The 2024 International Week and International Cultural Festival of the School of Humanities Successfully Held

From November 19 to 23, 2024, the School of Humanities held the 2024 International Week and International Cultural Festival to strengthen connections with partner universities and promote further collaboration in teaching, research, faculty and student exchange, and to expand its international influence.

On November 19, Stephen C. Angle, Director of the Fries Center for Global Studies, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, delivered a keynote speech entitled “Not Just Reciting the Classics: Confucian Philosophy as a Way of Life in Today’s Higher Education” and conducted an in-depth discussion with the audience.

On November 20, the School of Humanities held the International Cultural Festival with the theme of “Diversity and Sharing”. The event attracted both Chinese and international students from more than ten countries and regions to set up booths to showcase their traditional cultures and customs. 

On November 20, the international workshop on “Language Education and Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” was held. This workshop invited scholars from partner universities to discuss the impact of the development of AI tools on Chinese language teaching, and attracted more than 140 faculty and students to attend. 

On November 20, the School of Humanities held a briefing on overseas exchange programs. The School’s International Office gave a detailed introduction of the university-level and school-level exchange programs and the scholarship policies, and answered the students’ questions. 

On November 20, Prof. Charles A. Laughlin, Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Virginia was invited to give a keynote speech entitled “Asian-African Solidarity and a New ‘World Literature’”. 

On November 21, Prof. Wong Yoon Wah, Dean of the Faculty of Chinese Studies at Southern University College in Malaysia, delivered a keynote speech entitled “After the Dialogue between the May Fourth Nanyang Imagination and the Southeast Asian Nanyang Imagination”. 

On November 21, the School of Humanities held the SJTU-University of Bristol (UOB) 2024 Lecture Series. Prof. Catherine O’Rawe from UOB gave a keynote speech entitled “The Non-Professional Actor in Global Cinema”. 

On November 21, the “World Poetry Night in Chinese” was successfully held in the School of Humanities. The event invited renowned scholars and poets to recite poems and share their ideas, further promoting cultural exchanges. 

From November 22 to 23, the School of Humanities held “Nanyang Perspective, Chinese Experience and Literary Communication” International Conference. The two-day conference attracted around 30 renowned experts and young scholars from domestic and overseas universities to discuss topics related to Chinese language education, Chinese literature, Chinese studies and so on. 

The 2024 International Week and International Cultural Festival of the School of Humanities has attracted around 500 faculty members and students from well-known universities at home and abroad. In the future, the School of Humanities will continue to host this annual event to provide a platform for its partner universities to enhance understanding and promote exchanges, and to further promote the development of humanities and international talent cultivation of the school.