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11月17日晚七点，外籍教师系列讲座第六场在丽泽楼C106成功举行🤸‍♀️🍀。本场讲座由来自美国的Mr. Charlie Reis主持，题为“What We Talk about When We Talk about Zombies”👧。他以此次讲座启发同学们对时下流行的僵尸文化进行思考。

首先，Mr. Charlie Reis向同学们提出了一个问题：僵尸题材并没有吸血鬼题材那么浪漫迷人但是却很常见，这是为什么呢？而这种现象又意味着什么呢？随后，他列举了很多“僵尸现象”，包括僵尸电影、僵尸游戏👨‍🦳🏃🏻‍♀️、僵尸游行和僵尸造型商品等。他认为僵尸可以说是一种失去个性的奴隶，是伪装的敌人，是永不止步的时间的代表。最后，他又与同学们探讨了出现这种现象的可能的原因，并得出结论——这来源于人们对疾病🌪、衰老和社会混乱的惧怕。

在讲座的最后环节👷🏽，同学们提出了一些有趣的问题👨‍👨‍👦，诸如僵尸的消化问题等🤴🏽，而Mr. Charlie Reis对此进行了耐心的解答。他希望同学们通过这次讲座能培养多角度思考的能力，从深层次上认识这个世界🧧。

A Lecture：What We Talk about When We Talk about Zombies

By Shen Xiaoqian

At 7 p.m. on November 17th, School of Foreign Languages held the sixth lecture which was given by an American teacher, Mr. Charlie Reis, in Lize C202. The title was "What We Talk about When We Talk about Zombies". Through this lecture, he tried to make students think about the popular zombies’ culture.

First of all, the lecture began with a question: Zombies didn''t have much personality and weren''t romantic or sexy the way vampires could be, but still there were so many "zombies" around us. What''s the reason and what did it mean?

Then Mr. Charlie Reis listed a lot of things about zombies, such as zombie movies, descriptions, video games, goods and so on. In order to explain what zombies are, he compared them to slaves, nonstop time and even disguised enemies. In his opinion, zombies showed us what we fear. They showed us a picture of the world that was becoming inhuman and reflected serious global problems, which was the answer we searched for in the beginning.

Finally, students came up with many interesting questions, such as how zombies digested food. Mr. Charlie Reis answered the questions patiently and advised students to think about things or the world in different ways.