Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce that an international symposium on Hu Shih will be held online by the City University of Hong Kong on the following dates/time via Zoom Webinar.
Eastern Standard Time (EST)
May 6, 2022 (Fri) & May 7, 2022 (Sat), 9:30 pm~00:30 am (+1 Day)
Pacific Standard Time (PST)
May 6, 2022 (Fri) & May 7, 2022 (Sat), 6:30 pm~9:30 pm
Hong Kong Standard Time
May 7, 2022 (Sat) & May 8, 2022 (Sun), 9:30 am-12:30 pm
This symposium seeks to broaden the analytical scope of the studies of Hu Shih while investigating the meanings of stuyding Hu Shih’s works in the contemporary world. The symposium will be run in both Chinese and English.
Please visit us at our website and register for the event:
http://lt.cityu.edu.hk/research/2022/Torch-of-Freedom-Symposium/
Conference Title: Torch of Freedom: An International Symposium on Hu Shih
Conference Statement:
It is perhaps a historical irony or tragedy that we are now experiencing an increasingly derailing world just like the time of Dr. Hu Shih (1891-1962). With the outbreak of a pandemic first in China and then the rest of the world, the massive protests of Hong Kong in 2019-2020, and Russia’s invasion into Ukraine in 2022, it is hard for us to pretend that we are still living in the same world and expect to apply the old rules on the new reality. What does it mean to study Hu Shih in the twenty-first century? How do we evaluate his legacy in various social, cultural, and historical contexts? And how do we account for the different ways in which “Hu Shih studies” were performed in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, north America, and beyond? More importantly, how do we, as contemporaries, respond to Hu Shih’s cultural-political agenda proposed nearly a century ago? One key objective of this symposium is to expand our understanding of Hu Shih, and diversify the ways in which we research this important historical figure. As we stand at the crossroads of China and the world today that is marked by increasingly instability and conflict, which is similar to Dr. Hu’s own time, we invite all those who are concerned of our contemporary world to contemplate on Dr. Hu Shih’s writings, and explore our past, now and future through his eyes.
Please feel free to circulate it among your professional circles and invite your colleagues and friends to join our meetings.
For all questions, please contact me at carlos.lin@cityu.edu.hk
Carlos Yu-Kai Lin carlos.lin@cityu.edu.hk
Assistant Professor
City University of Hong Kong