Forum of Foreign Language Celebrities

Topic: Integration of General and Professional Education and University Education

Starts: 10:30, November 29, 2019 (Friday)

Venue: Room 205-1, Teaching Building 1 (Academic Lecture Hall, School of Foreign Languages)

Speaker: CHEN Yongguo

Speaker Profile:

CHEN Yongguo, Professor/Doctoral Tutor, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University; Visiting Scholar, University of Florida; Fulbright Scholar, Duke University; Co-Researcher, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Research Scholar, University of Cambridge; Research Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Lecture Synopsis:

Nowadays, university education, whether in the natural sciences, social sciences, or the humanities, is inseparable from the cultivation of liberal arts, especially the reading of classics of humanities. That is because classics are both the crystallization and the source of ideas; they are both the memory of the past and the portrayal of the present. It is only when the past is fabled in contemporary reality that it has meaning, that it can lead to the future, and that it can provide materials and imagination for science. Therefore, in the case of education oriented to the integration of general and professional education, reading is the way, thinking is the purpose, and cultivating the holistic person is the goal.