On the afternoon of April 10th, 2018, the Shanghai Institute for European Studies held a plenary conference of its academic research faculty. On this conference, faculty members took a review over the progress of academic research projects in the last year and discussed plans for further work in the next year. The participants of this conference were: Dr. CAO Ziheng, Dr. DAI Yichen, Dr. JI Lei, A.P. JIAN Junbo, Dr. LONG Jing, Prof. XIN Hua, Prof. XU Mingqi, Dr. YANG Haifeng, A.P. ZHANG Ji, and A.P. ZHU Miaomiao.