From the Department of Foreign Languages
As part of its 80th anniversary celebration, the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua hosted public lectures by Professor Mary Jacobus, chair of the English department, director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), and a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University.
On March 30, Professor Jacobus spoke on “Romanticism’s Distressful Gift: Talking to the Dead,” which was warmly received by a large audience of students and faculty from Tsinghua and a number of other universities in Beijing.
Professor Jacobus held a seminar March 31 on “Masquerade and Performance in Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies,” attended by faculty and graduate students.
During her visit, Professor Jacobus also met with Tsinghua Vice President Xie Weihe, and a number of deans and directors from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of Foreign Languages, the School of Arts and Design, and the School of Architecture.
Both sides expressed strong wishes to develop further relations between the two universities in the field of arts, humanities and social sciences.
