Invited talks and keynotes
WIC Asia-Pacific Summit held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center from April 13 to 14, 2026. The World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific Summit 2026: "Forum on the Digitalization and Dissemination of Classical Texts". 'Advanced Imaging Techniques for the Digitisation and Preservation of Classical Texts' (April 14, 2026).
Hong Kong Baptist University, Digital Futures in Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 'Digital Humanities, Classics, and AI: China and the West'. (January 27, 2026) (Promotional poster) (Zenodo) (HKBU Instagram)
Hong Kong Baptist University, Digital Futures in Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 'Humanities & Creativity in the Age of AI'. (January 26, 2026) (Promotional poster) (Zenodo) (HKBU Instagram)
Closing Keynote (online) at The First Digital Humanities Professional Development Alliance Annual Meeting and the 6th Tsinghua University Digital Humanities International Conference held at the University of Kunming. DH curriculum and educational development. 'Digital Humanities Education and Pedagogy'. (July 26, 2025) (Slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo).
The 9th World Conference on Sinology. Understanding China: Sinologies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Renmin University, Shenzhen campus. 'Bridging Cultures in the Digital Age: Classical Studies Education and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence' (June 06, 2025) (Promotional poster) (Abstract and slides - UCL Discovery) (Zenodo).
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Digital Scholarship Lab. Digital Humanities Initiative Talk Series. 'Imaging Precious Documents without Damaging them and Building Bridges Beyond the Academy' (May 12, 2025). (Promotional poster) (Zenodo)
Chinese University of Hong Kong. Digital Scholarship Lab. 'The Importance of Open Access, Open Data, and Open Science' (May 09, 2025). (Promotional poster) (Zenodo).
City University Hong Kong. Department of Chinese History: Class Research Cluster, Digital Learning and Literacy. 'Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Information Literacy.' (May 08, 2025). (Promotional poster) (Webpage write-up) (Zenodo)
City University Hong Kong, School of Law. Invited Panelist: AI Literacy in the Legal Context. From Legal Education to Practice. (May 09, 2025) (Promotional poster). Online publication, Hong Kong Lawyer, 'Trends in Legal Education: AI Literacy in the Legal Context' Part 1, p.75 and Part 2, p.80
Chinese University of Hong Kong. GenAI Network Lunchtime Seminar, Centre for Cultura Studies, Research Institute for the Humanities. 'AI in the Humanities, Diversity, Inclusion, Bias, and Trust.' (May 7, 2025). (Promotional poster) (Zenodo)
Yaming Fu & Simon Mahony (November 21, 2024). Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries. RLUK: Research Libraries UK. 'Embedding equality, diversity, and inclusion in GLAM structures with digital storytelling'. (video) (UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
The World Conference of Classics: Classical Civilizations and the Modern World. Forum V11 Classical Wisdom and the Age of Digital Intelligence. 'Digital approaches to the study of the ancient world' (November 08, 2024) (UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Tsinghua University, Faculty of Humanities. 'Digital Humanities and the study of classical literature: Challenges for cooperation, collaboration, and engagement.' (November 02, 2024) (Zenodo)
Peking University, Department of Information Management. 'Digital Humanities and the study of classical literature: Challenges for cooperation, collaboration, and engagement.' (October 31, 2024) (Zenodo)
The International Academic Conference on "New Media Literature and Art Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" and the Second Annual Meeting of the Digital Humanities Branch of the Chinese Society of Literaryand Art Theory. Hangzhou Normal University. 'Classical Literature as a Bridge in the Digital Age'. (September 19, 2024) (UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
University College London, IAS Book Launch and Symposium: 'Intelligent Computing for Cultural Heritage: Global Achievements and China's Innovations' edited by Xiaoguang Wang, Marcia Zeng, Jin Gao and Ke Zhao. 'Building Bridges: cooperation and collaborative working. How do we achieve this?' (September 26, 2024).
Digital Humanities Congress 2024, University of Sheffield. 'Building Bridges and the Ties that Bind: bringing us together but respecting our differences.' (UCL Discovery) (Zenodo)
Shanghai Library East, Research Seminar series: 'How has Digital Humanities developed from the study of classical literature in both China and the West? Challenges for cooperation, collaboration, and engagement.' (April 26, 2024) (Promotional poster)
Shanghai University, Research Seminars: 'Building Bridges for Mutual Learning and Deeper Understanding: Transmission of Knowledge and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations.' (April 25, 2024) (Promotional poster)
Dunhuang Academy: International Symposium on Overseas Dunhuang Cultural Relics & International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) Workshop. (April 19-21, 2024). 'Non-invasive and Non-destructive Computational Imaging of Ancient Text'.
Peking University, Department of Information Management (April 2024):
- 'Digital Storytelling: encouraging diverse voices as part of cultural heritage data collection.' (poster) (April 15, 2024)
- 'Research life in the UK' (April 16, 2024)
- 'Career development in the digital humanities' (Promotional poster | poster translation) (April 17, 2024)
The 5th Chinese Digital Humanities Annual Conference 2023. Symbiosis of Digital and Reality: Foreseeing the Future of Digital Humanities. Sub-forum: Digital Humanities and Smart Data. ‘Open Data in the Humanities’. Wuhan University, (December 2023).
Beijing Forum 2023. Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All: Inheritance and Mutual Learning. Panel: Transmission of Knowledge and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations. ‘Building Bridges for Mutual Learning and Deeper Understanding’. (November 2023).
CityU Digital Society cluster. City University of Hong Kong. ‘How has Digital Humanities developed from the study of classical literature in both China and the West? Challenges for cooperation, collaboration, and engagement’. Promotional poster. (November 2023).
DHEA2023. The 2nd East Asian Ancient Books Digital Humanities international seminar. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. ‘Non-invasive and Non-destructive Computational Imaging of Ancient Texts’. (October 2023).
Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC). ‘An Introduction to Digital Humanities in East and West’. Promotional poster. (October 2023).
Fenghuangshan Chinese Forum of Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai. 'How has Digital Humanities developed from the study of classical literature in both China and the West?: Challenges for cooperation, collaboration, and engagement.' (October 2023). Promotional poster
Copyright and Governance. (June 2023). Opening Ceremony. The Digital Copyright Compliance Research Center of Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai.
Bookselling Research Network Symposium. 'Booksellers and Bookstores in Mainland China: the Age of Common Prosperity.' (May 2023). Abstract and video.
The 5th China Peripheral Communication Forum, Huaqiao University, Xiamen. 'Digital Humanities research: engaging with Chinese culture across boundaries and across barriers.' (April 2023).
University of Wuhan: “Big Data and Digital Humanities” Summer Open Course (2022). Digital Humanities and Knowledge Production: China and the West.
Beijing Forum: The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity For All (2022). Peking University, Department of Information Management. 'The Open Agenda: Open Access Publishing.'
KU-ORCAS 2021 International Symposium, Constructing & Promoting for the East Asian DH Research Environment: For the Next Generation of East Asian DH Studies, ‘A Western perspective on DH research in East Asia and the challenges for cooperation and collaboration’, University of Kansai (December 2021)
City University of Hong Kong, "Rethinking the Datafication of Culture in the Chinese World". 'Reflections on Close Encounters with Digital Humanities East and West' (June 2021)
Xijing University, 'Artificial Intelligence in Journalism, and Media Manipulation' The 2nd Xijing Smart Media International Forum and 2021 International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Its Media Applications (May 2021)
Peking University, Department of Information Management: 'The Open Agenda: Open Access, Open Publishing and Open Science' (May 2021)
Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Office of International Exchange and Cooperation. "Experiencing the World". 'Culture, whose Culture?' (May 2021)
Shanghai Library, Expert Seminar Series, 'Open Publishing and Open Science: Managing the Changes.' (April 2021)
Shanghai University, Department of Library, Information and Archives, 'Understanding Digital Humanities through examining collaborative working and writing'. (April 2021)
Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, 2020 Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities Academic Forum, ‘Digital Humanities: Building Bridges’. (December 2020)
Shanghai Normal University (2020), Shanghai Normal University: Digital Humanities Research Center Launch, ‘Digital Humanities and the UCLDH Experience’.
Sun Yat-sen University, School of Information Management, Digital Humanities Research and Teaching in the Information Discipline (December 2019), ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Digital Humanities Research’.
The 6th International Conference on Publishing Industry and Publishing Education in the Digital Era, Wuhan University (November 2019), 'Open Publishing and Open Science: Managing the Changes'.
l’École nationale des chartes, l’Université Paris Diderot, 4e Session de la Semaine Académique à l’étranger de l’Université de Wuhan (October 2019), Sino-French Forum, Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities: A comparative approach through research projects, 'Non-invasive and Non-destructive Computational Imaging of Cultural Heritage'.
The Belt and Road” Academic Publishing symposium: Bridging East and West, Beijing Normal University (August 2019) 'The Open Agenda: Open Access, Open Publishing and Open Education'.
Dunhuang (DH20019) International Symposium on the Digitalization of Cultural Heritage & the Annual Conference of Specialized Committee for Digital Humanities of the China Society for Social Sciences (July 2019), 'Advanced Imaging Techniques to support Cultural Heritage Research'.
Shanghai University, Department of Library, Information and Archives, 'UCLDH: Digital Humanities research and teaching at UCL' (June 2019)
Peking University Digital Humanities Mini Forum (June 2019), 'Digital Humanities research projects, at UCLDH: staff, students and the library'.
Renmin University, School of Information Resource Management (June 2019), 'The Open Agenda: Open Access, Open Publishing and Open Science.'
Beijing Municipal Archives (June 2019), International Archives Week and the opening of the new archives building: 'Digital Humanities research at UCL and its impact in a global context.'
University of Nanjing (April 2019) Digital Humanities Initiative seminar: Rethinking Digital Humanities through the Comparative Insights
'Connecting the Curriculum: Dgital Humanities teaching and Research at UCL'
University Nottingham Ningbo China (April 2019) Research seminar series: 'The Open Agenda: Open Access, Open Publishing and Open Science'
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (April 2019) Research seminar series: 'Digital Humanities research and teaching at UCL in a global context'
Shanghai Library (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai) (April 2019) Digital Humanities Research seminar series: 'The Research Projects and Operation of a Digital Humanities Centre: the Experiences from UCL'
Wuhan University (April 2019) Invited guest lectures:
'Connecting the Curriculum: Digital Humanities teaching and research at UCL'
'User Centred Design and the Cultural Influence on Digital Design'
2nd EAST- the International Conference on Education, Art, Science and Technology at CAFA: China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 'Digital Humanities Teaching and Research at UCL: Connecting the Curriculum' (November 2018)
The 9th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF2018) 'Open Access, Open Publishing and Open Science' (October 2018)
Renmin University, School of Information Resource Management ' Digital Humanities research at UCL and its impact in a global context' (June 2018).
2018 World Historical & Cultural Cities Expo Invitation of “Inheritance & Development” Intangible Cultural Heritage Forum, Nanjing: 'Unlocking Intangible Cultural Heritage: an oral history approach'. (May 2018)
Nanjing University, School of Arts and Cultural Heritage: Cultural diversity and the Digital Humanities (May 2018)
Nanjing University, School of History: Digital Humanities research at UCL and its impact in a global context (April 2018)
Shanghai National Library: Digital Humanities Research at University College London (April 2018)
China Academy of Art, Shanghai Institute of Design: Digital Humanities research projects: staff, PhD and graduate students (April 2018)
University of Wuhan, Department of Publishing Science: Digital Humanities teaching and research at University College London (April 2018)
University Town Library of Shenzhen / Shenzhen Science & Technology Library: International Conference on Library and Digital Humanities (December 2017) Digital Humanities pedagogy: digital Culture and education'.
Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences: Cross-cultural, Cross-group and Comparative Modernity Conference (November 2017) 'Cultural diversity and the Digital Humanities'.
Peking University (PKU) 'Digital Humanities at University College' London (2017)
Hangzhou Normal University: 'Digital Humanities research and teaching at University College London' (2017).
The British Council Honorary Advisor and invited guest speaker for the Global Education Dialogues series: 'Skills for Research: identifying and developing best practice in development for doctoral students' (2017), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
- 'Perspectives on doctoral student development: sharing experiences from UCL'
- 'Research communities in the UK, best practices and challenges'
The China Academy of Art, Shanghai Institute of Design (2016) 'Designing a Digital Publishing Product'. Poster
An invited member of the British Council for the UK Guest of Honour Delegation to the FIL - the 2015 Guadalajara International Book Fair. Speaking at the University of Guadalajara's XIX International Annual Meeting of Educational Research.
- 01/12/2015: 'Reflections on knowledge production within the framework of UK academic institutions'.
- 02/12/2015: 'Digital Humanities Pedagogy: digital culture and education'.
London Museums Group, The Ideal Cultural Workforce (2015) A Digital Humanities approach to skills development for the cultural heritage sector.
Hestia2 Digital Pedagogy: transforming the interface between research and teaching (2014). With Gabriel Bodard, Open Educational Resources and the Digital Classicist community. (video)
Keynote address to open Digital Classicist, Berlin (2013), TOPOI:
Open Education, Open Educational Resources, and their impact on research led teaching in Classics.
University College Cork (2013), Teaching and Learning Centre, Digital Humanities pedagogy: new approaches and new ways of thinking about the Humanities? (slides)
University of Lampeter, (2012) Department Classics Research Seminars: Digitising Scholarly Resources for Classics (slides)
Keynote address to open 2012 Leipzig eHumanities Seminar series: The Digital Classicist: building a Digital Humanities Community. (slides)
'Using your computer for research'. University College London, Department of Geography Residential Weekend for PhD Students (October 2008)