This presentation does not claim to lead into any narrative historiography nor into utopian futurology. It rather leads into research on translation culture(s) from the contemporary perspective with reference to traditions, while going beyond nation-state frameworks and on the basis of communication and networking. The result will remain fragmented anyhow, but much less than in traditional societies. It has been demonstrated that the search for regularities in large corpora can be efficient in the culture of national bibliographies (Van Bragt 1995); the sociological study of translation markets (e.g. in the Bourdieu-teams) extends the networking further into electronic communication; hopefully, similar projects may be running. As long as international teams cannot or do not really coordinate their cooperation beyond national borders, globalization in TS will not really take off, but a better use of common resources will allow for more panoramic insights in the dynamics of international translation cultures. A better use of research already achieved is not too difficult. And this is what the Institutionalization of the Discipline ought to promote.

My talk on the process of adapting It Can’t Happen Here, the novel written by Sinclair Lewis, for the stage along with Tony Taccone, which was originally performed by Berkeley Repertory Theater in 2016 and has since been published by Dramatist’s Play Service and produced numerous times throughout the United States and in England, will focus not only on that work, but also on the  experience with adaptations over the past 35 years in theater, film, and television.  During that time, I have adapted such works as the German play The Soldiers, by Jakob Lenz, the novels Rainbow Drive, The Night of the Fox, and The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, for television, and have had my own book, The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights adapted for both film and television, while also being involved in the adaptations of other works as both a producer and a consultant.  My talk will touch upon the different demands made on adaptations by all three mediums, and the unique set of circumstances that surrounded our adaptation of It Can’t Happen Here, a fictional play about a Presidential election that proved devastating for America, in the midst of a real Presidential election that proved much the same.

近藤教授将全面回顾介绍伊朗学在日本的发端、成长、主要流派、主要代表人物和学科研究现状。

- Key milestones of China’s retail development

- Different faces of e-commerce

- Success and failure of digital transformation

- New retail : towards omni-channels

献礼SISU70华诞。网络教育学院名师系列讲座——莎士比亚作品赏析系列讲座第六讲。

本讲座首先介绍人文学科的形成、性质和内涵，继而通过中外经典事例，阐述人文学科的人文精神、学术意义和社会价值，讲解人文学者的中外文史哲基本知识修养和学术素养要求，对同学们日常的经典阅读和学术训练，提出一些建议。

中国国情与中国特色国际传播系列讲座（二）

This is a two-level talk. At one level, I literally try to teach the audience the statistical concept of regression to the mean. At a second level, I point out how my teaching techniques are based on embodiment theory.

2019年10月，第十届亚非研究国际联盟年会将在上海外国语大学举办。本次年会的主题是：全球化时代的文化表述。
文化交流是人类文明向前发展的重要驱动力之一。要实现交流首先是各自向对方自觉或不自觉地展示自己的文化，特别是表述自己的文化，才有可能被对方有选择地认可，乃至吸纳并被各自进行重构。
就文化的概念而言，广义的文化，是人类在社会历史实践过程中所创造的物质财富和精神财富的总和。狭义指社会的意识形态以及与之相适应的制度和组织机构, 是在历史上一定的物质生产方式的基础上发生和发展的社会精神生活形式的总和。一般地把它分为下列几个层次：物态文化、制度文化、行为文化、心态文化。物态文化层是人类的物质生产活动方式和产品的总和，是可触知的具体实在的事物，如衣、食、住、行。制度文化层是人类在社会实践中建立的规范自身行为和调节相互关系的准则。行为文化层是人际交往中约定俗成的以礼俗、民俗、习惯和风俗，它是一种社会的、集体的行为。心态文化是人们的社会心理和社会的意识形态，包括人们的价值观念、审美情趣、思维方式以及由此而产生的文学艺术作品。
亚非国家及其所包含的各民族在进入全球化进程中，在接触到其他文化的同时，存在自我文化表述的必要性，包括方式、内容与过程，从而达到在一定程度上被其他文化认可乃至接受的目的，与此同时，在全球化各文化相互融合的过程中，各自完成自身文化的重构，达到各文明和谐相处的目的。这整个过程体现在个人层面，包括生活习惯、言行处事等，也包括生产的物品层面，以及制度和价值观层面，均包含了表述、接受和重构的过程。
因此，在这个框架下，该主题将涉及到各学科领域包括历史、宗教、艺术、政治、传媒、社会、经济和人类学等领域的内容，值得深入研究。