Seminar of Graduate Students No. 191: From Being Old and Senile to Being Old and Energetic: the Changes of Old People’s Images in Chinese American Novels
Speaker: Pao Minfang
Chair: Shen Jie
Poetry Appreciation: Lei Yanni
Time: 3:00 pm, Thursday, December 20, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 190: The Multiple-layered Expressive Structure of Evil in Lord of the Flies
Speaker: Zhao Kai
Chair: Lei Yanni
Poetry Appreciation: Zhuang Jianbin
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, December 8, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 189: The Chinese Experience and Literary Construction (or Narration) of Takeda Taijun
Speaker: Xie Chongning
Chair: Lei Yanni
Poetry Appreciation: Shao Chaoyang
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, November 24, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 188: Echoes of Virgil and Augustine in the First Canto of the Divine Comedy 
Speaker: Xiao Jian
Chair: Liu Yuyu
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, November 10, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 187: Second Language Learning: A Culture-loaded Process
Speaker: Ou Hong
Chair: Li Zhimin
Poetry Appreciation: Shao Chaoyang
Time: 3:30 pm, Friday, September 29, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 185: the Leading Issues in the Studies of American Working-Class Literature
Speaker: Luo Bin
Chair: Shen Jie
Poetry Appreciation: Lei Yanni
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, June 30, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 184: the Poetics of Diaspora and Translation as Reconstruction: A Study of Zhang Zao’s Translation of Seamus Heaney’s Poems
Speaker: Wang Xiulu
Chair: Lei Yanni
Poetry Appreciation: Shen Jie
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, June 23, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 183:  the Nymphomaniac in Hong Ying’s The Hungry Daughter：A Hauntological Reading 
Speaker: Li Meng
Chair: Liu Yuyu
Poetry Appreciation: Yin Lijun
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, June 2, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 182: the Relationship of Man and Animals in Auden’s Poetry
Speaker: Shao Chaoyang
Chair: Shen Jie
Poetry Appreciation: Yin Lijun
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, April 28, 2017

Topic: A Mirror on Practice: Using Discourse Analysis to Critique Practice in Maternity and Child Health Care
Speaker: Professor Virgina Schmied - Director of Research in the Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University, Australia
Time: 4:15-6:00 pm, Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Topic: Using Visual Analysis to Uncover about Messages about Birth in Birth Room Images
Speaker: Associate Professor Athena Sheehan - Director of Academic Programs(Midwifery), Western Sydney University, Australia
Time: 4:15-6:00 pm, Monday, April 24, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 180: the Realist-Nominalist Debate over Gongsun Long’s “White Horse Dialogue”
Speaker: Liu Yuyu
Chair: Luo Bin
Poetry Appreciation: Shen Jie
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, March 10, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 179: Chinese Images of Islands: Past and Present
Speaker: Luo Bin
Chair: Yin Lijun
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, February 24, 2017

Seminar of Graduate Students No. 181: the Dialogism in Olsen’s Poetics and Poetry
Speaker: Liu Zhaohui
Chair: Liu Yuyu
Time: 3:00 pm, Friday, April 14, 2017

Topic: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Lens Applied to Aphasic Discourse Following Brain Injury 
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Armstrong- Foundation Chair in Speech Pathology at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
Time: 4:15-6:00 pm, Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Topic: Linguistic Applications to the Field of Communication Disorders
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Armstrong- Foundation Chair in Speech Pathology at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
Time: 4:15-6:00 pm, Monday, April 10, 2017