College Assemblies

College Assemblies are part of the College General Education Programme. It is non-credit bearing. Full-time undergraduate students of Shaw College are required to attend at least THREE College Assemblies each term to fulfill the attendance requirement.

Unless otherwise stated, College Assemblies are held at Sir Run Run Shaw Hall or Lecture Theatre, Shaw College at 11:30 am - 1:00 pm on Friday.

In 2019/20 academic year, the following Assemblies are offered.

Term 1

Date	Theme	Language	Speaker
6 Sep 2019	Inauguration Assembly	Cantonese*
13 Sep 2019	When boys become girls: impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals to human and the environment [Video]	English	Professor LEUNG Mei-yee Kenneth
20 Sep 2019	Let's see a doctor [Video]	Cantonese*	Dr. LUK Chi-kwong David, Star of Shaw Awardee 2018
26 Sep 2019 (Wed) 17:00 - 19:00	The Shaw Prize Lecture in Life Science and Medicine 2019 Genome modification by natural and artificial DNA breaks [Video]	English	Professor Maria JASIN, The Shaw Laureate in Life Science and Medicine 2019
4 Oct 2019	Make a Wish Programme [Video]	Cantonese*	Participants of "Make a Wish Programme"
11 Oct 2019	Learning from the heart Sutra in uncertain time [Video]	Cantonese*	Professor LEUNG Yiu-kin Freedom
18 Oct 2019 17:00 - 18:30	Thirty years Hong Kong music world	Cantonese*	Mr. WONG Yiu-ming Anthony
1 Nov 2019	Searching for the fundamental structure of matter [Video]	Cantonese*	Professor CHU Ming-chung
8 Nov 2019	Debate Competition [Video]	Cantonese*	Shaw College Debating Team vs HKUST Cantonese Debating Team

Term 2

Date	Theme	Language	Speaker
10 Jan 2020	34^th Anniversary Ceremony	Cantonese*
17 Jan 2020	Becoming a monk in one’s twenties [Video]	Cantonese*	Venerable Tsam Yuen
21 Jan 2020 (Tue) 17:00 - 19:00	Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture 2019/20 How Japan and China learned from each other from 600 A.D. to the present [Video]	English	Professor Ezra VOGEL, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
21 Feb 2020 (Webinar)	The importance of having our food made and grown locally [Video]	Cantonese*	Mr. Joey LEUNG
6 Mar 2020 (Webinar)	Stage reading [Video]	Cantonese*	Shaw College Drama Club

* Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for non-Cantonese speakers

For attendance to be counted, participants of College Assemblies must first register online via the Registration and Attendance System. Click here for details.