主持人:Carol Mang
Every week, all around Hong Kong, there are many fascinating talks and lectures happening, on a variety of topics. You can easily find them online by looking at the websites of our universities, societies, and libraries. We've chosen ten for you to listen to here on Radio 3. For the next few Sunday mornings, starting Sunday 9th July at 7.30am, Carol Mang will be introducing abridged versions of what we think are a great selection of talks for you to listen to, and indulge your... Mind Matters.
Sunday mornings at 7.30... on Radio 3
In this week's episode, we will be talking about World War II, when the Nazis wiped out the world of Jewish scholarship centred in ‘Yeshivot’ in Europe. But one academy survived intact. Professor Jay Winter from Yale University tells the story of how one Yeshiva escaped to China, keeping alive a way of life almost entirely extinguished elsewhere. Professor Winter was invited by the University of Hong Kong to give a talk entitled “Escaping the Holocaust: The Mir Yeshiva from Vilna to Shanghai and beyond''.
主持人:Carol Mang
In this week's episode, we will talk about urban sustainability discourses in linguistics. Professor Paola Catenaccio from the University of Milan will tell us more on the discursively mediated nature of sustainability projects and argues for an enhanced focus on language and communication in sustainability planning. Included in the Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile organized by the ASVIS, Profssor Catenaccio was invited by the Department of English of the City University of Hong Kong with the support of Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong to give a talk entitled “Evolving discourse of urban regeneration and the road to sustainability: a linguistic approach”.