At 2:00 p.m. December 16, 2021, the book-sharing seminar for PhD candidates in foreign literatures was successfully held in conference room 110 of Building No.7. The event was chaired by Professor Li Li, a doctoral supervisor of English Department, and hosted by the Research Center for Foreign Literatures. 14 teachers from different departments and disciplines of the College and more than 30 undergraduates, masters and doctoral students from both the College of Foreign Languages and the School of Literature attended the meeting.
With the title of “Introduction to Ancient Philology”, Hu Xiaohui, a grade 2021 doctoral student of Japanese Language and Literature, introduced how beginners should search for and identify literary documents, and how to use literature as a method to carry out research in terms of version, interpretation, collation, annotation, research, etc. Wang Qingle, a doctoral student of Russian Language and Literature, shared the criticism and application of Bakhtin’s theory with the title “Bakhtin’s Dialogue, Polyphony and Carnivalization”. Doctoral students Han Hongyu, Yang Airan, and Zhu Hsinchu in English Language and Literature presented their reports concerned “Rovers in Space”, David Harvey’s “space-time compression” theory, and Riedleuz’s “rhizome” thought in A Thousand Plateaus.
The wonderful speeches of the five doctoral students aroused the thinking and resonance of the teachers and students. Doctoral supervisors Professor Ma Hongqi, Professor Wang Lidan, Professor Liu Ying, Professor Liu Yuzhen and young teachers Associate Professor Hui Chunping, Dr. Gu Jiawei, Dr. Song Yinan and other students asked questions, shared insights or thoughts. The presentations and discussions have lasted for more than 3 hours. Finally, Professor Liu Ying, Director of the Research Center for Foreign Literatures, made a concluding speech, and spoke highly of the academic enthusiasm of the five doctoral students and the enthusiastic interaction between teachers and students. This seminar left all the teachers and students panting for more. They all said that they had been benefited a lot and felt the strong academic atmosphere of the College. With reading, listening, and discussing, the book-sharing seminar provided teachers and students with opportunities of exchanging of views in the sea of books, as well as the comfort and gift from literature in winter times.
