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The 17th CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum
Becoming Human, Beyond Human
何以成人，不止於人
30 Jan 2026 (Fri) & 31 Jan 2026 (Sat)
Mixed mode (In-person & Online)
Call for Papers 徵稿啟事
Becoming human is an ongoing process of entanglement. We are shaped by encounters with ourselves and other people, embodied experiences of pain, illness, and care, technologies that extend our capacities, environments that sustain and challenge us, nonhuman species whose lives and deaths are intertwined with ours, and the circulation of objects with values and meanings. In a time of planetary crises, technological shifts, and contested social orders, we need to have new recognitions for what it means to be human at a time when the category itself is unsettled. We are all dwelling in discomfort and uncertainty; and we challenge ourselves to think beyond the boundaries that define and regulate our existences and communities. Through processes of becoming and more-than-human relationships, we engage in the work of reimagining practices of care and cultivating hope for survival and flourishing.
This forum invites postgraduate researchers to an exciting exploration of our everyday and mundane entanglements with human and more-than-human subjects, as well as the deep-time material legacies through which such entanglements can be traced. How do humans and nonhumans co-constitute one another? In what ways can archaeology, through its attention to deep-time processes and material culture, shed light on contemporary questions of becoming human? What new ethical, political, and ontological questions arise when new subjectivities and potentialities open paths of becoming beyond the human? If old patterns of inequality persist within new relational contexts, how should we understand the reconfigurations of power in posthuman conditions? In the world where anthropologists recognize that rethinking beyond anthropocentrism is no longer an optional engagement but integral to understanding what it means to become human today, we especially encourage contributions that connect anthropology, archaeology, and other related disciplines from ethnographic studies of more than human relations to archaeological investigations of past human, material, and environmental entanglements.
Encouraged topics and themes include but are not limited to: - - Entangled afterlives of humans and things
- Objects of daily life and shifting meanings
- Reconfiguring borders, changing communities
- Multispecies entanglements in the Anthropocene
- Becoming machine and technological mediation of life
- Boundaries between humanity and AI technologies
- The uneasy psyche: human life within institutional worlds
- Troubled gender and becoming multiple
- Rethinking kinship in human, nonhuman, and artificial connections
- Work, labor, and livelihood in more-than-human economies
- Shifting subjectivity: embodied and disembodied experiences
- Inequality, crisis, and marginal voices in material and social practices
- Food culture and changing ecologies of sustenance
- After extraction: energy, waste, toxicity, and environmental changes
- Heritage, tradition, and the politics of memory
- Ordinary everyday life in the prehistory
成為人的過程，是一場持續的糾纏。我們，在自我與他者的相遇中被塑造；在病痛、療癒與關懷的具身經驗中生成；在延展能力的技術之中拓展；在既養育又挑戰我們的環境中試煉；在與我們生死交織的非人類物種之間共存；在流動循環的物件及其所承載的價值與意義之中被再造。當星球危機疊加、技術劇烈轉向、社會秩序不斷受爭奪之際，「人」作為範疇本身已不再穩固。此刻，我們需要重新辨識「何以成人」究竟意味著什麼。我們皆棲居於不安與不確定之中，挑戰著自我，去思索如何超越那些劃定並規訓我們存在與共同體的邊界。在「何以成人」的進程與「不止於人」的關係交織中，我們致力於重新想像關懷的實踐，並於其中播種希望，使生存與繁盛得以綻放。
本論壇誠邀有興趣的研究者，共同踏上一場探尋與省思的旅程：去追索日常與平凡中我們與人類和不止於人類存在的共棲與糾纏；亦追尋那些深時遺留下來的物質痕跡，它們如迴聲般見證並延續這些跨越時空的牽連。人與非人如何彼此生成？考古學如何藉由對深時進程與物質文化的凝視，映照出當代「何以成人」的疑問？當新的主體性與潛能，開啟了超越人類的生成之徑，會召喚出哪些倫理、政治與本體論的追問？如果舊有的不平等模式在新的關係脈絡中持續存在，我們應該如何理解後人類情境下的權力重構？在這個世界裡，「超越人類中心主義」不再是選項，而是理解「何以成人，不止於人」的鑰匙。我們尤其鼓勵連結人類學，考古學和其他相關學科研究，探索從超越人類關係的民族誌，到過去人類、物質與環境纏繞的考古實踐，跨越時空，展開新的想像。
我們歡迎的報告主題包括但不限於：
- 人與物在後世生命的纏繞
- 日常物件與意義流變
- 重構的邊界與變動的社群
- 人類世中的多物種纏繞
- 機械共成與生命的技術調節
- 人性與人工智能的界限
- 不安的心靈：制度世界中的人類生活
- 受擾動的性別與多重可能
- 親屬關係的再思考：人類、非人與人造物的連結
- 超越人類的經濟體系下的勞作、生產與維生之道
- 流動的主體性：具身與離身經驗
- 物質與社會實踐中的不平等、危機與邊緣之聲
- 飲食文化與變動的生態維繫
- 開採之後：能源、廢棄物、毒性與環境變遷
- 遺產、傳統與記憶政治
- 史前時期的日常生活
The 17th Forum Committee
Agnes Pui Yee Sung
Chunkai Cao
Dongyi Yang
Mark Man Chung Li
Tsring Zi’en Shu
Yimeng Du
Yonten Xiaoqian Yuan
Sponsors
Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact us
NAH 407, Humanities Building, New Asia College,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.
Hong Kong
Email: anthforum@cuhk.edu.hk
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