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Professor Alistair Cole, Head of GIS and Professor Julien Baker, Head of SPEH
Organised by Hong Kong Baptist University’s Department of Government and International Studies (GIS) in association with the Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health (SPEH), and the David C Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI), this two-day conference, held on May 20-21 2021, mobilized academic and practitioner communities within and beyond Hong Kong. Centred on the ongoing Covid 19 crisis and guided by the core theme of restoring trust, this international conference debated solutions for reviving disrupted relationships at the individual, community and collective levels. The conference was generously supported by the HKBU Research Committee, by the Hung Hin Shiu Charitable Foundation 孔憲紹慈善基金贊助; by the David C Lam Institute for East-West Studies; by the PROCORE (French Consulate of Hong Kong-Macao and Research Grants Council of Hong Kong), by the European Union Office of Hong Kong and Macao and by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Hong Kong. The conference was a key event in the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Faculty of Social Sciences. It also involved participants from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the School of Business, the School of Media and Communications and the School of Chinese Medicine.
Beyond HKBU, participants included presenters from a range of Hong Kong institutions - HKU – City University – Chinese University and HKUST. The international dimension of the conference was reflected in the conference themes, as well by the participation of overseas speakers from the UK (Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Queen Mary’s, University of London); France ( the Institutes of Political Studies of Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Lyon, and from the University Hospital of Clermont Ferrand); Australia (Griffith University, Monash University, Queensland University) and Singapore ( National University of Singapore), as well as a range of stakeholders from outside of academia (for example, Bruegel, Water Futures Pty Ltd, European Union Office of Hong Kong and Macao).
The conference set out explicitly to engage in a trans-national and trans-disciplinary exercise in reflexivity. As with all such efforts at transdisciplinarity, the challenge of engaging in cross-disciplinary dialogues is an important one. Within the limits of such an exercise, however, the conference was a success. The conference has given rise to several outputs, including a special issue of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. It is rare to bring together in a single conference experts from the medical, social, political and environmental sciences. New combinations are emerging: such as the collaboration between the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Health and the School of Chinese Medicine, for example, as partners in HKBU’s Recovering from Covid project.
