【Macao Humanities Forum】The World Through the Prism of Language: What Are Gender and Classifiers Good For? by Prof. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald of Central Queensland University (1 Smart Point and 15 CS)
2025-10-27 @ 11:00 am ~ 12:30 pm
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) is delighted to announce that the 22nd Lecture of the FAH Macao Humanities Forum (the 2nd in the 2025/2026 academic year) will be held on 27 October 2025. The forum aims to provide a platform for world-renowned scholars from diverse humanities fields to share their research with the FAH community and other UM scholars. All members of the UM community are cordially invited to this splendid event.
In this upcoming forum, we are honored to have Prof. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald as our guest speaker to deliver a lecture on the topic “The World Through the Prism of Language: What Are Gender and Classifiers Good For?” Professor Aikhenvald is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Jawun Research Centre of Central Queensland University (Cairns) and an Australian Laureate Fellow. She is an internationally renowned linguist and leading authority on Amazonian and Papuan languages, as well as on key topics such as evidentiality, classifiers, gender, and serial verbs. Professor Aikhenvald has published numerous influential works and monographs, including Evidentiality, Classifiers: A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices, Languages of the Amazon, How Gender Shapes the World, and Serial Verbs, all published by Oxford University Press. She has also edited The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality and co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology. Her research continues to shape the field of linguistic typology, offering profound insights into how grammar reflects knowledge, culture, and cognition.
Details of the forum are as follows:
Speaker: Prof. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald*
Topic: The World Through the Prism of Language: What Are Gender and Classifiers Good For?
Date: 27/10/2025 (Mon)
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30pm**
Venue: E21B-G016
Language: English (with onsite simultaneous interpretation into Mandarin)
* This Forum features an online lecture by Prof. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, with on-site audience participation.
**Light refreshments will be served on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please register for the forum by 23 Oct 2025 (Thur) via https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ehNer5oqfYrFUx0
Thank you for your attention!