Date: 16 May 2011 (Monday)
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Venue: Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, 2 Caine Lane, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong

The Art of Humanity: A Public Conversation

In The Art of Humanity: A Public Conversation, Professor Didier Fassin from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will talk to Hong Kong artist Simon Birch about crises, victimhood, empathy, art and humanitarianism. The event is organized to coincide with the opening of Laughing with a Mouth Full of Blood, a major new exhibition of paintings by Simon Birch at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences.

By reservation only.