at Cambridge, delivered a lecture on 'Words in the Mi nd : A View Across Languages' on 31st Ma r c h 2000. Professorial Inaugural Lectures • Prof. J.A.J.H. Critchley, professor o f clinical pharmacology, delivered his i naugu r al lecture entitled ‘Clinical Pharmacologists: The Jacks of A l l Trades' on 9th November 1999. • Prof. James Arthu r Dickinson, professor of family medicine, delivered his inaugural lecture en t i t l ed ' De v e l o p i ng P r i ma r y Medical Care in the New Mi l l enn i um ' on 14th January 2000. Chinese Universit y Bulletin S p r i n g • Summer 2 0 0 0 58

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