The Common Core is inviting applications for Critical Zones, this year’s Transdisciplinary Research Exchange 2023, co-organized with the Honours Programme at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). To increase capacities for creative problem-solving and global collaboration that produces tangible outcomes around issues that they care deeply about, students will work with each other and their peers […]

Date: March 10, 2023 Time: 2:00 - 5:00 PM Venue: Common Core Lounge (MB150, Main Building, HKU) Facilitator: Tanya Kempston Senior Lecturer and PGDE Programme Director, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong A three-hour workshop for teachers of English in Hong Kong secondary schools offered jointly by the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the […]

Public Lecture - Part of CCCH9051 Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Greater China   Speaker: Dr. Florian Knothe Director, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG)   Date and Time: Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm Venue: KB223, Knowles Building, HKU   All are welcome. No registration required. 

Join us for this social event to network with fellow tutors, play with Generative AI applications, and enjoy coffee and light refreshments. Welcome all HKU tutors! Registration required: https://forms.gle/hqthYBzkBE75XMQB7

Focusing on transdisciplinarity-in-action, we will explore collaborative learning, contact points for research across disciplines, and innovative examples of institutional programming. How might the transdisciplinary help us enact flourishing and connected futures? A Panel Discussion with Winnie Yee (Comparative Literature, HKU) Julian Tanner (Director, Common Core, HKU) Rick Dolphijn (Philosophy & Art, Utrecht University) Gray Kochhar-Lindgren […]

Dear Colleagues,   You are cordially invited to join the Join-the-Conversation: A great presentation gives smart ideas and advantage on 20 April 2023. The event is co-organized by Communication Intensive Courses (CiC), Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), and the Common Core.   Date: 20 April […]

Following its adoption by the US earth sciences community at the turn of the century, the concept of the ‘critical zone’ has been central to a so-called ‘terrestrial turn’ in the arts as well as the sciences. Originally defined as the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living […]

Let's all celebrate an evening full of motion picture experiments and exchange of visual ideas. This international cooperation showcases a selection of 24 short films produced by students from various film-based courses from The University of Hong Kong, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Vienna University of Technology.   The screening will be […]

Monday, 29 May 2023, 12:45 pm – 2:30 pm Room 202, Runme Shaw Building or Zoom All are welcome Pre-registration required for joining via Zoom https://bit.ly/crowdsourcingSDG    Abstract: Crowdsourcing is vital in facilitating the sustainable development goals of digital humanities projects. In this talk, I will start with a literature review on cultural heritage crowdsourcing. A […]

Welcome to the Common Core, SDGs in CC, Transdisciplinary Minors, Hong Kong Learning Partners, The Future Readiness Initiative, Global Transdisciplinary Partnerships, Peer Tips from Current Students, and more! All first-year students are welcome Date and time: 15/08/2023 11:00-12:00 Venue: Online via Zoom Details and registration: https://www.cedars.hku.hk/registration-and-induction/index.php