April 22 – 23, 2025

Online Symposium – Virtual Spaces and New Horizons: Humanities in the Digital Age

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The SOAS-Tsinghua Symposium 2025 will be held via Zoom on April 22–23, 2025. This event is part of the UK-China Humanities Alliance (UKCHA) International Forum Series, titled ‘World Maps and World Cultures.’ It is hosted by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at SOAS University of London, the Institute for World Literatures and Cultures at Tsinghua University, and UKCHA. As a member of UKCHA, CUHK is now calling for applications.

Call for Papers

The digital era has intensified the urgency to explore humanistic themes, such as language and communication, literature and arts, identity and self, philosophy and aesthetics, history and memory, spirituality and thought. This forum aims to bring together international scholars from various disciplines to reflect on both the opportunities and challenges that the digital age presents for the humanities. We invite papers that explore questions emerging from the intersection of the virtual and physical worlds.

Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

• New Languages
• New Forms of Expression
• New Aesthetics
• New Epistemological Hegemonies
• The AI Conundrum
• Reading beyond the Text
• Exhibitions beyond Disciplines
• Gender, Labour and Digital Creativity
• Community and Solidarity in the Digital Age
• Reproducing/Rewriting/Recreating the Idea of Modernity
• Genealogies of the Human World

Submission Information & Guidelines
Please submit abstracts of 350 words and a biographical note of 100 words to both Xiaoning Lu (xl1@soas.ac.uk) and Haina Jin (jinhaina@cuc.edu.cn) by 10 January 2025. Please entitle your email “SOAS-Tsinghua Workshop Proposal”. Acceptance of abstracts will be notified by 15 February 2025, and the workshop program will be available by 10 March 2025.

For more information, please visit the event webpage (English)