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Loy Krathong - Thai Lantern Festival
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2017-11-07 09:53:06
4 pm - 6 pm Krathong Workshop
6:30 pm - 9 pm Thai Dance Performance Singing Performance Krathong Floating Thai Food Tasting
The Fourth Policeman: Reconsidering FDR's Vision for China's Postwar Role
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2017-10-12 16:11:08
At the core of his plan for a postwar international organization, US President Franklin Roosevelt envisioned four great powers (the Unites States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and China) that would work together to keep the peace. But why did FDR include China in this group, and how did its incl...
Exhibition & Talk: The Auschwitz Album and its Historical Significance
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2017-09-07 10:55:18
The Auschwitz Album is one of the most significant photographic collections of 20th century European history. They are the only surviving images documenting the systematic murder of European Jews by Germany between 1941-1945 at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The images capture t...
HKU Press - New Book Release: Understanding English Homonyms
HK University Press
Uploaded on 2017-02-14 09:52:08
Buy this book at HKUP website or HKUP Bookshop and enjoy a 10% discount! Visit HKUP Bookshop at G/F, Run Run Shaw Heritage House 逸夫苑 (next to the passage to MTR Exit C1 and the Visitor Centre), Centennial Campus. We are open Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm (and closed on public and university hol...
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-10-25 12:11:52
Information Day 2016 2/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Public film-sreening and talk: Sugihara Conspiracy of Kindness
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-09-15 10:38:17
Sugihara Conspiracy of Kindness with Mr. Nobuki Sugihara, son of Consul Chiune Sugihara, a Righteous Among the Nations., Dr. Florian Knothe, Director of the University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU and Dr. Andreas Leutzsch, DAAD Visiting Associate Professor at SMLC, HKU
Experiential Learning Trip to Ethiopia - May 28 to June 5, 2016
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-07-26 23:34:10
Seventeen HKU students joined an educational field trip to Ethiopia led by Dr Facil Tesfaye of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures' African Studies Programme and Dr Kofi Yakpo of the School of Humanities' Department of Linguistics. Both African Studies and Linguistics offer field tri...
Chinese Suffragette: Tang Qunying (1871-1937) and a 'Woman's Republic'
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-03-21 15:43:34
With her roots in rural Hunan, ties to the global women's suffrage movement, and experiences leading a nationwide women's rights movement, Tang Qunying (1871-1937) as a political figure embodied both the strengths and contradictions of Chinese republicanism. The arc of her career exposes the...
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Adam Johnson reads from his short story collection Fortune Smiles (2015)
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-03-15 15:08:33
American novelist and short story writer Adam Johnson will read from his short story collection Fortune Smiles, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2015. After the reading, the author will speak about his creative writing process and answer questions from the audience.
Yasukuni Shrine and mourning the war dead in Japan
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-03-14 10:03:06
Yasukuni Shrine, one of the youngest modern Shinto shrines, continues to symbolize the unrepentant Japan with regards to its role in World War II and the obstacle to reconciliation with its neighbours. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits against all caution and protests left a par...
Transforming the Industrial Sector in Ethiopia: A path to sustainable Development
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-03-08 10:28:16
Dr. Arkebe Oqubay Minister and Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia
HKU Francophone Film Festival 2016
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-03-07 12:52:07
Pas son genre (Not my type) Dir: Lucas Belvaux 14/03/2016 5:30 pm CYPP2, Chong Yuet Ming Building, HKU Une bouteille à la mer (A bottle in the Gaza sea) Dir: Thierry Binisti 15/03/2016 5:30 pm CYPP2, Chong Yuet Ming Building, HKU Gadjo Dilo (The Crazy Stranger) Dir: Tony Gatlif 17/03/2016 5:3...
Study In Spain
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-02-24 10:51:51
The presentation will concentrate on the importance of the Spanish language and on the Spanish university system. The audience will get information about the structure of university studies in Spain, access to Spanish Universities as well as the different types of study programmes offered: bachelor,...
Bridging Korea Old and New: Re-Periodizing the History of Korea for a Global Age
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2016-01-19 15:33:07
This international conference puts forward a new frame reference for examining the history of the Korean peninsula from the time of early state formation to liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. In Korean history, the modernization paradigm conceived in the 1960s is long overdue for a repl...
Everyday Life in North Korea A Photo Exhibition
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-11-26 15:33:28
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is one of the most mysterious and unique countries in the world. Our ignorance of what goes on there not only stems from its self-imposed isolation, but also results from the partial and, at times, conflicting accounts of what is happening within ...
Global Creative Industries Forum From Culture to Business: A Crossover
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-11-18 11:40:00
新書發佈會暨對談講座 18:30 - 19:00 Book Launch & Dialogue Moderator: Dr. Tommy Tse Ho Lun, Department of Sociology, HKU 19:00 Creative Push to the Crossover
MothSutra (& matters of migration, love, and identity) Visual Poetry Reading and Talk
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-11-16 15:40:20
American Book Award recipient, PEN award-winning poet and short story writer Russell C. Leong of UCLA and Hunter College reads from his newest visual work, MothSutra, a meditation on New York's Chinese food delivery men. He also reads poems on love and diasporic Chinese identity. Premiered in Ne...
LOY KRATHONG NIGHT
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-11-13 16:13:55
4 pm - 6 pm Krathong Workshop Thai Costume Workshop 6 pm - 8 pm Thai Dance Performance Krathong Floating Thai Food Tasting
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-11-05 14:34:48
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Electoral Dysfunction: Documentary Screening and Discussion With Filmmaker Bennett Singer
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-10-26 16:04:05
After discovering that the right to vote is missing from the U.S. Constitution, CBS News Correspondent and Daily Show veteran Mo Rocca sets out on a road trip to see how voting works/and doesn't work/in America. He heads to Indiana, home to some of the nation's strictest election laws, and m...
Poetry Reading: The Nanjing Massacre with Wing Tek Lum
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-10-09 12:40:14
Epigrammatic, elegiac, and luminous, these poems beckon the buried voices of daughters and sons, husbands and wives, soldiers and survivors - Chinese and Japanese alike. This masterful and courageous collection allows us to breathe deeply over the shallows of history and to understand, through poetr...
A Warm Family: Conversation with a poet Kim Hu-Ran
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-10-08 17:01:17
Acclaimed poet Kim Hu-ran will discuss her recently translated collection of poems titled A Warm Family (2014) and issues of family in Korea. Kim will also read few selections from her book. Q & A session will follow.
Hong Kong 1957: Colonial Re-set in the New Territories
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-06-26 16:52:24
Speaker: Professor Sidney C. H. Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
East Goes West - Chinese Filmmakers in the United States
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-05-22 17:42:50
East Goes West - Chinese Filmmakers in the United States
Japan Month
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-04-21 15:39:24
Please check the details at http://www.smlc.hku.hk/news/detail.php?id=610
The Role of Environment in Language Learning: Swedish inside and outside of Sweden
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-04-17 14:39:56
Learning a new language as an adult is both rewarding and exciting, but it also comes with many challenges. This presentation concentrates on the role of environment for learning a second language. In particular, I draw on the results from the research project Swedish inside and outside Sweden (H&At...
The Austrian Short Film Series 2015
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-04-14 14:55:59
The Austrian Short Film Series 2015
Symposium on "What is China?"
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-03-18 12:16:51
Day 1: 23 March 2015 (Monday), 10am - 1pm @Room 501, Fong Shu Chuen Building, Ho Sin Hang Campus, HKBU (Symposium on What is China I: Who is China, When is China 何者中國,何時中國); 
Day 2: 24 March 2015 (Tuesday) 10am - 1pm @CRT-4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU (Symp...
HKU French Film Week
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-03-12 10:53:30
Mon 23 Mar - L'arnacoeur (Heartbreaker); Tue 24 Mar - 38 Témoins (38 Witness); Wed 25 Mar - J'aime regarder les filles (I Love Looking At Girls); Thu 26 Mar - Et maintenant on va où? (Where Do We Go Now?); Fri 27 Mar - Hippocrate (Hippocrate)
HISPANIC MONTH 2015
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-03-05 11:32:09
Film Festival: Grupo 7 (Unit 7), Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), Perder es cuestión de método (The Art of Losing); Spanish guitar recital by Bernard Yim, HKU graduate and Spanish programme alumnus; It takes two to TANGO: a tango dance workshop with Spanish food and drinks
Passing on the Tradition with Creativity: Family Heritage and Creativity Forum Series 2014 - 2015
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2015-02-13 10:26:16
#3 沈墨寧X 沈慧林 (陀飛輪品牌萬希泉) Feb 16, 18:00 - 20:00 @ KK201;  #4 歐陽偉乾 X 歐陽秉志先生 (紙紮手工藝) Mar 2, 18:00 - 20:00 @ KK201
Movie screening: El Greco
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-11-19 16:14:14
To commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of El Greco, the Consulates General of Greece and of Spain in Hong Kong, have the great pleasure to jointly present the screening of the biographical film “El Greco”, directed by Iannis Smaragdis, and a lecture to introduce the artist’...
Loy Krathong 2014
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-11-17 10:35:15
'Loy' means to float and 'Krathong'" are the traditional banana leaf boats, decorated with flowers and candles that are released into rivers and waterways to show respect to the goddess of the waters.

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (extended)
- Krathong Workshop
- Thai Costume Workshop

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm...
School of Modern Languages and Cultures - Information Day
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-11-06 15:15:01
Take the escalator up to 2/F from G/F of Centennial Campus!!
Swedish Film Week @ HKU
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-11-05 15:04:40
In collaboration with the Swedish Programme, The Hong Kong University (School of Modern Languages and Cultures – Swedish) arranges a Swedish film week in November. Two film showings will be open to public audience – “Call Girl” and “Big Boys Go Bananas”. November ...
The Austrian Short Film Series 2014
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-10-22 15:33:29
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong in collaboration with the Austrian Consulate General in Hong Kong is pleased to invite you to the The Austrian Short Film Series 2014 (Österreichische Kurzfilmschau 2014). The films in the Austrian Short Film Series are ...
Spanish videoartist Alex Pachon Sharing Session: Videoart, Music and Contemporary Dance
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-09-24 16:33:06
During this session, Pachon will discuss with us his artistic journey and the works that have influenced him most throughout his professional career: music videos, horror films, title sequences, rock music and contemporary dance. And you will have the chance to watch all his videos, from his early s...
While Hong Kong Still have Us 趁香港還有我們
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-09-23 16:58:45
Dr. Chow, veteran lyricist and HKU Arts Faculty alumnus, will share with the audience his views on recent developments of Hong Kong culture and society. 趁,帶著即將過去的蒼涼,還有捉緊現在的逼切,未來還未來,在蒼涼與逼切之間,趁……突然多年便過去,...
Semantische Textvernetzung und Leseverstehen
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-05-02 12:48:45
Semantic text network and reading comprehensionIn German
Holocaust Impiety
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-04-14 11:41:56
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
The Hong Kong I Love- Lin Xi 我所愛的香港 林夕
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-04-03 17:49:53
Lin Xi, Hong Kong’s leading lyricist, is almost synonymous with Cantopop lyrics. He will evoke Hong Kong through its culture, lyrics and urban characteristics. Launched in 2012, Hong Kong Studies is the first interdisciplinary programme in the world to take this fascinating city as its subject and...
Japan Month 2014
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-04-02 16:45:22
All are welcome. For enquiries, please contact Ms. Lucilla Cheng at luci@hku.hk
American Studies: Visual Feast Film Series
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-03-28 15:39:19
The World, Europe & Hong Kong in the Age of Extremes
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-03-27 18:42:59
Exhibition from 1 April - 11 April, 2014
Hispanic Month 2014
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-03-03 16:18:44
Global Creative Industries: Movie Week 2014
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-02-07 17:27:33
Meeting Famous Germans at HKU
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2014-01-29 10:25:35
Meeting with German Olympic medallist Marcel Nguyen 德國奧運體操名將阮馬素
We want to be free men! The East German People's Uprising of 17 June 1953 Exhibition
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-11-26 10:57:20
10th Anniversary of the American Studies Network (USCET-ASN) in China: Transnational Currents of US-China Relations
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-11-13 13:03:37
Information Day- School of Modern Languages and Cultures
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-11-08 09:34:31
Argentine Movie Days
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-10-31 12:32:40
Mythical Muses of the Land of Ice
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-10-28 15:25:53
U.S. Diplomacy in China and the Asia-Pacific
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-10-24 10:31:21
Learn about the new trend in Hollywood: TransMedia, the future of entertainment and media
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-10-21 11:29:22
Everyday Lives and Economic Conditions in the DPRK
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-10-17 17:51:58
Looking for a Modern Hercules: The Strongman Figure in American and Global Culture
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-10-02 10:00:25
Pursue Your Entrepreneurial Ambitions: Hong Kong Visit of The Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-10-02 09:46:05
Workshop on Curriculum Design and Development for Japanese Language Education
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-09-30 15:00:39
Peruvian Movie Days
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-09-12 17:05:34
Chinese Textbooks (1902-1937): Telling Stories and Socializing Elites
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-06-20 17:21:46
Fulbright Conference: New Perspectives on Transnational Chinese Culture and History
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-05-24 15:53:30
Spoken Italian: a sociolinguistic and linguistic profile
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-04-23 10:20:44
Selling American Popular Culture in China: Managing the Public Image of Disneyland Hong Kong
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-04-18 14:49:08
Japan Month
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-04-16 16:17:57
Japan Month- Japanese Rice Ball Tasting
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-04-16 16:14:26
Japan Month- Fukushima Now – Photo Exhibition and Product Sales
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-04-16 11:09:49
"Germany and France - Half a Century of Friendship and Cooperation" Exhibition
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-04-11 16:19:42
The Margins of Love in Contemporary Korean Cinema
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-03-20 14:09:47
Hispanic Month
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-03-04 17:23:51
GCIN1001 Introduction to Global Creative Industries
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-02-19 17:45:06
Grammar in the classroom. Learning grammar structures TO KNOW them, or TO USE them?
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2013-01-16 10:22:32
Japanese Popular Culture and Teaching (In Japanese)
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-12-17 11:51:46
Mexican Folklore Dance By Ballet Folklórico del Estado de México
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-12-05 12:45:26
Love and the Sentimental Family in Qing China
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-12-05 12:44:28
'LOY KRATHONG' THAI LANTERN FESTIVAL
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-11-26 10:44:31
Practical Business and Cultural Insights of Latin America
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-11-13 15:16:54
Day of the Dead
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-11-02 16:50:27
American Pop Culture Illustrated by Michael Sloan
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-10-31 16:21:32
The Holocaust as a Unique Event in History by Ephraim Kaye
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-10-29 16:36:53
China’s New Economic Elites: Family Histories and Social Change
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-10-29 10:56:56
German October 2012 - Poetry Workshop: Creative with Language with Mary-Jane Newton
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-10-24 10:34:01
Korean Studies Lecture Series 1: Shortcut to Korean culture
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-10-22 16:39:48
Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food in America
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-10-19 11:13:34
Japan Month at HKU 2012
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2012-03-28 16:12:54
"Loy Krathong" Thai Lantern Festival
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2011-11-08 15:44:09
Japan Month at HKU 2011
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2011-04-08 15:15:32
Festival of Lights
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2010-11-10 10:34:31
Talk: Listening to Late Mao China: Auditory Culture and Daily Practice in 1970s Chinese Cities
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2010-10-20 14:39:08
Panel Discussion: 20 Years of German Reunification: Success or Failure
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2010-09-27 16:44:45
What future for the French Language? A Prospective Analysis
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2010-09-16 15:19:35
Life in a Dovecote: Housing in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1941
School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Uploaded on 2010-06-23 15:27:13
The U-Vision Video Composer service has been retired. HKU staff and students are eligible to use TechSmith Camtasia with site license for offline video editing. More details in ITS website: https://moodle-support.hku.hk/camtasia-site-license-staff-and-students


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