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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 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 Project Paper Presentations [ Venue: English Lecture Room (英伦厅)] Chair: Prof. Steve J. Kulich, SISU 13:30 Dr. Shen Weiwei: The Identity Negotiation of the Chinese American in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land 14:00 Dr. 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 Society in 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 15:50 Prof. Michael Steppat: All the Races: Reassessing the American Community Masque 17:00 Dinner

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