Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2004

organized by the Centre of Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Faculty of Education; • The I n t e r na t i onal Conference on the Boxer Movement and Christianity in China, 10th and 11th June 2004, jointly organized by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society of Chung Chi College, the Holy Spirit Study Centre of the Hong Kong Diocese, and the Research Centre of Catholic History of Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei; • The Secondary School Principals' Forum, 13th to 19th June 2004, coorganized by New Asia College; • The Third International Conference on Mental Health Issues, 1st to 3rd July 2004, jointly organized by Harvard University, Peking University, and the Department of Psychiatry of the Chinese University; • The Third Seminar on Moral Education, 5th to 13th July 2004, jointly organized by New Asia College and the Beijing Oriental Morality Institute; • The I n t e r n a t i o n al Conference on I n t e r net Communication in Intelligent Societies, 8th to 10th July 2004, by the School of Journalism and Communication; • The Fourth Seminar on Traditional Chinese Culture, 15th to 20th July 2004, coorganized by New Asia College; • Training programmes on CHESS Management, 2nd to 7th August 2004, by the School of Hotel and Tourism Management; • The International Conference and Exhibition of the Modernization of Chinese Medicine and Health Products (ICMCM) 2004, 12th to 16th August 2004, coorganized by the University. Visiting Scholars • Prof. Nora Chiang, dean of humanities and social sciences and professor of the Social Wo r k Department of the Pingtung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, visited the University's Gender Studies Programme from 3rd to 6th May as the programme's Visiting Scholar 2004. Prof. Chiang gave lectures and seminars during her visit. On 4th May, she spoke on 'Feminist Geography: A Quiet Revo l u t i on' and had a r ound t ab le w i t h gender studies f acu l ty on 'Engendering Social Science Pedogogy'. On 5th May, she gave a workshop for graduate students on ' Fem i n i st Me t h o d o l o g y: Is Qu a l i t a t i ve or Quantitative Better'. • Prof. Yung Yuk-ling, professor of planetary science at the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, paid a visit to United College from 17th to 31st October 2004 as the college's first Distinguished Visiting Scholar in 2004-5. Du r i ng his visit, Prof. Yung delivered two public lectures and hosted a night talk. Topics addressed i n c l u d ed ' A re We A l o ne i n the Universe?', 'Did the Sunspot Cycle Cause the Fall of the M i ng Dynasty?', and 'Life on the Cutting Edge of Science at Caltech'. Obituaries • Dr. Philip Shen, former head of Chung Chi College and dean of the Faculty of Arts at CUHK, passed away on 5th August 2004 at his home in Claremont, Los Angeles. He was 73. Dr. Shen joined Chung Chi College in 1962 as lecturer in philosophy and religion. For 32 years since until his retirement in 1994, he devoted himself to serving Chung Chi and the University, taking up such i mp o r t a nt positions as dean of arts, chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, dean of College General Education of Chung Chi, and head of Chung Chi College. • Mr. L iu Ming, former director of the New Asia-Yale-in-China Chinese Language Centre, passed away on 15th August 2004 at his home in Los Angeles, USA. He was 71. Mr. L iu joined the University in 1974 and served as the director of the language centre until 1990. He was honorary adviser to the language centre in 1990-91. News in Brief 77