The Institute of Cross-cultural Studies and the Centre for Foreign Languages and Cultures co-hosted an invited talk by Professor Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University on April 17th 2024. The talk was titled 'Story Telling and Climate Change'. During the talk, Professor Puchner drew on millennia of world literature...

The Institute of Cross-cultural Studies and the Department of Social Sciences at UIC co-sponsored this invited talk by Dr. Hongmou Zhang, an Assistant Professor at the School of Government at Peking University. During the talk, Dr Zhang explored three illustrative cross-cultural examples to demonstrate the application of sociological imagination in enhancing our understanding of social aspects ...

The Institute of Cross-cultural Studies and Project 23YJCZH186 co-sponsored this invited talk by Mr. Jia Zhang who drew on his experience as a researcher, translator, and trainer to explore common perceptions or misconceptions of machine translation (MT) among translation students. He stressed that by identifying and addressing these knowledge gaps, the next generation of translators can better...

The Institute of Cross-cultural Studies and Project GD23YWY01 co-sponsored this invited talk by Dr. Zhu Lin, a post-doctoral fellow in linguistics at Sun Yet-Sen University. Dr Zhu shared his experiences of studying in the USA as an international student (2015-2021), from the perspective of a linguistics major student. He elaborated on his experiences as an English as a second language speaker ...

The Fourth International Conference on Discourse Studies (第四届话语研究前沿国际会议) was held at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai in December. The conference was attended by many academics interested in the field. Dr. Wu Xiaoping organized an invited panel on discourse studies and chaired the conference closing ceremony