Speakers

Rostam J. Neuwirth

University of Macau

Rostam J. Neuwirth (諾思坦) is Distinguished Professor of Law and Head for Department of Global Legal Studies at the University of Macau. Previously, he taught at the West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) in Kolkata and the Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU) in Raipur (India) and worked as a legal adviser in the Department of European Law of the International Law Bureau of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He received his PhD degree from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy) and also holds a master’s degree in law (LLM) from the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal (Canada). As an undergraduate he studied at the University of Graz (Austria) and the Université d’Auvergne (France). He is the author of The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Regulating Subliminal AI Systems (Routledge 2023), which was also translated into Chinese, as well as Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law (Routledge 2018). He has also published extensively in international journals on contemporary global legal issues, exploring the intrinsic linkages between law, on the one hand, and language, cognition, art, culture, society, and technology, on the other.

Pak-Hang Wong

Hong Kong Baptist University

Pak-Hang Wong is a philosopher and ethicist of technology based in the Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research explores the social, ethical, and political dimensions of AI and emerging digital technologies, particularly from an intercultural perspective. He is Editor-in-Chief (Ethics, AI & Data) of Ethics and Society and Associate Editor (Epistemology and Technology) of Philosophy & Technology. He co-edited Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology, which offers an alternative, non-Western perspective on the philosophy and ethics of technology.