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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.

The Department of Law and Business organised – “Symposium: Modern Negotiation and Ancient Wisdom” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. The collaborative institution was Dispute Resolution Institute of Hamline University, USA. There were 31 participants. “Tan Pan The Chinese-English Journal on Negotiation” (the Journal), which was established by The International Institute for Conflict Engagement (IICER) of Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and Dispute Resolution Institute of Hamline University, USA, was launched during the Symposium with 21 subscriptions received. The Jorunal was formally launched by Professor Joel Lee of the National University of Singapore in the 3rd Asian Mediation Association Conference on 3 April, 2014.

The Ronald Coase Center for Property Rights Research, The University of Hong Kong Inaugural Symposium, co-organised by the Sustainable Real Estate Research Center, Hong Kong Shue Yan University; Centre of Land Resource and Housing Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Network for New Institutional Urban Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Keynote Speeches: Professor Lee Benham, Board Member, The Ronald Coase Institute and Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Washington University; Dr. Ning Wang, International Director, The Ronald Coase Center for the Study of the Economy, Zhejiang University and Senior Research Fellow, The Ronald Coase Institute; Professor Chris Webster, Dean, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. Video Presentation: Dr Richard Sandor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Financial Products LLC, and Aaron Director Lecturer in Law and Economic, University of Chicago Law School.

The Department of English Language and Literature organised – “Symposium on Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Asian Literature and Culture” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. The symposium was attended by scholars based in Hong Kong, India, Macau, the Philippines, and Singapore and the regions covered included Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Palestine, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. Hong Kong Shue Yan University students participated in the event as student helpers and as audience members. The symposium focused on Asian literary and cultural texts that respond to social and political conflict and environmental catastrophe. It sought to explore how different social and historical contexts have generated diverse strategies of literary and cultural representation during and following human suffering. The overarching aims of the symposium were to generate and share new knowledge about modern and contemporary Asian literature and culture and to contribute cross-cultural perspectives to trauma studies. The symposium also sought to provide an initial setting for scholars working in these research areas to develop a research network that may give rise to opportunities for future collaboration. It was a very successful event, enjoyed by all, that will certainly lead to future collaboration. The symposium was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS15/H10/14), to the project “Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Modern Asian Literature” run by Dr. Sharanya Jayawickrama.