On 30 May, Professor Hilde De Weerdt was invited as a roundtable discussant for Rethinking Tools: New Methodological Developments at The Middle without Boundaries? The Fourth Middle-Period China Humanities Conference, hosted by the City University of Hong Kong.

The roundtable brought together scholars to reflect on emerging methodological approaches, including digital humanities, new analytical tools, and interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, and to exchange views on current developments in the field.