UVic Masterminds Lecture Series

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
7:00 PM to 8:15 PM

The Masterminds lecture series highlights the continuing contributions of the University of Victoria�s retirees. The series is co-hosted by the UVic Retirees Association and the Centre on Aging, with the support of the University of Victoria. There is a free lecture on Wednesday evenings from April 9 to April 30, 2014.

In this first lecture of the series, Dr. Fong Woon will talk about her experiences, including surviving the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and its grim post-war conditions, coming to Canada and confronting covert racism while seeking academic employment, and her ongoing search for identity in both Hong Kong and her adopted country.


Dr. Fong Woon grew up in Hong Kong and emigrated to Canada in 1968. She taught in UVic�s Department of Pacific and Asian Studies from 1980 until she retired in 2009. Woon earned a BA (History) and MA (Philosophy) from the University of Hong Kong in 1966 and 1968 respectively, and a PhD degree in Sociology from UBC in 1975. She was a sessional instructor at UVic between 1974 and 1980 and she became a tenure track assistant professor in 1980 in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, an associate professor in 1985 and a full professor in 1998.

Her field of research includes migration, ethnic relations, immigration and refugee adaptations, gender issues, socioeconomic development and oral history. Her publications include two books, four book chapters and 24 refereed articles on rural communities in South China and Asian Canadian communities. She is best known for her social historical novel The Excluded Wife (McGill-Queens University Press, 1998).

Please register for this free lecture by emailing [email protected] or calling 250-721-6369.