From June 3 to 4, 2017, Wu Chenqian, a 2014 graduate student majoring in foreign languages and literature, attended the Fourth International Symposium on ethnic literature, "Ethnic Literature and Diaspora Literature". The seminar was sponsored by the School of Foreign Languages and the Center for English Literature Research of Central China Normal University. The Research Center of Foreign Literature, Hubei Literature Theory and Criticism Research Center, Jinan University, Shandong Normal University, Hangzhou University of Electronic Science and Technology, African and African American Literature Research Institute of Hangzhou University of Electronic Science and Technology participated in the seminar. Nearly 260 experts and scholars from China, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Austria and other countries were invited to participate in the seminar.
The conference included eight topics, namely, "Theoretical Reflection on Ethnic Literature and Diaspora Literature", "Ethical Narrative of Ethnic Literature", "North American Ethnic Literature", "British Ethnic Literature", "Oceanian Ethnic Literature", "Overseas Chinese Literature", "Asian English Literature", "African Diaspora Literature". With a wide range of topics and novel perspectives, the participants expressed their opinions, and experts commented from a strategic perspective, which benefited the delegates a lot. Three youth forums were specially held for more than 100 postgraduates attending the conference. Wu Chenqian published her paper "Language, Narration, Negroeness: Deconstructive Interpretation of Passival Everett's Novel Erasure" at the youth forum. Each forum was commented by well-known domestic experts, providing constructive guidance for young scholars.
This conference is a grand gathering of international ethnic literature academic research and exchange, and its successful holding is of great significance for the future development of ethnic literature research.
From 6 to 8, 2017, Xu Yuting, a 2015 grade graduate student majoring in foreign languages and literature, attended the 6th International Symposium on English teaching, Discourse and Intercultural communication (EDI) held in Macao by invitation and read out her thesis. Well-known scholars from the United States, Canada, Russia, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Hungary, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Macao in China exchanged research trends and achievements in cross-cultural and cross-cultural communication. The paper "Cross Lingual Speaker Identification on the Function of Vowels" and "Perception of Words in Senses with Different Semantic Predictability by Native and Non-Native Speakers" written by Xu Yuting and her tutor were highly praised by the attending experts.
