2025.11.15 Prof. WANG Shiyuan William

Chair Professor of Language and Cognitive Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan

Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

Professor Emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from University of Chicago

Honorary Professor at Peking University

Topic: [Dialogue @ RCLCN] The Evolution of Human Beings and Language

Talk 1 - Title: The Evolution of Brain and Cognition

Keynote Speaker: Prof. P. Thomas Schoenemann

Talk 2 - Title: Vowel Emergence Based on Vocal Tract Evolution

Keynote Speaker: Prof. KONG Jiangping

Discussant: Prof. William S-Y. WANG (Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Date: 15 November 2025 (Saturday)

Time: 09:30-12:00 (Hong Kong time (GMT +8))

Venue: TU107, PolyU