Professor Theo D’haen, a member of the Academia Europaea and Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, will lead a seminar exploring the theoretical developments in the latter half of the twentieth century and the underlying logic behind the emergence of world literature. The discussion will center on his paper “Whither World Literature?”, examining the evolving directions and conceptual foun...

    The upcoming event will feature Professor Ottmar Ette, Director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Hunan Normal University, as the keynote speaker, with Professor Ren Haiyan, Executive Deputy Director of the Center, serving as moderator. The event will focus on Professor Ette’s book TransArea: A Literary History of Globalization, exploring its perspectives on literatur...

Group photo of the participants         The Fourth Humboldt Day Sino-German Academic Symposium was held at Sichuan International Studies University on October 17–18, 2026. Under the theme “Nature, Culture, and Life: Alexander von Humboldt’s Earth System,” the symposium was jointly organized by the Center for German-Studies, the School of German Studies, and the Institute of Area Studies at ...