Albert Hung Chao Hong lecture series
The Albert Hung lecture series is named in honour of Chinese entrepreneur Dr. Albert Hung Chao Hong.
Dr. Hung was born in Fujian Province, China, and moved to Hong Kong during his teenage years. After graduating from middle school, Dr. Hung worked in the Philippines with his father who was in the construction business. Upon returning to Hong Kong, Dr. Hung embarked on a number of business enterprises, establishing a number of companies. Currently, Dr. Hung serves as Vice Chairman for FameG, a microelectronic company that designs and manufactures computer chips.
Dr. Hung received an Honourary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Victoria in May 2005 at a special ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Some of his other honours include being named Justice of the Peace, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR; his appointment to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; and serving as a member of the Board of Governors for the Association of the Celebration of the Reunification of Hong Kong with China.
Dr. Hung believes in the importance of education and has funded the Hung lecture series at CAPI since 2007. The lecture series provides an opportunity for a distinguished visitor to address a community audience on a topic of current public interest in the Asia-Pacific region.
| Title | Speaker | Date |
Reproduction-driven labour migration from China(this talk was delivered as a keynote presentation as part of "Creating Commons in an Era of Precarity A Multi/Trans-Disciplinary Conference on Migration and Asia") |
Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford University; Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany. |
2021 |
Authoritarian Patriarchy and its Populism |
Inderpal Grewal, Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University |
2020 |
The Living Image [Mythologies of Artistic Production during Japan's Edo Period]
(this talk was delivered as a keynote presentation at the "Nonhuman in Japanese Culture and Society" conference) |
Timon Screech, professor of the history of art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | 2018 |
Making Lives Invisible: Managing Refugees outside the West(this talk was delivered as a keynote presentation at the "Forgotten Corridors: Global Displacement & the Politics of Engagement" conference) |
Romola Sanyal, Assistant Professor in Urban Geography at the London School of Economics | 2017 |
Disappeared, banished, murdered and displaced(this talk was delivered as a keynote presentation at the "Migration and Late Capitalism" conference) |
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Professor of Education and Māori Development, Pro-Vice Chancellor Māori and Dean of the School of Māori and Pacific Development, University of Waikato, New Zealand | 2015 |
The end of China's one-party state: a predictable event?(this talk was delivered as a keynote presentation at the "Perspectives on China's Transition" workshop) |
Minxin Pei, Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College, California | 2013 |
Histories and Competitive Societies: Temporal Foundations for Global Theory(this talk was delivered as a keynote presentation at the "De-parochializing Political Theory" conference) |
Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities at the National University of Singapore | 2012 |
Celebrating Connections: On Being Indigenous and Human in Oceania(This lecture was part of Pacific Peoples' Partnership's "Pacific Wayfinders: 35 Years of Action and Solidarity" conference) |
Vilsoni Hereniko, playwright, film director and professor, Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai'i | 2010 |
Staging History - Action and Reenactment in the Cultural Revolution |
Carma Hinton, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University | 2009 |
State Evasion in Mainland Southeast Asia: Why Civilizations Can't Climb Hills |
James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale | 2007 |