The Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies (ICCS) is delighted to host Gwen Bouvier, Distinguished Professor at Shanghai International Studies University, for two insightful academic events. We warmly invite you to attend.Workshop: Navigating SSCI Publication: Developing Research with a Genuine Contribution to Literature Publishing in top-tier SSCI journals can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have ...

We are delighted to announce two upcoming academic events, co-hosted by the Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies (ICCS) and Dr. Xuan Ning, supported by her National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (72304041) and Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation Grant (2023A1515011562).Dr. Ning has invited Dr. Kenneth Po-Lun Fung, a world-renowned Clinical Director and Professor of Psychiatry ...

Twenty-first century academia faces unprecedented challenges in the face of intense technological and geo-political tendencies that require calculated investment and innovation within and across disciplines as a collective response. This watershed moment signifies a complex set of 'rebirths' of centuries-old academic, literary, and disciplinary practices. Drawing upon the symbol of the Renaissance ...

ICCS committee hosts the ICCS Research Awards on 16 April to celebrate the exceptional research achievements of FHSS faculty and students.

This lecture takes a closer look at the nature of scholarly publication. Publishing is a prerequisite for success in the modern university, but there is very little discussion among humanities scholars about the characteristics of publishable scholarship. In this talk, Professor Leonard Neidorf attempts to identify the implicit criteria that editors of top international journals use when they evaluate the merit of submissions. He then identifies some respects in which the journals’ criteria are at odds with current humanities pedagogy, and he recommends some ways to bring publishing and pedagogy into greater harmony. Beyond this philosophical discussion, the talk offers practical advice for increasing one’s success in journal publishing based on Professor Neidorf’s experience with more than twenty different international journals.