2025 – 2026

Workshop
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The Eighteenth Chinese University Communication Visiting Scholar Workshop: Communication Research in the Age of AI
Date: 29-31 January 2026
Venue: C-Centre, Room 312, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Detail: The theme for the 2026 workshop is “Communication Research in the Age of AI.” As a disruptive force, artificial intelligence is reshaping communication practices, research methodologies, and even the epistemological paradigms of scientific inquiry.
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Seminars and Symposium
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Persuasive AI for Public Health Messaging: Toward an Agnostic Approach to Theory Building and Campaign Design
Date: 17 June 2026
Time: 10:30am-12:00noon
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Sijia Yang, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Book Launch: The Transsion Approach: Translating Chinese Mobile Technology in Africa
Date: 15 May 2026
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Miao Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Consumers in the Age of AI-Enabled Advertising: Cultural Lag, Coping, and Ethical Responses
Date: 12 May 2026
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Chen Lou, Associate Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Informational Asymmetries in Digital Media: How AI Affordances and Institutional Strategies Continue to Shape our Information Ecosystems
Date: 5 May 2026
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Venue: Room 313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Subhayan Mukerjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore
When Was the “Smart Border”? Tracing Historical and Contemporary Legitimisations of New Technologies in Border Regimes
Date: 24 April 2026
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Dr. Philipp Seuferling, Lecturer in Communications, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, UK
Agency in Algorithmic Social Media: A Multi – Method Study of User Privacy Management
Date: 27 March 2026
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Hyunjin Kang, Associate Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Why Computation is Not Communication
Date: 24 March 2026
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Venue: Room 313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Scott Lash, Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK
Mapping the Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Generative AI in UK, US, Chinese and Indian Newspapers
Date: 17 March 2026
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. John Downey, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Loughborough University, UK
Book Launch: Fandom Nationalism: Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism in East Asia
Date: 4 February 2026
Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Erika Ningxin Wang, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Prof. Qian Huang, Assistant Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands
AI + Communication: Advertising, Influence, and Society
Date: 5 December 2025
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Venue: Zoom Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Yoon Joo Lee, Associate Professor, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University , USA
Book Launch: Chinese Platforms: A Critical Introduction
Date: 2 December 2025
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Lin Jian, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
A Human Mind Meets an Artificial Face: Unveiling the Psychology of Virtual Influencers
Date: 7 November 2025
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Jörg Matthes, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria
From Text to Image to Video: Exploring Generative AI for Public Interest Communication
Date: 4 November 2025
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Hang Lu, Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Media, University of Michigan, USA
Identity Politics on the Stand-up Comedy Stage: Social Identity and Class Expression in Contemporary China
Date: 3 October 2025
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Kui Zhou, Associate Professor, Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Communication University of China
How Much Can AI Help with China’s International Communication?: Expectations, Realities, and Suggestions
Date: 26 September 2025
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Junhao Hong, Professor, Department of Communication, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Games for News: Structural and Individual Factors for Willingness to Help
Date: 17 September 2025
Time: 4:00pm-5:15pm
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Tammy Jih-Hsuan Lin, Distinguished Professor, College of Communication, Taiwan Chengchi University
Examining Truth Discernment and Resilience to Misinformation in the Chilean Context
Date: 16 September 2025
Time: 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
Venue: NAH313, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
Speaker: Prof. Ingrid Bachmann, Associate Professor, School of Communications, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile