The 4th Book Club of The SYSU Center for English-language Creative Writing, 21 Dec.

Last updated:2014-12-10

The Sun Yat-sen University Center for English Creative Writing is pleased to announce its third Book Club event:

    The History of Sexuality:The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault

Discussion led by Dr. Zhou Hui, Associate Professor, Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, SYSU
Time: 19:00 - 20:30, Sunday, December 21, 2014
Venue: Room 301, School of Foreign Languages Building, SYSU

Please sign up in Room 211, School of Foreign Languages or contact Ms. DENG Liyu at 84113602. 

Organizer:
The Sun Yat-sen University Center for English-language Creative Writing
School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University


Welcome to the Book Club!

The Book Club is part of the Reading and Writing Forum run by The Sun Yat-sen University Center for English-language Creative Writing. It aims to provide motivated students with the opportunity to read literary and, sometimes, critical works(most are in English, a few in Chinese) outside the classroom and participate in in-depth discussion led by teachers from the School of Foreign Languages, Faculty of English Education, School of International Studies, and Department of Chinese. The Book Club hopes to serve as the vehicle for promoting the literary and critical reading and writing of world literature.

The Book Club operates once a month. Each reading session enrolls 15 students, who will sign up for a given session at Room 211 at the School of Foreign Languages, where they will take a copy of the reading material. Students are expected to read the recommended book(s) closely before the group meets. The focuses of discussion are aspects of writing techniques, the theme, the time and people reflected in the given reading.

Sign-up for each reading session is first-come-first-served basis. Each student can sign up for no more than three times in one academic year.

The reading sessions are held in Room 301, the School of Foreign Languages. The following are the details of all sessions in the coming academic year, while each session will be announced on month before the group discussion:

Sept.28, 2014 Wide Sargasso Sea, led by CHIU Kang-yen
Nov. 2, 2014 Orlando, led by KE Qianting
Nov.30, 2014 Death of a Naturalist, led by ZHU Yu
Dec.21, 2014 Discipline and Punish; The History of Sexuality, led by ZHOU Hui
March 15, 2015 The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections, led by LEI Yanni
April 12, 2015 The House of Mirth, led by LUO Bin
May 17, 2015 《六个字母的解法》， led by FENG Pengpeng

All sessions will be introduced by DAI Fan

Hope to see you in the Book Club!