Date: 8 May 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 noon (HKT) 
Format: Face-to-face
Venue: LI-6376, 6/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Building, City University of Hong Kong

Speaker 
Prof. Simon Mahony
Emeritus Professor, University College London;
Visiting Professor, Peking University

Moderator
Prof. TSUI Lik Hang
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese and History,
Co-convenor, Digital Learning and Literacy cluster, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

Abstract
This talk draws on two decades of experience in UK Russell Group universities and a decade of extensive networking with digital humanities centres and researchers in China, including teaching and running student workshops there which focus on different world views. During my time at UCL I was Director of the graduate programme in Digital Humanities and of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. My primary focus was on pedagogy and the delivery of our digital humanities programme which has a strong emphasis on cultural heritage and the application of innovative digital methods to the study of the humanities more widely. A growing issue nowadays is the use of generative AI and the issues that come along with that. This, however, is part of a longer continuum stretching back many decades known as information literacy (now often referred to as digital literacy). This is nothing new and has been part of the purview of university libraries since they first developed training programmes. What is different now is the impact that AI has on pedagogy and course development particularly in field such as DH where we focus on the digital. What are the implications and how might we progress to accommodate these changes?   

Biography
Simon Mahony is Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL); Visiting Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University. He is a Corresponding Member of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research, UNESCO Memory of the World Programme; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Prof. Mahony was Programme Director of the MA/MSC in Digital Humanities at UCL (2011-2017) and Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (2017-2020). He is a doctoral supervisor, and on the advisory and editorial boards of several journals and research groups. His research focus is on digital humanities with specific interests in education, communication, information studies, digital storytelling, equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI), and the open agenda.

 

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Enquiries 
Prof. TSUI Lik Hang
Tel. : 3442 7151
Email: lhtsui@cityu.edu.hk