Research on speech rhythm is arguably one of the most controversial areas in phonetics and speech sciences. Since the early 20th century, phoneticians have observed two major types of rhythmicity in languages. In the early 21st century, with the advent of easier spectrographic analysis, various "rhythm metrics" were introduced, based on the duration of vocalic and consonantal segments in the speech signal, in an attempt to classify languages into distinct rhythm types. This approach gained significant popularity, but about a decade later, researchers increasingly recognized that it failed to capture the true essence of rhythm. I argue that the study of speech rhythm must be both ontologically valid and methodologically sound. In this talk, I will (1) briefly review the history of speech rhythm research, (2) explain why rhythm serves as a foundational substrate in speech, and (3) present the approaches I have developed over the past five years, including ongoing work.
 

Speaker 
Dr. Lei He is a full-time research scientist at the associate professor level at the Institute of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Fudan University, Shanghai. Before joining Fudan, he served as a group leader in phonetics and speech sciences at the University of Zurich, where he was the principal investigator for several projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Zurich. His research primarily focuses on individual differences and pathological characteristics in the temporal aspects of speech production. In particular, he aims to develop more effective methods for characterizing rhythmicity in speech and to investigate the role of rhythm in language communication.

Date: 30 October 2024 (Wed)

Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, University Library (G/F)

Language: Cantonese (with handouts in English)

Target audience: CUHK Arts UG students (Year 3 or above are prioritised)

Quota: 40

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13679378 (Registration deadline: 18 October 2024)
 

In this workshop, you’ll:

- Explore diverse career paths for Arts graduates

- Learn how to convert your academic skills into job-ready skills

- Beware of dos and don’ts in a job application

- Acquire practical networking skills

- Learn how to evaluate the potentiality of changing your career path

Quotas are limited and on first come, first served basis. Registered student(s) who cannot join the workshop due to emergency, please inform to the Faculty Office in advance.

In addition to the so-called “Western impact”, Chinese Buddhists in the late-Qing and early Republican were also confronted with new ideas from Japan, including uniquely Japanese interpretations of traditional Buddhist thought. An important, yet still understudied, aspect of this encounter is the influence of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism (particularly the Jōdo-Shinshū school) on the Chinese interpretations of Pure Land tradition that emerged in this period. In my talk I will discuss how Chinese authors active between 1890s and 1920s critically responded to the Japanese discourse on the Pure Land, and how they selectively adapted its elements to systematize their own understanding of the Pure Land tradition as it historically evolved in China. This selective adaptation includes three interrelated concepts: the notion of the “Pure Land school” as distinct from other “schools” (zong 宗) of Buddhism; the doctrinal distinction between “self-power” and “other-power”; and the reassessment of Tanluan (曇鸞; 476–572), Daochuo (道綽; 562–645) and Shandao (善導; 613–681) as distinctively Pure Land thinkers in the history of Chinese Buddhism.

Speaker
Prof. Jakub Zamorski
Jagiellonian University

Jakub Zamorski is assistant professor and lecturer in East Asian Buddhism at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His research interests include modern Buddhist thought in East Asia, particularly (re-)envisionings of the Pure Land tradition, and the history of Buddhist logic and epistemology in East Asia. Among his publications are “Yang Wenhui and Nanjō Bun’yū: A Sino-Japanese Perspective on the Introduction of Modern Buddhist Studies to East Asia,” in Learning from the West, Learning from the East (Brill, 2023), and “Chinese Buddhist Logic,” in Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

Since the late 1960s, developments in visualization methods have significantly reshaped how molecular dynamics are conceptualized and understood. This talk examines Martin Karplus’ pioneering role in the implementation of molecular films, which introduced a dynamic element to static images and refined the depiction of atomic interactions. In his conceptual “second equation,” Karplus drew on Canaletto’s perspectival techniques to contribute to the mathematical modeling of molecular processes while enhancing the clarity and depth of computer imaging. Furthermore, the advent of Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD), developed by Klaus Schulten’s team in the mid-1990s and employed by Karplus and his group at Harvard University, marked a transition towards interactive visual tools that facilitated an immersive exploration of molecular structures. The lecture will explore a set of epistemic virtues referred to here as “visual mindscapes,” mental frameworks that foster the co-construction of scientific knowledge in computer simulations. Such a reconfiguration in scientific visualization suggests an expansion of traditional virtues (e.g., mechanical objectivity, trained judgment) to support deeper epistemic engagement with the challenges of contemporary studies across various disciplines where adaptive modeling and real-time computational analysis are actively mobilized to address the behavior of complex natural systems.

Speaker
Prof. Daniele Macuglia
Daniele Macuglia is a historian of science and currently serves as an assistant professor at Peking University, within the Academia for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. He completed his Ph.D. in the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago in 2017.

Date: 17 October 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 7:00pm - 8:15pm (Reception starts at 6:30pm)
Venue: L1, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK
Moderator: Prof. Wong Nim Yan
Medium: Cantonese

In this event, you will:
Meet a museum expert: Dr. Ng has an incredible journey from CUHK student to leading one of Hong Kong’s most prestigious museums.
Get career insights: Whether you’re studying languages, history, arts, or any other discipline, Dr. Ng’s advice can help shape your future career path.
Network with a leader: Engage in a dialogue with a top industry professional and get your questions answered.

Join us in this insightful evening to learn and get inspired! Bring your questions for an engaging dialogue with one of the industry’s prominent leaders.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the festival, themed “Margins of the Mother Tongue.” Professor Tang Xiaobing, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at CUHK, serves as the chief advisor, with Ms. He Yiting as the curator, and Professor Song Zijiang from the University of Toronto as the executive director.

The event will bring together acclaimed poets from across the globe for poetry readings, insightful dialogues, and musical performances. This gathering of voices from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds offers a unique opportunity for cross-cultural exchange.

Campus Visit: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Poets：Daniela Danz, Collier Nogues

Moderator：Ting Guo

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m, September 30, 2024

Location: L1, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the festival, themed “Margins of the Mother Tongue.” Professor Tang Xiaobing, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at CUHK, serves as the chief advisor, with Ms. He Yiting as the curator, and Professor Song Zijiang from the University of Toronto as the executive director.

The event will bring together acclaimed poets from across the globe for poetry readings, insightful dialogues, and musical performances. This gathering of voices from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds offers a unique opportunity for cross-cultural exchange.
 

“The Margins of the Mother Tongue” Dialogue of the Century

Poets: Eliot Weinberger and Will Alexander
Moderator: Professor Wong Nim Yan
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m, September 29, 2024 
Location: JC CUBE, Tai Kwun, 7 Chancery Lane, Central

During the Han Dynasty, the "Book of Rites" was regarded as a 'transmission' rather than a 'classic,' and "Doctrine of the Mean" did not attract special attention. However, after the introduction of Buddhism to China, the importance of this text gradually increased, and it effectively became a theoretical intermediary for the mutual assimilation of Confucianism and Buddhism. Although it had different implications within their respective theoretical boundaries, there was also a shared significance in terms of meaning.

Speaker
Prof. Dong ping
Zhe Jiang University
Prof. Dong Ping, a distinguished professor at Zhejiang University and a doctoral supervisor at the School of Philosophy, is a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Research Institute of Literature and History and an expert receiving special government allowances from the State Council.

Kant discusses the classical topic of friendship in a concluding appendix to the Doctrine of Virtue, the second half of his final work in moral philosophy, the Metaphysics of Morals of 1797, as well as in his lectures on ethics. I address three issues in his treatment: (i) how a relationship that any one person can have with only a small number of others fits into a moral philosophy that supposedly requires complete impartiality, or that each moral agent treats all others in the same way; (ii) if friendship can be any kind of duty, what kind of duty it might be, and why; and (iii) what it means for both how one reveals oneself in friendship and what sorts of things that one friend can say to another that friendship requires "equal mutual love and respect" — namely, that even the closest friendships are morally complex relationships that require to be "handled with care."

Speaker
Prof. Paul Guyer

Prof. Paul Guyer received his PhD at Harvard University in 1974. His teachers included Stanley Cavell and John Rawls. He is the Jonathan Nelson Professor emeritus in Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University and the Florence R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania; he also taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois-Chicago, Princeton University, and Harvard University. His dissertation was on Kant’s aesthetics, leading to his first book, Kant and the Claims of Taste (1979); he has worked more broadly on both Kant and aesthetics throughout his career. He is the author, editor, and/or translator of more than thirty books, including Kant and the Claims of Knowledge (1987), Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness (2000), Kant (2006/2014), A History of Modern Aesthetics (3 vols., 2014), Virtues of Freedom (2016), Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant (2020), A Philosopher Looks at Architecture (2021), Idealism in Modern Philosophy (2023, with Rolf-Peter Horstmann), and, most recently, Kant’s Impact on Moral Philosophy (2024). He was General Co-Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in English Translation, and in that series co-edited and co-translated the Critique of Pure Reason, and edited and co-translated the Critique of the Power of Judgment and Kant’s Notes and Fragments. He also edited three different Cambridge Companions on Kant. He has published more than three hundred journal articles and book chapters.
Prof. Guyer has been president of both the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division and the American Society for Aesthetics, and was chairman of the board of the North American Kant Society for many years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and the American Academy in Berlin, and has been an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize Winner. His other honors include the Matchette Prize of the American Philosophical Association, the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the International Kant Prize (2024).
Prof. Guyer continues his research with a focus on Kant’s moral and political philosophy in historical context.