Topic:  Culture and Interculture: An Introduction to Middle Asia
Speaker:  Chen Tenghua - Secretary of Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  28 December, 2009

Topic:  The Practice and Experience of Translating Chinese Communist Party Literature
Speaker:  Professor Tong Xiaohua - Central Compilation & Translation Bureau
Time:  17 December, 2009 

Topic:  Language and Logic
Speaker:  Professor Xiong Minghui - The Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  8 December, 2009 

Topic:  Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Multiple Identities: Analyzing Linguistic Hybridization in
             Taiwanese Newspaper Headlines
Speaker:  Professor Guo Saihua - Taiwan Tsing Hua University
Time:  4 December, 2009 

Topic:  Language and Cognition
Speaker:  Professor Lu Zhi - Jinan University
Time:  1 December, 2009 

Topic:  A Talk on Poetry Translation
Speaker:  Tang Zhengqiu - Association Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  30 November, 2009 

Topic:  Guidelines for English Translations in Public Places
Speaker:  Professor Pan Wenguo - East China Normal University
Time:  26 November, 2009 

Topic:  Intercultural Communication - A Discourse Approach
Speaker:  Rodney Jones - Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Time:  23 November, 2009 

Topic:  Exchanging "Places”: Gender, Nation, and Student Narratives on the Cross-cultural Classroom
Speaker:  Dr Staci Ford - Associate Professor - The University of Hong Kong
Time:  5 November, 2009 

Topic:  Economy and Japanese Corporations & The Connection of General Trading Company, The World              and Chinese Economy
Speaker:  Matsuzawa Yasukiyo - President of Sumitomo Corporation (Guangzhou) Ltd.
Time:  28 October, 2009 

Topic:  What Really Happens in English: Corpus-informed Linguistic Research
Speaker:  Professor Kersti Börjars - University of Manchester, U.K.
Time:  14 October, 2009 

Topic:  Chomsky's Syntactic Theory
Speaker:  Dr. Dai Tianshan - Wuhan University
Time:  13 October, 2009 

Topic:  Naipaul's Sense of Nativeness in His Exile
Speaker:  Dr. Lei Yanni - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  25 September, 2009 

Topic:  1) Teaching Methods of Advanced Japanese Speaking
             2) Japanese Teaching Method - Adaptable to the Learning Motivation and Environment in China
Speaker: Professor Kojima Yoshoharu - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time: 27 June, 2009

Topic:  Computational Tools and Corpus-based Research (I-III)
Speaker:  Dr Canzhong Wu - Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia
Time:  23-25 June, 2009 

Topic:  ERP Correlates of Compositionality in Chinese Idiom Comprehension
Speaker:  Professor Zhang Hui - PLA University of International Studies
Time:  4 June, 2009 

Topic:  ANA Friendly Exchange Speech
Speaker:  Nakamura Kou - Branch Manager of All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., Japan
Time:  25 May, 2009 

Topic:  The Interpersonal Meaning of Chinese Modal Particles
Speaker:  Dr. Yang Yingcai - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  21 May, 2009 

Topic:  France and French Culture
Speaker:  Professor Wu Yuetian - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Time:  15 May, 2009 

Topic:  Contestable Reality: A Multi-level View on Modalityin Multimodal Pedagogic Context
Speaker:  Chen Yumin - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  12 May, 2009