Huang Zhonglian is professor and postdoctoral supervisor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies where he specializes in Translation Studies. Prof. Huang has published and translated 39 books and over 390 papers. He serves as the editor-in-chief of seven book series, including The Commercial Press Translation Studies Library and Contemporary Translation Studies Library. He is the recipient of thirteen prestigious grants including the National Social Science Fund of China (7 grants) and Ministerial and Provincial grants (6 grants). He has also served as a reviewer for the National Social Science Fund of China.

ICCS is organizing this workshop as part of a series of initiatives to foster research and academic excellence among colleagues. The first workshop presenter, Professor Mengshan Ren (任孟山), is the Dean of the Graduate School and Director of the International Communication Center at the Communication University of China.

The ICCS organized a 5-Minute FYP seminar series for FHSS students undertaking their Final Year Projects (FYPs) to share their work, learn from others, and further solidify and conceptualize their work. 5-Minute FYP seminars are held from October to December 2024.

First Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Empowering Emerging Researchers was jointly organized by the Institute of Cross-cultural Studies (ICCS) at UIC in Zhuhai, China, and the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies (LEWI) at HKBU in Hong Kong. UIC Provost Patrick Chau officiated the conference, which attracted over 150 participants from Hong Long, Macau, Armenia, India, Brazil, Bangladesh, Ghana, and China. Professor Zhang Meifang and Drs. Sun Xiaohui, Chengcheng You, and Nicole Brooke Scicluna were the keynote speakers. Drs Alice Wu, Song Ge, Shuang Wu, Xuan Ning, Arina Rotaru, Yuanxin Wang & Xiaomeng Lan delivered the plenary speeches. This conference was organized to bring together researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research in language, culture, communication, and sociology.

Professor Christian Aspalter has been named one of the top 2% most cited scientists in all disciplines for 2023 by Stanford University and Elsevier in September 2024. The top 2% of all scientists worldwide are on this prestigious list based on standardised data on citations, H-index, Hm-index, and bibliometric indicators focusing on single-authored and first-authored works.These scientists are ...