Academics of six universities from the mainland and Hong Kong attended the first Symposium on Applied Translation Studies at UIC on 27 November. Organised by the Applied Translation Studies Programme ...

On 10 November, Dr Lukasz Zamecki and Mr Jaroslaw Szczepanski gave guest lectures as part of the DHSS Lecture Series. The topic was “China and The EU: A Silent Partnership”. This lecture...

Prof Johnston Wong (left) at the world congress of the ICISF \During the 13th World Congress of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) held in Baltimore, USA in May, Prof...

Five international writers read pieces of their works and shared their experience at UIC on 9 November. They were Bidisha (UK), Alecia McKenzie (Jamaica), Mariko Nagai (Japan), Oumar Farouk Sesay (Sie...

On 6 November, Mr Eric Wishart, journalist and former editor-in-chief ofAFP, came to UIC and gave a lecture on “How the news gatherers have become news verifiers - the impact of social networks on th...

Prof Tam Kwok-kan, Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong, spoke of “Comparative Literature and Visions of the World” at UIC’s High Table Dinner on 4 Nov...

Scholars at home and abroad shared their insights into research on contemporary Chinese fiction at UIC on 22 October. The conference, titled “Reimagining China: Identity and Representation in Contem...

Prof Tony T N Hung spoke of “Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching” at UIC on 22 October. He is a former Head of the Language Centre at the Hong Kong Baptist University and now an Honorary Profes...