On October 9, Professor Shang Biwu, Dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, delivered a lecture titled From Object to Method: On Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and the Turn to Agency of Literature as part of CSU’s Distinguished Scholar Forum. The event was chaired by Professor Fan Wuqiu, Vice Dean of the School, and attended by over 100 faculty and student...

To explore the multidimensional interactions between Global South studies and Asian American literary studies, and to contribute to developing an independent knowledge system for Chinese foreign literature studies, the 2025 Forum on Asian American Literary Studies was held on June 27, 2025, in Changsha, Hunan. The forum was jointly organized by the research group of the Major Project of the Nat...

On the afternoon of October 30, 2025, Professor Li Jun, finalization expert at CGTN, delivered a lecture titled “Interdisciplinary Foreign Language Talents and the Training of Advanced Interpreters and Translators” as part of the Xiangjiang River Forum Translation Studies Lecture Series. The event was hosted by Xia Gaoqin, Head of the French Department, and attended by Vice Dean Hou Heyu, Pro...

From July 23 to 25, the 9th National Advanced Seminar for Young and Middle-aged Core Teachers of Japanese Studies in Higher Education Institutions was held in Dalian. The event was co-hosted by the Japanese Sub-committee of the National Advisory Committee on Foreign Language and Literature Majors in Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, the Japanese Group of the College Foreign Lang...

On the afternoon of October 9, 2025, Professor Xiang Mingyou, Huiyuan Distinguished Scholar, Dean of the School of English Studies, and doctoral supervisor at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), visited the School of Foreign Languages to deliver a lecture titled Pragmatic Unsaidness as part of the “Xiangjiang River Forum: Linguistics Lecture Series.” The lecture was...