On the afternoon of 23 November, the 1st Culture Roam was held in R. 107, Dianzi Building to promote the interactions between the college teachers, students and ANU visiting teachers and expand the students’ global vision by sharing Chinese and Australian cultures with each other. Deputy Party Dean Wang Wei attended the event and delivered a speech. The ANU Mathematics teachers, Murray Batchelor, Devid Ferri, Gleb Shabernev and Ameilia Han were invited to share Australian culture as guests. The student representatives of mathematics and applied mathematics major and biological science major participated in the event hosted by Zhang Sen, a 2023 cohort biological science major student.
Wang Wei first warmly welcomed the ANU teachers and extended her heartfelt thanks for their participation in spite of the tight teaching schedule. She encouraged the students to actively communicate with the Australian teachers to improve their academic research and oral English abilities and make unremitting effort to become top-notch and innovative talents with a deeper love for the country and its people and an international perspective.
At the sharing session, the host presented a vivid introduction to the traditional Chinese culture in four aspects: architecture, cuisine, opera, and musical instruments. Devid Ferri and Amelia Han also shared with the students Australia’s unique architecture and international cuisines. Murray Batchelor, having visited China many times, talked about the Chinese architecture in his eyes and expressed his love and admiration for these traditional buildings. In the interaction section, the students demonstrated the process of making typical Chinese specialty food to and appreciated typical traditional Chinese music played with traditional Chinese musical instruments with the Australian teachers in a vivid, creative and intelligent way. In the end, Amelia Han sang a traditional Australian song “I Still Call Australia Home” to draw the sharing to a perfect close.
This event is helpful in enhancing the mutual understanding between the teachers and students and increasing the students’ knowledge of Chinese and Australian cultures. It also serves as a beginning for the students to have more communication with the Australian teachers in course study and academic research so as to lay a good foundation for future study at ANU. Furthermore, it is a vivid practice of the college’s effort to make full use of the advantage of cooperative education and create an internationalised environment and features to upgrade the cooperative education quality and make contributions to the university’s international development strategy.
