Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities


The Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities is a cross-institutional body of scholars in the humanities based in Hong Kong. The Academy was established in April 2011 with 39 foundation fellows drawn from Hong Kong's eight institutions of higher education funded by the University Grants Committee. Its constitution was promulgated at the 2012 AGM.

Goals

In 2015, the First Book Prize was won by of Hong Kong Baptist University for her book Empire Careers: Working for the Chinese Customs Service 1854–1949, published in 2014 by Manchester University Press.
The runner up was Dennis Tay of Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his book Metaphor in Psychotherapy: A Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis published in 2013 by John Benjamins.
The HKAH has held the following symposia:
Fellows in the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities are recognized by their peers as scholars of the highest academic distinction, or eminent practitioners of the arts, and honored for their lifetime contribution to the humanities. Early Career Fellows are early to mid-career scholars who show exceptional promise in their humanities discipline. Overseas Fellows are Fellows who were formerly based in Hong Kong and have taken up posts abroad.
New Fellows are nominated on an annual basis by nomination and secret ballot of members.
Founding Secretary, Professor David Parker of Chinese University of Hong Kong's Research Centre for Human Values, died on 29 October 2015 and served as Vice-President of the HKAH at the time.

Affiliations

The Academy has sister relationships with other national academy bodies around the world, including the Union Académique Internationale and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Other international scholarly academies