Annotation Exchange #3: A Reading Group on Narrative Change
‘Imagining Social Impact’ with Carmen Lam
Time: Tuesday, 8 Oct 2024, 2:30pm - 4:00pm (Hong Kong Time)
Venue: The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK
Format: Hybrid (for online attendees the ZOOM link will be sent via email prior to the event)
Please register via this link:
https://forms.office.com/r/v18HNFc9HW
by Friday, 4 October 2024
Contact: com-dns@cuhk.edu.hk
The Digital Narratives Studio (DNS) at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, presents the Annotation Exchange (AnnEx) series, that puts authors, texts, and readers in a productive dialogue.
Participants are invited to read newly published inspiring texts (academic, journalistic, artistic etc) or even unpublished drafts of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Narrative Change.
Following our successful inaugural events earlier this year, we are incredibly excited to relaunch our series with several of our knowledge partners, that have helped shaping meaningful research briefs for our MA in Global Communication students. In the coming events, we will particularly focus on questions of social impact and the future of coming together.
For our next session on 8 October, we are incredibly excited to welcome Carmen Lam, a distinguished social worker and founder of Serenity Paradise. She will be present at the C-Centre at CUHK to engage in a dialogue with the readers/participants in small, collaborative groups, but the event will also be offered as hybrid mode for remote participants.
More about the speaker
Carmen Lam is a registered social worker in Canada and Hong Kong, bringing 18 years of humanitarian experience in social services. Her expertise includes migration, asylum seekers, refugees, and ethnic minorities, with a particular focus on vulnerable children and migrant mothers in Hong Kong. Carmen has served as a Social Counselor for refugee families at UNHCR, a Service Development Officer at Caritas, and Deputy CEO at PathFinders. She currently holds the position of Assistant Director of Case Management at Mother's Choice.
More about the text:
The chosen text is a newly published journal article co-authored by Carmen Lam and Kwok Kim (CityU), which explores the experiences of pregnant migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, focusing on their coping approaches and negotiation of reproductive rights. It also emphasizes the ethical obligation of social workers to address disparities in international standards, labour laws, professional commitments, and actual service provision.
For more context on the issue, Carmen also recommends the 2019 report “The Value of Care”.
Learn more about the Annotation Exchange (AnnEx) series:
TIME & PLACE
🕙 Tuesday 8 Oct. 2024, 2:30-4 pm (HK time)
📍 The C-Centre, NAH 313 Humanities Building, CUHK