HKUL Book Talk - Curling Up With the Infinite: The Creative Pleasures of Reading (English only)

In collaboration with LibFest 2019, Common Core Office, The University of Hong Kong, the Main Library is pleased to present Curling Up With the Infinite: The Creative Pleasures of Reading book talk at the 2/F Multi-purpose Area, Ingenium, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong on 31 October 2019 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm.

Speaker:         Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Date:              31 October 2019 (Thursday)
Time:              1:00 – 2:30 pm
Venue:            2/F Multi-purpose Area, Ingenium, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Language:      English
Registration:   https://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/CC2019_01.html

About the Talk
As friends of reading, we will share with one another about where and what we like to read, about the magic of childhood and the navigation of adulthood, about the poetics of reading and the idiosyncrasies of reading styles, and about the wealth of possibilities for creativity that reading creates. How we will wonder together in this interactive session, has reading changed our lives?¹

About the Speaker
Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren has been Director of Common Core Curriculum since June 2014. Prior to joining HKU, he served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning and the inaugural Director of the First Year and Pre-Major Programs at the University of Washington Bothell. With a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, Gray’s current scholarship focuses on cross-disciplinary learning in the global university and how philosophy, literature, social theory, and the arts intersect with urban space. He spent 2009 – 10 as a Fulbright Scholar in General Education, based at HKU, and assisted in the development of the HKU Common Core Curriculum.²

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¹ Professor Gray
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