Myth had a central role in ancient Greek athletics. Athletic competitions were big events in the life of ancient Greek communities and were often taking place in the context of religious festivals or funeral games. Some of them were of local character, while others of panhellenic importance, that is, with delegations participating from all over the Greek world. The Olympic Games, perhaps the most well-known panhellenic athletic event in antiquity and our time, were thought to have been founded by the mythical hero Heracles, or to commemorate Agamemnon’s grandfather, Pelops. Mythical heroes and stories provided the models and the means of praise and commemoration of real-life athletes and their achievements, by poets of the stature of Pindar and Bacchylides. Victorious athletes were cast in a larger-than-life light, acquiring status and honours comparable to those of mythical heroes. In this lecture, we will discuss key sources on the topic, exploring different types of athletic events in ancient Greece and myth’s role in the celebration and commemoration of athletic victors, as members of distinguished families and whole communities. The mythological background and associations of Greek athletics will also help us illuminate the role of athletics in interstate politics and ethnic identity, and aspects of social history, such as hero cult and the role of women in ancient Greece.

The global popularity of The Swiss Family Robinson (which appeared in German in 1812 and 1813 and was quickly translated into English) is undoubted, but the true extent of the work as a “corporate product” that has been adapted for ever new audiences since the early nineteenth century has not been recognized. As part of the numerous translations of the novel into English, numerous rewriting processes were applied to cater to the particular needs of the envisaged reading audience of young readers. The text variously functioned as a belated Enlightenment moral instruction manual and as an instructive source of knowledge related to natural history and philosophy. Since its first publication, numerous illustrated editions have directed audiences to identify particular foci, and illustrations – from the nineteenth century to the present day – have defined the ways in which to read the text intermedially. This lecture will focus on translation processes – processes of rewriting the text and of rendering it from one medium (printed text) into another (illustration). It will centrally examine the woodcut illustrations that accompanied the partial translation of The Swiss Family Robinson that was published in instalments in the Shanghai-based magazine, The Tapestry Portrait Novel, considering at the same time the English source text, a rewriting of the work in one-syllable words by Mary Godolphin. Not only will it focus on the remediation of the story of the family’s shipwreck and their reconstruction of civilization, but it will also shed light on the particular organizational principle of the woodcut designs, which differs decidedly from western practice. The lecture will chart the medial appropriation of Wyss’s text for Chinese reader-viewers and how the illustrators conveyed particular visual castings of scenes that through the indexical medium of the woodcuts became text-defining.

棒球作为一项发端自19世纪的体育项目一直被视为美国社会的“国民消遣”（National Pastime）。其象征意义超越运动本身，而上升为一种全民的文化符号。马克·吐温、刘易斯、海明威、菲利普·罗斯、史蒂芬金等一大批美国文学史上的大师级人物都在曾用自己的文字挖掘过棒球所承载的文化象征意义，又或是将这种运动与浪漫主义叙述嫁接于一处，进而构建了美国文学史上的一个“另类传统”。本讲座试图通过对此“传统”的分析，为理解美国文学史、社会文化变迁提供一个崭新的视角。

日本外交思想及其行为概述
报告题为日本外交思想及其行为概述，主要讲授日本的国际秩序观：朝贡秩序、大君秩序、帝国主义秩序、美国体系；2、日本的亚洲观：东洋、亚洲、东亚；3、和平主义与日本外交，其重点难点主要包括观念变迁与日本外交实践。

介绍担任摩洛哥哈桑二世大学孔子学院公派教师期间的工作情况，分享工作感悟。

语言安全是总体国家安全观视域下中国语言学研究亟待深入探究的时代命题。近十年来，国内学界开始逐步关注语言安全问题，但是关于语言安全的概念与内涵界定尚不明朗，现有研究多停留着概念推演与描述介绍层面，缺乏理论深度和实证调查研究。本讲座基于语言安全理论流变，提出语言安全的三个关键问题，提出语言安全规划框架，希冀以此推动中国语言安全研究的深入发展。

我国坚持开放政策推进“一带一路”建设及“人类命运共同体”构建，迫切需要通外国语言、晓国家区域、善涉外工作、能研究涉外问题的国别区域学人才。本讲座在介绍美、英、俄开设国别区域研究专业的基础上指出我国在国别区域研究专业设置上存在的空白，探究我国高校在国别区域人才培养中存在的问题，阐明我国外语专业培养国别区域学人才的独特资源，指出了外语专业培养国别区域学人才的重要性及亟需解决的问题。通过机构个案的探索介绍变革教育理念、构建课程体系、应对问题措施、培养国别区域学人才的初步进展。希望讲座对外语专业教师、硕士博士研究生及外语教育管理人员有所启发。

介绍担任意大利那不勒斯东方大学孔子学院中方院长期间的工作情况，分享工作感悟。

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