On the afternoon of May 6, the College of Humanities convened the Emerging Scholars Forum, themed ‘Humanism/Post-Humanism and Cultural Sustainability.’ The event brought together more than 40 participants, including five newly appointed faculty members, academic administrators, senior faculty peers, master’s and doctoral students from two graduate institutes, as well as administrative staff from across the university.

The five presenters offered perspectives ranging from ecological and biological sciences, traditional xiqu literature and its transmission, digital music pedagogy, AI-driven visual arts education, to museum management and cultural sustainability. Each tightly structured ten-minute presentation demonstrated the depth of interdisciplinary and cross-domain dialogue within the College of Humanities. The faculty members and their presentation topics were as follows:

• Assistant Professor Shu-Hui Kuan
  Center for General Education
  “SDGs in Everyday Life”
• Assistant Professor Yi-Zo Hong
  Center for General Education
  “Between the Refined and the Popular: Cross-Genre Dissemination and Sustainable Transmission of Traditional Xiqu Repertoires”
• Associate Professor Yu-Tai Su
  Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Instruction
  “Fostering DAW-Based Musical Competence in Pre-Service Teachers and Cultivating Sustainable Artistic Talent”
• Assistant Professor Yu-Hsiang Chen
  Teacher Education Center
  “Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Sustainable Development of Education”
• Assistant Professor Wen-Ling Lin
  “Museum Management within the Framework of Cultural Sustainability”