by admin | May 19, 2026
Titled ‘A Life Worth Living’, the course explores some of the most fundamental questions of human existence, and has provoked strong interest and been exceptionally well received by students. As a result, the initiative is being expanded to a Grand Hall course...
by admin | May 18, 2026
In a tech-driven world, the humanities can seem to fall by the wayside, steamrolled by the momentum behind STEM-related subjects. But in HKU’s Faculty of Arts, that story is being flipped.Under the leadership of Professor David Pomfret, who was confirmed as Dean in...
by admin | May 18, 2026
The Idea of China: A Contested History is a multifaceted examination of the country, which seeks to transform our understanding of ideas about China and our shifting definitions of what it is to be Chinese. Written by Professor Xu Guoqi, David H Y Chang Professor in...
by admin | May 15, 2025
After the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, many filmmakers and writers in Hong Kong and elsewhere speculated on the possibility of a resulting identity crisis. Professor Alvin K Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, says...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) are the bedrock for generative artificial intelligence, but most of the focus on them has been from a computing perspective. Yet LLMs have their origins in language, a topic normally related to the arts, not computer science.Linguists and...
