Distinguished Lectures in Humanities
Events
The Distinguished Lectures in Humanities provides an interdisciplinary forum for eminent scholars to visit the Faculty of Humanities and deliver a distinguished lecture at PolyU. Three distinguished lectures were held between October and December 2020:
“Limits on Success in Second Language Learning” on 6 October 2020
(by Prof. Brian MacWhinney, Teresa Heinz Professor of Psychology, Modern Languages, and Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University)
“The Fascinating World of English Dictionaries: Innovations in Reference Science” on 14 October 2020
(by Prof. Hilary Nesi, Professor in English Language, Coventry University)
“Trust and the Public Communication of Knowledge: Lessons from Language Translation” on 2 December 2020
(by Prof. Anthony Pym, Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia)
