Presenter：Carol Mang
Every week, all around Hong Kong, there are many fascinating talks and lectures happening, on a variety of topics. You can easily find them online by looking at the websites of our universities, societies, and libraries. Here are a great selection of talks for you to listen to, and indulge your... Mind Matters.
In this week's episode, we will talk about hidden histories of Chinese women’s everyday knowledge, skills like preserving food, treating illnesses, and managing households. These were forms of vernacular knowledge, passed down through practice, often undocumented. Professor Joan Judge from York University in Canada will uncover these histories when women left behind so few records of what they did or thought, and ultimately show how women’s practical knowledge intersected with science in ways often overlooked. Professor Judge was invited by the University of Hong Kong to give a talk entitled “Women As Vernacular Knowers In China’s Long Republic (1894-1954): What We Can Learn From Cheap Print”
Presenter：Carol Mang
In this week's episode, we will talk about climate finance and the carbon credit mechanism. The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as COP29, took place last November with a heavy focus on climate finance. Three CarbonCare InnoLab COP29 Youth Delegates Marco Yeung, Alfred Chang and Jenny Cheng, who were sent to the conference will tell us more about what has been discussed in the negotiation process. We will start with Marco Yeung, a CarbonCare InnoLab COP29 Youth Delegate. He was invited by The CarbonCare Innolab to give a talk entitled “Decode COP29: NCQG and controversy on Article 6.”
