The 2020 International Conference on Frontiers of Discourse Studies was held on 24 October 2020 via Zoom and live-streamed on Bilibili. The conference was hosted by School of Foreign Languages, SJTU, and attracted more than 4,000 viewers on Bilibili and another 200 in the Zoom conference room.

On October 24, 2020, the Second International Young Scholars Forum on Foreign Languages was successfully held by the School of Foreign Languages (SFL), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Over 30 budding young scholars participated in this forum and had a vigorous discussion on the cutting-edge issues in the study of foreign languages and literature.

From July 20 to 22, the 2020 Online Summer Seminar at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Narrative was successfully held by the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

On July 18, July 25, August 1 and August 29, 2020, four online fora on appliable linguistics were held by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics (hereafter “Martin Centre”) via ZOOM webinar.