Programme

Day 1: 18 March 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:30 – 17:30 (18 March 2026)
Venue: HKJC Auditorium, Hong Kong Palace Museum and Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University

Day 2: 20 March 2026 (Friday)
Time: 09:30 – 17:30 (20 March 2026)
Venue: Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (Zhuhai)

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Day 1 (18 March 2026, Wednesday)
Session 1: Digital Transformation on Society, Culture & Education
Time Programme
09:00 Registration
09:30 Opening Ceremony
10:00 Keynote 1 Humanities, culture and arts education in the digital era: navigating the opportunities and risks of digital technologies and media

Speaker: Prof. Niel Selwyn, Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Keynote 2 Regional GPTs, Linguistic Pluralism, and the Reconfiguration of Global AI Power

Speaker: Prof. Cecily Raynor, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, McGill University
11:30 Moderated Discussion Speakers: Prof. Niel Selwyn and Dr. Cecily Raynor

Moderator: Prof. Lo Kwai Cheung, Professor and Chair of Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Academy of Language and Culture, Hong Kong Baptist University
12:00 Lunch Break
Session 2: Digital Humanities & Transdisciplinary Research
Time Programme
14:30 Keynote 3 Humanities and AI: Modeling Culture Across Disciplines

Speaker: Prof. Meredith Martin, Founding Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University
15:00 Keynote 4 AI & World History

Speaker: Prof. Pieter Francois, Professor of Cultural Evolution and Director of the Computational Humanities Lab, The University of Oxford
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Keynote 5 Speaker: Prof. Julian Thomas, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), RMIT University
16:30 Moderated Discussion Speakers: Prof. Meredith Martin, Prof. Pieter Francois and Prof. Julian Thomas

Moderator: Prof. Kwong Chi Man, Professor and Chair of Department of History, Academy of Chinese, History, Religion, and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University
17:00 Closing Remarks
Day 2 (20 March 2026, Friday)
Time Programme
09:30 Registration
10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:10 Round Table Discussion Theme: Social, Ethical, & Policy Implications of Technology Speakers: Prof. Niel Selwyn, Prof. Cecily Raynor, Prof. Meredith Martin, Prof. Pieter Francois and Prof. Julian Thomas

Moderator: Prof. Beibei Tang, Dean and Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
11:00 Tea Break
11:10 BNBU Session Theme: Digital Technology and Higher Education
12:00 Lunch Break
13:00 HKBU and BNBU students' dialogue Theme: University Education and Life in the Digital Age
14:00 Visit to Tangjia Old Town