Language and Future Academic Conference and the 4th Emerging Scholars’ Workshop was successfully held at Southeast University from Aug. 26 to Aug. 27, 2017. It was co-sponsored by the School of Foreign Languages at Southeast University, the Institute of Linguistics and the Research Center for Foreign Language Strategies at Shanghai International Studies University, and the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong.
Experts and scholars from both home and abroad have attended the conference to discuss issues in language policy. Distinguished experts have come from well-known universities throughout the world such as University College London, Birbeck, University of London, Michigan State University, the University of Hong Kong, Shanghai International Studies University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, etc.
The conference’s theme is ‘multiple languages for intercultural communication’ to reflect burgeoning issues in language policy research in China and other parts of the world. The conference highlights China’s Belt and Road (B&R) initiative and the multilingual, multicultural challenges that the B&R initiative presents to China. Through intellectual exchanges, the conference encourages responses from multiple perspectives to these challenges in the language-related policy-making process and policy implementation. The successful conference has promoted the interaction between international scholars and the faculty members of Asia-Pacific Language Policy Research Center and provided a wonderful opportunity for the cultivation of young scholars with international vision.
(Reported by Li Chen and photographed by Qu Gang and Chen Xiangyu)
