理大人文傑出講座系列

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理大人文傑出講座系列提供一個跨學科平台，讓一眾優秀的學者到訪人文學院，並於本校發表一場傑出的演講。

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: 10:30am - 12:00nn
Venue: HJ303 & 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: 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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