Topic: An Exploratory Investigation into the Metacognitive Knowledge and Metacognitive Strategies of University EFL Writers in China
Speaker: Dr. Xiao Yuehai - New York University, U.S.A.
Time: June 18, 2016 

Topic: Chinese as a Second Language Learners’ Speech Competence and Speech Performance in Classroom Contexts: Cognitive, Affective, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Speaker: Dr. Sun Peijian - The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Time: June 18, 2016 

Topic: The Writing of “China” in Japanese Literature after 1949
Speaker: Dr. Chen Tongjun - Tokyo University, Japan
Time: June 18, 2016 

Topic: Translating, Disseminating and Receiving Contemporary Chinese Fiction in America: The Case of Mo Yan
Speaker: Professor Shao Lu - Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Time: June 18, 2016 

Book Club: Words, Words, Words
Speaker: Gao Dazheng, Zhang Lihuan, Zhao Xinghui, Zhang Yilu and Ren Yulong - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time: June 16, 2016

School Seminar Series: The Reception and Reconstruction of French Theories in America
Speaker: Associate Professor Zhou Hui - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time: June 16, 2016  

Translation Studies Salon: The Literary Translations in Early 20TH Century Hong Kong Chinese Newspapers
Speaker: Dr. Li Bo - City University of Hongkong
Time: June 14, 2016

School Seminar Series: Aspects of Literature and Technology
Speaker: Professor Ou Hong - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time: June 7, 2016 

Seminar of Graduate Students: Evelyn Lau’s Poetry Therapy under a Perspective of Empathy
Speaker: Hu Min
Poetry Appreciation: Shao Zhaoyang
Time: June 3, 2016 

Topic: Talent Cultivation and Employment of Mitsubish Corporation (Guangzhou) in China
Speaker: Mr. Tanaka - President of Mitsubish Corporation (China) Co., Ltd, Guangzhou Branch
Time: June 3, 2016

French Language and Culture Salon: An Introduction to Language Transfer in Multiple Language Acquisition
Speaker: Liu Xian
Time: June 2, 2016 

Topic: “The kindness of my Friends in England”: Chinese Visitors to Britain in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and the Discourses of Friendship and Estrangement
Speaker: Professor Peter KITSON - University of East Anglia, UK
Time: May 31, 2016 

Topic: Middle Class Fantasy as the Metonymy of Global Class Conflicts
Speaker: Professor Zhou Xiaoyi - Beijing Foreign Studies University
Time: May 30, 2016 

Topic: Metaphor as Disease and its Relations with Literature
Speaker: Professor Guo Yong - Ningbo University
Time: May 27, 2016

Topic: The Inspiration of Complex Systems Science for Linguistics
Speaker: Dr. Shi Yuzhi - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Time: May 20, 2016

French Language and Culture Salon: An Analysis of French Coursebook: Based on Appraisal Theory
Speaker: Huang Lve - Jinan University
Time: May 19, 2016

Topic: Whatever the grammar will allow
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Webster - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Time: May 23, 2016 

School Seminar Series: Approaching Literature through Creative Writing
Speaker: Professor Dai Fan - School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University
Time: May 19, 2016

Topic: The Global Status Quo of Literature and Literary Education
Speaker: Professor Péter Hajdu -Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Time: May 18, 2016

Topic: Financing Higher Education in the United States: Inequality and Student Success
Speaker: Brent Evans, Ph.D. - Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
Time: May 11, 2016