The aim of GE Salon is to explore issues of common human concern from cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, with a view to encouraging students to reflect upon questions related to the contemporary world and to foster intellectual discussions on campus.
On Mediated Love
Speaker: Donna Chu心動,每次相遇,皆是專屬的獨家試愛,當中無數唯一多少最。 秋天的童話列車駛進玻璃之城,閉起雙眼,月台能讓你我滿足到落淚。沒有動地驚天愛戀過,偶爾回看那動人時光,溫暖已夠渡嚴寒。左右手間,最愛是誰,無條件的信誓,終究會否只是羅生異夢。他曾聽說,有一種幸福叫忘記;念念不忘,留在你臉書裡,當初那甜蜜蜜的神仙伴侶,你離開了卻散落四周。深信緣份的天空,她出發找愛的根源,今天也未回來。月球上的人,難辨地球是相愛,還是錯愛。 液態的情,反身的愛,浮沉媒體,你與我的紐帶,似在不在。 未得的愛,愛在憂鬱瘟疫蔓延時,留低哪種意義,就看世間怎記載。

我們年輕,所以勇武
--電影放映會 + 與導演會面

Freedom of Life: Economical Development and Biological Preservation
Speaker: Chiu Siu Wai
From the Realm of Necessity to the Realm of Freedom: On Socialist View of Freedom
Speaker: Lee Wai Choi Eddy悉達多認為,「生、老、病、死」所帶來的「苦」是必然,而通過修行達至覺醒的「涅槃」境界,是擺脫這種「必然」而達至「自由」的不二法門。孔丘則入世得多,因此認為「五十而知天命、六十而耳順、七十而從心所欲,不踰矩」,亦即透過歷練和修養的提升,「自由」就在塵世並在心中。馬克斯更為現實,指出人之所以缺乏自由,乃受自然壓迫(如疾病)和人為壓迫(如奴隸制度或工資勞動)所導致。備受「異化」的人類要從「必然王國」進入「自由王國」,便必須盡力消除自然壓迫(消除疾病和提升生產力),但更重要是消除一切人為的壓迫。而這,正是社會主義奮鬥的目標。

The Big Bang
Speaker: Prof. Kenneth YoungIt is now accepted that the universe began with a Big Bang. The Big Bang model, implicit in the Hubble expansion observed in the 1930s and firmly established with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in 1964, is now part of the classical canon. Some astonishing advances have been made in precision cosmology in recent years: age of the universe to (nearly) 4 significant figures; acceleration of cosmological expansion and gravitational repulsion at large distances; new forms of matter and energy, previously unknown, accounting for 96% of the universe; and firm knowledge of the history of the universe back to very early times. One theme will be the displacement of speculation by accurate measurements and the emergence of cosmology as a precision observational science.

From High Speed Rail to the Bridge: The Conflict between Hong Kong and China
Speaker: Mr. Lai Kwong Tak廣深港高鐵與港珠澳大橋是香港特區政府成立後兩項最大基建工程,亦是引起社會爭議最多的項目。究竟這些過千億元投資的工程為何而建?為誰而建?無論是有政治任務在身的官員、得益最大的發展商、被迫滅村的菜園村居民、受空氣污染加劇之苦的東涌社區、以至直接受惠的工程建築界,對項目的取態均截然不同。但最深遠的影響,莫如這些跨境項目所標示的中港融合,以至深港「同城化」的願景。正當本土意識在港日益高漲之際,重新檢視這兩個項目的深層意義,有助港人了解中港矛盾的來龍去脈,更可作為「香港往何處去」的參照座標。
