Exploring the Humanities: FH Podcast Series at PolyU

The Faculty Podcast Series, Exploring the Humanities: Voices from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, showcases the Faculty’s knowledge transfer initiatives. Through engaging conversations with researchers and experts, the series explores how innovative ideas in language, communication, history, culture, and technology are translated into real-world impact—addressing societal challenges, fostering community engagement, and contributing to global development. Below are the episodes from the first half of 2026:

• Intercultural Communication, Migration, and Language (Prof. Hans Ladegaard, formerly of the Department of English and Communication)
• Discover Untold Transgender Histories from Imperial China’s Archives (Prof. Matthew H. Sommer, from Stanford University)
• Corpus Linguistics Meets AI: The Next Language Revolution (Dr Wan Mingyu, from the Department of Language Science and Technology)
• From Social Media to Scholarly Communication in the Field of English Language Teaching (Dr Hassan Nejadghanbar, from the Department of English and Communication)
• From Vygotsky to AI: Transforming Second Language Acquisition Today (Prof. Lili Qin, from Guangdong University)
• Beyond Speech: The Hidden Threat of Swallowing Disorders (Prof. Elaine Kwong, from the Department of Language Science and Technology)
  
• Human-like AI: Comforting… or Manipulative? (Prof. Manuele Reani, from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
• Your Brain Adapts: The Science of Learning Multiple Languages (Prof. Twila Tardif, from National University of Singapore)