Speaker: Prof Daniel A. Bell, Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Arts and Hunmanities at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Professor of Political Theory and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Political Phiosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing
Topic: The Spirit of Cities
Date & Venue: 30 March 2011, 17:30-19:00, HG01

Speaker: Joanne Leung, chairperson of Transgender Resouce Center
Topic: Gender Divesity: Transgender
Date & Venue: 11 March 2011, 11:30-13:00, Library Auditorium II

Speaker: Eunice Au, Chairlady of Queer Sisters (姊妹同志)
Topic: Sexual Diversity: Not Talking Straight
Date & Venue: 25 February 2011, 11:00-13:00, Library Auditorium II

Speaker: Dr. Salvatore J. Babones, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, the University of Sydney
Topic: Position and Mobility in the Contemporary World-System: A Structuralist Perspective
Date & Venue: 16th November 2010, 11:00-13:00, L205A

Speaker: Prof Chan Kwok Bun. Founder and Director, Chan Institute of Social Studies
Formerly Chair Professor of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University
Ph.D. (York University)
Topic: Returnees’ Hybridity and Its Upside and Downside
Date & Venue: 4 November 2010, 17:00-19:00, L205A

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Martin Killia, Full Professor in the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich, Switzerland
Topic: International Surveys on Victimisation and Self-reported Delinquency as Tools to Understand Cross-national Differences
Date & Venue: 29th September 2010, 17:00-18:30, L205A

Speaker: Prof. Mark Selden, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and History at the State University of New York at Binghamton
Topic: Chinese Inequalities: From Revolution to Reform
Date & Venue: 5th July 2010, 17:00-18:30, L205A

Speaker: Prof. John Logan, Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown University
Topic: The Winners in China's Urban Housing Reform
Date & Venue: 24th May 2010, 17:00-18:00, HG01

Speaker: Prof. Chan Kwok Bun, Chair Professor of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University; Prof. Qiaogui ZHANG, Vice President, Yunnan Nationalities University; Prof. Simon HO, Vice Rector, University of Macau
Topic: Undergraduate Education: Perspectives from Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China
Date & Venue: 24th March 2010, 17:40-19:00, HG03

Speaker: Prof. Zhang Qiaogui, Vice President, Yunnan Nationalities University
Topic: Ethnicity & Religion in Yunnan: Development & Challenges (雲南少數民族宗教的發展與挑戰)
Date & Venue: 23rd March 2010, 17:00-18:30, L205A

Speaker: Prof. Linda Hancock, Associate Professor, Deakin University
Topic: A Critical Review of the 2009 Australian Productivity Commission (PC) Reforms on Gambling: Why a 'hybrid public health' model is problematic for consumer protection
Date & Venue: 25th October 2009, 17:00-18:30, L205A

Speaker: Tashi Rabgey, Ph.D. Candidate, Social Anthropology, Harvard University
Topic: Bilingual Education in a Rural Tibetan Township - Toward a Paradigm of Governance
Date & Venue: 4th August 2009, 10:00-12:00, L205A

Speaker: Dr. Ho Hon Leung, Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY College, Oneonta, New York, U.S.A.; Mr. Raymond Lau, Project Architect and Project Manager
Topic: Hong Kong and Macau Identity at a Crossroads in the Post-Colonial Era: Tracing the Dynamics through the Lens of Architecture
Date & Venue: 6th May 2009, 18:00-20:00, JM15

Speaker: Dr. Ho Hon Leung, Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY College, Oneonta, New York, U.S.A.; Mr. Raymond Lau, Project Architect and Project Manager
Topic: Re-presenting Chinese Identity in Toronto and Shanghai: Comparison between Pacific Mall 太古廣場 and Tian Zi Fang 田子坊
Date & Venue: 4th May 2009, 11:00-13:00, L205A

Speaker: Prof. Henry N. Pontell, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, School of Social Ecology, University of California Irvine, U.S.A.
Topic: Trivializing the Lunatic Crime Rate: Theory,Praxis, and the Global Economic Meltdown
Date & Venue: 4th March 2009, 12:30-14:30, American Corner – Multi-Function Room, University Library

Speaker: Prof. Kam C. Wong, Department of Criminal Justice, Xavier University, U.S.A.
Topic: Policing with Chinese Characteristics: A Theoretical Perspective
Date & Venue: 3rd March 2009, 12:30-14:30, L205A