On the morning of January 20, 2019, Academician Dou Xiankang, President of Wuhan University, and his colleagues visited the Big Data Institute and guided its work.Professor Ma Feicheng said that the Big Data Institute is positioned to support the development of the humanities and social sciences, and choose six most influential areas: financial big data, health big data, social governance big d...

On January 12, 2019, the inaugural meeting and the first plenary meeting of the 2018 to 2022 philosophy teaching steering committee of colleges and universities under the ministry of education was held in Nanjing University. 40 members of the Committee from relevant universities attended the meeting. Professor Wu Genyou, Dean of the School of Philosophy of our university, attended the meeting a...

According to theJournal Citation Report(JCR) released by Clarivate Analytics, the journal edited by Prof. Yi Xianhe, chief expert of the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies, Collaborative Innovation Center for Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights of Wuhan University——ChineseJournal of International Lawentered the Q1classof the SSCI source journal.The latest impact factor of t...

On January 8, 2019, the National Institute of Chinese Language Matters and Social Development held the "Language and Country" academic salon to discuss the topic of "Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence". Young scholars from different disciplines both inside and outside the university were invited to discuss frontier issues such as the language needs of artificial intelligence development an...

On December 22, at the 2018 China Think Tank Governance and Theoretical Exchange Forum, the China Think Tank Research and Evaluation Center of Nanjing University and the Guangming Daily Think Tank Research and Publishing Center announced the “Top 100 Chinese Think Tank Index (CTTI) University Think Tanks”. Six think tanks of our University were selected.The six think tanks are: Institute of I...

On December 27, 2018, the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of Wuhan University organized the "Liberal Arts Journal Workday" activity, which attracted the participation of editors of nearly 30 Chinese and English academic journals from the humanities and Social Sciences circle, they gathered at this event to discuss issues like "Internet +", innovation, integration and development of hu...

Directed by the Department of Language Information Management, Ministry of Education, and organized by the College of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University and the National Institute of Chinese Language Matters and Social Development together with its affiliated institution, the Fourth Seminar on the Collaborative Innovation Alliance of Young and Middle-Aged Scholars in Applied Ling...

On December 4th, at the 276th lecture of Luojia Forum, Professor of Harvard University Michael Szonyi brought an academic report entitled "The Case inJin Ping Mei: Looking at the Legal History of the Ming Dynasty from Literary Works”.With the research method of "seeking legal history in literature", Professor Szonyi studied the Ming Dynasty scholars' cognition of judicial procedure, common sen...

From December 3rd to 4th, the 8th China-US Judicial and Human Rights Seminar was held in Beijing. Nearly 40 experts, scholars, judges and lawyers from the judicial and human rights fields of China and the United States attended the conference. Qin Qianhong, a professor at the School of Law of our university, was invited to give a keynote speech on issues related to the reform of the national su...

On November 16th, at the 273th lecture of Luojia Forum, Sharon Dawes, an Academician of the National Academy of Public Administration, brought an academic report titled “Advancing Digital Government: The Research-Practice-Knowledge Connection”.In her report, Sharon Dawes proposed the current digital government's problem: the speed of development of digital technology is way faster than the sp...

On November 8th, the “International Rules for Cyberspace: Practice and Exploration” forum jointly hosted by our university, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. The forum is one of the 19 sub-forums of the Fifth World Internet Conference.Professor Feng Guo, Dean of School of Law of our university, deliver...

On October 30th, Gunnar Sivertsen, Professor of the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo, Norway and Director of the Center for Scientific Metrology and Evaluation, attended the 268thLuojia Lecture and gave a report entitled “Scientific Evaluation Issues in Humanities and Social Sciences”.Scientific evaluation must first clarify the object of evaluation. A ...

On October 26th, in the 267thLuojia Lecture, David Lawwrence McMullen, an Academician of the British Academy and a professor at the University of Cambridge, presented an academic report entitled “Public and Private in the Tang Dynasty: A Reassessment of a Problem”.Historically, the relationship between public and private has existed in many civilized societies. China has long had the concept ...

On October 25, the 266thLuojia Lecture invited William Doyle, professor of history at the University of Bristol, UK, to give a report entitled "Napoleon: How to End a Revolution".The end of the French Revolution, which began in 1789, has always been a matter of debate among scholars. In his report, Doyle put forward his views on when did the Great Revolution come to an end. He believes that the...

Ms. Stephanie Studer, a reporter of the internationally renowned British magazineThe Economist, recently interviewed the Chinese delegation that went to South America in October 2017 to carry out trademark rights protection and recovered more than 130 trademarks squatted by Chilean businessmen. Ning Lizhi, a Professor from the School of Law of our University and Director of the Institute of Int...