Thursday, January 16
13:30–15:30 Workshops I
Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) | Conference Room (RRST-4.36) |
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Cantonese Font — Jon Chui (Visual Fonts) | Historical Geographic Information System and Geospatial Data Extraction — Chi Man Kwong (Hong Kong Baptist University) & Yan Hon Michael Chung (Emory University) |
15:45–17:45 Workshops II
Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) | Conference Room (RRST-4.36) |
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Advancing OCR Technologies for Non-Western Languages: Challenges, Solutions, and Applications in Digital Humanities — Yan Hon Michael Chung (Emory University), Kit Shing Ho (University of Hong Kong), Chun Fai Franky Hung (Arkon Digital) & Chun Wing Martin Leong (Independent Scholar) | — Heng Hu (Renmin University) |
18:00–19:00 Posters
Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) |
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“Probing Historical Image Contexts: Enhancing Visual Archive Retrieval through Computer Vision” — Lin Du (National University of Singapore), Brandon Le (UCLA) & Edouardo Honig (UCLA) |
“A Digital Humanities Approach to the Interpretations of ‘Chinese Modernization’ by African and Latin American Media: A Case Study Based on English News from Factiva Database” — Lijun Yin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) & Yifan Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
“Digital Bestand, Body Narrative and Algorithmic Psychic:A Philosophical Analysis of the Medium of AI Resurrection Video” — Qinxuan Li (City University of Hong Kong) |
Friday, January 17
09:30–10:00 Welcoming Remarks
Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) |
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Rachel Sterken, Associate Dean (Postgraduate), Faculty of Arts, HKU |
Vincent S. Leung, Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning), Department of History, Lingnan University & co-organiser of HKADH2025 |
Javier Cha, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of History, HKU & co-organiser of HKADH2025 |
10:00–12:00 Opening Keynote
Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) |
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AI for Cultural Heritage Research Miguel Escobar Varela (National University of Singapore) |
14:00–16:00 Organised Panels
Computational Literary Studies I Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) | Conference Room (RRST-4.36) |
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Evolving Trajectories in Computational Literary Studies “Spectral Disruption: On Literary Influence” — Grant Hamilton (Chinese University of Hong Kong) “Josephine Miles Revisited: The Interplays of New Criticism and Distant Reading in Computational Literary Studies” — C. Y. Jenny Kwok (University of Hong Kong) | “Digital Diaspora in China: Internet Citizenship and the Emergence of ‘Runology'” — Winnie Yanjing Wu (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) “Cybering Caresses for the Sleepless: ASMR Videos in the Post-Media Era” — Lucia Lu Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University) “People Returning Home from Big Cities: Negotiating Role Transition in the Digital Era” — Shuhao Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University) Discussant: Hong Zeng (Hong Kong Baptist University) This session has been cancelled due to schedule conflicts. |
16:30–18:30 Short Papers
Computational Literary Studies II Conference Room (RRST-4.36) |
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“Attending to the Genre in Generative AI” — Reto Thomas Edgar Winckler (City University of Hong Kong) |
“Brevity and Breadth: A Linguistic, Aesthetic, and DH-Assisted Study of the ‘Book of Poetry’ and ‘Nineteen Old Poems'” — Zong-qi Cai (Lingnan University) & Maciej Kurzynski (Lingnan University) |
“RAG-conciliation: Using AI to Clean Literary Historical Data for the STEMMA Project” — Erin Ann McCarthy (University of Galway) |
“HTR for Hands Identification in Early Modern Spanish Literature” — Álvaro Cuéllar (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) |
“Keywords in Post-WWII Literary Modernism in Malaysia via Chinese Word Vectors” — Nicholas Y. H. Wong (University of Hong Kong) |
“Quantifying Reception: A Co-Citation Analysis of 41 Poetry Anthologies in Late Imperial China from 1500s to 1800s” — Jing Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) |
19:00–21:00 HKADH2025 Reception & Opening Ceremony of the Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35)
Saturday, January 18
10:00–12:00 Roundtable & Short Papers
Digital Humanities in/and Hong Kong Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) |
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Roundtable: Overcoming Challenges in Cantonese Digital Humanities and Why It Matters to the World — Chaak Ming Lau (Education University of Hong Kong), Jon Chui (Visual Fonts), Henry Fai Hang Chan (Ideographic Research Group, Unicode Consortium) |
AI and the Humanities Conference Room (RRST-4.36) |
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“How LLMs Extrapolate: From Guided Missiles to Guided Prompt” — Xuenan Cao (Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
“Mapping Cultural Diplomacy: A Network Analysis of China’s ‘Silk Road Book Project’ Translation Initiative” — Mengyuan Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
“Machines, Cybernetics, and Computers: Sketchy Prehistories of AI in China” — Xuenan Cao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Ye Zhao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Ke Zhu (University of Amsterdam), Mengmeng Zhu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
“The Fictionality of Non-Fiction: A Computational Study of the Heroic Reportage in the People’s Liberation Army Daily, 1956-1989” — Maciej Kurzynski (Lingnan University) |
“Ruining Emotional Arcs: Robustness of Sentiment Analysis to Textual Noise” — Artem Suslov (Hokkaido University) |
“Oracle Bone Fragments Conjunction Based on Mask R-CNN” — Guang Yang (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College) & Peici Zhang (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College) |
13:30–15:45 Short Papers
Computational Humanities Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) |
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“融會中國與西方? Towards a Cross-Cultural Analytics” — Stuart Michael McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
— Ziliang Qiu (Beijing Normal University) & Shenglin Zeng (Central China Normal University) |
“Reimagining Vietnamese Social Worlds: Layered Close-Computational Methods for Visual-Textual Analysis of a French Colonial Text” — Cindy Anh Nguyen (UCLA) |
“Developing a Pipeline to Extract and Structure Event-Based Information from Historical Sources: Analyzing Material Infrastructures in Late Imperial China” — Wangzhi Xi (KU Leuven) |
“Mapping Power Shifts: Topological Analysis of Communication Networks During the Gyeyu Revolt in Joseon Korea” — Donghyeok Choi (University of Hong Kong) |
— Jing Xiang (University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) |
Digital Curation, Immersive Technologies, and Pedagogy Conference Room (RRST-4.36) |
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— Shuqi Chen (UC Berkeley) |
“Dilemmas and Innovations of Chinese Museum Curators in the Digital Transformation” — Jie Qiu (King’s College London) |
“The Interactive Digital Presentation of the Humanities: Our Experiments with Augmented-Reality (AR) for Archaeological Tourism” — Wuyan Yao (University of Hong Kong) & Peter Cobb (University of Hong Kong) |
— Hongdi Hong (Education University of Hong Kong) |
“Porcelain, Paintings, and Pixels: Preserving Hong Kong’s Traditional Handicrafts through Immersive Virtual Reality Narratives” — Xiaoqiao Li (Hong Kong Metropolitan University), Lai Man Tin (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) & Tsz Fung Lam (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) |
“A comparative study of the implications of ethics and governance for digital humanities pedagogy – UK and China” — Simon Mahony (University College London) & Qing Chen (Independent Scholar) |
— Shiqian Zhou (Education University of Hong Kong) |
16:00–18:00 Closing Keynote
Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) |
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Beyond the Hype: Charting a Path for AI in Humanities Research Melanie Walsh (University of Washington) |
Sunday, January 19
10:00–15:00 Trails of Memory: The Battle of Hong Kong 1941
A guided hike fostering discussions on digital humanities and historical preservation under the scenic backdrop of Hong Kong’s nature, led by Prof. Chi Man Kwong (Hong Kong Baptist University).