18 May 2021 - DHSS Exhibition of Student Achievements 2021: Best FYPs and Award-Winning Projects

Agenda11:30 Registration (for poster presenters)12:00 Opening Remarks: Prof Bailey, Dean of DHSS12:10 Sharing: Student Representative12:15  Sharing: Student Representative12:20 Award Ceremony13:00 Poster Presentation

2021/05/11

6 May 2021 - DHSS Lecture Series: Translator and (or versus?) interpreter training – topics, methods, and empirical findings

Abstract:Translation and interpreting are two different yet closely related activities. Likewise, the relationship between Translation Studies (TS) and Interpreting Studies (IS) is often debated. In this talk, the guest will compare the differences and similarities between the practice of translation and interpreting and discuss the research topics and methods of pedagogical research in TS and ...

2021/05/04

27 April 2021 - DHSS Lecture Series: Postdigital Wanghong(网红): Conceptual Turn(s)

DHSS Lecture Series: Postdigital Wanghong(网红): Conceptual Turn(s)

2021/04/21

16 April 2021 - DHSS Career Talk:Translating with Infinite Possibilities

Translating with Infinite Possibilitie

2021/04/14

14 April 2021 - DHSS Lecture Series: ‘Imagine Being Kevin’: Engagement and Self-effacement in Literary Studies

Abstract: The lecture will begin with a legend of the 6th-century Irish saint Kevin and go on to discuss the nature and requirement of literary studies. Date: 14 April 2021 (Wed) Time: 1 pm – 3 pm Venue: T5-104

2021/04/01

2 April 2021 - UIC Lunch-time research sharing session

Dear all, Welcome to the third lunch-time research sharing session this Friday noon from 12:00-13:00 at T2-301. This time we are very happy to welcome Dr. Jessica Medhurst from Beijing Normal University (Beijing) to share her recent research. Her topic of sharing is:Freedom, Restriction and Forgetting: The Chinese Girl Child in Anglophone Children’s Literature (1901-1907) Attached please fin...

2021/03/30

5 March 2021 - DHSS Lecture Series: Constructive Postmodernism, Second Enlightenment, and Dao-oriented Development with Chinese Characteristics

AbstractAmid persisting poverty, widening inequality and increasing environmental deterioration, societies across the globe have begun to reflect on – and question - the modern, dominant notion of development, still largely based on the tenets of the (first) Enlightenment. A new, compassionate, holistic form of development inspired by a “Second Enlightenment”, which draws on principles of co...

2021/03/05

5 March 2021 - Action Research Plan Sharing Session

ProgrammeTimeActivity12:00 – 12:15Simple lunch#Project   Introduction:12:15 – 12:30Developing Pedagogical   Innovations Through Action ResearchDr Edith Yan, ELLS ProgrammeAction   Research Plan Sharing:12:30 – 12:45Optimizing Student Progress in Academic Writing Using Blended Learning   Instruction and Feedback ApproachesMr Jonas Kelsch, ELC12:45   – 13:00Using Microsoft 365 as a Collaborat...

2021/03/04