“文学·比较研究·文化间性”国际论坛
The International Symposium
On Literature, Comparative Studies, Interculturality:
America and Beyond
Host: School of English Studies, SISU
Organizer: School of English Studies, SISU
Institute of Intercultural Studies, SISU
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Sponsor: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
October 17, 2015
Shanghai
8:00-8:20 Opening Ceremony [Venue: MBA Lecture Room (MBA案例教室)]
Chair: Prof. Wang Xin, SISU
8:00 Welcoming Address by Prof. Feng Qinghua, Vice President of SISU
8:10 Welcoming Address by Prof. Zha Mingjian, Dean of Graduate School, Dean of
School of English Studies, SISU
Group Photo
8:20-9:40 Keynote Speeches [Venue: MBA Lecture Room (MBA案例教室)]
Chair: Prof. Wang Enming, SISU
8:20 Prof. Mao Sihui（Director of the English Language Centre, Shantou University;
Executive Director of IAICS）: A Cross-cultural Look at Challenges for
Chinese Media in the Digital Age
9:00 Prof. Michael Steppat（emeritus speaker of English Department and Academic Dean）: Intercultural Research and Literary Study: A Transversal Inquiry
9:40-10:00 Tea break
10:00-12:00 Keynote Speeches [Venue: MBA Lecture Room (MBA案例教室)]
Chair: Prof. Wang Xin, SISU
10:00 Prof. Steve J. Kulich (Executive Director of Intercultural Institute, SISU):
Perspectives and Readings toward an Intercultural Literature
10:40 Dr. Mine Krause ( formerly UBT, now in Paris): Tasting Interculturality:
Culinary Visions of America in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul
11:20 Prof. Wang Enming (Director of American Studies Center,SISU):
Misunderstandings of the Other’s Culture in Intercultural Communication:
American Individualism as an Example
12:00-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:00 Project Paper Presentations [ Venue: English Lecture Room (英伦厅)]
Chair: Prof. Steve J. Kulich, SISU
13:30Dr. Shen Weiwei: The Identity Negotiation of the Chinese American in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land
14:00Dr. Cheng Xin: Fashionable Things: Edith Wharton’s Criticism of “The Custom of the Country”
14:30 Dr. Wan Xiaolei: Naturalist Writers’ Anxiety over the Emerging Consumer Societyin Fin de Siècle America
15:00-15:20 Tea break
15:20-17:00 Project Paper Presentations [Venue: English Lecture Room (英伦厅)]
Chair: Dr. Shen Weiwei, SISU
15:20 Dr. Sun Yan: Professional Sphere· Private Sphere ·Gender: Judicial Discourse
Mechanism in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act
15:50Prof. Michael Steppat: All the Races: Reassessing the American Community
Masque
17:00 Dinner
