The Gender Research Centre (GRC) at the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong is the first research unit on gender issues in Hong Kong. Members include scholars from Social Science, Humanities, Medicine, Business Administration, and other interdisciplinary fields. You are invited to come and meet other colleagues who share similar interests in including a gender perspective in our work. Before the orientation gathering, we'd also like to take the chance to discuss about gender in recent social movement in Hong Kong.

1. Talk
Title: Girls and Women in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement: Gender as Resources and Constraints
Date: 23 Oct 2019 (Wed)
Venue: Room 505, Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College, CUHK
Time: 12:00-13:00
Speaker: Prof. Susanne Y P Choi (Co-director, Gender Research Centre; Professor, Department of Sociology, CUHK)
Language: English

2. Orientation Gathering
Date: 23 October 2019 (Wed)
Venue: Room 505, Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College, CUHK
Time: 13:00-14:00

The orientation will be an informal gathering at Gender Research Centre to meet other colleagues and students at CUHK who are interested in research, teaching or application of gender-related issues.

Light refreshments will be served.

To facilitate our arrangements, please register in the following form and indicate the session(s) that you are going to attend. Please kindly pass this invitation to other colleagues and friends whom you think maybe interested in joining us.

Registration: http://bit.ly/grcorientation2019