English Language and Literature Lecture Series (5): Foreign Language Majors in the Context of the New Liberal Arts

Lecturer: He Shaobin

Time: June 16, 2021, 13:10

Location: 3D206, Teaching building

Lecturer Profile:

He Shaobin, male, associate professor, master’s supervisor. Ph.D. in Literature from Fudan University, a visiting scholar from Kent State University, a member of the Board of Directors of the Shanghai Foreign Language Society and the Translation Research Society of the Chinese Society of Comparative Literature, and a peer reviewer for the SSCI journal Translation and Interpreting Studies. He has published nearly 20 translation research papers, 2 monographs, and 2 textbooks. He has presided over one project at the university level, one project of the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education, and one project of the National Philosophy and Society. His research includes Chinese and Western translation theory, translation studies, and translation history.

Lecture Introduction:

What is new in the new liberal arts? How can foreign language majors breakthrough? The new liberal arts require new positions and perspectives, new technologies and new ideas, and interdisciplinary and supra-disciplinary approaches. The foreign language major is a discipline that has emerged in recent times and has undergone directional changes in today’s national demand landscape.