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ICHL 2015 / ISET 2015 provide a platform for knowledge exchange on hybrid learning and educational technology among educators, researchers and computer scientists, who share a common goal to enhance the quality of learning and teaching in this fast-changing knowledge world, with the support of technology innovation.

As China rises to prominence, current scholarship examines the strategies of appeal China has deployed to penetrate different parts of the globe at the expense of American dominance. One such strategy has been the rhetoric of “peaceful development” (hepingfazhan) and “harmonious society” (hexieshehuì), devised to ease anxieties about China’s global expansion, maintain authoritarian rule at home, and articulate an inclusive identity for its diverse populations. China still faces the problem of effective governance from within, for coinciding with its economic growth is the political awakening of its citizens and with it the rise of organized activism on an unprecedented level. Empirical studies increasingly reveal serious challenges to the one-party state including rights consciousness campaigns, labor disputes, ethnic conflicts, religion-state tensions, protests about the inadequacies of official disaster management, and cries for democratic governance. This symposium provided an interdisciplinary platform for scholars to examine the appeal of a rising China and the challenge of governance it faces in the early 21st century.

Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) arranged a research symposium – Discrete emotions and intimate relationships at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. The objective of this symposium is to enhance understanding and discussion on the role of emotion in intimate relationships. This initiative also aims at stimulating collaborative projects with a focus on studying:-

1. how emotion is expressed and experienced in intimate relationships
2. how intimate relationships shape the experience and expression of emotions
3. cross-cultural, developmental and clinical perspectives in the study of emotions and intimate relationship

Keynote Speakers: Professor Margaret Clark, John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Head of Trumbull College, Yale University; Professor Gerben van Kleef, Professor of Psychology, University of Amsterdam; Professor Michelle Yik, Professor of Social Science, Director of Undergraduate Recruitment and Admissions, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Professor Chin-ming Hui, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.