Digital Narratives Studio

From The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Vennes Cheng explores archives as dynamic knowledge systems that can interrupt linear histories and inherited structures of memory. Drawing on art history and media archaeology, her work reimagines archives as experimental spaces for producing alternative forms of knowledge.

At the IACS Summer School 2026, Vennes will invite participants to rethink archival narration as a way to reimagine technologies and histories, and to open up more equitable and livable futures.
Stay tuned for more updates from IACS Summer School 2026!
Learn more: https://digitalnarratives.com.cuhk.edu.hk/articles/2026-iacs-summer-school

Nishant Shah

✨ Let’s meet Cindy Anh Nguyen from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Drawing on feminist thought, sociotechnical histories, and critical disability studies, Cindy Anh Nguyen asks: how do we live, research, and learn ethically in a time of overlapping crises — from AI acceleration to climate change and global inequalities? Her work rethinks care not as a soft solution or added burden, but as a critical framework that recenters how and why we engage in scholarly and everyday practices.

At the IACS Summer School 2026, she will invite participants to explore how care can reshape research, pedagogy, and collective life in more intentional and livable ways.

Stay tuned for more updates from IACS Summer School 2026!
Learn more: https://digitalnarratives.com.cuhk.edu.hk/articles/2026-iacs-summer-school

Nishant Shah

We are very excited to announce that the IACS 2026 cohort is now full. We are inspired by the 50 participants who will join us in Hong Kong and thank everybody who sent in their interest and applications to join us.

Please note that if you have not been invited to complete admission procedures by now, it means that we were unfortunately not able to include you in this year's cohort. With more than 275 applications, we had to make some difficult calls that centered on who we thought we would be able to serve best with the resources and the faculty that we have.

✨ We again extend our heartfelt thanks to all who applied. We hope you continue to engage with the IACS community in other ways in the future.

🔗 Learn more about the Summer School:
https://digitalnarratives.com.cuhk.edu.hk/articles/2026-iacs-summer-school

Nishant Shah

✨ Let’s meet Lisa Yuk-ming Leung from Lingnan University, Hong Kong

At the IACS Summer School 2026, Lisa will bring over a decade of research on the struggles and agencies of South Asian minority youth in Hong Kong. Focusing on the livability and narrativity of racial minorities, Lisa’s work examines the tactics and storytelling practices through which minority communities articulate forms of racial and labour subjectivity within Hong Kong’s social fabric.

We look forward to the conversations her session will open this summer! Please stay tuned for more updates from IACS Summer School 2026!

Learn more: https://digitalnarratives.com.cuhk.edu.hk/articles/2026-iacs-summer-school

Nishant Shah

From The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jia Tan explores the intersections of feminism and environmentalism in Asia. While both fields have received significant attention, her work asks why eco activism in the region is so rarely examined through a feminist lens.

By developing the idea of diverse activism, Jia Tan proposes a feminist approach to social movements—one that is deeply connected to everyday politics and that questions both conventional definitions of activism and the conditions under which activism is suppressed.

At the IACS Summer School 2026, Jia Tan will invite participants to rethink activism through the lens of care, environment, and everyday life.

✨ Please stay tuned for more updates from IACS Summer School 2026!
Learn more: https://digitalnarratives.com.cuhk.edu.hk/articles/2026-iacs-summer-school

Nishant Shah