A symposium titled ‘Liberal Arts in Global Contexts’ was held at UIC on 8th May 2024. The symposium was attended by speakers from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries. This event was supported by a Teaching & Learning Grant from the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at UIC. It was co-organized by the Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and the Centre for Foreig...

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 ...