The two seminars “Symbolic power and conversational inequality in intercultural communication” and “At the cross-road of theory and practice in the field of intercultural communication” delivered by Professor ZHU Hua have been successfully held on 6 April and 7 April 2016 respectively. 

Professor ZHU Hua is Professor in Applied Linguistics and Communication and Head of Department in Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests are intercultural communication, pragmatics, multilingualism and child development. She has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, The Modern Language Journal, Applied Linguistics, Multilingua, Language and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, AILA Review, Journal of Asia-Pacific Communication, Journal of Child Language, Internal Journal of Bilingualism, and Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 

Both seminars were well received by not only our academic staff but also guests from other institutes as well as our research staff. We are grateful to the Sino-British Fellowship Trust for funding the seminars.