Conference Keynote, Plenary and Featured Speeches - July to December 2022

Prof. Kathleen AHRENS, Department of English and Communication
Taking strength from the source and breaking barriers. 15^th Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor: The Social Impact of Metaphor. University of Bialystok, Poland, 21-24 September 2022.

Breaking Through Glass Ceilings or Opening Glass Doors? Addressing the Challenges of Equality and Inclusion via Metaphors. 36^th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 36). Department of English and Applied Linguistics (DEAL), Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education (BAGCED), De La Salle University, College of Computing and Information Technologies (CCIT), National University and Lasallian Institute for Development and Education Research (LIDER), De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 20-22 October 2022.

Dr CHANG Wei-ling, Department of Chinese Culture
Experiences of Writing Dissertation and Book Publication. Experiences of Writing Dissertation and Book Publication (學位論文寫作與出版經驗分享). History Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 4 August 2022.

Dr Julia CHEN, Department of English and Communication
Blended learning in action: Design and research for increased student engagement. The International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT). English Department, FBS Universitas Negeri Padang (online), 26-27 October 2022.

Dr Cathryn DONOHUE, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
On the productivity of differential object marking in Nubri. Re-examining peripheral structures: theoretical and empirical perspectives on linguistic ‘(un)productivity’. The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 18 November 2022.

Prof. HU Guangwei, Department of English and Communication
English-medium instruction in higher education: Problems encountered and lessons learned. The 2022 Bilingual Education, Innovative Teaching and Assessment Conference. Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan (hybrid mode), 28 October 2022.

Publishing EAP/ESP Research in Academic Journals: Processes, Practices & Strategies. School of Foreign Language Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China (hybrid mode), 23 November 2022.

Prof. Hans J LADEGAARD, Department of English and Communication
The language of trauma: Evidence from domestic migrant workers’ storytelling. School of English, the University of Hong Kong (hybrid mode), 22 September 2022.

Prof. David C.S. LI, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
The use of written Chinese as a ‘scripta franca’ in Sinographic East Asia until the 1900s: from Sinitic brush-talk (漢文筆談) to pen-assisted conversation (筆桿面談). The 6th International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD6). Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Macau and Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (hybrid mode), 9–10 December 2022.

Prof. LI Ping, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
Grand Challenge Lecture: Computational Language Learning: Technology, Application, and the Brain. The 29^th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. COLING Program Committee, Gyeongju, South Korea (hybrid mode), 12-17 October 2022.

Digital Language Learning (DLL): Technology, Data, and the Brain. The 1^st International Conference on Data Science and Second Language Studies. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ningbo Institute of Finance and Economy, and Journal of Second Language Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Ningbo Institute of Finance and Economy, Zhejiang province (hybrid mode), 17 December 2022.

Dr Mohammad MOMENIAN, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
Predictive Language Processing in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers. International Symposium on Bilingualism and Cognition. Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and the Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences (CNCS), University of Hyderabad, Goa, India, 28-29 October 2022.

Prof. SHENG Li, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
The fine-grained effects of bilingualism on children’s lexical-semantic development. The Asian Pacific Society of Speech, Language, and Hearing Annual Symposium. Asian Pacific Society of Speech, Language, and Hearing; Hong Kong Association of Speech Therapists (HKAST); and Thai Speech-Language and Hearing Association (TSHA) (online), 28-29 October 2022.

Prof. William S-Y. WANG, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
What is linguistics? (何為語言學). The 59^th lecture of the Xue’er Forum (學而大講堂第59講). School of Chinese Studies and Exchange, Shanghai International Studies University (上海外國語大學國際文化交流學院) (online), 9 September 2022.

Language and cognition (語言和認知). Distinguished Lecture in Celebration of FHM 10^th Anniversary (人文學院十周年名家講座). The Education University of Hong Kong (hybrid mode), 18 October 2022.

Language and cognitive decline. Boya Linguistic Forum. Department of Chinese language and Literature, Peking University (online), 5-6 November 2022.

A Journey into language: evolution, cognition, and neuroscience. Research Grants Council Public Lecture (Presented with Dr Manson Cheuk-Man Fong). Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Science Museum, 12 November 2022.

Brain + Language = Mind. First International Forum on Neurolinguistics. Nanjing University of Science and Technology (online), 3 December 2022.