Conference Keynote, Plenary and Featured Speeches - January to June 2025

Prof. Emmanuele CHERSONI, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

Large Language Models in Humanities and Arts. Seminar organised by CEFC and NTU. Centre d'études français sur la Chine Contemporaine (CEFC), Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 March 2025.

Linguistics in the Age of Language Models: Research Directions and a Case Study on Event Construal in English Light Verb Constructions. HUFS Linguistics Colloquium. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea, 24 April 2025.

The Rat, The Monkey and the Robot: Some Thoughts on LLMs and Creativity. International Conference on Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Age of AI (QTIS). Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 6-7 June 2025.

Prof. HUANG Chu-Ren, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

Prof. Hans LADEGAARD, Department of English and Communication

Cultural Representations and Stereotypes: How to Navigate Across Cultures in a Polarized World. Cultural Diversity Day at SWIRE Hong Kong. Human Resources, Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, SWIRE Hong Kong, SWIRE Headquarters, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, 21 May 2025.

Dr LAM Chuen-pan, Chinese Language Centre
Refine Newtheme: Literary Strategies in Tobacco-themed Ci-Poetry of the Qianjia Zhexi Ci-School. International Young Scholars Symposium on Art and Humanities in East Asia from the 16th to 19th Century. Jointly organized by Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 19 April 2025.

The Hong Kong Government, Lingnan Literati, and Culture in the Landscape Construction of Song Wong Toi (1898–1916). Conference on “Cultural Memories of Song Emperor’s Terrace”. Jointly organized by Research Programme for Lingnan Culture, Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK, and Research Centre for Classical Chinese Poetics, CUHK & Co-organized by Department of Chinese and History, CityUHK, Hong Kong, 28-29 May 2025.

Dr LAM Yan Yan, Chinese Language Centre
Innovations in Chinese Oral Communication: AI-Powered Assessment and Metaverse Learning Environments. The 18th Inter-institutional Symposium on Putonghua Teaching in Tertiary Education. Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 21 May 2025.

Prof. LI Ping, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
Generative AI’s Impact on Language and Cognition: What’s left for us to study? 2nd Language Cognition and Development Roundtable Forum. School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China, 12-13 April 2025.

New Opportunities in the Integration of Humanities, Science, and Education. Joint Symposium on Emerging Technologies and Future Talent by Harvard, Stanford and The Education University of Hong Kong. Harvard China Education Symposium (CES) & The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 8-10 May 2025.

Leveraging Emerging Technologies for the Study of Language, Cognition, and the Brain. EdUHK-THU Education Forum: Future Education and Learning. The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and Tsinghua University (THU), The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 13-14 June 2025.

Dr SHEN Li, Department of Chinese History and Culture
From Hexi Corridor to Feilai Peak - Using the Uṣṇīṣavijayā Cult as an Example to Discuss the Interaction of Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Art from the 10th to 14th Century. The Refined Heart Series- Lecture 7 of the Distinguished Aesthetic Education Masters Forum. Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 23 April 2025.

Dr WU Ka-Chun Gary, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
A Structural Reassessment of Cao Zhi’s Rhapsody on the Goddess of the Luo River. From Tradition to Innovation: The Fourth Hong Kong Young Scholars Research Forum on History and Literature. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Chinese Literature, Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong Chu Hai College; School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University; Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Shue Yan University & Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 22 February 2025.

Prof. ZHANG Caicai, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
Variation in Real-time Lexical Tone Processing: A Psycholinguistic Perspective. The Third International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025). Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Herrsching near Munich, Germany, 16-18 May 2025.