On November 9, 2022, at 8:00 pm, Professor Zhou Pin from the College of Foreign Languages was invited to give an online lecture entitled Embodied Conceptualization of Emotions in English and Chinese - Based on Endoreceptive Neuroscience to students and teachers from the College of Foreign Languages of Tongji University, attracting nearly 100 students and teachers from universities across China.
Prof. Yang Xiaohu, Prof. Chang Xin, Associate Prof. Yu Jue and Associate Prof. Wang Ting from the Center for Speech-Language Processing of Tongji University were among the scholars who participated in the lecture. Professor Zhou combined the cutting-edge endoreceptive neuroscience with the conceptualization of emotion or cross-cultural comparison of emotion cognition, reflecting on and critiquing the traditional methodologies of cognitive semantics and the view on embodied cognition of emotion, and proposing a new cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparative dimension of embodied cognition of emotion. The participants generally agreed that Prof. Zhou's lecture was broad in vision, followed the frontiers of international neuroscience, and was informative, well-organized and in-depth.
At the end of the lecture, Professors Yang Xiaohu and Chang Xin had a heated discussion with Prof. Zhou, combining their respective research directions and experiences, and had a deep, cross-disciplinary and multi-perspective academic discussion and exchange. The College of Foreign Languages of Tongji University highly evaluated and appreciated Prof. Zhou's lecture, saying that this wonderful dialogue also brought out many new academic sparks ...... It not only brought students and teachers the cutting-edge research and thinking of Prof. Zhou, but also made all of them have a higher sensitivity to carry out intersectional research in multiple fields. Professor Zhou's lecture and question-answering session lasted for nearly two hours, and the students and faculty members were all impatient and looking forward to the next sharing and exchange with Professor Zhou Pin. Prof. Yang Xiaohu and Prof. Chang Xin also sincerely expressed their willingness to carry out in-depth academic exchanges and cooperation with Prof. Zhou in the future.
(Reported by the College of Foreign Languages office; Translated by Li Huixian)
