Topic:  A Comparative Study of Six Versions of “The Isles of Greece” in Late-Qin Period
Speaker:  Professor Wang Dongfeng - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  11 October, 2011 

Topic:  English Vowel Length
Speaker:  Professor Wang Daoming - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Time:  11 October, 2011 

Topic:  English Derivational Doublets
Speaker:  Professor Wang Daoming - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Time:  12 October, 2011 

Topic:  A Commentary on Yi Studies in France
Speaker:  Dr.Guo Lina - Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  21 October, 2011 

Topic:  A Cognitive Approach to “Losses” in Poetry Translation
Speaker:  Wang Gang - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  25 October, 2011 

Topic:  On Intercultural Communication
Speaker:  Profesor Hans Ladegaard - Hong Kong Baptist University
Time:  7-8 November, 2011 

Intensive Course:  Introducing Functional Grammar
Speaker:  Professor Geoff Thompson - University of Liverpool, U.K.
Time:  9-16 November, 2011 

Topic:  A Functional Approach to Literary Translation
Speaker:  Professor CHU Chi Yu - Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong
                  Polytechnic University
Time:  10 November, 2011

Topic:  Multimodality and the Concepts of Bonding and Binding
Speaker:  Professor Maree Stenglin - The University of Sydney, Australia
Time:  14 November, 2011 

Topic:  Thoreau and Taoism
Speaker:  Dr. Liu Yuyu - Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time:  18 November, 2011 

Topic:  The Shifting Distance of Translation
Speaker:  Professor Sun Yifeng - Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Time:  21 November, 2011 

Topic:  Towards a Marxist Linguistics
Speaker:   Professor Jonathan Webster - The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language
                   Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Time:  22 November, 2011

Topic:  The Probabilistic Nature of Grammatical Systems
Speaker:  Professor Jonathan Webster - The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language
                  Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Time:  22 November, 2011 

Topic:  Functional Approaches to Textual Meaning: SFG and RST
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Webster - The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language
                 Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Time: 22 November, 2011 

Topic:  Meaning: SFG and RST Visual Semantics
Speaker:  Professor Jonathan Webster - The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language
                  Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Time:  22 November, 2011 

Topic:  François Cheng's Opinion about Feminism
Speaker:  Emeritus Professor Madeleine Bertaud - University of Nancy 2, France
Time:  28 November, 2011 

Topic:  Creative Writing and Stylistics
Speaker:  Dr Benedict Lin -  University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Time:  28 November - 18 December, 2011 

Topic:  The Reconstruction of Overseas Sinology and Chinese Academic
Speaker:  Professor Zhang Xiping - Beijing Foreign Studies University
Time:  6 December, 2011 

Topic:  Stylistics and its Applications
Speaker:  Dr Benedict Lin - University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Time:  6-9 December, 2011 

Topic:  What Can Narratology Do for Translation and translation Studies?
Speaker:  Professor Tang Weisheng - Southern Medical University
Time:  9 December, 2011