The Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH) is delighted to announce its inaugural international conference, jointly hosted by the University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University, from January 16 to 19, 2025. This year's theme is “Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities." We warmly welcome all who are interested to attend, but prior online registration is required. For more details, please visit: https://2025.hkadh.org/
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) | A New General Spatial and Temporal Data Platform for Qing History — 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 (UCLA), 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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| David Pomfret, Dean, 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 History Research Miguel Escobar Varela (National University of Singapore) |
13:30–15:30 Organised Panels
| Computational Literary Studies I Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) | China and Digital Media 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) | Understanding Chinese Contemporary Society and Culture through Digital Media: Self-help Channels in the Face of Collective Crisis “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. |
16:00–18:00 Short Papers
| Computational Literary Studies II Arts Tech Lab (RRST-4.35) |
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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 at 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) |
| “Exploring Emotion Arcs in Folk Tales: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study” — 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) |
| “A Bird’s-Eye View of Marginal Political Groups (15th-17th Centuries): Spatiotemporal Analysis of Yi Guan groups in Ming Dynasty Using LoGaRT and ChatGPT” — Jing Xiang (University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) |
| Digital Curation, Immersive Technologies, and Pedagogy Conference Room (RRST-4.36) |
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| “Information Behind Misinformation: Exploratory Data Analysis of TikTok Data on Immigration using Machine Learning Approaches” — 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) |
| “Linguistic evidence sheds light on the migration path of the Sichuan Yi speakers” — 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) |
| “Leveraging AI in Academic Writing: Writing Proficiency Enhancement Tips and Guidelines for Preserving Human Creativity” — 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).
