I. Purpose

To promote traditional Chinese culture, advance academic exchange and the development of young talent in Chinese cultural studies across the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), and provide a cross-institutional, interdisciplinary platform for academic dialogue, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), together with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Macau, will jointly host the Student Forum on Chinese Culture in the GBA. We invite submissions from students in relevant disciplines at universities across the GBA, and warmly welcome papers from outstanding undergraduate and postgraduate students.

II. Organizing Institutions

Institute for Communication Studies of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University

Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau

III. Eligibility

Eligible applicants are outstanding undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students in Chinese culture-related disciplines (including literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, the arts, communication studies, and related fields) at universities across the GBA.

The forum expects to invite approximately 30-50 undergraduate and postgraduate students to attend.

IV. Submission Requirements

1. Submissions must be the author’s own original work and must not have been published previously or submitted elsewhere for review. They must meet scholarly standards and be free of plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct.

2. Papers should address a topic related to Chinese culture, with a clear thesis, rigorous argumentation, thorough use of sources, and significant scholarly merit.

3. Authors must submit the full paper together with an abstract of 300-500 characters. Papers may follow any formatting convention that is standard in the author’s discipline, and may be written in either Chinese or English.

V. Forum Arrangements

The forum is tentatively scheduled for January 9-10, 2027, at BNBU. Further details will be announced separately.

VI. Paper Review and Selection

1. After the submission deadline, the forum’s organizing committee will arrange for all submissions to undergo anonymous review by expert reviewers.

2. Selection results are expected to be announced in late December 2026. Selected authors will be notified by email and invited to attend.

3. The post-forum proceedings will be published in Hong Kong or as a special issue of the Newsletter of the Institute for Communication Studies of Chinese Culture.

VII. Forum Expenses

The organizers will cover meals for selected participants during the forum. For HKUST students, the contact person will arrange bus transportation to Zhuhai, Chinese Mainland.

VIII. Submission Procedure and Deadline

Please put “Name + University + Paper Title” in the email subject line, and attach an electronic copy of the paper along with your personal details (such as university, major, year of study, and contact information).

• Submission email: icscc@bnbu.edu.cn

• Submission deadline: December 15, 2026

We warmly invite outstanding undergraduate and postgraduate students from universities across the GBA to submit their work.