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Book of Abstracts

Title: Transdisciplinary Academic Conference for Emerging Scholars TRACES 2025 Book of Abstracts

Editors: TSE Sheung Hei, NG Yui Hin

Publisher: TSE Sheung Hei

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Conference Overview

Themes of the Conference

The very first Transdisciplinary Academic Conference for Emerging Scholars introduces three major themes of transdisciplinary research, celebrating enquiries through discourse and humanity, saga and statecraft, and by mind and innovation to facilitate panel discussions.

 

Discourse and Humanity stems from humanistic and linguistic research. Scholars explore how their fields intersect with technology and social sciences, employing concepts drawn from artificial intelligence, sociology and geography.

 

Saga and Statecraft roots itself in historical and socio-political investigation. Emerging scholars employ methods in economics, education and psychology to analyse complex topics such as war, law and public policy.

 

Mind and Innovation originates from psychological, philosophical and scientific scholarship. Budding researchers tackle pressing issues in mental health, engineering and ethics through transdisciplinary methodologies drawn from
various fields.

 

Together, this conference promotes transdisciplinary undergraduate research through active writing and sharing, highlighting intriguing studies from three main themes of academic exploration.

Programme Rundown

📅 Date: 28th June, 2025

🕒 Time: 0900-1900

📍 Location: CPD 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong

 

0900 - 0930: Reception and Networking

0930 - 1000: Opening Ceremony

1000 - 1045: Keynote Speech by Prof Javier CHA

1045 - 1215: First Presentation Session

1215 - 1230: First Panel Discussion

1230 - 1330: Lunch Break

1330 - 1545: Second Presentation Session

1545 - 1600: Second Panel Discussion

1600 - 1815: Third Presentation Session

1815 - 1830: Third Panel Discussion

1830 - 1900: Closing Ceremony

Presenters

Theme I: Discourse and Humanity

  • A1: YUM Wang Ngai

    • "Reconsidering Literary Excellence: When AI Imitates an Award-winning Poem"

  • A2: LIU Yao Si

    • "GIS-based Geospatial Analysis of Language Diversity and Endangerment of New Guinea
      in Asia-Pacific"

  • A3: SZETO Wing Kiu

    • "How John Donne and William Shakespeare’s sonnets challenge the gender and sexuality
      norms of the Early Modern Period"

  • A4: HO Jo Wei

    • "East meets West: Gender Performance in Cantonese Opera Performers and Drag Queens"

  • A5: LOK Yuen Kei

    • "Reviewing the Translation Wave of Jules Verne: Scientific Fiction as a New Ideological
      Discourse in the Pre-May Fourth Period"

  • A6: XU Caiyu

    • "Forged Text or Not? A Critical Analysis on the Authenticity of Peng Jiuwan’s Dongpo
      Wutai Poetry Case (dōng pō wū tái shī àn)"

 

Theme II: Saga and Statecraft

  • B1: GAO Xinyue

    • "Reassessing the Composition Era of Mu Tianzi Zhuan: A Transdisciplinary Evaluation of
      Evidence"

  • B2: WONG Yu

    • "Hello Vietnam, but Why? On the Politics of Financing a Perpetual War"

  • B3: KWAN Ho Man Benjamin

    • "Aleksandr Dugin's Neo-Eurasianism: Ideological Foundations and Geopolitical
      Implications in the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict"

  • B4: FERREIRA, Ilona

    • "From the "Forgotten War" to the "Path of Remembrance": A Study of Government
      Programs on the French UN Battalion in the Korean War — Institutional Discourse and
      Collective Memory"

  • B5: NAZIH, Marwa

    • "The Liancourt Rocks Dispute: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of the Strategic and Symbolic
      Importance Attributed by South Korea and Japan"

  • B6: LEE Yuen Ching

    • "Reimagining Disability Inclusion in Hong Kong: A Transdisciplinary Analysis of Legal
      and Cultural Dynamics"

  • B7: TAI Kwai Nam Marvin

    • "Hong Kong Local Secondary School Students and Educational Policies Near the End of
      Colonial Hong Kong – The Case of the Torch Magazine"

  • B8: LEE Junyong

    • "Analyzing the Success Factors of Third Parties: The Case of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party
      in South Korea’s 22nd General Election"

  • B9: FAN Chun Kiu

    • "Progressive Times, Regressive Birth Rates: The Rise and Fall of Hong Kong Babies?"

Theme III: Mind and Innovation

  • C1: WONG Seng Ying Amber

    • "Social Support is Associated with More Abstinence in a Community Smoking Cessation
      Program in Hong Kong"

  • C2: CHAN, Jeffrey

    • "Kantian Intuitionism and Social Intuitionist Model: An Investigation in Explaining Moral
      Judgement and a Possibility of a Hybrid Model"

  • C3: LIU Hong Yi

    • "Beyond the Brain: A Material Approach to the Social Dimensions of Mindfulness in
      Chinese Chan Buddhist Coffee Meditation in Hong Kong"

  • C4: LACHERAY ALARCON Rose Simone

    • "Towards a New Generation of Bionic Prostheses: The Intersection of Biomechanics, Neural
      Engineering, and Transdisciplinary Approaches"

  • C5: IVANISHVILI, Tsotne

    • "The Chemistry and Craft of Oil Painting Durability"

  • C6: MAY, Alexander P.W.

    • "Relationships Between Natural and Synthetic Matrix and Reinforcement for Fibre
      Composites"

  • C7: JIANG Haotian

    • "Moral Philosophy Coding: An Agent-Based Computational Experiment on AI Ethics"

  • C8: YU, Jakie

    • "The Value of Experiential Construction in Modern Society Through the Lens of the Project
      Mingde Underground House Project"

  • C9: YU Man Wai

    • "Can AI Companions Mitigate Feelings of Loneliness?"

Questions for Q&A

If you have any questions about the above papers. Please leave your question by filling out the following form. The questions will be asked in the Q&A session after each presentation or during the panel discussion.

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Theme I: Discourse and Humanity
Theme II: Saga and Statecraft
Theme III: Mind and Innovation
Paper Title

TRACES 2025

PASSION FOR UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIA

Event

Conference & Presentation

Date

28 Jun 2025

Venue

CPD4.36, The University of Hong Kong

Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

Contact Us

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