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2025年5月6日 - 2025年5月9日

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

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 7^th to the 17^th 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.

For Lectures: Click here
For Workshops: Workshop 1 / Workshop 2

For Lectures: ics-dhlectureship@cuhk.edu.hk
For Workshops: dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk / ics-dhlectureship@cuhk.edu.hk

The Lectureship brings together global expertise to explore the transformative intersection of technology, the humanities as well as Chinese Culture, offering a platform for intellectual exchange. It is our great pleasure to have Professor Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, from Harvard University as the guest speaker this year.

The Lectureship includes two public lectures and two hands-on workshops, including themes such as AI’s revolutionary impact on the humanities, the multidimensional study of China’s intellectual history, and practical applications of digital tools like the China Biographical Database (CBDB). 

Lectures and Workshops:
(Conducted in English)

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 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Tea Reception at 4:00 p.m.)
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 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (Tea Reception at 4:00 p.m.)
On-site participation: LT1B, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK
Online broadcasting:  ZOOM

Workshop 1
Title: “Learning to use the China Biographical Database (CBDB)”
Date:  7 May 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
On-site participation: Digital Scholarship Lab, University Library, CUHK
Co-organizers: Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

Workshop 2
Title: “Teaching China’s History with AI: An Example”
Date:  9 May 2025 (Friday)
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
On-site participation: Digital Scholarship Lab, University Library, CUHK
Co-organizers: Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

Sponsored by Bei Shan Tang Foundation