Two media experts from South Korea led a documentary pitch contest and a workshop on AI tools for media production at UIC on October 11th and 12th.          Dr. Kenny Kihyung Bae, senior producer at KBS, and Dr. Yougshin Cho, business strategist at SK Broadband encouraged student to explore more on media production. Dr. Bae focused on refining students’ proposal through documentary pi...

To enhance students’ abilities in utilizing Gale databases for Sinological research and studies, on September 23, 2024, the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program (DCom has invited Mr. Shi Yichen, a Gale trainer (China) to introduce students enrolled in the course “History of Western Sinology” to the fundamental tools of advanced search on Gale’s extensive primary sources’ database-...

On October 24th, 3:00 PM, Dr. Charlie Reis, the Director of Educational Development Unit of the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, invited by DCOM, FHSS, gave a lecture at T7-104, entitled “Confucian Professional Standards Framework: Intercultural Educational Leadership.” The lecture was hosted by Dr. Jianing Chen. Dr. Xiaolong Diao from DCom - CCGC, Dr. Milen Gotchev Jissov, Associate Director ...

 Overview: In September 2024, a senior student Duan Yingtong, who is majoring in Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program (DCom has presented a conference paper together with Dr. Wei Chin Wong at the 29th International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies (IAICS) Annual Conference in Opole, Poland.  The 29th International Conference on Intercultural Communication was hosted ...

    On September 25th 2:00 PM, the T2-202 lecture hall held an in-depth lecture on the history of the Chinese Cuban community. The event, hosted by the Department of Communication, featured a special guest speaker, Dr. Louie Kin-Sheun, an honorary researcher at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Louie, with his extensive background in political science ...

An enlightening lecture opened on time at T2-102 on September 11, 2024. This lecture hosted by the Department of Communication, invited Dr. Xia Bingqing, Associate Professor from the School of Communication at East China Normal University. Dr. Xia has a deep research background in the field of digital labor, the lecture covered her unique insights on digital labor and platform re-intermediation...

On June 5, the Department of Communication (DCom) held an award ceremony to honor the outstanding contributions to the DCom Peer Tutor Program. The ceremony was presided over by the Dean of FHSS, Prof. Tze-ki Hon, and the Head of DCom, Dr. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, who presented the students with certificates of achievement.Prof. Hon (on the right) and Dr. Jesse (on the left) awarded Deng Kai...

"I am like a ranger, wandering around all my life," said Prof Tze-ki Hon, Dean of UIC's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS).Before coming to UIC, he had worked and lived worldwide for nearly 30 years. He went to the University of Michigan, US, for his MA in Asian Studies after receiving a BA in history from the University of Hong Kong, and later gained a PhD in History from the Uni...