2025 No.1
News: Distinguished Lectureship in Chinese Culture and Digital Studies 2025

Speaker: Prof. Peter K. Bol
(Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Public Lecture 1
Title: “From Old DH to New DH: How AI is Transforming the (Digital) Humanities”

Public Lecture 2
Title: “Dimensions of Experience, Domains of Learning: On the Study of China’s Intellectual History”

 

Background:
The Institute of Chinese Studies is pleased to launch the “Distinguished Lectureship in Chinese Culture and Digital Studies”, which is sponsored by Bei Shan Tang Foundation. The Lectureship brings together experts to create a platform for intellectual exchange and dialogue in the field of digital humanities. Renowned scholars from around the world are invited to CUHK to inspire and nurture the next generation of scholars with digital knowledge across all areas of Chinese Studies.

Speaker:
Professor Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research concerns the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is the author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China, Neo-Confucianism in History, and Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou, 1100-1600, the co-author of Sung Dynasty Uses of the I-ching, co-editor of Ways with Words, and various journal articles. He co-directed the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project, a collaboration between Harvard and Fudan University to create a GIS for 2000 years of Chinese history. He directs the China Biographical Database project, a collaboration between Harvard, Academia Sinica, and Peking University, currently with 640,000 historical figures.

Public Lecture 1
Title: “From Old DH to New DH: How AI is Transforming the (Digital) Humanities”
Date: 6 May 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm (Tea Reception at 4 pm)
On-site participation: LT1A, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK
Online broadcasting: ZOOM

Public Lecture 2
Title: “Dimensions of Experience, Domains of Learning: On the Study of China’s Intellectual History”
Date: 8 May 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm (Tea Reception at 4 pm)
On-site participation: LT1B, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK
Online broadcasting: ZOOM


Abstract: Click Here
Registration: Click here
Enquiries: 3943 7382/ ics-dhlectureship@cuhk.edu.hk

*Sponsored by Bei Shan Tang Foundation

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