While sleep remains in many ways deeply mysterious, researchers are now beginning to recognise the importance of sleep for memory and learning. In this talk I will describe research carried out in our lab that has identified a crucial role for sleep in language acquisition, including ways in which both adults' and children's sleep can improve language learning. I will also talk about the mechanisms with which the brain uses sleep to aid learning, and discuss ways in which boosting your sleep might accelerate the learning process.

Drawing from the Analects and other classical texts related to Confucius, this lecture explores the characteristics and significance of what we term “rooted cosmopolitanism” as manifested in Confucius’ thought and practice. This nuanced perspective not only encompasses cosmopolitan ideals of transcending territorial and ethnic boundaries but also maintains a delicate equilibrium between unity and diversity, often overlooked in more radical interpretations of cosmopolitanism. Additionally, a comparative analysis with contemporary perspectives on rooted cosmopolitanism, such as those proposed by Appiah, will be briefly explored. By delving into Confucian rooted cosmopolitanism, this lecture illuminates the connection between Confucianism and global perspectives, highlighting its enduring relevance in contemporary discussions on cosmopolitanism.

Registration:

If you are interested to join, please register at: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13684644 by 17 April 2024 (Wednesday).

文学院院长唐小兵教授致欢迎辞，欢迎当日出席的所有来宾、得奖教师以及同学，特别感谢中大艺术系荣休教授，莫家良教授应邀为本次嘉许典礼的主礼嘉宾。唐教授表彰22位获奖教师的贡献并肯定他们的教学成就，他亦祝贺逾400名本科生和研究生在2022-2023学年入选院长荣誉录。

主礼嘉宾莫教授分享了他数十年来的教学经验，感谢各位老师无私的付出，让学生得到优秀的教育机会。他同时鼓励同学珍惜学习机会，养成良好习惯，适应急速转变的现代社会，保持竞争力。 哲学系郑宗义教授代表获奖教师分享，他勉励各位老师与时并进，利用科技协助教学，拉近与学生的距离，增加学生学习的动机和兴趣。

英文系三年级本科生文爱然、音乐系研究课程毕业生林巧媛分别分享了她们的学习心得。她们孜孜不倦学习，把握与同学、老师以至到海外交流的机会，并感谢大学、学院及学系提供了理想的学习环境，让她们不但在学术及专业领域有所提升，更得到发挥的空间，成为更好的自己，将来得以继续贡献母校及社会。

文学院再次祝贺所有获奖教师和表现优异的学生，与及感谢各位出席本年度的嘉许典礼，分享得奖者的喜悦，共渡美好时光！

得奖者名录

Muslim women in India began to compose and publish travel accounts from the early twentieth century. Largely written in Urdu, their travelogues reveal a burst of fascination with the lives and practices of Muslim women from other regions of the world. The advent of this literature coincided with the emergence of new forms of Indian Muslim aspiration that sought to create affective links with their coreligionists abroad. As Muslim philosophers and politicians in India began to see themselves as part of something they were beginning to call the “Muslim world,” India’s women travelers produced their own imaginations of that world, not only by theorizing the nature of pan-regional Islamic links, but also by making them tangible through first-person narrative. And yet, ther aspirational Muslim unity was ultimately fractured by class- and race-based discrimination. This talk considers how Indian Muslim women’s travel writing eagerly sought out sisterhood with Muslim women from across Asia, while simultaneously declining to extend to those women a full membership in their aspirational “Muslim World.”

This talk examines what it means to listen in spaces where multiple ideologies vie for attention. In such pluralistic contexts, it is possible for sonic utterances that appear perfectly well-formed by the standards of one community to sound illegible or outrageous to other ears. One striking example of this sort of rupture is found in the reception of Sinitic opera (戲曲) within Anglophone audiences. As Nancy Rao (2022) documents, English-language media outlets have long employed imagery of the chaotic, the mechanical, or the animal in describing the sounds of Sinitic opera. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sinophone authors draw upon entirely different vocabulary when describing these same sonorities, imagining them to be “清脆 crisp and clean” (Zhou 1996), “甜美圓潤 sweet and mellow,” (Chun 1989) and “明亮 clear and bright” (Sun 2017). What accounts for such stark divergences across perceptions of the same sounds? What prevents listeners from hearing the musicality inscribed in sounds from unfamiliar cultural spaces? And what are the aesthetic, epistemic, and political implications that diverse musicalities present for music scholars? This paper seeks to address these questions via a self-reflexive analysis of the author’s journey in learning to hear the musicality behind Huangmei opera (黃梅戲) and Taiwanese opera (歌仔戲).

Boycotts were vital components of the American Revolution. Few goods receiving more ire then, or more scholarly attention since, than tea. What did these protests mean? Tea protests and boycotts have been linked to socio-political revolution, U.S. independence, and the formation of American national identity. Yet boycotts are notoriously difficult to maintain, and these boycotts were no different: the dirty secret of the tea protests and boycotts of the 1770s is that they all failed, even as the revolution succeeded. Why? Were boycotts ways for ordinary colonists to engage in politics through their consumer choices? Or did colonists say one thing and do another? This lecture will reexamine the tea protests and boycotts from the Boston Tea Party in 1773 through American independence in 1776.

ZOOM Meeting Link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99088684183

New media afford new forms of human sociality, require new forms of ethnographic investigation, and provide new means of presenting and engaging with ethnography. Articulated through recent ethnographic projects in what may be termed ‘metaverse’ spaces, this paper proposes several potential lessons. These cover methodological and epistemological insights for fieldwork within virtual reality and with communities whose key bonds run through cyberspace. But learning to navigate and understand the roles of these technologies in the field is only part of the challenge, as mastering AR and AI techniques can help to exhibit ethnography beyond the traditional constraints of the monograph or the ethnographic film. Artefacts that may be produced through the ethnography of metaverse can themselves become tools for ethnography, for instance where a hologram or radiance field representation of a space can be used as prompts and allow creative participation both of the ethnographic subject and the consumer of ethnography.

本报告将由河南文物局任伟局长介绍河南省近年来在文化遗产保护和公众教育方面的最新成果。 并将结合河南省的社会与经济发展情况，讨论在文化遗产保护方面创新性的方法与探索经验。

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欢迎有兴趣人士参加。

合作单位: 河南省文物局

主办: 香港中文大学新亚书院

香港中文大学人类学系考古及文化遗产研究中心

This international, interdisciplinary conference aims to uncover emergent frameworks and methods for the interpretation and analysis of literary, filmic, and cultural texts relating to the profound transformation of cities around the world across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Interdisciplinary in focus, our conference invites participants from both the humanities and social sciences working with texts and practices across historical periods and cultural contexts, from a diversity of disciplines and subfields including literature, film and media studies, architecture, geography, urban studies, gender studies, and anthropology. Participants interested in exploring intersections with gender, race, indigeneity; migration and the circulation of things, cultural texts, ideas, people, information; climate, ecology, and the nonhuman; and Asian urban practices and poetics are especially welcome.

Kindly send a proposal with a 400-500-word abstract and a one-page CV to urbanmediations24@gmail.com by 15 May 2024. As the goal is to produce an edited volume, accepted papers are expected to represent new, unpublished work.

Abstract:
What were Hong Kong crime films like before they became a local, regional, and eventually global success story? How did colonial film censors influence the development of Hong Kong genre cinema, and the crime film in particular? And how can we think through the relationship between crime films and their social context? In this talk, Dr. Kristof Van den Troost will discuss these and other topics covered in his new book, Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947-1986 (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).