Department News
Staffing Arrangements on University Holiday on Lunar New Year’s Eve
The following staffing arrangements for the University holiday on Lunar New Year’s Eve will apply on 15 February 2018. Departments/units should arrange for skeleton staff to be on duty on this morning to handle urgent matters and enquiries. Offices will be closed in the afternoon. Skeleton staff (Terms [B] or [C]) on duty on this morning will be given compensation off of half a day.
For essential service units such as the University Health Service, the University Library, the operations team of the Information Technology Services Centre, the Security Office, the Transport Office, and the Estates Management Office, adequate workforce should remain on duty to provide basic services.
Source: CUHK Newsletter, no. 509/510 [19 December 2017],
http://www.iso.cuhk.edu.hk/images/publication/newsletter/509-510/html5/?#9
Briefing Session for Summer Internship Programme 2018
The Department of History has organised the Summer Internship Programme for its students since 2000. For the current year, 15 partner organisations in Hong Kong, the Mainland and Taiwan, which include government departments, publishers and museums, offer over 30 intern positions to History full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students (including the MA Programme in Comparative and Public History). The application deadline is 9 March 2018. Please visit https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/intern_application.html or attend the following briefing session to learn more about this programme.
| Date: | 28 February 2018 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 1:00pm–2:00pm |
| Venue: | Room 101, 1/F, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK |
For enquiry, please call Miss Tsang at 3943 7117.
Upcoming Events
Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2017–18
Public Lectures on History and Business in China 2017–18 will be held in March 2018. Professor Geoffrey G. JONES, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History of Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the School’s Business History Initiative, has been invited as the guest speaker to deliver two public lectures.
| Date : | 1 March 2018 (Thursday) |
| Time : | 5:00pm–6:30pm |
| Venue : | Cho Yiu Conference Hall G/F, University Administrative Building The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Moderator : | Prof. David FAURE Wei Lun Research Professor of History The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Date : | 2 March 2018 (Friday) |
| Time : | 7:00pm–8:30pm |
| Venue : | Lecture Theatre G/F, Hong Kong Central Library 66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong |
| Moderator: | Prof. LEUNG Yuen Sang Dean, Faculty of Arts The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Lectures will be conducted in English.
Admission is free; reservation is required. To reserve a seat, please
– Register online at www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2018_HBC/
– Call at 3943 8541
For more information, please visit www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/Event/2018_HBC/ or www.hkpl.gov.hk
Organisers: Department of History, CUHK; Centre for Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK; MA Programme in Comparative and Public History, Department of History, CUHK; Hong Kong Public Libraries, Leisure and Cultural Services Department
The next issue of this newsletter will be published on 26 February 2018.
Greetings from the Department of History.
We wish you and your family a prosperous Year of the Dog!
Gongxi gongxi!
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please email your articles in both Chinese and English to chanfiona@cuhk.edu.hk by 4:00pm every Tuesday.