Prof. Holger Mathias BRIEL, Beijing Normal University - Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, China

Media and Communication Studies

Professor Michael CHIA is a full professor of Paediatric Exercise Science, a first for Singapore. His graduate and post-graduate training emanated from Loughborough University and Exeter University in the UK. His professional credentials include certifications from ACSM, BASES and the OBS in Hong Kong. He published and presented his research in more than 200 outlets including national and international position statements on guidelines for physical activity and youth development in sport. Professor Michael Chia embraces learning, and collaborating with international colleagues, and in this venture, he has delivered academic and professional talks in more than two dozen countries. As an academic, he received several awards for his teaching, research and leadership roles. In recent times, his research featured on BBC World Service and the Straits Times in Singapore. He completed his NIE senior leadership appointments as the Academic Dean for Faculty Affairs and before that, the Head of Physical Education and Sports Science (PESS) Group at the NIE. He resumed his research and teaching duties as full professor in PESS in 2019. He leads an international research on screen media use, physical activity, sleep and eyesight among preschool children with 20 countries in Asia, Europe and the USA. He enjoys his work and his play tremendously, oftentimes, confusing work and play as the same. Like many Singaporeans, he could do with more sleep!

Title: Love and Haunting Memories in Recent Chinese Films and TV Series

Abstract: Discussion of loss of love, haunting and ghosts abound in Chinese entertainment. In this presentation, we will in particular look at how these hauntings appear and play out in front of a changing socio-economic background on the one hand, and an ideological one on the other. It will become clear that both instances produce their own differentiated approaches to the subject of lost love, but taken together can give us valuable lessons on how to move forward and engage with the inevitable loss of love. Films/TV series discussed include A Light never goes out (2022), Red Amnesia/Intruder (2014), The Three Body Problem (2023) and Deutsches Haus /The Interpreter of Silence (2023).

Prof. Ping Wang, Henan University, China

Basic theories of education, Teacher education, Phenomenological pedagogy

Prof. Ping Wang is Deputy Deanofthe Education Faculty; Director of the Research Centerfor Teacher Education; Development of Henan Province；Executive Dean of Henan Educators Academy; Director of the Chinese Society of Education; Member of the National Academic Committee of Basic Educational Theory; Member of the Specialized Committee on Labor Education of China Association for Higher Education.

Prof. Paulo Batista, University of Évora, Portugal

Information science

Paulo Batista is PhD Researcher at CIDEHUS.UÉ-Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures andSocieties of the University of Évora, Portugal, where is the coordinator of the research group 2: Heritage and Literacies. Currently works as a higher technician in the Municipal Archives of Lisbon, and professor at the Iscte-IUL (Master in Architecture and Visual Culture in Lisbon) and Autonomous University of Lisbon, where is coordinator and professor of the Postgraduate in Promotion and Cultural and Educational Dynamization of Archives and Libraries, and the Postgraduate in Architectural Archives. He has lectured in the MS program in Information Science and Documentation at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and has held senior technician positions at the Portuguese Institute of Cultural Heritage, the Portuguese Institute of Architectural Heritage, and the Torre do Tombo Archives. He has also worked as researcher at the Center for the Study of History and Ancient Cartography of the Institute of Tropical Scientific Research. Paulo Batista holds a Ph.D. in Documentation (University of Alcalá, Madrid-UAH), an MS in Information Science and Documentation - Archival Studies (UNL), and an MA in Documentation(UAH). As part of his doctorate, he also received a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Bibliography and Documentation Retrospective in Humanities (UAH), and he also holds a postgraduate degree in Information Society Law (University of Lisbon) and Information and Documentation Science - Librarianship and Archival Studies (UNL), and a specialization in Good Practices in Patrimonial Management (UNL) and Information Science and Documentation - Archival Studies(UNL). He holds an undergraduate degree in History (University of Lisbon). He has authored a wide variety of articles in Portuguese and foreigner journals and has edited several books and papers national and international meetings.

Title: The archival care of architectural records: 19th, 20th and 21st centuries

Prof. Meiqin Li, Southeast University, China

Foreign literature, Comparative literature, Literary translation

Doctor Li Meiqin is a professor and PhD. Supervisor of School of Foreign Languages at Southeast University. She has got Ph. D in Foreign literature from Shandong University, and pursued her studies in University of Cambridge, University of Waterloo, Havard University, University of California(Los Angeles) and Yad Vashem(Israel) as a visiting scholar. She once taught at Qingdao Agricultural University and Zhejiang Gongshang University. Her research interests are in foreign literature, comparative literature and literary translation. She has has authored over 40 research articles, published 3 monographs, translated 3 novels and other proses, and edited 3 textbooks, covering widely foreign literature studies and translative theories and practices. Some of her articles are reprinted by Foreign Literature of “Duplicated Materials by People’s University”. She has led various research projects sponsored by National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences, etc.

Title: Cultural Identity, Cultural Imperialism and History in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives

Abstract: The study of cultural identity has always been an important part of African literary studies. Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, always expresses his understanding and thinking of cultural identity and colonial history in his works. Years of emigration experience in a foreign country gave him unique insights into the history of his homeland and the current cultural identity dilemma in East Africa, and these insights have deeply influenced his work. In his 2020 novel Afterlives, Gurnah portrays two East African youths, Hamza and Ilyas, who join Schutztruppe for different reasons. After cultural collision and cultural imperialism oppression, they generate different thoughts and pursuits over identity. Ilyas had an extreme pursuit of German culture after the war. He had been drifting and exiled in Germany. Finally, he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp for defiling an Aryan woman. Hamza came back to his hometown in a hybrid identity, where he met kindness and love and found a sense of belonging. Their experiences reflect Gurnah’s deep understanding of post-colonialism and his unique thinking of surpassing cultural identity crises. This paper analyzes the specific factors that influence the cultural identities of Hamza and Ilyas by identifying the hybridity and ambivalence states reflected in their experiences and their mimetic behaviors in various cultural activities. And based on this, Gurnah’s understanding of surpassing the dilemma of cultural identity could be summarized, that is, to have the attitude of examining the foreign culture, selectively accept the foreign culture while optimizing our own culture, and never copying it completely or imitating it blindly.

Prof. Zhongming Bao, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

British and American literature, European and American novels, Western modern and contemporary literary theories and European and American painting and literature

2017-2018 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English, Harvard University, expert in degree and graduate education evaluation of the Ministry of Education, expert in communication evaluation of the National Social Science Foundation, expert in evaluation of the late project results of the National Social Science Foundation. Published English monograph "The Most Brilliant Failure: Faulkner's Exploration of the Black Community (2009), his Chinese monograph Research on William Faulkner's Racial Views and Others (2018), published more than 30 papers in Foreign Literature, Foreign Literature, Academia and other journals, completed 2 fund projects of Beijing Institute of Technology, and 1 Excellent Course Project of Western Literary Theory of Beijing Institute of Technology. In research, he presided over a general project of the National Social Science Foundation (" Research on the Generation, evolution and Theoretical Construction of Post-Impressionism and American Modernist Novels ") and participated in a major project of the National Social Science Foundation (" Research on Chinese Discourse Forms of Ecological Aesthetics ").

Foreign literature, Comparative literature, Literary translation

Feng Yongjun, born in 1980, professor and doctoral supervisor (postdoctoral cooperative tutor) of Shaanxi Normal University, founder of the "Lide • Shuren" educational school of thought, Phd of education of Xiamen University, and postdoctoral educator of Beijing Normal University. Founder of the China Higher Education Tracking Survey Project (CHESP), Executive Director of the National College Human Resources Management Professional Committee, Director of the Higher Education Professional Committee of the China Education Development Strategy Society, Director of the University Professional Committee of the Innovation Talent Education Research Association, Director of the Imperial Examination Culture Research Branch/Children's Mongolian Culture Research Branch of the Chinese Yan Huang Culture Research Association, and Rotating Chairman of the China University Quality Monitoring and Assurance Alliance (CUQA), expert of the National Social Science Fund project evaluation and appraisal, expert of the National Postgraduate Educational Assessment Monitoring Expert Pool of the Ministry of Education of PRC, researcher of Hebei Public Policy Assessment Research Center, a "A" level think-tank in the Top 100 University Think Tanks List of China Think Tank Index (CTTI), expert of the Think Tank Expert Alliance of Chengdu Chongqing Economic Circle, and chief expert of Beijing Tianjin Hebei Higher Education Development Research Center of China Education Think Tank Assessment System (CETTE). He used to be the executive director and core expert of the evaluation research team of China Alumni association Online University, the executive vice president of Airuisen Research Institute, the co-founder of China University/Discipline/Specialty/Talent Ranking, consulting experts such as QS, THEs, ARWU, the president of AIBONA China Academy of Evaluation Sciences, the director of AIBONA China Education Evaluation Liberal Arts Laboratory, the president of AIBONA Chinese Education Modernization Research Institute The director of AIBONA Education Metaverse Laboratory (Chang'an Laboratory) and the president of AIBONA Yellow River Education Research Institute (National Education Modernization Research Institute) were invited to give lectures in more than 100 "double first-class" universities or provide advice on development strategy planning, and were honored as "the youngest senior university evaluation expert in China". He have led 4 national projects, 3 provincial and ministerial level projects, and mainly researched 5 national level projects, invited to over 20 international academic conferences and delivered keynote speeches, published over 150 papers and more than 20 works, and 6 consulting reports have been approved by national and provincial leaders, receiving 6 provincial and ministerial  awards.

Title: Research on Empowering Higher Quality Development of Rural Basic Education with Generative Artificial Intelligence in China

Abstract: To promote the high-quality development of rural basic education in China, good teachers are key, and the empowering role of generative artificial intelligence cannot be ignored. Generative artificial intelligence empowers the high-quality development of rural basic education in China, which will have a revolutionary impact on the supply of educational resources, student learning, teacher development, educational evaluation, and educational governance. From the perspective of technological application, this paper proposes an optimized path for generative artificial intelligence to empower the high-quality development of rural basic education in China, focusing on four dimensions: high-quality equity, high-quality environment, high-quality teaching, and high-quality education. Including: ultra high speed communication technology promotes the implementation of the "three classrooms" and promotes high-quality and balanced development of education; Virtual reality technology constructs a learning environment that integrates reality and virtuality, creating immersive learning experiences;  Generative artificial intelligence teaching assistant innovates teaching mode and promotes human-machine collaborative teaching; The human-machine fusion intelligent evaluation tool replaces teachers and helps to implement personalized learning; Based on big data cloud computing for learning analysis, promote precise teaching and learning. On this basis, the vision of empowering high-quality development of rural basic education in China with artificial intelligence is elaborated from four aspects: firstly, cultivating talents with moral character and all-round development in the era of intelligence; Secondly, high-quality and balanced education should be promoted to make large-scale education and personalized training a reality; Thirdly, teacher development and intelligent education literacy have become indispensable core competencies; The fourth is ethical norms. Promote the application of artificial intelligence in education literacy have become indispensable core competencies; The fourth is ethical norms. Promote the application of artificial intelligence in education with a people-oriented approach.