Distinguished Lectures in Humanities

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The Distinguished Lectures in Humanities provide an interdisciplinary forum for eminent scholars to visit the Faculty of Humanities and deliver a distinguished lecture at PolyU.

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Chinese Gods as Persons and Subjects

by Prof. Vincent GOOSSAERT, Professor of Daoist Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres University, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Date: 10 June 2025
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Venue: HHB502, PolyU HHB Campus & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Using Large Language Models to Augment the Psycholinguistic Toolbox

by Prof. Marc BRYSBAERT, Professor of Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University

Date: 30 May 2025
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm
Venue: UG05, PolyU HHB Campus & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China

by Prof. Matthew H. SOMMER, Bowman Family Professor of History, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (by courtesy), Department of History, Stanford University

Date: 15 April 2025
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Venue: UG01, PolyU HHB Campus & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Perception, Language, and Knowledge Representation in the Human Brain

by Prof. Yanchao BI, Professor, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, and School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University

Date: 9 April 2025
Time: 10:30am - 12:00nn
Venue: FJ302 & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Humanities Research in a Datafied World

by Prof. Kay O’HALLORAN, Chair Professor and Head, Department of Communication and Media, and Co-Director, Digital Media and Society Institute (DMSI), University of Liverpool

Date: 31 March 2025
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Y302 & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Linguistic and Social Biases Impact Speech Communication in Human-Computer Interaction

by Prof. Georgia ZELLOU, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Davis

Date: 25 March 2025
Time: 10:30am - 12:00nn
Venue: FJ304 & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Corpus and Genre-Based Perspectives on the Qualitative/Qualitative Divide in Applied Linguistics Research: Implications for Pedagogy and the Profession

by Prof. Charlene POLIO, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Michigan State University

Date: 12 March 2025
Time: 10:30am - 12:00nn
Venue: FJ302 & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Resisting and Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in the Technologized Translation and Interpreting Classroom

by Dr Christopher D. MELLINGER, Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Cultures and Translation, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Date: 13 February 2025
Time: 10:30am - 12:00nn
Venue: HJ302 & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Decolonizing English Medium Instruction in Higher Education: Challenging Linguistic Imperialism and Western Curricula through Global Englishes

by Dr Nicola GALLOWAY, Senior Lecturer and Publications Lead, School of Education, The University of Glasgow

Date: 29 November 2024
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: HJ304 & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Revealing Diverse Perceptual and Cognitive Representations in the Human Brain

by Prof. Shinji NISHIMOTO, Professor, Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University

Date: 15 October 2024
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Rethinking ‘Cultural Thought Patterns’: Translanguaging and Intercultural Communication

by Prof. LI Wei, Director and Dean, Professor of Applied Linguistics, UCL Institute of Education, Faculty of Education and Society, University College London

Date: 18 July 2024
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: HJ304 & Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Hybrid Agencies in Human - Artificial Agents Interactions

by Dr Anna CIAUNICA, Principal Investigator, Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, and Research Associate, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

Date: 2 July 2024
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: FJ302 & Zoom

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: AI, Ethics and the Humanities in the UK

by Prof. Tony MCENERY, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University, and Advisory Professor, Shanghai International Studies University

Date: 30 April 2024
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: FJ302 & Zoom

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: On the Military in the Qin and Early Han: New Evidence from Excavated and Recovered Sources

by Prof. Robin D.S. YATES, James McGill Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Studies and Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University

Date: 11 April 2024
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: CD301 & Zoom

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Sensorimotor Plasticity and Cognitive Flexibility: A Neuoremergentist Approach

by Prof. Arturo E. HERNANDEZ, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Houston

Date: 15 March 2024
Time: 10:30am - 12:00nn
Venue: FJ302 & Zoom

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Predicting Language in Difficult Circumstances

by Prof. Martin PICKERING, Professor of the Psychology of Language and Communication, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh

Date: 6 March 2024
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Zoom

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Gesture, Metaphor, and Spatial Language

by Prof. Sotaro KITA, Professor, Department of Psychology and Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Warwick

Date: 26 February 2024
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: AG206 & Zoom

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Developmental Trends of the Effects of Language Experience on Cognitive Control

by Prof. DONG Yanping, Professor of Psycholinguistics and Dean, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University

Date: 4 December 2023
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: Z414

Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Brain Mechanisms of Second Language Acquisition Through Social Interaction

by Prof. Hyeonjeong JEONG, Professor, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies and Department of Human Brain Science, Tohoku University, Japan

Date: 27 November 2023
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Venue: AG710
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: 「日常生活中的語言學」

by Prof. CUI Xiliang, Professor, Beijing Language and Culture University

Date: 15 September 2023
Time: 10:30am-12:00pm
Venue: Z211
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Language Learning in Humans and Machines: Two Sides of the Same Coin

by Prof Chen YU, Charles and Sarah Seay Regents Professor, Department of Psychology, Central of Perceptual Systems, and Institute of Neural Science, the University of Texas at Austin

Date: 28 June 2023
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Venue: M1603
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Preferred Colors in Diverse Cultures as Evidenced in their Lexical Frequency and More Topics for Comparison in the Cultural Circle of Chinese Character (漢字文化圈)

by Prof Sang Oak LEE, Professor Emeritus, Department of Korean, College of Humanities, Seoul National University

Date: 18 April 2023
Time: 3:00pm-4:30pm
Venue: Zoom
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Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: 「現代漢語定式句」及「時間參照、完句性和動詞的限定性」

by Prof SUN Chaofen and Prof GUO Rui

Date: 20 Dec 2022
Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: CF302 & Zoom
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PolyU 85th Anniversary: Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: The Democratization and Technologization of Expertise and their Consequences

by Prof Srikant SARANGI, Visiting Chair Professor, Department of English and Communication, PolyU

Date: 25 Nov 2022
Time: 10:00am-11:30pm
Venue: Zoom
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PolyU 85th Anniversary: Distinguished Lectures in Humanities: Rethinking Environmental Issues: the case for intergenerational equity

Prof Michael NYLAN, Professor, Jane K. Sather History Chair, University of California, Berkeley

Date: 14 Nov 2022
Time: 10:30am-12:00pm
Venue: Zoom
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PolyU 85th Anniversary: FH-PAIR Joint Distinguished Lecture: AI, Consciousness and Ethics: Towards a Principled and Empathic AI

by Prof Manuel BLUM and Prof Lenore BLUM

Date: 18 Oct 2022
Time: 10:00am-12:10pm
Venue: Zoom
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PolyU 85th Anniversary: FH-UBSN Joint Distinguished Lecture: Shared Computational Principles for Language Processing in Humans and Deep Language Models

by Prof Uri HASSON, Professor, Department of Psychology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

Date: 20 Sep 2022
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Venue: Zoom
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PolyU 85th Anniversary: FH-FB Joint Distinguished Lecture: Venturing into Chinese culture: A pilgrim psychologist’s Journey to the West to find the City of Light in the East

by Prof Michael Harris BOND, Visiting Chair Professor of Management, Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Date: 29 Sep 2022
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: Zoom & P309 (Hybrid)
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PolyU 85th Anniversary: Distinguished Lectures in Humanities - Good English: The Languages of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Languages

by Prof Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Languages and Arts, University of Glasgow

Date: 24 Aug 2022
Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm
Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)
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PolyU 85th Anniversary: FH-UBSN Joint Distinguished Lecture: The Brain’s Infrastructure for Human Uniqueness

by Prof. Peter HAGOORT, Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Founding Director, Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, and Professor in cognitive neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen

Date: 25 May 2022
Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm
Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)
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FH-UBSN Joint Distinguished Lecture: How neuroimaging methods can be used to gain insights about infant cognition and language development

by Professor Richard N. ASLIN, Distinguished Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories and Professor, Yale Child Study Center

Date: 16 Feb 2022
Time: 10:30am-12:00nn
Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)
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Variable outcomes in first- and second-language acquisition: conditioning factors and analytical perspectives

by Prof David BIRDSONG, Professor of French Linguistics, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas

Date: 17 Nov 2021
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)
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Evidence-Based Principles for Designing Effective Multimedia Instruction

by Prof Richard E. MAYER, Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of California, Santa Barbara

Date: 4 Nov 2021
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)
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The Theory and Practice of Narrative Health Message Design

by Prof. Michael Hecht, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University and President, REAL Prevention, LLC

Date: 18 Oct 2021
Time: 9:00am-10:30am
Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)
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FH-FHSS Joint Distinguished Lecture: Leveraging Neuroscience and Mindfulness to Maintain Well-Being in the Pandemic (and Beyond)

(by Prof. Christine Runyan, Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School)

Date: 7 May 2021
Time: 9:00am-10:30am
Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)

China and Southeast Asia: A Contemporary History

(by Prof. Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University)

Date: 5 May 2021

Time: 10:00am-11:30am

Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)

Don’t talk yourself into an early grave! Intergroup and personal challenges of ageing successfully

(by Prof. Howard Giles, Distinguished Research Professor of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Date: 30 April 2021

Time: 10:00am-11:30am

Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)

Is work still a man's world? Discursive evidence of attitudes to women in the workplace

(by Prof Janet Holmes, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Language in the Workplace Project (LWP), Victoria University of Wellington)

Date: 14 April 2021

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

Venue: Live webinar (Zoom)