events In preparation
online Seminar series
The ISGS - HK Seminar Series
(Spring Semester 2019-2020)
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February 27, 2020 (4-5pm)
Pointing gestures and cognition
Professor Heng Li (Southwest University)
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March 2020 (Date TBA)
Gesture intervention for individuals with autism
Dr. Catherine So (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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April 2020 (Date TBA)
Dr. Simon Harrison (City University of Hong Kong)
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April 2020 (Date TBA)
Interpersonal touch in Mandarin interaction
Dr. Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta, Canada)
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May 2020 (TBC)
(Autumn Semester 2019-2020)
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October 21, 2019 (5-6pm)
Categorizing Recurrent Gestures: Lessons from Discourse Markers
Dr. Renia Lopez (PolyU)
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September 23, 2019 (4-5pm)
From ‘body language’ to ‘linguistic bodies’. That’s one small shuffle for terminology, one giant leap for understanding
Dr. Simon Harrison
(related video: Viadrina Gesture Centre Lecture Series. May 14, 2019)
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The 6th International Conference of the Asia Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association
(In collaboration with the International Society for Gesture Studies – Hong Kong)-
Theme: Multimodality and Beyond: Addressing complexity and emerging needs in LSP
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Event date: May 26-28, 2021 (Wednesday-Friday)
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The 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (July 2021, Chicago)
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online seminar series
To access these seminars, sign up by emailing: isgshkhub@gmail.com
Autumn semester 2022-2023
Friday 9th December (9-12, 3-6pm HKT online).
A Day of Sense-Making: Living, Moving, Knowing, Feeling, Gesturing
Schedule, Speakers, Abstracts and Registration here.
A collaboration with the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong
Autumn semester 2021-2022
Friday 27th August 2021, 4-5pm HK time
Recurrent gestures associated with negativity in Indonesian
Dr. Poppy Siahaan (University of Cologne)
Thursday 30th September 2021, 5-6pm HK time
Towards the multimodal unit of meaning of recurrent gestures
Dr. Yaoyao Chen (Macao University of Science and Technology)
Wednesday 10th November 2021, 5-6pm HK time
Gesture for collaboration and affective alignment
in the language classroom
Dr. Tania Smotrova (National University of Singapore)
In collaboration with and sponsored by
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
(requires sign up: https://polyu.hk/ywJQc)
Thursday 2 December 2021, 9-10am HK time (UTC/GMT + 8)
Multimodal Conduct in the Legal Order
Professor Gregory Matoesian and Professor Kristin Enola Gilbert
University of Illinois at Chicago
Joint seminar with Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association




Spring semester 2020-2021
Friday 16th April 2021, 10-11am HK time
Construal in depictive gesturing as a practice of sense-making
for exposition
Dr. Michael Stevens Pérez (University of Nottingham Ningbo China)
Wednesday 10th March 2021, 5-6pm HK time
Resemiotising written texts as vocal-gestural performances in education:
a contribution of gesture studies to embodied learning and drama-based teaching
Prof. Jean-Rémi Lapaire
(Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Wednesday 3rd February 2021, 5-6pm HK time
From language to languaging:
Bringing chant and gesture into the picture
Dr. Fred Cummins (University College Dublin)
Sponsored by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University




Autumn Semester 2020-2021
Friday, September 25, 2020 (5-6pm HKT)
What do iconic gestures communicate to children?
Professor Sotaro Kita (University of Warwick)
Joint Online Seminar, PolyU
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 (5-6pm HKT)
Spoken language and gesture as part of a dynamic, variably
polysemiotic system (video)
Professor Alan Cienki (VU Amsterdam & Moscow State
Linguistic University)
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 (10-11am HKT)
A leader's gaze and pointing gestures to request actions in
emergency care interactions: describing multimodal gestalts
Dr. Keiko Tsuchiya (Yokohama City University)
Monday, November 16, 2020 (4-5pm HKT)
Strategies and Tactics of Prosecution and Defence:
Multimodal Approach
Anna Leonteva (Moscow State Linguistic University & VU Amsterdam)
Joint Online Seminar with Department of English at CityU
Monday November 30th 2020 (4-5pm HKT)
Gesture in collaborative learning: A multimodal corpus study of Language Related Episodes
Simon Harrison & Levi Stutzman (City University of Hong Kong)
Joint Online Seminar with Department of English at CityU
Thursday December 17th 2020 (5-6pm HKT)
Embodied Cognition in design thinking
Dr. Mia Tedjosaputro (Aksen PM, China and Indonesia)
Spring Semester 2019-2020
Thursday, April 30, 2020 (9-10am HKT)
Interpersonal touch in Mandarin interaction
Dr. Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta, Canada)
Monday, April 6, 2020 (4-5pm HKT)
Gestures in public speaking & presentations
Dr. Simon Harrison (City University of Hong Kong)
Friday, March 27, 2020 (5-6pm HKT)
Gesture intervention for individuals with autism
Dr. Catherine So (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
February 27, 2020 (4-5pm HKT)
Pointing gestures and cognition
Professor Heng Li (Southwest University)
Autumn Semester 2019-2020
October 21, 2019 (5-6pm HKT)
Categorizing Recurrent Gestures: Lessons from Discourse Markers
Dr. Renia Lopez (PolyU)
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June 3-5, 2021
LSPPC6 Multimodality and Beyond:
Addressing complexity and emerging needs in LSP
The 6th International Conference of the Asia Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association
(In collaboration with the International Society for Gesture Studies – Hong Kong)
Venue: Online Conference
Inquiries: sharriso@cityu.edu.hk
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July 13-15, 2022
Gesture: From Description to Application
The 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies
Venue: Chicago
Inquiries: ISGS9conference@gmail.com
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