On March 30, 2024, the 9th Sichuan Provincial Postgraduate Academic Forum on Foreign Languages and Literature was held at the Jiang’an Campus of Sichuan University. More than 20 experts in foreign languages and over 100 postgraduate students participated in the forum. On behalf of the School of Foreign Languages (SFL) of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), Professor Li Ming, Professor Zeng Xiangmin, Dr. Zhang Juyan and 11 postgraduate students attended the forum.

The four sessions of the forum were under the themes of cutting-edge issues in foreign languages, linguistics and foreign language teaching, translation research, as well as literature, culture, area and international studies. The forum aims to improve foreign language discipline construction in Sichuan Province, continuously enhance the quality of postgraduate education in foreign languages, and provide a platform of academic exchange for universities in Sichuan. During the forum, experts in foreign language studies were invited to deliver keynote speeches and preside over the assessment of papers and on-site exchange.

Five postgraduate students from SFL bagged special prizes, setting record highs, and other students from the school harvested three first prizes and three second prizes. The five winners of special prize and the titles of their research articles are as follows: Ethical Complexity in Classics Translator: A Corpus-based Study of Dao De Jing’s Six English Translations by Zhou Jie (doctoral candidate of medio-translatology), A Study on the Spread and Reception of the Golden Lotus in the German-Speaking World by Zhao Xuan (doctoral candidate of Chinese language and literature), Flow Experience and Self-efficacy among EFL Learners: A Weekly Diary Study with Cross-lagged Analysis by Meng Jie (master candidate of foreign linguistics and applied linguistics), The Art of Deletion: The Compliance and Defiance of Howard Goldblatt’s Translation of King Gesar with Translation Norms by Wang Rui (master candidate of translation studies), and Redefining Time Through Plant Writing: A Study of the Temporality in Arthur Sze’s The Glass Constellation by Cheng Siying (master candidate of foreign languages and literature).

Students have gained a lot from the forum and will continue to build on their strengths and work hard in academic settings in the future.