As part of the „invitation of research award winners for further research stays in Germany“ program of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, the German language and linguistic scientist Prof. Jin Zhao from the Tongji-University of Shanghai was once again a guest at the University of Siegen from the 30th June until the 30th of September 2017. The scientific host of University of Siegen is, as in previous years, Prof. Dr. Stephan Habscheid, who is responsible for the German studies Seminar, with an area of expertise in applied linguistics.
The cooperation with the German-linguistic and Philosophy department had its provisional conclusion in the form of a public Humboldt- Workshop, held on the 19th and the 20th of October 2017, and to which Prof. Zhao gave a lecture on the topic of “Wilhelm von Humboldt in China: reception, research and problems”