>>Figures of Male Losers in Taoism Lyrics in the Late Tang Dynasty

Speaker: Ms. Zhang Yinan

Venue: Room 508, Classroom Building No.2

Date: Oct. 22, 2011 (Saturday)

Time: 19:00-21:00

>>Mandatory IFRS Adoption and the Stewardship Role of Financial Reporting

Speaker: Prof. Hongqi Yuan, Fudan University

Venue: Room 217, New Building of GSM

Date: Oct. 24, 2011 (Monday)

Time: 13:30-15:30

>>History & Its Rhetoric — History in the Eyes of Israeli Cartoonists

Speaker: Yaakov Kirschen & Carice Witte

Venue: Room 206, Foreign Language Building

Date: Oct. 25, 2011 (Tuesday)

Time: 10:00-12:00

>>A Social-Structural Analysis of Employee-Organization Relationships & Team Creativity

Speaker: Jason D. Shaw, PhD

Venue: Room 216, New Building of GSM

Date: Oct. 25, 2011 (Tuesday)

Time: 12:30-14:00

Intro: In this study, we testify the hypotheses that the mutual investment form of employment system (an employment relationship where the employer expects great contributions from employees and provides long-term, extensive inducements to employees), relative to other forms, is positively related with team-work creativity, with the mediation of the density of the work-related team communication network. Another hypothesis is that the advantages of higher communication network density would be stronger in work teams with higher task complexity, We found support for these hypotheses in a two-wave study of 233 work teams in 55 Chinese organizations. A discussion of this study’s implications on employment relationships will be provided.

>>The Poetics of Dante’s Paradiso

Speaker: Prof. Massimo VERDICCHIO, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

Venue: Room 101, Classroom Building No.3

Date: Oct. 26, 2011 (Wednesday)

Time: 10:10-12:00

Intro: Paradiso, Book three of the Divine Comedy, due to the uniqueness of its subject matter, is an all-time challenge to readers, although the other two books, Inferno and Purgatory, appear more approachable in literary criticism. Paradiso can be treated as a poem of itself with its unique theme and poetics..

>>East China Summer Monsoon Precipitation System

Speaker: Prof. Luo Yali, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

Venue: Room 576, Physics Building (North)

Date: Oct. 26, 2011 (Wednesday)

Time: 15:30-17:30

Translated by: Zhao Ning
Edited by: Liu Lu