第八届世界汉学大会第九组主旨演讲由卑尔根大学赵守辉教授主持，北亚利桑纳大学的田口直子（Naoko Taguchi）教授作了题为“英语作为国际通用语的研究及其对国际中文教育的启示”演讲。中国人民大学教授江晓丽作出回应。
第八届世界汉学大会第八组主旨演讲由圣彼得堡大学教授罗流沙（Aleksei Rodionov）主持，南京大学/早稻田大学教授稻畑耕一郎（Koichiro Inahata）作题为“苏州文人顾禄与日本江户文人的学术交流”的演讲，苏州大学教授季进回应。
第八届世界汉学大会第七组主旨演讲由罗兰大学东亚系主任、孔子学院外方院长郝清新（Imre Hamar）主持，哈佛大学藏学研究家范德康（Leonard van der Kuijp）作了题为“司徒班钦·却吉迥乃（1699-1774）：中国十八世纪最伟大的学者之一”的主旨演讲。清华大学沈卫荣教授进行回应。
第八届汉学大会第六组主旨演讲由布宜诺斯艾利斯大学教授毕嘉宏（Ignacio Villagran）主持，中国人民大学副教授刘增光作题为“知止与和合：全球文明的未来期望”主旨演讲，耶鲁大学教授司马懿（Chloë Starr）作出回应。
11月5日，中国人民大学主办、北京大学出版社及北大博雅讲坛协办的“历史的长河——《史记》翻译与研究”圆桌论坛，作为第8届世界汉学大会第二分论坛“汉学与中国典籍译介”活动之一，在中国人民大学苏州校区修远楼304室举办。
第八届世界汉学大会第五组主旨演讲由华东师范大学童世骏教授主持，中国人民大学/纽卡斯尔大学教授薄国强（Roland Boer）作题为“西方能从‘两个结合’中的第二个结合中学到什么”演讲，他依据中国提出的“第二个结合”中的方法论原则，尝试把马克思主义辩证观与西方传统价值观结合起来。
第八届世界汉学大会第四组主旨演讲由中国人民大学教授朱浒主持。哈佛大学教授罗柏松（James Robson）作题为“哈佛大学汉学历史及其与亚洲的互动”的演讲。北京外国语大学历史学院、全球史研究院院长李雪涛作出了回应。
第八届世界汉学大会第三组主旨演讲由中国人民大学文学院院长陈剑澜主持，塞尔维亚诺维萨德大学国际合作副校长萨比娜·哈卢普卡-瑞塞塔尔（Sabina Halupka-Resetar）以“海外汉学与本土学术：以塞尔维亚为例”为题，分享了自己的观察和思考。湖南师范大学/香港城市大学教授张隆溪对演讲进行回应。
第八届世界汉学大会第二场主旨演讲由北京大学张辉教授主持，中国人民大学臧峰宇教授团队代表、中国人民大学青年讲师宫志翀作《多元文明共存与全球文明发展》主旨演讲。牛津大学罗伯特·恰德（Robert Chard）教授从历史学研究的角度出发，对演讲作出回应。
第八届世界汉学大会第一组主旨演讲由中国翻译协会副会长黄友义主持。美国威斯康辛大学教授倪豪士（William H. Nienhauser, Jr.）围绕“孔子与夷狄”一题进行深刻阐释。中国人民大学副教授吴洋对此作出回应。
11月6日下午，由教育部中外语言交流合作中心和中国人民大学合办的第八届世界汉学大会在中国人民大学苏州校区顺利闭幕。本次大会为期两天，各与会学者就大会主题“理解中国：互通的过去与共建的未来（Understanding China: Connected Past and Shared Future）”各抒己见，分享了最前沿的汉学研究成果，实现了多形式的文化交流和文明互鉴。闭幕式前，五组嘉宾进行了精彩的主旨演讲。
中新社苏州11月5日电 (史元丰 高楚颐)11月5日，以“理解中国：互通的过去与共建的未来”为主题的第八届世界汉学大会在中国人民大学苏州校区开幕。来自海内外40多个国家的170余位汉学家齐聚一堂，体味“一迳抱幽山，居然城市间”的江南诗画意境，共话东西方文明交流互鉴的古往今来。
11月5日至6日，第八届世界汉学大会在中国人民大学苏州校区举行，来自海内外的汉学家高度评价了大会对于沟通中外文化、促进文明交流互鉴的桥梁纽带作用。
LIU Zengguang is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, and secretary general of the Confucius Institute at Renmin University of China. He is also the director of the Chinese Confucius Society and the director of the China Zengzi Research Society. His research focuses on Song and Ming philosophy, and the history of economics. His main publications are Educating Common People and Inventing Systems: Zheng Xuan's Political Construction of Confucius' Image in His Commentary of Analects, Removing the Value of "The World is for All" and Elevating the ldea of Loyalty to Emperor-A Critical Study on the Annotation and Commentary on the Xiaojing, How to Understand Spirit of Enlightenment in the Confucianism—A Study from the Perspective of Neo-Confucianism.
ZANG Fengyu is the Dean of the School of Philosophy of Renmin University of China, professor and doctoral supervisor. He has been selected as one of the leading talents in philosophy and social sciences under the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents, one of the "Four Groups of Talents", and one of the "Distinguished Scholars" Distinguished Professors of Renmin University of China. He is the chief expert of the Interdisciplinary Platform on Modernization of State Governance and Applied Ethics of Renmin University of China, and the chief editor of Philosophers and Marxist Philosophy Review. He is also the vice president of China Dialectical Materialism Research Society and the president of Marxist Political Philosophy Research Society, the vice chairman of the Applied Ethics Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, the secretary general of the Nishan Joint Graduate School of Chinese Outstanding Traditional Cultures, and a member of the editorial board of Philosophical Research, Journal of Renmin University of China, and Teaching and Research. His research focuses on Marxist philosophy and political philosophy. His main publications are Introduction to Marx's Political Philosophy, Study of Marx's Political Philosophy in Textual Context, Marx and Smith and Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment, The French Enlightenment and Marx's Theory of Human Emancipation.
Sabina Halupka-Rešetar is a Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and Full Professor of English at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her main research interests cover both theoretical linguistics (syntax, pragmatics, syntax-pragmatics interface) and applied linguistics (ELT/ESP, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics). She has authored and co-authored three books on these topics as well as numerous research papers published in national and international journals.
Naoko Taguchi is a professor in the Department of English at Northern Arizona University, where she teaches applied linguistics and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) courses.
Leonard van der Kuijp is Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Harvard University, Chairman of the Committee on Inner Asian and Altai Studies
Roland Boer is an "Overseas Talent" professor at the School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China. He was formerly a professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle
Koichiro Inahata is Professor Emeritus at Waseda University, Visiting Professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University. He worked as the Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Head of Research Institute for Chinese Old Book Culture at Waseda University; Visiting Scholar at the Department of Archaeology of Peking University; Visiting Professor at Department of Eastern Arts of Nankai University
