The Confucius Institute at the University of Southampton, with support from the UK Association for Language Testing and Assessment (UKALTA) and the British Council is holding a one-day symposium on ‘The Journey of Testing: Global and Local Narratives’ on 5 November, 2019 at Garden Court, Highfield Campus.
The event will be of particular interest to staff and students studying/teaching Chinese history.
The keynote speaker will cover the following topics:
- Exploring the Legacy of the Chinese Imperial Examinations
- 30 years of testing in the UK- back to the future?
- Social Elite and Imperial Examination System: A Silk-road Perspective
- Imperial Examination and Culture Transmission: A Case Study of Jiading, Shanghai
Call for symposium proposals:
The symposium aims at sharing and exploring different narratives of how tests have been developed, adapted, used and interpreted in different countries around the globe.
We invite postgraduate students, educators, researchers and testers to submit abstracts for presentations or posters. The submission deadline is 11 October 2019. Please visit http://testingsymp.com/ for more information. Any queries, please email [email protected].
Museum Exhibitions:
Together with this symposium, there will be two special exhibitions from Nanjing Imperial Examination Museum and Jiading Museum Shanghai. The exhibitions will take place on Avenue Campus on 6 and 7 November in Southampton, and then at the Exchange Exhibition on 9 November at King’s College London.
Both the symposium and exhibitions are free to the public. Everyone is welcome and the Institute looks forward to seeing many of you in Southampton or London.
