Conference Keynote, Plenary and Featured Speeches - July to December 2025

Prof. Kathleen AHRENS, Department of English and Communication

Transforming Public Speaking: Harnessing GenAI for Engaging Classroom Experiences. 3rd Creative English Teaching Forum “AI + Teaching & Learning”. The MPU-Bell Centre, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao, China, 31 October 2025.

Prof. Eric FRIGINAL, Department of English and Communication

Prof. Hans LADEGAARD, Department of English and Communication

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Applied Linguistics Perspective on Migrant Domestic Workers’ Narratives. International Conference on Migration Linguistics. De La Salle University and University of Santo Thomas, Manila, 4 – 5 December 2025.

Prof. HU Guangwei, Department of English and Communication
Addressing Linguacultural Competencies in Language Teaching: The Case of Business English. The Korea Association of Teachers of English (KATE) International Conference: 60th Anniversary, Seoul, Korea, 17 – 18 July 2025.

Cross-disciplinary Differences in Academic Discourse. The Symposium on Language, Digital Technology, and Society cum the 2025 Young Scholars Forum, the Sichuan Foreign Language Literature Research Center, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China (Online), 22 November 2025.

English for Academic Purposes as a Field of Inquiry and Practice. Interdisciplinary Integration: 2025 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Forum on Cultivating Excellence in Foreign Language Teachers, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China (Online), 13 December 2025.

Developing Linguacultural Competence for Effective BELF Communication. The 2nd International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education, the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco (Online), 24 – 25 December 2025.

Prof. HUANG Chu-Ren, Department of Language Science and Technology
From Sensory Modalities to Embodied Cognition: Sensory Lexicon and Corpus Driven Studies. The 26th Chinese Lexical Semantic Workshop. Inner Mongolia University; and Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS, Singapore), Hohhot, China, 11 – 13 July 2025.

From Sensory Modalities to Embodied Cognition: Sensory Lexicon and Corpus Driven Studies. The 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics. Beijing Language and Culture University, Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Beijing, China, 12 – 14 July 2025.

From Digitization of Classical Texts to Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: A 35-Year Journey Via Corpus and Computational Linguistics. DHEAC: Annual International Conference on Digital Humanities for East Asia Classics. Beijing City Library, Research Center for Digital Humanities, Peking University, Tongzhou, Beijing, China, 20 – 22 July 2025.

From Sensory Modalities to Embodied Cognition: Sensory Lexicon and Corpus-Driven Studies. JWLLP-34: The 34th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing in part concurrently with NextEdu-207: The 207th meeting of Association for Next-Generation Higher Education. Kobe Gakuin University, in conjunction with JWLLP Steering Committee; Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Waseda University; Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University, Kobe, Japan, 5 – 7 September 2025.

From Sensory Modalities to Embodied Cognition: How to Reconcile Linguistic Studies with Large Language Models. The 26th National Conference on Linguistics (NCL). Linguistic Society of Taiwan, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, China, 25 – 26 October 2025.

Cultural Heritage is the Memory of Our Interaction with the Environment. Connection, Innovation, Prosperity: The APEC Education Forum. Beijing Language and Culture University, in conjunction with (China Annual Conference & Expo for International Education, CACIE) APEC, Beijing National Convention Centre (Online), 31 October 2025.

Mental Health Disorder Detection: A Cause-Response View. Workshop on Mental Health Disorder Detection on Social Media at ICDM’25. IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Washington DC, USA (Online), 12 November 2025.

Cultural Heritage is the Memory of Our Interaction with the Environment. The 2nd Language Resources and Computational Humanities Symposium (LRCH2025). China Ethnic Languages Society - Language Resources and Computational Humanities Committee, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 13 – 16 November 2025.

From Sensory Modalities to Embodied Cognition: How to Reconcile Linguistic Studies with Large Language Models. The 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 39). Association for Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing, Hanoi, Vietnam, 5 – 7 December 2025.

Prof. LI Ping, Department of Language Science and Technology
數位技術時代研究語言學習和語言加工的新挑戰. 粵港澳大灣區心理學科創新發展論壇（暨粵港澳心理學聯盟成立大會）. Sun Yat-sen University, Department of Psychology, Guangzhou, China, 24 – 26 October 2025.

Leveraging AI and Emerging Technologies for the Study of Neurocognition of Chinese and Other Languages. The 19th International Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages (ICPEAL 2025). South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, 12 – 14 December 2025.

Prof. ZHANG Caicai, Department of Language Science and Technology
Developmental Disorders of Language: Advancing Diagnosis and Intervention. The 8th World Laureates Forum, Young Scientist Forum. The World Laureates Association, Shanghai, China, 24 – 25 October 2025.

Sleep and Cognitive Development. The 8th World Laureates Forum, Science Relay to the Future. The World Laureates Association, Shanghai, China, 24 – 25 October 2025.