Events

Storytelling is universal and is as ancient as humankind. From time immemorial, humans have told stories to entertain, educate and influence. Stories are a part of every culture across the world.

Stewart will discuss the recent happening in Afghanistan. This marks the end of 30 years of intervention in a project that has engaged some of the most powerful countries in the world in trillion-…

Gandhi repeatedly claimed that satyagraha was not only morally superior to violence but also more effective practically. To break the worship of force, Gandhi believed that one had to disrupt and…

Rwanda’s tragic and shocking violence of 1994 indelibly etched itself on the global conscience. The violence has become a paradigmatic case of genocide. In this lecture, Dr McDoom will present key…

This conversation with the ambassadors will deliberate on the extraordinary human effects on the lives and histories of the planet, most visibly represented in the form of climate change.

虽然亚洲是高科技社交媒体使用最活跃的地区，但是每当谈起科技或人类共同体，都是以欧美为重心。随着Clubhouse等新兴社交软件兴起，我们又开始讨论何为华人、何为华语等问题。谈到这些问题，就必然要跨越语言和政治的边界。我将在这次讲座上分享「时差」in-betweenness播客对于华语世界里共同经验的讨论，面对复杂的权力与身份认同问题，我们应该如何自处？让我们一同寻找答案。

Ecological Writing: a Conversation with Diana Fu and Mok Zining will be an artistic and intellectual discussion about the creation of "environmental" writing. We will walk through the creative…

Lecture 1: #Help? The Ethics of Assessing and Addressing Humanitarian Needs Digitally Lecture 2: Can and should algorithms interpret human rights decisions?

The concept of G-Plus governance describes the increasingly pluralistic, hybrid and decentered nature of global governance. G-Plus means “Governments Plus”. It reflects changes such as the…

《玩偶之家》落幕时娜拉离家出走的摔门声曾经“震动了全世界”，在中国，晚清的秋瑾、民初张爱玲的母亲黄素琼均可谓新女性表率。本文聚焦于娜拉的女儿们 -- 她们是怎样追忆并塑造缺席的母亲？同时又是怎样塑造她们的自我？ 新女性的衣钵如何在她们手中传承抑或改观？

Storytelling is universal and is as ancient as humankind. From time immemorial, humans have told stories to entertain, educate and influence. Stories are a part of every culture across the world.

One frequently overlooked aspect of today's world is the extent to which the specialized differences of cities matter to the global economy. There is no perfect city that can provide the enormous…