The goal of this event is to bring specialists from fields as varied as computer science, math, law, and humanities together in an interdisciplinary dialogue, so that the audience will see the state-of-art critique of Generative AI at the intersection of various perspectives. The focus of the panel will be on the nature of creativity in (Large Multimodal Models) LMMs and (Large Language Models) LLMs. Panel speakers will each present one frontier topic of their fields and then hold a roundtable discussion of the above issue.

Opening remarks (10:00 - 10:15)
Prof. David HUDDART, Director, RIH & Mr. Benjamin MEUNIER, University Librarian, CUHK

Keynote Talk (10:15 -11:45):
Multilingual digital humanities and global inclusivity in knowledge infrastructures
Speaker: Paul SPENCE, Reader in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

Talk I (11:45-12:30)
Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data
Speaker: Prof. Javier CHA, Digital Humanities in the Department of History, HKU

Lunch* (to be provided by the organiser)

MakerSpace Tour (14:00 -14:30)

Talk II (14:30 -15:15)
Leveraging technology to understand language variation and impact society 
Speaker: Prof. Wilkinson GONZALES, Dept. of English, CUHK

Digital scholarship project and services introduction (15:15 - 16:00)

3-D Printed Museum Competition presentations (16:00 -16:15)

Result announcement and prize presentation (16:15 -16:30)

Closing remarks (16:30 -16:45)
Prof. Stuart McMANUS, Dept. of History, CUHK

* Lunch will be provided for full-day participants

Registration Link: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13684114

Event Page: https://rih.cuhk.edu.hk/news-and-events/day-of-dh-2024/

活動網頁連結

https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/events/2024/Academic-Seminar_WANG-Fan-sen_20240503_r.pdf

報名連結

https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=2281482

In the early 1960s, around the same time as tens of thousands of refugees ran or swam from mainland China to Hong Kong, several hundred Mongols from Inner Mongolia’s Hulun Buir area rode their horses to flee to Mongolia. Although the number of people who escaped in this direction totaled only a few hundred, three levels of party-state organs in Inner Mongolia were preoccupied with finding effective countermeasures to stop the waves of flight, which nevertheless persisted into the late 1970s. This research explores this hidden chapter in the history of Maoist China and the Cold War by investigating the causes and features of the ebbs and flows of Mongol flight, the rationales for local authorities’ tremendous efforts to try to stop them, and why those efforts eventually failed.

「家」是個牽動複雜情感的詞兒。 作為哲學研究，我們需要將對「家」的日常意識、歷史機制、社科研究都懸置起來，澄清作為哲學概念的「家」，揭示「家」作為人類生存論結構的基本特徵。 現代性何以建基在「離家」的邏輯上，「無家可歸」為什麼是現代人的宿命，虛無主義如何滲透進現代人的生存？ 本文基於漢語世界對於救贖的解讀路徑，給予現代性救贖的漢語世界方案，「歸家」成為這種復歸式救贖的方向。 在這方向指引下，現代西方哲學同樣顯露出一條基於「家」的拯救路徑。 最終，我們要基於「家本體論」，揭示人類生存的「溫暖」性面向。

網上
毋須報名。
會議ID：950 4362 4545
連結：https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/95043624545

現場
請於2024年4月27日前報名
連結：https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13687520

梁啟超對新道德與舊道德、道德與倫理、公德與私德的辨析，對功利主義、康德主義與中國傳統倫理思想之對勘，無不折射出國家主義與世界主義、互競主義與互助主義、 傳統主義與現代主義之間的「化合」「融合」之底色。 此清末民初之際「道德之大原」之追問是繼春秋戰國之際、唐宋之際而來的第三次中華文明道德探源工程。

線上參與，無需報名。
會議ID：958 3108 2700 (link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/95831082700)

現場參與
請於2024年4月27日前註冊(link: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13687127)

文學院的學生常常被稱為「文青」，大家對此有著不同看法。Linus表示，除了一般既定的「文青」印象外，中大文學院學生也十分關心身邊人、事及社會動態。課餘時間積極參與各種計劃和活動，應用所學到的知識，發揮影響力，推動社會更好的發展。

Linus 認為文學院師資非常國際化，教師分別來自逾20個國家及地區，把當地文化、外遊經歷與香港本土文化結合，為教學提供多元背景及各種獨特元素，讓學生從多角度思考，提升學術知識，培養人文精神及拓展國際視野。

我們提供豐富的學科選擇，16個本科課程涵蓋由人類學到翻譯等多個學術領域，在訪問中，Linus也分享了讓他留下最深刻印象的課程。

歡迎各位於網上重溫《大學關鍵詞》第37集 香港中文大學 - 學術篇。

In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked the beginning of global efforts – by　psychiatrists, psychologists, and other social scientists – to tackle the complex ways human minds were affected by the advent of the nuclear age. Nuclear Minds traces these efforts and the ways they were interpreted differently across communities of researchers and victims. The manuscript explores how the bomb’s psychological impact on survivors was understood before the invention/ discovery of the concept of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In fact, I argue, psychological and psychiatric research on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rarely referred to trauma or similar categories. Instead, institutional, and political constraints – most notably the psychological sciences’ entanglement with Cold War science – led researchers to concentrate on short-term damage and somatic reactions or even led, in some cases, the denial of victims’ suffering. As a result, very few doctors tried to ameliorate suffering. This does not mean the professions “failed” to diagnose PTSD (a non-existent category at the time), rather both doctors and, even more importantly, survivors, understood and experienced psychological suffering and their role in society differently. This is made clear by comparing and connecting the nuclear case with that of Holocaust, military veterans, and other victims. Thus, the book set out, first, to understand the historical, cultural, and scientific constraints in which researchers and victims were acting and, second, to explore the way suffering was understood in different cultural contexts before PTSD was a category of analysis.

No registration required.

https://www.jas.cuhk.edu.hk/carndetails/nuclear-minds-cold-war-psychological-science-and-the-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-8-may-2024/

過去如異國（“The past is a foreign country”），探索歷史很多時像旅行一樣，可以看到不一樣的風光。與此同時，這「異國」也不全然陌生——有云「觀今宜鑑古，無古不成今」，看似遙遠的文物和歷史故事，與今日的我們有何關聯？或帶來甚麽啓示？邀請你，2024年1月20日至5月4日，隔週週六，來聽禤駿遠先生「講故 · 知今」！

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 3rd talk will be given by Mr. Shum Yat-fei, Veteran Journalist and Cultural Workers.

If you are interested to join, please register the 3rd talk at: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13680095 by 6 May 2024 (Monday).
If you have registered previously, please do not re-submit a new registration. We will send confirmation email to you around late April 2024.