二月網上公開講座：社會正義與可持續發展（英語）

Social Justice and Sustainable Development

In a complicated world, both social justice and sustainable development are clearly needed. How can they guide our commitments and activity? This presentation will:

• offer an understanding of “social justice” drawing from Catholic social teaching;
• highlight an understanding of “sustainability” that makes use of categories of human action outlined in the earlier work of the United Nations;
• articulate “development” in terms of the targets provided by the recent global project of the UN;
• point to specific projects that could be done in the Hong Kong context;
• suggest advances in the conception of social justice and sustainable development.

Speaker: Fr. Philip J. Chmielewski, S.J.

Professor and Sir Thomas More Chair of Engineering Ethics
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles California, USA

As the Sir Thomas More Chair of Engineering Ethics Prof. Chmielewski offers courses in professional ethics, research ethics, and the ethical assessment of contemporary technologies. He currently focuses on constructing case studies toward the development of a framework for international engineering ethics. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Society for the Study of the Impact of Technology (SSIT), and of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS). Further, he is an affiliate member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). He has frequently lectured and pursued research in Hong Kong. Chmielewski authored Bettering Our Condition: Work, Workers, and Ethics in British and German Economic Thought. Yale University awarded him the Ph.D.

Respondent: Prof. Wu Kaming

Ka-ming Wu is Associate Professor, and Director of the Master Program in Intercultural Studies, in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a visiting fellow, and now a life member, of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she has taken up extensive ethnographic research to examine the cultural politics of state and society, waste, and most recently, gender and nationalism in contemporary China.

Her recent teaching joins the field of environmental humanities, with course titles of “Living in the Anthropocene: Nature, Culture and Power” and “Introduction to Environmental Humanities: Debates in China.” Her book Feiping Shenghuo: Lajichang De Jingji, Shequn Yu Kongjian (CUHK 2016) (Living with Waste: Economies, Communities and Spaces of Waste Collectors in China) has a great impact on the public discussion of waste and has been covered by major media, such as the Guardian and Mingpao Hong Kong.

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