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The course aims to enable students to master the sounds of Cantonese and conduct basic conservations in Cantonese. It is suitable for learners of the following 3 categories:
(1) People from Hong Kong who may be expatriates, international students, ethnic minorities;
(2) People from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) who may be expatriates;
(3) People from all over the world who may be heritage speakers of Cantonese, plan to study/work in Hong Kong/ the GBA, tourists… etc.
In fact, anyone who is interested in learning Cantonese are welcomed to join this course!
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language, Communication, and Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- China -- Hong Kong Cantonese dialects
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Neuroemergentism, (NM) is a novel framework which has sought to consider language development as involving the organization and reorganization of cognition and its underlying neural substrate. Work to support this framework comes from studies of language and cognitive development. In this talk, I will focus on two separate levels, the sensorimotor plasticity needed to adjust to new input and the cognitive flexibility needed to select between these competing sources of information. This talk will discuss both these levels with regard to the neurocognitive adaptations seen in bilinguals. This will include structural brain differences in monolinguals and bilinguals that vary in the age of second language acquisition. In the second part, of the talk work that has focused on the cognitive flexibility will be presented. This will focus on the adaptations of the basal ganglia and frontostriatal tracts as a gating mechanism crucial for selecting the correct motor response. This includes newer work which links genes associated with dopamine to cognitive and language flexibility in bilinguals. The ways in which sensorimotor plasticity and cognitive flexibility represent accurate but incomplete conceptualizations of the competitive processes involved in language and cognitive processing will be discussed. The talk will conclude with potential future directions using an NM framework.
Even date: 15/03/2024
Speaker: Prof. Arturo E. HERNANDEZ (University of Houston)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Language acquisition Code switching (Linguistics) Bilingualism Psycholinguistics
- Resource Type:
- Video
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I will discuss how co-speech (i.e., speech-accompanying) gestures relate to language and conceptualisation underlying language. I will focus on “representational gestures”, which can depict motion, action, and shape or can indicate locations. I will provide evidence for the following two points. Various aspects of language shape co-speech gestures. Conversely, the way we produce co-speech gestures can shape language. I will discuss these issues in relation to manner and path in motion event descriptions, clause-linkage types in complex event descriptions, and metaphor. I will conclude that gesture and language are parts of a "conceptualisation engine”, which takes advantage of unique strengths of spatio-motoric representation and linguistic representation.
Even date: 26/02/2024
Speaker: Prof. Sotaro Kita (University of Warwick)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Nonverbal communication Language languages Gesture
- Resource Type:
- Video
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The relationship between language experience and cognitive control (e.g., working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility) could be very well illustrated by the cognitively demanding language experience of interpreting training. A series of our empirical studies with interpreting students (see DONG 2023 for a review), together with studies with professional interpreters in the literature, suggest that interpreting training may first enhance students’ working memory (WM) updating ability and then WM spans, with probable some decline of WM updating ability between the shift from the two WM abilities. Similar patterns may appear in other cognitive control functions, such as cognitive flexibility (first with switching cost reduced and then with mixing cost reduced) and multi-tasking coordination. These results could be explained by the task features of interpreting (including task schemas and their cognitive loads) (see DONG & LI 2020), suggesting a close and dynamic relationship between language experience and cognitive control.
Even date: 4/12/2023
Speaker: Prof. Yanping Dong (Zhejiang University)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages and Translating and Interpreting
- Keywords:
- Translating interpreting Language languages Cognition
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
撰寫學術論文是大學生必要的經歷。中國語文教學中心是次建構「中文論文寫作教學網站」，旨在在已有的自學教材上，進一步分享撰寫中文論文的心得與要項。有別於一般論文教學網站，本網站總結了中心教員多年來評改學生習作的經驗，並以此為例，分享撰寫論文各個部份、各種細節的竅門與注意事項，期望學生省察論文寫作的過程，並思考其中意義。
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language
- Keywords:
- Dissertations Academic Academic writing
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
粵語，又稱「廣東話」，是香港最常用的語言。來自世界各地的學生可透過學習粵語，認識生活中常用的粵語詞句，應付日常溝通需要，從中更好地了解香港，融入香港。為此，我們開發了一個量身定制的在線粵語學習平台──翻轉粵語教室，按大學課程所學，制作相關的多媒體自習材料，讓學生可於上課前，利用網絡、智能手機等學習工具預習各單元的學習內容，然後回校再進行互動的粵語學習，提升學習成效。
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language, Communication, and Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- China -- Hong Kong Cantonese dialects
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
香港人講「懶音」的情況愈來愈普遍，如「女仔」說成「呂仔」（n-、l-不分），「過」、「個」不分（gw-、g-不分），「講解」說成「趕解」(-ng、-n不分)，「襪」、「默」不分（-t、-k不分）等等。
為了加強學生對粵語的敏感度，協助學生說出流利的粵語，提升整體的表達能力，我們申請了香港理工大學「教學發展及語文培訓補助金」(Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant for Language Enhancement Activities, LEG16-19/SS/CBS9)，開展「『粵語懶音測試及糾正』網站」計劃。此計劃的目的是協助學生以標準的粵語作日常的交際溝通，減少懶音，以恰當、得體的粵語與外界接觸，完成傳意任務。
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language
- Keywords:
- China -- Hong Kong Cantonese dialects -- Pronunciation
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
由於漢字數量多、結構複雜，香港學生寫錯別字的情況甚為普遍。進入大學後，學生主要使用電腦輸入文字，手寫中文的機會更大為減少，導致錯別字的問題愈見嚴重。多年來，不少學者已就此問題進行各項研究，而坊間的相關參考專書更是汗牛充楝，不可勝數。然而，上述所論多從傳統的形音義角度出發，較少從文體、語境方面加以深入討論。
有見及此，我們去年申請了香港理工大學「教學發展及語文培訓補助金」(Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant for Language Enhancement Activities, LEG16-19/SS/CBS10)，開展「『專業文體的錯別字糾正』網站」計劃，旨在探討於特定場合或行業語境下之實用文類的錯別字問題，藉以協助學生準確書寫各類職場文書，以恰當、得體的書面語言與外界接觸，完成傳意任務。
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language
- Keywords:
- Chinese language -- Terms phrases Chinese language -- Errors of usage Chinese language -- Homonyms
- Resource Type:
- Others
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我們的日常生活每時每刻都離不開語言，每一個人都會對語言中發生的問題感興趣，但是卻並不知道這些生活中的語言問題有沒有學術研究價值。本講座將以日常生活中的語言現象為例，重點介紹語言研究的選題、研究方法和研究路徑，以期對研究生的選題和論文寫作以及語言的跨學科研究有所啟發。
日期：2023年9月15日
講者：崔希亮教授
主辦：人文學院
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Sociolinguistics
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Psychology, Computer Science and Neuroscience have a history of shared questions and inter-related advances. Recently, new technology has enabled those fields to move from “toy” small-scale approaches to the study of language learning from raw sensory input and to do so at a large scale that constitutes daily life. The three primary goals of my research are 1) to quantify the statistical regularities in the real world, 2) to examine the underlying computational mechanisms operated on the statistical data, and 3) to apply the findings from basic science to real-world applications. In this talk, I will present several projects in my research lab to show that the advances in human learning and machine learning fields place us at the tipping point for powerful and consequential new insights into mechanisms of (and algorithms for) learning.
Event Date: 28/06/2023
Speaker: Prof. Chen YU (University of Texas at Austin)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Machine learning Language acquisition Computational linguistics
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
宣統年間（1909-1911），袁世凱（1859-1916）在攝政王載灃排擠下歸隱彰德府洹上村，與門生故舊唱和，以示無心世務。這些詩作被袁氏次子袁克文（1890-1931）輯錄於《圭塘唱和詩》中，於宣統二年（1910）刊印，其中袁氏詩作共十三題十五篇。1940年代，長子袁克定（1878-1958）將袁世凱當年親筆謄鈔之詩稿影印出版，額曰《洹村逸興》。比對二書之篇目，《圭塘》諸本有袁氏詩作五篇不見於《洹村逸興》。實際上，該五篇之謄抄稿仍與《洹村逸興》之原件共同收藏於社科院近代史所；克定當日不收入書中，蓋因稿上頗有無名氏批點文字，公之於眾可能影響乃父形象。這些批點文字當係某位幕僚所為，內容為修改建議；然參《圭塘》諸本，可知袁世凱對建議幾乎全未採納。本文著眼於五篇詩稿及其批點文字，以討論原詩與修改建議如何優劣互見，乃至這輯詩歌與當時政局之微妙關係。
日期：2023年5月24日
講者：陳煒舜博士 (香港中文大學)
主辦：香港孔子學院
- Subjects:
- Chinese Literature
- Keywords:
- Yuan Shikai 1859-1916 Criticism interpretation etc.
- Resource Type:
- Video
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晚清時期英雄傳記風行一時，引發英雄崇拜的熱潮。但是此時所謂「傳記」，其實是融合諸多資源形構而成的新文類。《意大利建國三傑傳》作為晚清英雄傳記的代表作，充分展示了這一特徵。梁啟超借鑑明治政治小說的多種書寫模式，又援引本土小說的要素，將意大利建國史轉化為中國未來命運的預言，將意大利建國三傑刻畫為智、仁、勇的化身，將兒女情長俠義精神引入傳記書寫。正是由於梁啟超自出機杼的創造與轉化，此類英雄傳記廣受讀者歡迎，成為晚清文學文化史上的典範作品。
日期：2023年3月23日
講者：崔文東博士 (香港城市大學)
主辦：香港孔子學院
- Subjects:
- Chinese Literature
- Keywords:
- Liang Qichao 1873-1929 Criticism interpretation etc.
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
編修地方志為中華民族悠久而獨特的文化傳統，至今已有2000多年歷史。中國方志有始於《山海經》、《尚書‧禹貢》和《周禮》這三種說法。「國有史，地有志」，「方志」和「歷史」在中國史學傳統上，有同源異流的密切關係。是次講座根據歷來中國地方志的原始資料和方志學著述，討論「志」與「史」的異同，並疏理中國舊方志和中國新方志在「存史」及「資政」方面的經驗，並就地方志對歷史研究的當代意義提出建議。
日期：2023年2月24日
講者：蔡思行博士 (香港地方志中心)
主辦：香港孔子學院
- Subjects:
- History
- Keywords:
- Local history Local history--Sources
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
This talk begins with an overview of the interconnection between literature and philosophy in modern Chinese literature. Then, it probes into the three existentialist allegories in Fortress Besieged (1947), a philosophical novel written by Qian Zhongshu, a polyglot scholar of East-East comparative literature and philosophy. The novel’s overarching allegory, i.e., a fortress besieged, will be compared in juxtaposition with several philosophical allegories about the mutability and limitations of human life in Western philosophy. This talk concludes with a reflection on the seminal influence of this novel in contemporary Chinese society where “fortress besieged” has become an everyday word referring to one’s existential crisis.
Event date: 9/2/2023
Speaker: Dr. Heidi Huang (Lingnan University)
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong
- Subjects:
- Chinese Literature
- Keywords:
- Wei cheng (Qian Zhongshu) Qian Zhongshu 1910-1998 Criticism interpretation etc.
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
講座主要講述嶺南文化形象的歷史變遷，主要對嶺南的地域範圍、歷史發展、文化形象的演變做出梳理，以期為當代粵港澳大灣區“人文灣區”建設提供參考。
日期：2023年4月28日
講者：陳恩維教授 (廣東外語外貿大學)
主辦：香港孔子學院, 中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Civilization China
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
今天盛行的“科學育兒”話語和“科學母職”家政培訓背後，反映著中國現代化進程與家政工主體之間什麼樣的關係？ 本講座從現代化的理論入手，以商業化科學母職培訓為切入點，展現國家和市場如何共同塑造農村打工女性的現代化主體。
日期：2022年11月18日
講者：蘇熠慧博士
主辦：香港孔子學院
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China Women
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
中國戲曲源自新石器時代的巫術儀式，經歷漢代百戲、唐代戲弄和北宋雜劇，在北宋末融匯了多種形式的演出藝術、民歌、文人曲子及多種演唱文類，發展成戲曲鼻祖「南戲」。粵劇是清代地方劇種百花齊放的產品，既保留着近乎巫術儀式的《祭白虎》，也承傳着崑曲牌子、秦腔梆子、徽劇二黃、宋明南戲和元雜劇的劇目，堪稱中國戲曲的縮影。本講座概述當代香港粵劇的傳承狀況和中國戲曲的歷史面貌，從中探討粵劇如何保留和發展傳統戲曲的元素。講座將論及粵劇神功戲的演出、《祭白虎》儀式、戲班結構、行當、劇目題材、唱腔特點和傳承。
日期：2022年2月16日
講者：陳守仁教授
主辦：香港孔子學院, 中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies, Hong Kong Studies, and Performing Arts
- Keywords:
- Operas Chinese Theater China China -- Hong Kong
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
作為宋遼夏金時期的一個王朝，西夏歷史文化有突出的特色，同時與中原文化有著內在的、緊密的聯繫。西夏參照漢字創制了民族文字西夏文，形成了很多文獻；吸納儒學，尊孔子為文宣帝；提倡漢學，實行科舉，培養人才；借鑒中原王朝法律，編纂法典，保存了最早的少數民族文字《律令》，豐富中華法系；接受中原社會習俗，存留下大批珍貴社會文書；弘揚中原印刷術，發明木活字印刷，有最早的活字印刷實物；尊崇佛教，翻譯中原大藏經，出土了數千卷佛經。西夏同時也吸收了臨近吐蕃、回鶻等民族的文化。西夏文化是中華民族優秀傳統文化的有機組成部分，對中華民族文化做出了重要貢獻。
日期：2022年3月11日
講者：史金波教授
主辦：香港孔子學院, 中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Civilization Xi Xia Dynasty (China) History China
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
本演講的出發點是《西廂記》在法國的傳播與接受，從儒蓮、巴贊的戲曲翻譯談起，說明《西廂記》故事如何被十九世紀的歐陸漢學家理解，進而創發出風貌各異的紅娘、鶯鶯與張生等角色類型。本演講也將觸及晚清民初在法國的外交官、留學生，說明他們如何譯介或改編《西廂記》，並與法國文學界激盪出不同模式的文化交流。由此延伸出的議題是熊式一、夏志清等身處英美國家的華人學者，淺析他們如何將《西廂記》置放於知識傳播的脈絡下，讓《西廂記》在二十世紀成為西方讀者認識中國戲曲的重要媒介之一。
日期：2022年3月17日
講者：羅仕龍博士
主辦：香港孔子學院、中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Literature
- Keywords:
- Criticism interpretation etc. Chinese fiction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
清末民初由文言到白話的文學語言轉型，對中國女性的“發聲”產生了深遠的影響。本次講座將從晚清白話報的白話書寫、女子教科書的流變、性別觀念的生成三個方面展開，結合不同歷史階段的女子教育和社會風俗，考察詞彙、語法和作文觀念的變遷如何改變了女性表達和國人的性別認知。
日期：2022年4月6日
講者：曹曉華博士
主辦：香港孔子學院、中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Literature and Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China Women in literature Feminism Women -- Social conditions
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
有關《穆天子傳》周穆王西行地理的研究多矣，然自古未有定論。本研究以顧頡剛的實據地理與神話地理二重結構為理論框架，結合傳世文獻、出土資料與地理實查資料，重探《穆傳》的地理空間。針對有實據之部的地理，本研究強調以當代資料作為地理重構的依據，並發現其主要以戰國早期的晉南及其鄰近地區為核心。針對神話空間，則著重分析其「理性化」的創作思維及其反映的歷史地理脈絡，包含其領土型態、中國觀、世界觀以及交通地理背景。基於上述的歷史地理重構與分析，本研究進一步探討《穆傳》的體裁、國家主體、成書年代、資料依據、作者與讀者以及文本性質，期許對於這部高度爭議的奇書帶來新的認識。
日期：2022年4月8日
講者：雷晉豪博士
主辦：香港孔子學院、中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Zhou Dynasty (China) Zhou Muwang Emperor of China active 11th century B.C.-10th century B.C.
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
清朝皇族婚入女子的財產權受到法律保障，但是皇族女子的財產權則缺乏法律保障，分產的機會也相對稀少。清朝公主出嫁後對於其陪嫁的人丁、動產與不動產並未擁有完整的所有權，僅擁有占有權、使用權與收益權，而不具備轉讓或出售的處分權，其後代對其亦無繼承權。本文以清代滿洲公主的陪嫁莊頭與壯丁為例，運用清代滿蒙漢文檔案材料和官書典籍，輔以其他二手研究文獻，以出嫁蒙古王公之清朝公主的收支為核心，並聚焦於其妝奩上，探討其財產的所有權、管理機制與公主薨逝後的轉讓情況。最後透過研究公主在崇奉藏傳佛教上的花費，說明清朝公主如何在清朝治理蒙古的政策中起到重要作用。
日期：2022年4月28日
講者：蔡偉傑博士
主辦：香港孔子學院
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Princesses China Qing Dynasty (China)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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In this CIHK webinar, we will discuss the material conditions of and historical background to the use of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic in writing-mediated brush conversation between literati of Sinitic engaged in cross-border communication within Sinographic East Asia or the Sinographic cosmopolis, which corresponds with today’s China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan (including Okinawa, formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom) and Vietnam. Compared with speech as a modality of communication, real-time writing-mediated interaction between talking humans, synchronously face-to-face, seems uncommon. In any society, speaking is premised on one condition: the interlocutors must have at least one shared spoken language at their disposal, but even then, there are circumstances under which speaking is either physically not feasible or socially inappropriate. Could writing function as an alternative modality of communication when speaking is not an option due to the absence of a shared spoken language, as in cross-border communication settings? Whereas real-time writing-mediated face-to-face interaction is rare where a regional lingua franca was known to exist (e.g., Latin and Arabic), there is ample historical evidence of literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic from different parts of Sinographic East Asia conducting ‘silent conversation’, synchronously and interactively in writing mode using brush, ink, and paper. Such a pattern of writing-assisted interaction is still practiced and observable in pen-assisted conversation – pen-talk – between Chinese and Japanese speakers today, thanks to the pragma-linguistic affordance of morphographic, non-phonographic sinograms (i.e., Chinese characters and Japanese kanji). We will outline the historical spread of Classical Chinese or Sinitic texts from the ‘center’ to the ‘peripheries’, and the historical background to the acquisition of literacy in Sinitic by the people there. Their shared knowledge of Sinitic helps explain why, for well over a thousand years until the 1900s, literati from these places were able to speak their mind by engaging in ‘Sinitic brush-talk’ 漢文筆談 in cross-border communication.
Even date: 13/5/2022
Speaker: Prof. David C. S. Li
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Chinese Language and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Chinese characters History Chinese language -- Written Chinese Written communication China East Asia
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Focusing on tensions and links between national formation and international outlooks, this talk shows how classical world visions persist as China’s modernizers and revolutionaries adopted and revised the Western nation-state and cosmopolitanism. The concepts of tianxia (all under heaven) and datong (great harmony) have been updated into outlooks of global harmony that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as strategies of overcoming interstate conflict, national divides, and social fragmentation. The talk will delve into two debates: the embrace of the West vs. aspirations for a common world, and the difference between liberal cosmopolitanism and socialist internationalism.
Even date: 16/9/2022
Speaker: Prof. Ban Wang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Civilization Diplomatic relations World politics China
- Resource Type:
- Video
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世界遺產「左江花山岩畫文化景觀」，綿延105公里，其中最大的單幅岩畫有8000平米。這一遺產有八個謎：何人、何時、出於什麼目的，投入如此巨大的人力物力，在懸崖峭壁之上繪製令人震撼的岩畫群？是用什麼顏料繪製千年不褪色？是怎樣畫上去的？為什麼人的圖像都是蛙形？岩畫中有數百面銅鼓，為什麼？為何這一世界遺產叫「文化景觀」？如今在廣西少數民族地區還有哪些岩畫遺風？
日期：2022年10月13日
講者：萬輔彬教授
主辦：香港孔子學院, 中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Rock paintings China -- Zuo River Valley
- Resource Type:
- Video
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中國古典詩歌非常善於運用視覺畫面來進行情感表達。在這個時候，視覺畫面就類似一種鏡頭語言，它不需要對白旁白，就能使觀眾理解作者希望表達什麼。講座將選取經典詩作，分析其中的運鏡和剪輯技巧，以及這些鏡頭語言可以激發的心理效果。
日期：2022年10月28日
講者：于溯博士
主辦：香港孔子學院
- Subjects:
- Chinese Literature
- Keywords:
- Chinese poetry Criticism interpretation etc.
- Resource Type:
- Video
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During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the relaxation of the Ming sea ban, along with the arrival of the Europeans, generated a multipolar environment in East Asia. It revolved around the intra-Asian exchange centered upon Chinese silk and Japanese silver, and a nascent global flow of New World bullion to China and spices for Western Europe. The situation changed during the mid-seventeenth century amid mounting restrictions on overseas contacts from the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan and the consolidation and militarization of Chinese merchants under the Zheng family. By 1683, when the Qing forced the Zheng to surrender and occupied their bastion of Taiwan, China had achieved naval preeminence in the East Asian sea lanes. Other than a few outposts, the Europeans had largely withdrawn from the area north of island Southeast Asia, which remained under the hegemony of the Dutch East India Company. In 1684, the Qing court legalized private trade and travel abroad, prompting another wave of overseas migration. Authorities in China and across eastern maritime Asia enacted policies that kept the Qing merchants and immigrants separate from the earlier Ming loyalists. Additionally, both groups of Chinese were accorded significant political, economic, and legal privileges. This infrastructure, backed by Qing naval power, paved the way for the “Chinese century” in maritime Asia.
Even date: 9/11/2022
Speaker: Dr. Xing Hang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong
- Subjects:
- Area Studies and Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Qing Dynasty (China) Chinese diaspora Southeast Asia Chinese
- Resource Type:
- Video
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古代中國幅員遼闊，習俗各異，如何實行統一管理是一大難題。秦朝用嚴刑峻法移風易俗，激起東方社會的激烈反抗，很快歸於失敗。西漢初年郡國並行，允許東方王國在一定程度上從俗而治。但王國勢力太大，危及國家的統一，文景二帝不得不收奪諸侯王的自治權。為了避免重蹈亡秦覆轍，儒生們提出“德教”主張，其中又包含“以禮為治”和“以德化民”兩種方案。受其影響，武帝以後的朝廷政策繼續表現出大幅度搖擺，至漢末魏晉才確立了基本符合當時國情的治理模式。
日期：2022年11月22日
講者：陳蘇鎮博士
主辦：香港孔子學院, 中國文化學系
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Han Dynasty (China) Politics government Jin Dynasty (China : 265-419) China Public administration Qin Dynasty (China)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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As a recent New York Times editorial proclaimed, "The Global Order Isn't Working. It's Time for Something Different." To teach environmental history and environmental ethics is to reacquaint ourselves with the facts that we need to try to build, while there is still time, a new cooperative order that understands this: simple fact: that other people and other countries are quite literally "the air we breathe." Moreover, all who claim to be ethical persons must take seriously the notion of inter-generational equity and try to act upon it. This notion should, in theory, come more easily to countries whose traditions have built upon classical/ Confucian learning, for those traditions say that the most important marker of human behavior is working toward common ends (qun 群) while "learning what is enough" (zhi zu 知足). Put another way, many resources within the Chinese tradition may strengthen our resolve to act more constructively in less short-sighted ways.
Event Date: 14/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Keywords:
- Environmental ethics Intergenerational relations Philosophy Confucian Confucian ethics
- Resource Type:
- Video
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The notion of expertise is integral to all forms of institutional and professional practice in many domains – in education, healthcare, social welfare, law, journalism, banking, information technology, marketing, translating and interpreting services etc. It is a concept addressed by scholars across many disciplines – cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, language/communication studies, among others. There are, however, enduring problems of definition, description and measurement of expertise. Some scholars draw attention to the ongoing ‘crisis in expertise’ and others pronounce the ‘death of expertise’ in contemporary society.
More humbly, I begin with a characterisation of professional expertise very broadly to include scientific, experiential, technological, organisational, legal, ethical and communicative knowledge. This then leads me to the notion of ‘distributed expertise’, which extends beyond the individual remit and the conventional lay-expert divide. For instance, in the healthcare domain, a significant development afforded by internet-based technology is the increased level of patients’ e-health literacy and, consequently, democratisation of expertise. This amounts not only to accessing health information digitally, but also the phenomenon of patients ‘doctoring’ themselves in ‘the now of its presence’, i.e., ‘expert patients’ becoming instrumental in self-diagnosis and even self-treatment.
Additionally, ‘distributed expertise’ is also constitutive of ‘expert systems’, e.g., diagnostic and interventionist technologies as well as decision aids mediated by algorithms and templates. This is what I refer to as the technologization of expertise. I suggest that there is overreliance on ‘expert systems’ by both experts and lay persons in everyday decision making. Access to and use of ‘expert systems’ in optimal ways inevitably necessitates a reconfiguration of the very conditions and consequences of professional expertise.
Event Date: 25/11/2022
Speaker: Prof. Srikant Sarangi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Keywords:
- Information technology -- Social aspects Democratization Expertise
- Resource Type:
- Video
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I'm Aaron! I spent 6 years learning Spanish in school, and graduated barely able to speak at all. That was before I learned HOW to learn languages. Now I speak English, Spanish, French, Esperanto, some Thai, and I'm actively learning Greek. Stick around and we'll discuss what you should be doing to finally learn that language that's been on your mind. A new language will enhance your life!
- Course related:
- CBS503 Language in Society and CBS500 Sematics and Pragmatics
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
ORCIT materials are intended to introduce and allow for basic practice in interpreting skills and techniques. Use the icon below to go straight to the training materials, or click on the menus to the right to find out more about the project.
- Subjects:
- Translating and Interpreting
- Keywords:
- Translating interpreting
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation. With more than 100M tracks, YouGlish gives you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people and in context.
- Course related:
- ELC1013 English for University Studies and ELC1A08 Digital Literacies and Language
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
These are the most widely used online corpora, and they are used for many different purposes by teachers and researchers at universities throughout the world. In addition, the corpus data (e.g. full-text, word frequency) has been used by a wide range of companies in many different fields, especially technology and language learning.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Corpora (Linguistics)
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
Learning with Duolingo is fun, and research shows that it works! With quick, bite-sized lessons, you’ll earn points and unlock new levels while gaining real-world communication skills.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Others
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MOOC
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing the full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of Chinese culture in transformation.
Key questions of the course:
(1) What are the Four Great Classical Chinese Novels? What are the stories about? Why are they so famous and influential in Chinese literature?
(2) What is special about the art of Chinese operas? What are the symbolic meanings behind the face make-up, gestures and costumes? How do the operas serve as a medium for transmitting knowledge in Chinese culture?
(3) Why did the private Confucian academies thrive in the Song dynasty? Why was the famous Donglin Academy suppressed by the state in the Ming dynasty? How were the private academies engaged in the state educational reforms in the late Qing dynasty?
(4) How did New Confucianism emerge as a movement in the 20th century? What were the aspirations of the New Confucians? How did they address modern challenges to the development of Chinese science, democracy and cosmology? Did they succeed in modernizing Confucianism?
(5) What were the traditional expectations of gender roles in China? How was gender politics heightened in the labour force in early New China? What light does the film Li Shuangshuang shed on the gender awareness of Chinese socialism?
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China Manners customs Civilization Philosophy Chinese Chinese drama Politics culture Chinese fiction Confucianism
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing a full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of Chinese cultural exchange and interaction with other countries in history.
Key questions of the course:
(1) How did the Silk Road emerge in history? Who was Matteo Ricci? What happened in history regarding the Chinese cultural exchange of religions, arts and sports with the West?
(2) Where is Central Asia? What was Pax Mongolica? What role did silver play in the Saga of the Silk Road?
(3) What cultural exchanges occurred between Vietnam and China? How did Vietnam contribute to the introduction of Buddhism to China through the maritime Silk Road? Which of the Vietnamese princes served as a high-ranking official in the Chinese court of the Ming dynasty?
(4) How did China confront Western colonialism as a global trend in the early 20th century? Who was Sun Yat-sen? How did he connect China with the rest of the world? How did Pan-Asianism arise and go bankrupt?
(5) What is the relationship between rituals, ghosts and alcohol in China? What are the stories behind Chinese medicinal food, correlative cosmology and tea? How many major types of Chinese cuisine are there? What sorts of food were exchanged between China and other countries in history?
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies and Area Studies
- Keywords:
- China Manners customs Politics culture Diplomatic relations
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
With rapid globalization and proliferation of social media, businesses and organizations are in face of enormous communication challenges. How to communicate effectively on social media, how to manage social media data analysis as well as handling fake news are definitely at the top of the list.
By seeing challenge as opportunity, this course aims to unfold the communication challenges induced by the rise of social media in business corporations and most importantly, offer solutions to overcome these challenges. In addition, the course serves presents a vantage point to forge an interface of synergy between academics and practitioners to discuss and address global communication challenges. Participants can benefit from meaningful synergy between academics and practitioners as well as learning materials and meaningful multilateral discussions surrounding authentic communication cases and industrial practices engaging both instructors and participants. In sum, this course provides insights for business leaders, senior managerial members, and communication professionals by discussing the major communication challenges encountered by businesses around the world which in turn, helps the participants to advance their career in the ever-changing communication environment.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Social media Information technology -- Management
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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MOOC
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has moved into the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing a full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of traditional Chinese culture.
Key questions of the course
What was the origin of ancient Confucianism? How does ancient Confucian wisdom help us address the modern human predicament?
How does Daoism enlighten us with a butterfly and fish? What is the connection between Daoism and the equality of all living organisms?
Why does Buddhism see our present lifetime to be nothing but suffering? How do the Four Noble Truths help liberate us from suffering?
What is special about Chinese ancient warfare? Who is Sunzi? What is his book The Art of War about? What can we learn from this famous book?
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- China Religion Painting Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties Philosophy Chinese
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Video
An online lecture on the topic of "Fun with Language".This lecture is suitable for secondary school and university students as well as the general public.
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Linguistics
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Dr Angela Tse's lecture on the topic "Be a Fashionable Pop-word User! (潮爆英文你要識)" received over 800 registrations and was attended by around 500 participants.Her lively presentation plus interactions with the participants made the talk very interesting. Many participants also expressed they liked the talk very much. Can LongTimeNoSee and AddOil be used in formal occasions? Find out more interesting and practical knowledge about #PopWords from the video!
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- China -- Hong Kong Language culture Pop culture
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Have you ever come across times when you get particularly nervous, say during a presentation, you find it extra hard to speak smoothly? Most of us may stop at times when we talk, so how do we differentiate between Normal Dysfluency and Stuttering? Are kids struggling with words due to language ability or are they stuttering? Will they naturally outgrow stuttering? How do speech therapists help adults and children who stutter?
大家有否試過在某些時間特別緊張，例如在發佈會中，你覺得難以流暢地說話? 其實每一個人說話時也會有停頓的時候，到底我們如何分辨「口吃」和正常的不流暢呢？ 孩子到底是口吃還是因語言能力較弱而在找字呢？是否長大後自然會沒有口吃的問題？ 言語治療師可以如何幫助受口吃困擾的小孩和成人呢？
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Stuttering Speech disorders
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on dysgraphia for the general public.
[讀寫障礙 - 書寫困難] 有沒有家長發現學童無論重複抄寫多少次，還是難以記住如何寫字，默書成績更是強差人意？有時候他們會寫字出格、混淆筆劃等，有時候他們可能寫了一半又寫不下去，到底為什麼會這樣的呢？言語治療師如何可以幫助他們呢？我們聽一聽讀寫專家 - 劉博士的解說。
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Agraphia Writing Language disorders
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on self description for the general public.
上一集，我們為大家介紹了「平行描述」的促進語言發展技巧，讓小孩一面玩耍，一面吸收家長的語言輸入。今集我們會介紹另一個技巧 - 「自行描述」，家長們可以一起試一試運用這些技巧，讓孩子邊玩邊學習！
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Children -- Language Games
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on parallel description for the general public.
我們經常聽說小孩可以一面玩耍一面學習，除了學習遊玩技巧外， 原來家長作爲小孩的主要溝通對象，是可以爲他們營造一個良好的語言學習環境, 從而促進語言發展。今集，我們會為大家講解和示範其中一種「促進語言發展技巧」 - 自行描述。大家一起看看到底如何能夠做到自行描述吧！
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Children -- Language Games
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on autism for the general public.
近期，我們經常會聽到有關自閉症的案例， 知道自閉症對於患者及家人都會帶來很大的影響和困擾，究竟什麼是自閉症？(0:45) 有什麼病癥會與自閉症會同時出現？(1:21) 自閉症對於語言有影響嗎？(3:06) 如何可以及早發現自閉症傾向？(4:10) 有沒有藥物可以治療自閉症？(5:20) 對於高功能自閉症，大家也有不同的迷思 (2:24)，一起聽聽專家的解說吧！
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Autism
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on language development for the general public.
[牙牙學語] 普遍來說，幼童6個月時，就會開始有牙牙學語的聲音，到了一歲，就會開始說有意思的單字或詞語。有家長會問：「如果我孩子到了一歲只會發出『咿咿呀呀』的聲音，甚至於還沒開口發聲，到底是什麼問題呢？是否代表他們完全還沒發展語言？其他幼童說的單字又是什麼呢？」我聽一聽言語治療臨床導師，楊浩怡姑娘的解說。
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Children -- Language
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on game and language development for the general public.
[遊戲及語言發展] 為了贏在起跑線上，很多家長會帶幼童參加playgroup或興趣班，但其實是否必要呢，而且是否能取代幼童和家長之間的遊玩？遊戲究竟對幼童有多重要？(1:22) 市面上玩具五花八門，家長如何選擇？幼童在不同階段適合玩什麼玩具？(2:07) 隨著科技發達，一些家長會讓幼童使用平板電腦等電子產品學習語言和玩遊戲，是否妥當呢？(4:00) 大家一起聽聽專家的說法！ 如大家想詳細知道如何透過不同遊戲引導小孩和提供適當語言輸入，請留意下一集！
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Children -- Language Games
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on speech disorder for the general public.
[發音障礙］你的孩子說話時會否發音不準導致口齒不清，令你難以理解他的意思？甚至嚴重到被朋友取笑而不敢多說？ 究竟什麼時候需要言語治療的介入呢？想了解多一點，不妨看看我們的短片。
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Speech therapy Speech disorders
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
A short video on dyslexia for the general public.
許多小朋友可能喺學習中文字時會遇上困難，花上很多時間溫習默書和考試但成績仍然強差人意，對文字和功課產生恐懼或厭惡， 他們有可能正受讀寫障礙的困擾。究竟什麼是讀寫障礙？我們如何地識別讀寫障礙既兒童呢？坊間流傳不同治療方法，是否有效？
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Communication
- Keywords:
- Reading disability Dyslexia Language disorders
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Technological innovations Bioengineering Information Technology
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives -- from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Technology -- Social aspects Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the latest smartphone, but local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech using low-cost parts. Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology crafts," through which a mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a digital projector for a village school, or an alarm clock and a mouse can be melded into a medical device for local triage.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Digital divide Industries Primitive Technology -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
In our tech-driven, interconnected world, we've developed new ways and rules to court each other, but the fundamental principles of love have stayed the same, says anthropologist Helen Fisher. Our faster connections, she suggests, are actually leading to slower, more intimate relationships. At 12:20, couples therapist and relationship expert Esther Perel steps in to make an important point -- that while love itself stays the same, technology has affected the way we form and end relationships.
- Subjects:
- Anthropology, Sociology, and Technology
- Keywords:
- Love Courtship Communication technology Interpersonal communication
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Technology should work for us, but what happens when it doesn't? Comedian Chuck Nice explores the unintended consequences of technological advancement and human interaction -- with hilarious results.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Communication
- Keywords:
- Digital media -- Social aspects Social media society Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.
- Subjects:
- Technology, Electronic and Information Engineering, and Mechnical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Emotion recognition Artificial intelligence
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
"We've been promised a future of chrome -- but what if the future is fleshy?" asks biological designer Christina Agapakis. In this awe-inspiring talk, Agapakis details her work in synthetic biology -- a multidisciplinary area of research that pokes holes in the line between what's natural and artificial -- and shares how breaking down the boundaries between science, society, nature and technology can lead us to imagine different possible futures.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Biology
- Keywords:
- Synthetic biology Sci9ence -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Centuries of inequality can't be solved with access to technology alone -- we need to connect people with training and support too, says tech inclusionist 'Gbenga Sesan. Sharing the work behind the Paradigm Initiative, a social enterprise in Nigeria that's empowering young people with digital resources and skills, Sesan details a vision for creating life-changing opportunities for generations of people across Africa.
- Subjects:
- Sociology, Technology, and Social Sciences
- Keywords:
- Technology -- Social aspects
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- Video
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Video
Documentary photographer Olivia Arthur has been exploring a new frontier: the evolution of the blurring line between humanity and technology. In this meditative talk, she shows her work documenting the remarkable ways humans have merged with machines -- from bionics and motorized limbs to synthetic muscles and strikingly realistic robots -- and offers wisdom on the complexity, adaptability and resilience of the human body.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Biomedical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Human body technology
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- Video
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Video
Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.
- Subjects:
- Technology and History
- Keywords:
- Technology civilization Technology -- Social aspects
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- Video
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Video
Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. A legendary talk from TED's archives.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Religious Studies
- Keywords:
- Technology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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- Video
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Video
His Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the technology and design of the heart. He is translated onstage by Tyler Dewar.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Religious Studies
- Keywords:
- Technology -- Religious aspects
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- Video
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Video
iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.
- Subjects:
- Technology, Communication, and Storytelling
- Keywords:
- Social media Digital storytelling
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- Video
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Video
John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for demos of Maeda's earliest work -- and even a computer made of people.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Design technology Art technology
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- Video
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Video
Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he reads -- and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive computer technologies that make it possible. With their help, and the help of volunteers, he's become a lawyer, an academic, and, most of all, a voracious reader. Welcome to the blind reading revolution.
- Subjects:
- Technology, Electronic and Information Engineering, and Computing
- Keywords:
- Assistive computer technology Reading -- Aids devices Blind -- Books reading
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- Video
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Video
In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and what's happened? Are mobile apps all we have to show for ourselves? Journalist Jason Pontin looks closely at the challenges we face to using technology effectively ... for problems that really matter.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Technological innovations Technology -- Political aspects Technology -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
When children are separated from their parents -- whether due to migration, custody changes, incarceration or any number of other factors -- how can families maintain connection? Computer scientist Lana Yarosh showcases why it's important to design technology that empowers people to share meaningful interactions beyond a video chat or phone call, granting them the chance to reconnect despite life's big disruptions.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Computing
- Keywords:
- Communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects Communication technology
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- Video
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Video
Macinley Butson has won multiple awards for her inventions, including a device that improves protection from radiation during breast cancer treatment and a project enhancing the effectiveness of solar panels. In this talk, she shares how these forward-thinking endeavors were inspired by centuries-old technology, and how scientists need to shed their preconceptions about each other and their predecessors in order to do good work.
- Subjects:
- Technology and History
- Keywords:
- Technological innovations
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
About 40% of what you do, day in and day out, is done purely out of habit. Nir Eyal decodes how technology companies -- the masters of "habit-forming" products -- design the tech products we can't put down. But it isn't all negative manipulation, he says. It can and should be used for good.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Habit Technology -- Psychological aspects Technology -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Can technology make people safer from threats like violent extremism, censorship and persecution? In this illuminating talk, technologist Yasmin Green details programs pioneered at Jigsaw (a unit within Alphabet Inc., the collection of companies that also includes Google) to counter radicalization and online harassment -- including a project that could give commenters real-time feedback about how their words might land, which has already increased spaces for dialogue. "If we ever thought that we could build an internet insulated from the dark side of humanity, we were wrong," Green says. "We have to throw our entire selves into building solutions that are as human as the problems they aim to solve."
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Internet -- Social aspects Technology -- Social aspects Cyberbullying
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- Video
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Video
Tech that can decode your brain activity and reveal what you're thinking and feeling is on the horizon, says legal scholar and ethicist Nita Farahany. What will it mean for our already violated sense of privacy? In a cautionary talk, Farahany warns of a society where people are arrested for merely thinking about committing a crime (like in "Minority Report") and private interests sell our brain data -- and makes the case for a right to cognitive liberty that protects our freedom of thought and self-determination.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Computing
- Keywords:
- Privacy Thought thinking -- Data processing Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
From the printing press to the digital camera, innovation has often democratized the creative arts. In this forward-looking talk, music producer Drew Silverstein demos a new software that allows anyone to create professional-grade music without putting human musicians out of work.
- Subjects:
- Technology, Performing Arts, and Mechanical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects Music technology Composition (Music)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
"Complete silence is very addictive," says Rebecca Knill, a writer who has cochlear implants that enable her to hear. In this funny, insightful talk, she explores the evolution of assistive listening technology, the outdated way people still respond to deafness and how we can shift our cultural understanding of ability to build a more inclusive world. "Technology has come so far," Knill says. "Our mindset just needs to catch up."
- Subjects:
- Health Technology and Informatics and Communication
- Keywords:
- Deafness -- Social aspects Hearing aids -- Technological innovations
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
In a talk that could change how you see things, designer and artist Jiabao Li introduces her conceptual projects that expose the inherent bias of digital media. From a helmet that makes you "allergic" to the color red to a browser plug-in that filters the internet in an unexpected way, Li's creations uncover how technology mediates the way we perceive reality.
- Subjects:
- Interactive and Digital Media, Communication design, and Technology
- Keywords:
- Visual perception in art Digital media Pattern perception
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- Video
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Video
What drives society's understanding of right and wrong? In this thought-provoking talk, futurist Juan Enriquez offers a historical outlook on what humanity once deemed acceptable -- from human sacrifice and public executions to slavery and eating meat -- and makes a surprising case that exponential advances in technology leads to more ethical behavior.
- Subjects:
- Technology and History
- Keywords:
- Technology civilization Technology -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Thousands of languages thrive across the globe, yet modern speech technology -- with all of its benefits -- supports just over a hundred. Computational linguist Kalika Bali dreams of a day when technology acts as a bridge instead of a barrier, working passionately to build new and inclusive systems for the millions who speak low-resource languages. In this perspective-shifting talk, she outlines what happens when a language is omitted from the digital landscape -- and what can be gained when communities keep pace with the future.
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages and Computing
- Keywords:
- Computational linguistics
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to fight the booming business of corruption in public service, eliminating it one bribe at a time.
- Subjects:
- Society and Culture and Poltiical Science
- Keywords:
- Corruption -- Prevention
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
What's so special about Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square -- symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle explains the geometric, religious and philosophical significance of this deceptively simple drawing.
- Subjects:
- History and Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Mathematics -- Social aspects Vitruvian man (Leonardo da Vinci)
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- Video
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Video
In 2013, the world learned that the NSA and its UK equivalent, GCHQ, routinely spied on the German government. Amid the outrage, artists Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter thought: Well, if they're listening ... let's talk to them. With antennas mounted on the roof of the Swiss Embassy in Berlin's government district, they set up an open network that let the world send messages to US and UK spies listening nearby. It's one of three bold, often funny, and frankly subversive works detailed in this talk, which highlights the world's growing discontent with surveillance and closed networks.
- Subjects:
- Electronic and Information Engineering and Political Science
- Keywords:
- Intelligence service Espionage Telecommunication systems Eavesdropping
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- Video
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Video
Corruption is a constant threat in Kenya, says social entrepreneur Wanjira Mathai -- and to stop it there (or anywhere else), we need to intervene early. Following the legacy of her mother, political activist and Nobel Prize recipient Wangari Maathai, Mathai shares three strategies to uproot a culture of corruption by teaching children and young people about leadership, purpose and integrity.
- Subjects:
- Society and Culture and Poltiical Science
- Keywords:
- Corruption -- Prevention
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
What lessons can economics learn from art? Megan Wilkens examines how, historically, trends in the art world have offered a prescient window into wide-ranging socio-economic shifts in society. If economists look closely at art, they might be privy to unexpected changes in cultural behavior.
- Subjects:
- Society and Culture
- Keywords:
- Art -- Economic aspects Art society
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- Video
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Others
In this interactive object, learners read short paragraphs and then select the main idea of each selection.
- Subjects:
- English language
- Keywords:
- Reading comprehension
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Video
In this screencast, students demonstrate an understanding of summary writing by reading step-by-step instructions and then summarizing short paragraphs. Examples of summaries that are poorly written, as well as those that are written well, are included.
- Subjects:
- English language
- Keywords:
- Abstracting
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
As Alice wanders through the dreamscape of Looking-Glass Land in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There," she happens across a book written in an unintelligible language. Inside, she discovers an epic poem filled with nonsense, fearsome creatures, and whimsical language. Dive into Carroll's legendary poem, "Jabberwocky" and see if you can make sense of the nonsense.
- Subjects:
- English literature
- Keywords:
- Nonsense verse Jabberwocky (Carroll Lewis)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Reading fiction can educate us emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, says Beth Ann Fennelly, creative writing professor and poet laureate of Mississippi. She makes the case for why we humans — and the world — continue to need literature.
- Subjects:
- English literature
- Keywords:
- Social psychology literature Empathy
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.
- Subjects:
- Psychology and Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Medical care Choice (Psychology)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Do you know what you want when you die? Do you know how you want to be remembered? In a candid, heartfelt talk about a subject most of us would rather not discuss, Michelle Knox asks each of us to reflect on our core values around death and share them with our loved ones, so they can make informed decisions without fear of having failed to honor our legacies. "Life would be a lot easier to live if we talked about death now," Knox says. "We need to discuss these issues when we are fit and healthy so we can take the emotion out of it -- and then we can learn not just what is important, but why it's important."
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Others
Learners read a list of issues to be considered when traveling internationally, such as the beliefs, communication styles, gift-giving customs, and entertainment preferences of people in various cultures.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Manners customs Travel -- Social aspects
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
Learners are shown questions to ask themselves before they speak. They evaluate three responses according to the criteria presented. This activity has audio content.
- Subjects:
- Sociology and Communication
- Keywords:
- Interpersonal communication Oral communication
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
The learner will study an effective workplace email being written while a narrator explains the step-by-step process. The learner will distinguish the difference between poorly written and effectively written emails.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Commercial correspondence Business writing Letter writing
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Video
It's 1762 BCE. As dawn breaks in the Babylonian city of Sippar, Beltani— a priestess and businesswoman— receives an urgent visit from her brother. He makes a troubling accusation: her tavern keeper has been undermining the business Beltani relies on in her old age. Now she has just a few short hours to find out the truth. Soraya Field Fiorio details a day in the life of a Babylonian naditu.
- Subjects:
- Area Studies
- Keywords:
- Middle East -- Babylonia Social conditions Women
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- Video
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The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why.
- Subjects:
- Visual Arts
- Keywords:
- New Yorker (New York N.Y. : 1925) Wit humor Caricatures cartoons
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- Video
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Video
Vanessa Ruiz takes us on an illustrated journey of human anatomical art over the centuries, sharing captivating images that bring this visual science -- and the contemporary artists inspired by it -- to life. "Anatomical art has the power to reach far beyond the pages of a medical textbook," she says, "connecting our innermost selves with our bodies through art."
- Keywords:
- Medicine art Medical illustration
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- Video
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Video
Band 9.0 IELTS Practice Speaking Exam (mock test) - with feedback - Saskia (2) from Sri Lanka
- Course related:
- ELC3421 English for Construction and Environmental Professionals
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Spoken English
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- Video
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- Course related:
- ELC1A04 From Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter: Fantasy, Reality and Humanity
- Subjects:
- History
- Keywords:
- World history
- Resource Type:
- Video
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MOOC
In this course, we have incorporated up-to-date theory, multimedia, and peer-to-peer interaction to bring our own expertise together with the benefits of collaborative learning to create an engaging instructional environment. We have brought our own institutions' expertise in service-learning together with experienced teachers from around the world, and academic experts in the field to give you a range of perspectives and make the material as useful as possible.
- Course related:
- APSS2S09 Service leadership through serving children and families with special needs
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Student affairs services Learning Psychology of College teaching Service learning
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- MOOC
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MOOC
Whatever your academic background, developing a set of soft skills is a key factor in your career. Having your own business and developing a corporate career will depend on the way the world looks and the speed in which decisions are made.
The MicroMasters program: Professional skills: negotiation and leadership of Tecnológico de Monterrey, is composed of professional postgraduate courses based on the Full-Time Master in Business Management. The MicroMasters program certificate will allow you to consolidate the professional skills that will launch your career such as negotiation, leadership, communication and critical thinking. Take the first steps in an exponential professional career and redefine your goals in a global, diverse and challenging environment in the leading business school in Latin America.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Communication Leadership
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Others
Linggle is an English grammar and linguistic search engine developed by the Natural Language Processing Lab of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. It helps you check word choice, usage and collocations in order to make your writing more natural. The suggested results are from several corpora like Google Web 1T 5-gram, British National Corpus, New York Times Annotated Corpus.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Grammar
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Video
《典籍裡的中國》作為總台重點文化類創新節目，聚焦中華優秀文化典籍，從中甄選最值得講述的優秀傳統文化作品，以“文化節目+戲劇+影視化”的方式，講述典籍的成書、核心思想以及流轉中的閃亮故事，讓書寫在典籍裡的文字“活”起來，展現典籍裡蘊含的中國智慧、中國精神和中國價值。
- Course related:
- CC5001 Introduction to the Study of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Civilization China History
- Resource Type:
- Video
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e-journal
In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The journal covers a various disciplines, including:
Biomedical & Life Sciences
Business & Management
Chemistry & Material Science
Computer & Communications
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
Humanities
Physics & Mathematics
Social Sciences
- Subjects:
- Management, Physics, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, and Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- Industrial management Computer science Management Physics Mathematics Social Sciences Chemistry Engineering Environmental sciences Humanities Biology
- Resource Type:
- e-journal