Date: October 17, 2025 (Friday) Time: 2:00-6:00 PM Venue:SWH 1 (G/F), Fung King Hey Building (KHB), CUHK Session 1: “Reinventing the Humanities with the Public” We explore the ongoing development of the Humanities in a time when humanities scholarship is becoming increasingly esoteric and disconnected from the general public. What consequences and implications does this entail? How can we reshape the humanities to make our research more relevant to society, rather than just to a few potential peer readers? Hosted by Tan Jia Speakers: 1. Elmo Gonzaga & Chieng Wei Shieng “Doing Theory in Southeast Asia”: Multiplying Publics, Decolonizing the Humanities 2. Park SaeHim Affective Knowledge Underwater: Embodied Lessons for Public Humanities 3. Ashley Lee Wong Interweaving Academia and The Public through Interdisciplinary Research and Participatory Practice 4. Pang Laikwan The Time of the Public I Session 2: “Reinventing the Public with the Humanities” We discuss how we might bring the humanities to the public and learn from the public, with the goal of invigorating and shaping the community. There is no need to romanticize the public; but it is partly our responsibility to help shape them into a caring community and make our societies more livable. Hosted by Wu Kaming Speakers: 1. Huang Shan From Ethnographic Fieldwork to Public-facing Book: Reflections on a Place-making Project in Suburban Hong Kong 2. Joseph Li The Time of the Public II 3. Ella Li Mei Ting Academics as Public Intellectuals? Queer Publics and Public Queers in Hong Kong 4. Benny Lim Cultural Mediation and Public Humanities: Reflections from the Art and Aging Project Co-Organized by B.A. in Public Humanities Programme, Center for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk