Prof. Sergio Portelli, who is currently spending a semester as a visiting scholar at Beijing Foreign Studies University, was recently invited to give a lecture to the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Italian at the Chinese university’s School of European Languages and Cultures.
His lecture was titled ‘Il ruolo del lettore e del traduttore secondo Umberto Eco’.
Prof. Portelli teaches at the Dept of Translation, Terminology & Interpreting Studies of the Faculty of Arts.
The University of Malta and Beijing Foreign Studies University established a Memorandum of Understanding for academic collaboration in 2013.