Events

Research Seminar Series

Title: Don't Just Use Algorithms. Co-Create Meaning with Them

Speaker: Prof. Dennis Tay, Professor, Division of Humanities, HKUST

Date: 22 October 2026

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

Venue: LYH201/2 (Lau Lee Yuan Haan Amenities Building)

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Language and identity among elite students: Grounded highflyers in Singapre

Speaker: Prof. Luke Lu, Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Multilinguistic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Date: 29 September 2026

Time: 2:00—3:00 pm

Venue: LYH317 (Lau Lee Yuan Haan Amenities Building)

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Career Discovery Workshop

Topic: Impact 2.0: Human-Centric Soft Skills and Emotional Intelligence for the AI-Empowered Generation of Social-Good Leaders

Speaker: Mr. Louis Hou, Executive Director, KELY Support Group

Date: 14 April 2026

Time: 3:30 —5:00 pm

Venue: LYH201/1 (Lau Lee Yuan Haan Amenities Building)

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Career Forum 2026

Topic: Education Inside and Outside the Classroom

Speakers: Mr. Logan Tse, Ms. Jasmine Hasmik and Ms. Winnie Tsoi

Date: 9 April 2026

Time: 4:30 — 6:00 pm

Venue: SEK206

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Career Forum 2026

Topic: Career in Aviation and Beyond

Speakers: Mr. Phil Balmer, Ms. Jessie Li, Ms. Amy Yang and Ms. Crystal Wong

Date: 25 March 2026

Time: 10:30 am — 2:00 pm

Venue: MPL12056 (M+, West Kowloon)

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Academic Seminar

Title: Technologies of Language and Corporeality: An Ecolinguistics Perspective

Speaker: Dr. Sune Vork Steffensen, Professor, Language and Cognition, University of Southern Denmark

Date: 14 October 2025

Time: 3:00 — 4:30 pm

Venue: MBG01

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Professional Training

Topic: Which Jobs is AI Replacing in Global Business

Speaker: Mr. Karim Hayab, Operation Director of a multinational company

Date: 2 October 2025

Time: 3:00 — 5:00 pm

Venue: LCH204

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Beowulf and the Digital Humanities

Speaker: Prof. Leonard Neidorf, Distinguished Professor of English, Shenzhen University

Date: 10 April 2025

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

Venue: LCH103

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Analysing political rhetoric and appeals to common sense: A Discourse Argumentative Approach

Speaker: Dr. Salomi Boukala, Assistant Professor of Critical Discourse Analysis, Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences

Date: 7 April 2025

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm (HKT)

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Invisible Damage: The Grotesque Fictions of Teddy Wayne's Apartment

Speaker: Prof. Peter D. Mathews, Professor of English, University of Macau

Date: 2 April 2025

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Understanding sustainability narratives: A corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis of corporate genres

Speaker: Dr. Esterina Nervino, Assistant Professor, Department of English and the Department of Marketing, City University of Hong Kong

Date: 3 March 2025

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

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Workshop

Title: Poetry as an-other language

Speaker: Jennifer Wong, author of the poetry collections, a book reviewer and translator

Date: 17 February 2025

Time: 4:30—6:00 pm

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Migrant domestic workers' multicompetence, English-language proficiency and power at the workplace: The view from a migrant-owned, multilingual cleaning company in the United States

Speaker: Dr. Anne Ambler Schluter, Associate Professor, Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Date: 12 February 2025

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Is “Ethnic Minority” a Wicked Term? Navigating Pluralistic Identities of Diverse Population Groups in Asia's World City

Speaker: Dr. Jan Christian C. Gube

Date: 20 January 2025

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Flow in ChatGPT-based Logic Learning and Its Influences on Logic and Self-efficacy in English Argumentative Writing

Speaker: Prof. Zhou Di, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lingnan University

Date: 25 November 2024

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Emerging Technologies for English Language Education: Games, AR/VR, and AI

Speaker: Prof. Zhou Di, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lingnan University

Date: 18 November 2024

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

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Research Seminar Series

Title: Changing the World by Activism on Social Media: the Contribution of MCDA

Speaker: Prof. Gwen Bouvier, Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai International Studies University

Date: 17 October 2024

Time: 4:30—5:30 pm

Venue: LKK101

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