记者 吴倩雯

12月1日晚7点🧑‍🎄，本学期的第七场外教系列讲座在丽泽楼C202成功举办🧑🏼‍🚒。这次讲座的主题是"Individualism（个人主义）"，来自约克大学的加拿大籍外教Mr. Gregory Lawrence Smart生动有趣地向同学们诠释了这一主题的含义。

讲座一开始，Mr. Smart提出了“社会力量是否受限制”这一问题📇，并巧妙地运用了个人主义与集体主义这两个相反面做出了回答，从而引出本次讲座的主题——个人主义。接着，他从历史的角度向同学们讲述了个人主义在西方的起源，从16世纪马丁·路德宗教改革的“赎罪券”遏制了人们的个性化发展到18世纪法国大革命提倡民主自由👨🏼‍✈️👭🏻，这些历史内容令在场的同学们听得津津有味🤷🏼‍♀️。之后，他又站在现代社会的角度🦹🏽‍♀️，分别从私人空间、教育、文艺和社会等方面比较了西方和中国在个人主义的不同表现↪️。在私人空间方面🧴，他认为每个人都有私人空间🤌，而且不应被干涉；在教育方面，他提议学生在学习上应该具有“个人主义”，而不是被动地学习，并要勇于表达自己的想法。Mr. Smart联系生活实际，生动地用身边的真实例子说明每个方面的内容🎒，这让同学们更加容易理解这一主题的含义🤏🏼。

最后，同学们就这一主题的内容积极提问，Mr. Smart对此一一做出了详细的解答🖐🏻，赢得了在场同学们的阵阵掌声。

A Lecture：Individualism

By Wu Qianwen

At 7:00 p.m. on December 1st, the seventh lecture was held by School of Foreign Languages in Lize C202. Mr. Gregory Lawrence Smart, who holds BA and MA degrees in English Literature from York University in Canada, gave a lecture entitled Individualism.

At the beginning, Mr. Gregory Lawrence Smart asked a question: Was the power of society limited or unlimited? And he answered it by comparing individualism with collectivism, which led to the topic "individualism". From the Protestant Reformation to the Great French Revolution, Mr. Smart introduced the origin of individualism in the western history. Then, he talked about the differences between western countries and China from the individualism aspect, including personal space, education, art, and so on. During the lecture, he listed a lot of experience in daily life which contributed to the easy understanding of students.

Finally, students asked many questions about this topic actively, and Mr. Gregory Lawrence Smart answered them in details, which won a big round of applause from students.