Topic: Corpus Linguistics
Speaker: Professor Dr. Josef Schmied - Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Time: April 15, 2015 

Translation Studies Salon: Cultural Fusion in the Translation of Military Classic Text: A Case Study of Giles’ Translation of The Art of War
Speaker: Associate Professor Luo Tian - Chongqing Jiaotong University
Time: April 14, 2015

Reading Report: The Repetition in Robert Frost’s Poetry and His Synecdochic Poetry Creation
Speaker: Associate Professor Luo Bin
Poetry Appreciation: Zheng Xiaoli
Time: April 10, 2015

Topic: Scaffolding first year students into teaching language and literacy: A case study
Speaker: Dr Pauline Jones - University of Wollongong, Australia
Time: April 7, 2015 

Topic: Contemporary Spoken French
Speaker: Professor Laurence Wéry - University of Liège, Belgium
Time: April 7, 2015

Topic: Research Methodology of Foreign Language Teaching
Speaker: Professor Jean-Marc Defays - University of Liège, Belgium
Time: April 3, 2015

Book Club: The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V. S. Naipaul
Discussion Leader: Associate Professor Lei Yanni - Sun Yat-sen University
Time: March 29, 2015

Topic: “Learning language, learning through language, learning about language”: the historical roots of a social semiotic approach to language studies
Speaker: Edward McDonald - University of Sydney, Australia
Time: March 25, 2015

Translation Studies Salon: On the Translation of Conceptual Metaphor and Mind Style -- a case study on the translation of “smile” in Ulysses
Speaker: Liu Shuisheng
Time: March 24, 2015

Topic: What does it mean to be an author?
Speaker: AJ Betts - Australian author
Time: March 20, 2015

Topic: Mother Tongue in Multilingual Societies
Speaker: Dr Liang Sihua
Time: March 18, 2015

Reading Report: The Double Image of “City and Father”: The “Darkness” Motif Study on Evelyn Lau
Speaker: Hu Min
Poetry Appreciation: Shen Jie
Time: March 13, 2015

Topic: Critical Discourse Analysis and Multimodal Texts
Speaker: Dr LiuYiqi - The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Time: March 11, 2015

Topic: Configuring the English Department to Make the English Major Sustainable into the Future
Speaker: David S. Kaufer - Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Time: January 22, 2015

Topic: Introducing Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: An Occasional Lecture on American Culture
Speaker: Dr. Reid Mitchell - Sun Yat-sen University
Time: January 13, 2015 

Topic: The French Translation of Title for Chinese Contemporary Literature
Speaker: Dr. Grâce Poizat-XIE - University of Geneva, Switzerland
Time: January 12, 2015

Reading Report: Body, Instincts and Impulses: The Spirit of Nietzsche in Lawrence’s Poems
Speaker: Zheng Xiaoli
Poetry Appreciation: Zhou Fang
Time: January 4, 2015