Book Launch "Developments in French Politics 6", co-organized by the HKBU Library and the Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU on 3 March 2021. Speakers: Prof. Alistair Cole (Head, the Department of Government and International Studies), Prof. Helen Drake (Chair of French and European Studies, Director of the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance, Loughborough University, London), Dr. Emilie Tran (Assistant Professor, the Department of Government and International Studies). Moderator: Dr. C. Roland Vogt (Head, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong) (Video)

GIS Online Alumni Event "Celebrating 25 Years of GIS -
Conversation with Prof. Michael DeGolyer", 27 February 2021.

Prof. Cole, Head of Department, has recently published, as second editor and contributor to three chapters, Developments in French Politics 6 (2021: Red Globe press). Dr. Emilie Tran also has a chapter in the book, which is the leading higher end text on French Politics in the UK and the US. Prof. Cole and Dr. Tran will present the book at the HKBU library on 3 March 2021 at 17.00 (Publisher webpage) (Flyer)

GIS undergraduate students, Eleanor Chan (GIS) and Ping-Ho Wong (European Studies, German Stream), presented their papers at the Political Studies Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference 2021 on 30 January 2021. The two were awarded the GIS Undergraduate Overseas Research Activities Fund in 2020 and granted Visiting Student status by Queen's University Belfast. They presented parts of their ongoing honours projects on political reconciliation in Northern Ireland and contributed to the discussion of the panel "Peacebuilding and Consociationalism" with participation of scholars and students from the University of Limerick, Trinity College Dublin, and Dublin City University. (Conference website) (Conference programme)

Dr. Kenneth Chan, Associate Professor and Director of Comparative Governance & Policy Research Centre was on BBC HARDtalk with Stephan Sackur, 19 January 2021 to talk about the quandary Hong Kong has found itself in since the introduction of the National Security Law and the prospects, if any, for the democracy movement academic freedom. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p094fmff)

GIS Online Roundtable "Sino-US Relations in the Biden Era : Conflict, Competition or Cooperation?" on 21 January 2021. (Panelists information) 

GIS Webinar (Online Seminar) "How does municipality amalgamation reduce voter turnout in local elections? The case of Norway" on 1 December 2020. Keynote Speaker: Mr. Kyle H.Y. Chan (PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA ; HKBU GIS Programme graduate)

GIS Webinar (Online Seminar) "Primary Party Organization and the Grassroots Election in Rural China" on 26 November 2020. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Kang Yi (Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU), Mr. Ma Ming (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU)

GIS Webinar (Online Seminar) "Breakfast with Mr. Thomas Gnocchi, EU Head of Office Hong Kong and Macao" on 25 November 2020. No less than 120 staff, students and members of the public attended in person or on-line his talk on EU Diplomacy and EU in Hong Kong for the first time since he came to Hong Kong in September. Special thanks to Dr Albert Chau, Vice-President (Teaching & Learning), for joining the event, which was co-organized by GIS and the Hong Kong Association for European Studies. ( HKBU News)

Opening ceremony of the book and artefacts exhibition "From Napoleon to De Gaulle - Treasures from the Consul General of France" on 24 November 2020, with a sharing by the Consul General of France in Hong Kong and Macao, Mr Alexandre Giogini. It is the last teaching and learning activity of the two-year pilot project led by Dr. Emilie Tran, titled "1, 2, 3, Prêts! Partez! Internationalisation at Home for a Successful Year Abroad", which stems from the Community of Practice - Internationalisation of Teaching and Learning (CoP-ITL). (Audio clip from RTHK (from time 2:21:35))

GIS Programme graduates in Faculty Graduation Activities for classes of 2019&2020, 21 November 2020.

European Studies Programme graduates in Faculty Graduation Activities for classes of 2019&2020, 21 November 2020.

GIS Online Forum "European Federalism & European Identity: A Dialogue with the Pan-European Party VOLT" on 19 November 2020. Guest Speakers: Ms. Valerie Sternberg (VOLT Germany ; Co-President of the European Board), Mr. Reinier van Lanschot (VOLT Netherlands ; Co-President of the European Board), Mr. Paul Jürgensen (Das Progressive Zentrum ; Project Manager in the Future of Democracy Programme)

Media interview on two double degree programmes offered by the Department of Government and International Studies with sharing by exchange students from France and Hong Kong and HKBU's internationalisation efforts under the COVID-19 pandemic. (Ming Pao) (Sing Tao Daily) (on.cc) (Oriental Daily) (Bastille Post)

GIS Webinar (Online Seminar) "China's foreign aid to Africa : variance and convergence with other donors on the continent" on 5 November 2020. Keynote Speaker: Mr. Tetteh Evans (Research Postgraduate Student, Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU) 

Online workshop "Trust in the Smart City", 29 October 2020, with the participation of Prof. Masaru Yarime (Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy, HKUST), Prof. Wilson Wong (Associate Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration; Programme Director, Data Science and Policy Studies, Faculty of Social Science, CUHK) and Prof. Daniel Lai (Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKBU).

Photography exhibition with sharing of students from the course EURO4015 Contemporary European Societies II: questions d'actualité. Through the interplay of words and images taken by French artist and photographer Cyrille Bellier, the global pandemic is recontextualized to Hong Kong, a crammed city that shows its unique resilience and determination in combating COVID-19. (VR Tour) (Poster)

GISS Academic Week title "Indo-Pacific The Great Game Hong Kong" : online discussion forum "Indo-Pacific and the 'New Cold War'?", 21 October 2020 and webinar "Hong Kong and the World", 23 October 2020.

GIS alumni online gathering in the event "United Digitally" organized by Alumni Affairs Office on 17 October 2020.

GIS Webinar (Online Seminar) "China & France : Overcoming Distrust with Multi-level Coopetition" on 15 October 2020. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Emilie Tran (Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU)

Dr. Tushar Chaudhuri's EU Jean Monnet Project entitled Green Urban Environments: A Virtual Platform for Collaboration for Secondary School Students (GRUEN), has been shortlisted for the QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards under their Sustainability Award category. This year's Awards process saw nearly 1500 applications submitted across thirteen categories, and QS-Wharton have only chosen to shortlist the top 12 percent of these innovations.

GIS Webinar (Online Seminar) "Transitional Justice and Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland under the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement" on 24 September 2020. Keynote Speaker: Dr. C. K. Martin Chung (Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, HKBU)

The conference "The EU-Asia Schools E-Conference on Sustainability and Urban Innovation" was held from 10-12 September 2020 over the Zoom platform at HKBU. The conference marked the end of Dr. Tushar Chaudhuri's 2 year Jean Monnet Project on Green Urban Environments (GRUEN) co-funded by the European Commission. The project and the conference brought together 300 high school students, teachers and experts from Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and Europe to discuss the students' visions of sustainable cities.

Dr. Sliwinski Krzysztof (Associate Professor, Department of GIS, HKBU) has succeeded in securing a third consecutive prestigious funding from the European Union to support the project: Asia Pacific Model European Union organized in cooperation with the National Centre for Research on Europe (University of Canterbury, NZ). (Details)