To celebrate the 20th anniversary of our MA in Philosophy Programme, a series of philosophy talks will be held from February to June 2024. The 2nd talk will be given by Prof. Lau Kwok-ying, Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUHK. Details of the 2nd talk

If you are interested to join, please register the 2nd talk at: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13680095 by 2 April 2024 (Tuesday).
If you have registered previously, please do not re-submit a new registration. We will send confirmation email to you around mid-March 2024.
(Limited seats. Registration will be handled on a first come, first served basis)

The Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture (RCCPC) will organize an international workshop on Dai Zhen’s philosophy on March 15–16 (Friday to Saturday), 2024. This workshop aims to bring together experts and scholars to exchange their latest research on Dai Zhen’s philosophy, engage in mutual discussions, and cultivate new knowledge through discussion of previous scholarship.

If you are interested to join, please register at: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13682697 by 8 March 2024 (Friday).
(Limited seats. Registration will be handled on a first come, first served basis)

In response to the HIV/AIDS and drug epidemic in China, the state-run Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) program provides long-term to life-long replacement/maintenance therapy for drug users. The MMT program posits that methadone, a synthetic opioid, is a healthier alternative with fewer side effects compared to the highly addictive and destructive heroin. However, my ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Guizhou and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China shows that users have diverse and contradictory bodily experiences and contested narratives regarding the impacts of these substances on their bodies and health. By adopting "local biologies" as the analytical framework, this study explores the sociopolitical processes through which embodied differences are created. It also reveals how drug users navigate their "unhealthy" experiences to redefine their relationships with different substances, to strive for moral legitimacy, and ultimately to concretize their often abstract and invisible lives. This study sheds light on how health is understood and experienced among a highly stigmatized and socially excluded population.

Lecture One: Relative Clauses: On Raising, Reconstruction And A Typological Puzzle

Date: 9 March 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1A of Cheng Yu Tung Building (CYT_LT1A),
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lecture Two/ Linguistics Seminar: Age Matters! A Global Assessment Of The Impact of Late Exposure On Language Competences In Deaf Adults

Date: 12 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 306 of Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK_306), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lecture Three: Bimodal Bilinguals: One Grammar Or Two?

Date: 13 March 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Venue: Lecture Theatre 3 of Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK_LT3), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The talk argues that nominal and non-nominal subjects occur in different subject positions, with some superficially nominal subjects becoming non-nominal during the derivation. The talk also shows that this enables us to capture binding effects without appealing to the A/A’-distinction: all that is needed is simple c-command. Certain points of crosslinguistic variation with respect to quirky subjects (more precisely, regarding their ability to bind subject-oriented anaphors), will also be discussed.

This talk will examine honorificity in Romance by considering the need for a feature HON. Italian features two main honorary pronouns: lei and voi: by examining their agreement patterns and syntactic behavior, it will be shown that their rather complex (and non-homogeneous) agreement patterns result from the interaction of an HON feature with other phi-features. It will be shown that HON is related to gender, and that it is not a purely deictic feature. Finally, by examining ongoing changes in the use of honorific pronouns, conclusions will be drawn regarding the directionality of language change and the relevance of phase edges as loci where narrow syntax “communicates” with its interface systems. Honorificity will be shown to be similar to prosody in targeting phase edges and being external to the core pronominal (or verbal, in the case of prosody) structure.

如何在後疫情時代與觀眾建立聯繫並創造文化體驗？這個問題對於藝術和文化場地、 機構、團體以及個人藝術家的可持續發展非常重要。本次講座將以高雄為例，探討藝術和文化場地如何滿足公眾對藝術、學習和娛樂的需求，通過超越演出的方式與公眾建立聯繫，全面打造本地的錨點, 透過建構文化身份在藝術生態系統和公眾之間建立關係， 有效地推動當地社區的發展。

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講者
Dr. Francesco CALZOLAIO
Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of Hong Kong

From flows to blockages and things that move to the inveterately local, the concept of “circulation” and its discontents have, for the past decade, been a cornerstone of debates in global history. This talk seeks a somewhat unorthodox approach to understanding the how circulation was understood in interwar and wartime Japan, arguing that one of its most concentrated expressions was to be found neither in political economy of trade, nor diplomatic relations, nor telecommunications infrastructures per se, but rather the realm of psychical research. Starting in 1910, psychical research began to emerge in Japan first with the work of Tokyo Imperial University psychologist Fukurai Tomokichi (1869-1952). Core to psychical research was the claim that “material” laws of physics might be transcended ways that allowed persons to see and perceive across barriers of time and space. Tracing Fukurai Tomokichi’s work with the medium Mita Kōichi (1883-1943), I examine the ways in which psychical research articulated its role in Japan’s imperial project both theoretically—for instance, through the notion of a “cosmic Japanese empire” (宇宙的日本帝国)—and practically, e.g., in military-sponsored projects to discover new submarine and subterranean resources, and even the production of images of the dark side of the moon. I conclude with more general conceptual and methodological questions of why forms of fringe science, and psychical research in particular, can serve as unexpectedly fruitful arenas for the historicization of the circulatory imaginary.

講者
牛軍教授
上海外國語大學上海全球治理與區域國別研究院