“Symposium 2016 Beijing Summer Boot Camp” held successfully with support from Columbia Beijing Center
The Symposium 2016 Beijing Summer Boot Camp held from August 8 to August 14 at the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University (ESBNU), organized by students from Columbia University and supported by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. This year, the Symposium provided discussion sessions, workshop sessions and outing events in the past few days. More than 40 people were in attendance.
The Symposium 2016 Beijing Summer Boot Camp held from August 8 to August 14 at the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University (ESBNU), organized by students from Columbia University and supported by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. This year, the Symposium provided discussion sessions, workshop sessions and outing events in the past few days. More than 40 people were in attendance.
In the discussion session, Symposium facilitated seminar discussions around Western classical texts in comparison with Eastern classical texts, which covered following texts in the form of comparative reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf VS To Live by Yu Hua, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant VS Confucius Analects by Confucius and Symposium by Plato VS Zhuang Zi by “Master Zhuang”. Seminar discussions of cross-cultural reading of classical humanities texts were conducted comparatively in the historical, cultural and social context, and critical thinking skills and cultural sensitivity among participants with diverse cultural backgrounds were enhanced through bilingual reading.
