Founded 2011 Area served Humanities | Location Hong Kong | |
Key people Chu-Ren Huang, President; Mette Hjort, Vice President; Simon Haines, Secretary; Lauren Pfister, Treasurer | ||
About the Hong Kong Academy of Humanities
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The Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (Chinese: 香港人文學院) was established in April 2011 with 39 foundation fellows drawn from Hong Kong’s eight institutions of higher education funded by the University Grants Committee.
The academy comprises a fellowship of humanists based in Hong Kong and has sister relationships with other National Academy bodies around the world including the Union Académique Internationale. Its constitution was promulgated at the 2012 AGM.
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Activities
In 2015 the First Book Prize was won by Catherine Ladds of Hong Kong Baptist University for her book Empire Careers: Working for the Chinese Customs Service 1854-1949 published in 2014 by Manchester University Press. The Runner Up was Dennis Tay of Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his book Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis published in 2013 by John Benjamins.
Some academic academies have publications that promote the humanities in their jurisdiction (see the Australian Academy of the Humanities journal Humanities Australia). but the HKAH does not publish a formal academic journal as of December 2016.
It has held the following symposia:
Fellows
New Fellows are nominated on an annual basis by nomination and secret ballot of members. In December 2016 there were 48 fellows.
Founding Secretary, Professor David Parker (1943-2015) of Chinese University of Hong Kong's Research Centre for Human Values Official website passed away on October 29 2015 while serving as Vice President of the HKAH.