Faculty Members Visit Australia and New Zealand for Academic Exchange, Deepening Area Studies and International Cooperation

From October 5 to 10, 2026, Professor WU Yun, Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Associate Professor JIANG Mengying, and Assistant Professor LI Jiao visited Australia and New Zealand. The trip focused on academic exchange with local universities and institutions on topics including area studies, translation and international communication, language education, and talent cultivation.On Oct...

Lecture: English Creative Writing for Cross-CulturalCommunication in the Digital Age

Notice for the 9th National University Japanese Speech Contest

The National University Japanese Speech Contest aims to cultivate non‑Japanese‑major undergraduates’ comprehensive Japanese proficiency, enhance their awareness and competence in cross‑cultural communication, promote inter‑university exchanges, and elevate the overall standard of college Japanese education in China. The previous eight editions have received positive responses and strong su...

2026 Sino-German Forum Held at Tongji University

The 2026 Sino-German Forum: International Conference on Sino-Euro Trade and Industrial Policy in a Changing Global Order was held at Tongji Universityfrom September 18 to 19.More than 60 scholars, experts and business representatives from universities, think tanks, companies and other institutions in China and abroad attended the conference. Participants came from Tongji University, Fudan Unive...

School of Foreign Studies, Tongji University’s Project Named One of the 2025 National Innovative Cases of Language Technology Empowering Key Fields

Recently, the Department of Language Information Management of the Ministry of Education released the list of selected innovative cases of language technology empowering key fields for 2025. The project titled Dual Engines of Language and Intelligence: Innovative Practice of Empowering Elderly Language Health with Artificial Intelligence, submitted by The School of Foreign Studiesof Tongji Univ...

Lecture: East-West Poetics: Lingnan-Tongji Professors in Conversation

Lecture：Scale Economies of Global Technology Dependence:U.S. Cloud in the Public Sector

The Conference on Literary Studies：Global South Perspectives

The concept of the “Global South,” deeply rooted in colonial history, global capital flows, and asymmetrical knowledge production mechanisms, provides a critical lens for literary studies to re-examine historical experiences, textual transmission, and discursive power. This framework reveals the long-standing structural tensions within the world literary landscape between center and periphery...

Lecture: Family Dictionary: Types and Principles- With Examples from Everyday Life and Literature

Looking Ahead to the 15th Five-Year Plan: New Missions and New Explorations in Area and Country Studies

From September 3 to 4, the academic seminar“New Journey, New Mission: Area and Country Studies in the First Year of the 15th Five-Year Plan”and theYoung Scholars Forum on Area and Country Studieswere held at Tongji University. The events were jointly organizedby the College for German and European Studies (KDE), theGerman Studies Center, and theCenter for China-Germany Social and Cultural Exc...