4月17日下午，外国语学院在国际会议中心举办了题为 Comparative Dilemmas of the Historical Novel（历史小说的比较困境）的全英文学术报告会，报告人为国际权威期刊Neohelicon ( A&HCI）杂志主编、匈牙利科学院Péter Hajdu教授。报告会由副院长徐以中和蔡咏春教授共同主持。
Péter Hajdu教授在讲座中首先对历史小说比较性研究的可能性问题进行了探讨，然后基于德国哲学家施莱尔马赫阐释学等方面的相关论述，结合不同主题的作品，对西方历史小说的发展史进行了简要梳理和评介，从西方第一部历史小说沃尔特·斯科特的《韦弗利》开始，对历史小说的比较方法和策略、历史小说的真实性和虚构性、历史性的元小说、历史小说的科幻元素以及新时期历史小说同电视等其他媒介方式的交互关系进行了阐发和解读。
报告结束后，蔡咏春教授就讲座主题，从阐释学、原型理论、历史小说与幻想文学、历史元小说以及时间错位等多方面用英语进行了精彩的点评。
最后，Péter Hajdu教授同在座的外语学院师生进行了互动，对听众提出的历史小说的政治话语和真实性问题、历史小说的地位以及历史小说的发展前景等问题进行了一一回应。Péter Hajdu教授还和老师们就如何发表国际英文论文等问题进行了探讨。
本次报告会内容丰富，观点和见解具有很高的创见性，激发了师生极大的兴趣，受到听众的一致欢迎。
报告人简介：
Péter Hajdu (1966, Budapest, Hungary) studies Literature, Greek and Latin at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, and wrote his dissertation on late Roman epic poetry. He is academic advisor at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, also professor at Shanghai Jiao Tang University, and editor-in-chief of Neohelicon, a major international journal on comparative literature studies. Member of advisory boards of four international journals on literary studies (Proudy, Czech Republic; Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Germany; Recherche Litteraire/Literary Research, Belgium, Primerjalna književnost, Slovenia). He did extensive research in the fields of comparative literature, theory of literature, and classical philology. From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the International Comparative Literature Association's (ICLA) Research Committee for East- and South-East Europe, 2008-2014 he was member of the standing research committee for literary theory, and 2010-16 member of the ICLA Executive Council. 2002-2012 secretary, since 2016 president of Hungarian Comparative Literature Association. He lectured at various universities in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, PR China, and Japan. He has published 6 books and more than 130 papers, many of them appeared in top ranking international journals.