First Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Empowering Emerging Researchers was jointly organized by the Institute of Cross-cultural Studies (ICCS) at UIC in Zhuhai, China, and the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) at HKBU in Hong Kong. UIC Provost Patrick Chau officiated the conference, which attracted over 150 participants from Hong Long, Macau, Armenia, India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Ghana, and China. Professor Zhang Meifang and Drs. Sun Xiaohui, Chengcheng You, and Nicole Brooke Scicluna were the keynote speakers. Drs Alice Wu, Song Ge, Shuang Wu, Xuan Ning, Arina Rotaru, Yuanxin Wang & Xiaomeng Lan delivered the plenary speeches. This conference was organized to bring together researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research in language, culture, communication, and sociology.

Professor Christian Aspalter has been named one of the top 2% most cited scientists in all disciplines for 2023 by Stanford University and Elsevier in September 2024. The top 2% of all scientists worldwide are on this prestigious list based on standardised data on citations, H-index, Hm-index, and bibliometric indicators focusing on single-authored and first-authored works.These scientists are ...

A symposium titled ‘Liberal Arts in Global Contexts’ was held at UIC on 8th May 2024. The symposium was attended by speakers from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries. This event was supported by a Teaching & Learning Grant from the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at UIC. It was co-organized by the Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and the Centre for Foreig...

The Institute of Cross-cultural Studies and the Centre for Foreign Languages and Cultures co-hosted an invited talk by Professor Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University on April 17th 2024. The talk was titled 'Story Telling and Climate Change'. During the talk, Professor Puchner drew on millennia of world literature...

The Institute of Cross-cultural Studies and the Department of Social Sciences at UIC co-sponsored this invited talk by Dr. Hongmou Zhang, an Assistant Professor at the School of Government at Peking University. During the talk, Dr Zhang explored three illustrative cross-cultural examples to demonstrate the application of sociological imagination in enhancing our understanding of social aspects ...