To deepen the cultivation of interdisciplinary innovative thinking, the sixth “Humanities × Technology” Thinkers’ Forum is to commence.

This forum has specially invited Professor Yang Yiming as the keynote speaker.

Time: 15:30, May 25, 2025 (Sunday)

Venue: Coffee Beanery

Theme: Contextual Drivers, Trajectory Analysis, and Reform Practices of New Liberal Arts Construction

Keynote Speaker: Professor Yang Yiming, a national-level teaching master, Chief Scientist of Jiangsu Province (first-rank talent of Jiangsu's "333 Talent Project"), Eminent Scholar of Social Sciences in Jiangsu Province, expert enjoying special allowance from the State Council, PhD supervisor and postdoctoral mentor. He is currently a Professor at the School of Language Sciences and Arts, Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU), Director of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center in "Language Sciences and Arts", Director of the National Collaborative Innovation Center for Language Proficiency (co-constructed by provincial and ministerial authorities), Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dean of the Institute of Language Sciences at JSNU (a Key Research Base for Philosophy and Social Sciences in Universities of Jiangsu Province), Dean of the Higher Institute for Language Proficiency of the National Language Commission (a Key Think Tank in Jiangsu Province), Discipline Leader of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (a Cultivation and Construction Point for National Key Disciplines and a Key Discipline in Jiangsu Province), Chief Discipline Leader of the First-Class Key Discipline of Chinese Language and Literature in Jiangsu Province, and Chief Discipline Leader of the "Language Cognitive Science Group" (Phase I of Jiangsu's Superior Disciplines) and the Construction Project of "Chinese Language and Literature" (Phase II).

Main content:

The new era calls for the cultivation of new liberal arts talents, and the cultivation of such talents calls for linguistic reform. A great era is inseparable from the knowledge reform and ideological guidance of philosophy and social sciences, which requires higher education institutions to cultivate new liberal arts talents in the new era to support the national innovation-driven strategy. As the carrier of thinking, language participates in and regulates all human thinking processes, such as visual thinking, abstract thinking, and inspirational thinking included in human thinking. This report focuses on discussing the reform context, work foundation, and exploratory practice of cultivating new liberal arts linguistic talents. The cultivation reform of new liberal arts linguistic talents should clarify the requirements for cultivating new liberal arts talents and face cutting-edge science and social development. The key to the breakthrough of the next generation of artificial intelligence lies in linguistics. The innovation of single professional knowledge in traditional linguistics is insufficient, and traditional linguistic talents are difficult to meet the development needs. It is necessary to re-understand the disciplinary status and talent cultivation requirements of linguistics, face the cultural soft power of Chinese culture and its inheritance and innovation, the needs of improving scientific and technological hard power such as brain science and artificial intelligence, and national security, build an interdisciplinary knowledge system, take the initiative to connect with the key needs of science and artificial intelligence, and make new contributions to the innovation of China's independent knowledge system and talent cultivation.

Organizer: Advanced Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (AI-HSS)