Events > Past Events > 2019
University Event
Private viewing of 'Martin Parr: Oxford' exhibit
Date: Thursday 5 December 2019
Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm
Venue: f22 foto space, 5th Floor, Amber Commercial Building, 70-74 Morrison Hill Road, Wanchai (a six-minute walk from Causeway Bay MTR Exit A and Times Square)
Cost: Free admission, pre-registration required (limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis).
Registration: By email at [email protected] before 22 November
Martin Parr, one of the world’s leading photographers, spent two years to document a ‘hidden Oxford’ with his characteristically witty and unflinching eye. Commissioned by The Bodleian Libraries and Oxford University Press, Parr’s photographs capture the quirks of university life as he finds them, albeit with certain degrees of control and construction.
Parr’s photographs reveal aspects of university life and academic communities that are rarely accessible to the outsider. Parr looks behind-the-scenes at Oxford rituals, ceremonies, and traditions that still hold significance today. He shows students’ antics at sporting events, clubs, and societies, as well as the core university activities of research and teaching.
A selection of Parr’s Oxford photographs is being exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time at f22 foto space from 5 December 2019 to 15 February 2020. For more information, please visit https://www.f22.com/en/.
This event is generously supported by Mr. Douglas So, the founder and director of f22 foto space. The University thanks Mr. So for making the private viewing possible.
Private viewing of 'Martin Parr: Oxford' exhibit
Date: Thursday 5 December 2019
Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm
Venue: f22 foto space, 5th Floor, Amber Commercial Building, 70-74 Morrison Hill Road, Wanchai (a six-minute walk from Causeway Bay MTR Exit A and Times Square)
Cost: Free admission, pre-registration required (limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis).
Registration: By email at [email protected] before 22 November
Martin Parr, one of the world’s leading photographers, spent two years to document a ‘hidden Oxford’ with his characteristically witty and unflinching eye. Commissioned by The Bodleian Libraries and Oxford University Press, Parr’s photographs capture the quirks of university life as he finds them, albeit with certain degrees of control and construction.
Parr’s photographs reveal aspects of university life and academic communities that are rarely accessible to the outsider. Parr looks behind-the-scenes at Oxford rituals, ceremonies, and traditions that still hold significance today. He shows students’ antics at sporting events, clubs, and societies, as well as the core university activities of research and teaching.
A selection of Parr’s Oxford photographs is being exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time at f22 foto space from 5 December 2019 to 15 February 2020. For more information, please visit https://www.f22.com/en/.
This event is generously supported by Mr. Douglas So, the founder and director of f22 foto space. The University thanks Mr. So for making the private viewing possible.
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Alumni Event
The Third Oxbridge China Forum Date: Saturday 21 September 2019 Time: 9:30 - 15:50 (China Standard Time) Dress Code: Business Attire Venue: Building A, 388 Ruo Shui Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu, 215123, China This year, the third Oxbridge China Forum is themed with "New Technology and New Economy", and is aimed to bring together celebrated scholars, entrepreneurs, and expert practitioners to discuss the developing trends and arising issues of new technology and new economy in China. Free entrance on a first-in, first-served basis | Prior registration is required Please email [email protected] to register. |
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Alumni Event
Oxford 'Dim Sum Forum' in Hong Kong with the Vice-Chancellor Date: Saturday 7 September 2019 Time: 12:00 – 2:30pm Venue: The Hong Kong Bankers Club, 43rd-44th Floor, Gloucester Tower, The Landmark, Central Cost: 280 HKD Registration: By email at [email protected] before 21 August 2019 Delight your mind and your palate at a special gathering for Oxford alumni and friends in Hong Kong this September. Hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, the forum will feature talks on two exciting new areas of research at Oxford: the Economics of Wellbeing by Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, and AI and Healthcare by Professor David Clifton. The talks will be accompanied by a lively and informal dim sum lunch. |
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Alumni Event
Sharon Cheung's exhibition Date: 24 - 29 June 2019 Venue: Wheelock Lounge, 19F Building B, The gateway, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong Cost: Free admission This summer, Oxford graduate and the founder of “The Lion Rock Spirit Fund” Sharon Cheung (Green Templeton, 2005) is having her second exhibition at the Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui from 24 to 29 June. Oxford alumni are welcome to visit Sharon’s exhibition to see her beautiful artworks during the exhibition period. Sharon is donating the proceeds of her art sales to the University. |
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University Event
Viewing Black Holes
Date: Thursday 16 May 2019
Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
Venue: Cafe 8 (Roof Level, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Central Ferry Pier No. 8 Hong Kong)
Cost: Free admission (very limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis). Food and drinks at cost.
RSVP: Registration is required. Please email [email protected] to register.
On 10 April of this year, humankind viewed for the first time an image of a black hole. The popular press described the event as “revolutionary.” But the thrill felt by many astronomers lay in just how well our guesswork and expectations were in fact confirmed. It looked just like a black hole ought to look.
If not a true revolution, the image was certainly a culmination, led by great scientists from Einstein to Schwarzschild to Penrose & Hawking. Their beautiful mathematical work laid the foundations for our understanding of black holes, first engendering, then ultimately overcoming, decades of controversy.
In this presentation, Professor Steven Balbus, a Shaw Prize winner, will talk about black holes: what they are, why they were for so long controversial, how the evidence for their existence steadily grew, what the latest spectacular result from the Event Horizon Telescope actually reveals, and what mysteries remain.
Viewing Black Holes
Date: Thursday 16 May 2019
Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
Venue: Cafe 8 (Roof Level, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Central Ferry Pier No. 8 Hong Kong)
Cost: Free admission (very limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis). Food and drinks at cost.
RSVP: Registration is required. Please email [email protected] to register.
On 10 April of this year, humankind viewed for the first time an image of a black hole. The popular press described the event as “revolutionary.” But the thrill felt by many astronomers lay in just how well our guesswork and expectations were in fact confirmed. It looked just like a black hole ought to look.
If not a true revolution, the image was certainly a culmination, led by great scientists from Einstein to Schwarzschild to Penrose & Hawking. Their beautiful mathematical work laid the foundations for our understanding of black holes, first engendering, then ultimately overcoming, decades of controversy.
In this presentation, Professor Steven Balbus, a Shaw Prize winner, will talk about black holes: what they are, why they were for so long controversial, how the evidence for their existence steadily grew, what the latest spectacular result from the Event Horizon Telescope actually reveals, and what mysteries remain.
Alumni Event
Lui Shou-kwan: Pioneer of New Ink
Date: Wednesday 24 April 2019
Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
Venue: Alisan Fine Arts (21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Hong Kong)
Cost: Free admission (limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis)
RSVP: Registration is required. Please email [email protected] to register.
Lui Lui Shou-kwan, celebrated as one of Hong Kong’s most important artists, had a deep connection to Oxford where he held his first exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 1962. The Ashmolean now has over 30 of his art works in its permanent collection, more than any other single artist in the Museum.
Alisan Fine Arts has now compiled a new collection of largely unpublished art works in a new exhibit at its gallery in Central. Shelagh Vainker, Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the Ashmolean Museum, contributed to the catalogue. Alisan Fine Arts has made the exhibit available to Oxonian art lovers at a special evening viewing.
Olivia Wang (Wadham College, 2010, MPhil Modern Chinese Art), a former student of Professor Vainker’s, will share her perspectives on Lui’s works before Daphne King-Yao, Director of Alisan Fine Arts, talks us through a few works in this fascinating exhibition.
This event is kindly sponsored by Alisan Fine Arts.
Lui Shou-kwan: Pioneer of New Ink
Date: Wednesday 24 April 2019
Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
Venue: Alisan Fine Arts (21/F Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Hong Kong)
Cost: Free admission (limited capacity on a first-come, first-served basis)
RSVP: Registration is required. Please email [email protected] to register.
Lui Lui Shou-kwan, celebrated as one of Hong Kong’s most important artists, had a deep connection to Oxford where he held his first exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 1962. The Ashmolean now has over 30 of his art works in its permanent collection, more than any other single artist in the Museum.
Alisan Fine Arts has now compiled a new collection of largely unpublished art works in a new exhibit at its gallery in Central. Shelagh Vainker, Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the Ashmolean Museum, contributed to the catalogue. Alisan Fine Arts has made the exhibit available to Oxonian art lovers at a special evening viewing.
Olivia Wang (Wadham College, 2010, MPhil Modern Chinese Art), a former student of Professor Vainker’s, will share her perspectives on Lui’s works before Daphne King-Yao, Director of Alisan Fine Arts, talks us through a few works in this fascinating exhibition.
This event is kindly sponsored by Alisan Fine Arts.
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University Event
Meeting Minds in Asia: Alumni Weekends 2019 Join us in Tokyo in March 2019 for our Alumni Weekend. Experience springtime in Japan, take part in stimulating academic sessions, catch up with old friends and make new connections. |
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