“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”On May 10th 2023, a launch party was held to celebrate the successful release of Elsewhere Issue 5. Elsewhere is an annual English literary magazine that showcases excellent writing and photography by students across UIC and beyond. Produced by Year 4 students in the English for Professional Communications (EPC) con...

On December 7th, 2024, the Institute for Cross-Cultural Studies and the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UIC hosted a one-day conference on ‘Scotland and China: Literature and Translation’. The conference brought together senior and junior scholars from around China, Macao and Hong Kong to explore aspects of China in Scottish literature,...

On the afternoon of 13 November 2024, Dr. Edith Yan, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature Studies (ELLS) at UIC, led her research team members, comprising TESOL Year-4 students Ms. Christine Pan and Ms. Tina Feng, to visit the Huadu campus of Guangdong Guangya High School. They met with the English teachers Mr. Jay Sun, Ms. Sybil Wang, and Ms. Michelle Xiao, Deputy Director of...

UIC students were privileged to have Dr Freek Olaf de Groot back on campus again. In collaboration with Dr Jackie Yeoh, a lecturer from the English Language and Literature Studies (ELLS) programme, he facilitated a hands-on workshop on delving into the boundless possibilities of Generative Artificial Intelligence in education. This workshop which took place on 9 April 2024 captivated the attent...

On 26 March 2024, the Department of Languages and Cultures (DLC) hosted a lecture entitled "Generative AI in Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Practices". The lecture, generously funded by FHSS Teaching and Learning Grant, featured Dr. Freek Olaf de Groot, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, a...

On March 20th, Dr. Nan Zhang, Associate Professor in English Studies at the University of Hong Kong, delivered a speech entitled "Modernism and the Observant Eye" at UIC. As introduced by Dr. Xi XU, Dr. Zhang, with a dual background in International Finance and Literature, is a scholar with a unique perspective. Deeply fascinated by Virginia Woolf's writings, she wholeheartedly immersed herself...

Our Journey to the International Conference on Frontiers of Corpus-Based Interdisciplinary Research (FoCIR), at Xi’an Jiaotong UniversityThe ELLS program, committed to fostering academic projects along with local and international collaboration, is thrilled to share the unforgettable experiences of our recent participation in the International Conference on Frontiers of Corpus-Based Interdisci...

On September 15th, 18 TESOL students from the course "Materials Evaluation and Production for Language Teaching," were led by Dr. Edith Yan, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature Studies at UIC, Dr. Jackie Yeoh, Assistant Professor of ELLS, and Ms. Joanna Wang, the Assistant Instructor, to Dulwich International High School at Zhuhai (DHZH). At DHZH, they met with their mentor t...