Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2001

Department of Social Work and the Sha Tin District Coordinating Committee on Family and Child Welfare Services; • International conference on ‘Sociology and Chinese Society in T r a n s i t i o n ’，3 0 t h November to 2nd December 2000, by the Department o f Sociology, the Asian Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Sociology Department o f Zhongshan Un i v e r s i t y , sponsored by the L i n g n a n Foundation; • Forums on innovative school design for the 21st century, November and December 2000, by the Department of Architecture; • C o n f e r e n ce on Ch i n e se B u s i n e ss Management, 11th and 12th December 2000, by the Committee on China Research and Development of the Centre for Chinese Business Studies of the Faculty of Business Administration, and the Hang Lung Centre for Organizational Research of the School of Business at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; • The Second International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning ( I D E A L 2000), 13th to 15th De c emb e r 2000 , by the F a c u l t y o f Engineering, sponsored b y Chung Chi College; • Telemedicine conference on traditional Chinese medicine, 14th December 2000, by the Telemedicine Centre o f the Faculty of Medicine, the Institute of Chinese Medicine, and the H o n g K o n g T e l eme d i c i n e Association; • Scientific meeting on 'New Insights into Women's Health', 13th January 2001, by the Department of Community and Famil y M e d i c i n e a n d t he H o n g K o n g Epidemiological Association; • CU 2 Joint Conference in Hospitality and Tourism, 13th and 14th January 2001, by the School of Hotel Management and Cornell University; • The Sixth Congress of the Asian Society of H e p a t o - B i l i a r y - P a n c r e a t i c Su r g e r y (ASHBPS), 6th to 9th February 2001, by the Department of Surgery and ASHBPS ; • The Sixth Annual Scientific Symposium of the Hong Kong Cancer Institute, 20th and 21st February 2001, by the Department of Clinical Oncology and Chemical Pathology; • Symposium on 'Corporate Governance and Disclosure: Enhancing the Competitiveness of Hong Kong', 22nd and 23rd February 2001, by the Master o f Ac c oun t an c y Programme of the School of Accountancy; • Symposium on Innovative Design for the Learning Environment, 3rd March 2001, by the Depa r tmen t o f A r c h i t e c t u r e , the Education Department, and the Hong Kong Institute of Architects. Lectures Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. Richard Rose, professor of politics and public policy, and director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University o f Strathclyde, spoke on ‘The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World' on 8th December 2000. • Prof. Orley Ashenfelter, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics and director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, spoke on ' How Large Is the Economic Payoff to Education?' on 12th December 2000. Professorial Inaugural Lectures • Prof. John E. Sanderson, professor o f medicine and therapeutics, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Heart Failure — the New Epidemic, Insight s from Three Continents' on 30th November 2000. • P r o f. Serena S.H. Jin, p r o f es sor o f translation, delivered her inaugural lecture entitled 'Knowing Translation's True Face: Reflections on the Nature of Translation' on 12th December 2000. • Prof. David Parker, professor of English, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'The News in Brief S7