Date: November 29th,2024 (Friday)
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Venue: Tse Chiu Kit Room CK TSE (G/F) on the ground floor of the Chung Chi College Library
Topic: Sound Studies in the Age of GenAI
Speaker: Yucong Hao (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University)
Topic: Digital Historical Forensics: A Computer Vision Approach
Speaker: Lin Du (Postdoc, National University of Singapore)
Moderator: Xuenan Cao (Assistant Professor, CUHK)
Registration Link: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=2834393
About Speakers:
Yucong Hao is Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian Studies. She received her PhD in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan with a graduate certificate in World Performance Studies. Working at the intersection of comparative literature, media history, and performance studies, she studies the global connectivity, postcolonial engagement, and racial imagination in modern Chinese literature and media. She has written widely on Chinese literature and media, from modernist poetry to digital media, and her work has appeared in journals such as Modern Asian Studies, Global Storytelling, and International Comparative Literature. Her research has been supported by the Association of Asian Studies, Social Sciences Research Council, Liberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, among others.
Lin Du is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow jointly appointed in the Departments of Japanese Studies and Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. She completed her PhD at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, where her dissertation, “Chinese Photojournalism 1937–1952: Materiality and the Institutionalization of Culture via a Computer Vision Approach,” utilized advanced computer vision techniques to explore wartime visual media culture. Lin holds an MA from the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard University and a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University. Her pioneering work in machine learning has been published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), and her contributions to humanities research are forthcoming in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas and Asia Pacific Perspectives.
Organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong
Venue sponsor: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library (Chung Chi College Library)
Enquiry: yezhao@cuhk.edu.hk