Arranged in alphabetical order (except for Keynotes)
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Wenhong ZHANG
Head of the Centre of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, China
Keynote Speaker: Dr. George HONG
Professor in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, Fordham University, New York
Prof. Ien ANG
Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University and The Founding Director of the Institute for Culture and Society
Panel: Me and We: networked connection and disconnection
Ms.Firdoze BULBULIA
Independent producer, broadcaster, activist, media trainer and Co-founder of Africa’s
Best Channel (ABC), Nigeria. South Africa
Panel: Crisis and Response: reactions as intensifiers of crisis
Prof. Roland CHIN
President and Vice-Chancellor, HKBU
Panel: Opening
Dr. Cissie FU
Dean of Faculty of Culture + Community, Emily Carr University of Art +Design
Panel: Crisis and Response: reactions as intensifiers of crisis
Ms. Hung HUANG
TV Host, Writer and Chief executive of China Interactive Media Group
Panel: Crisis and Response: the cultural underpinnings of action
Prof. Jamer HUNT
Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design and Vice-Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives, The New School
Panel: Death and Survival: cultures of governance
Prof. Dina IORDANOVA
Professor of Global Cinema & Creative Cultures, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Panel: Me and We: (re-)imagining community and social bonds now and in the future
Prof. Daqing MA
Professor of Anaesthesia, Imperial College London
Panel: Science and Con-science: the cultural life of science
Prof. Yi NING
Professor and Executive Director, Meinian Public Health Research Institute, Peking University
Panel: Science and Con-science: the cultural life of science
Dr. Sine PLAMBECH
Anthropologist and Visiting Researcher, Yale University
Panel: Crisis and Response: reactions as intensifiers of crisis
Prof. Jennifer Daryl SLACK
Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies, Humanities, Michigan Technology University
Panel: Me and We: networked connection and disconnection
Ms. Ndileka MANDELA
CEO, Thembekile Mandela Foundation
Panel: Crisis and Response: reactions as intensifiers of crisis
Prof. Daniel WEINSTOCK
Professor in Faculty of Law, McGill University, Director of McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy and Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the Faculties of Law and of Arts, McGill University, Canada
Panel: Death and Survival: cultures of governance
Prof. Joseph WU
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Hong Kong
Panel: Science and Con-science: the cultural life of science
Dr. Lun ZHANG
Professor of Cergy Paris University and the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
(FMSH), Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese-Future website
Panel: Crisis and Response: the cultural underpinnings of action
Keynote Speaker: Ms. Zain VERJEE
Journalist, CEO of Zain Verjee Group
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Zuo-feng ZHANG
Vice-Dean (Academic Development), Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Zhanfeng CUI
Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Oxford
Prof. Micheal Berry
Director, McGill Institute for Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Panel: Death and Survival: the existential dimension
Dr. Ron BURNETT
Order of Canada, OBC, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, RCA
and President Emeritus, Emily Carr University of Art +Design
Panel: Me and We: (re-)imagining community and social bonds now and in the future
Prof. John ERNI
Fung Hon Chu Endowed Chair of Humanics and Chair Professor in Humanities, HKBU
Panel: Opening
Prof. GUO Yike
Vice-President (Research & Development), Professor in Department of Computer Science, HKBU
Panel: Opening, Science and Con-science: the cultural life of science
Prof. Mette HJORT
Dean of Arts and Chair Professor of Humanities, HKBU
Panel: Opening
Prof. HUANG Yu
Dean of School of Communication and Professor of Department of Journalism, HKBU
Panel: Crisis and Response: the cultural underpinnings of action
Prof. Koichi IWABUCHI
Professor of Sociology, Kwansei Gakuin University
Panel: Me and We: (re-)imagining community and social bonds now and in the future
Dr. Rose LUQIU
Assistant Professor, School of Communication, HKBU
Panel: Crisis and Response: the cultural underpinnings of action
Prof. David LYON
Professor of Sociology, Queen’s University and Queen’s Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, Canada
Panel: Death and Survival: cultures of governance
Dr. Gcina MHLOPHE
GCINAMASIKO Arts & Heritage Trust
Panel: Crisis and Response: reactions as intensifiers of crisis
Prof. Ka Ho MOK
Vice President & Dean of School of Graduate Studies, Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Panel: Death and Survival: cultures of governance
Prof. Srikant SARANGI
Professor in Humanities and Medicine and Director of the Danish Institute of Humanities and Medicine/Health (DIHM) at Aalborg University, Denmark
Panel: Death and Survival: the existential dimension
Prof. Rod STONEMAN
Director of Huston School of Film & Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway
Panel: Me and We: (re-)imagining community and social bonds now and in the future
Dr. Harry WU
Director of the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit and Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities, University of Hong Kong
Panel: Death and Survival: the existential dimension
Prof. Dan ZAHAVI
Professor of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen and Director of Center for
Subjectivity Research
Panel: Me and We: networked connection and disconnection