物的文學:從小說《考工記》和上海書隱樓談起
面對生態的破壞、科技的發展和各種書寫關注點的轉變,「人的文學」已不足以闡釋現當代華文文學中所反映出的人和世界的關係。我以王安憶的小說《考工記》和上海古宅書隱樓為例,提出「物的文學」這一概念,來探討「物」通過「工」的顯隱之變。
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poetics@cuhk.edu.hk
面對生態的破壞、科技的發展和各種書寫關注點的轉變,「人的文學」已不足以闡釋現當代華文文學中所反映出的人和世界的關係。我以王安憶的小說《考工記》和上海古宅書隱樓為例,提出「物的文學」這一概念,來探討「物」通過「工」的顯隱之變。
poetics@cuhk.edu.hk
The Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture (RCCPC) will organize an international workshop on Dai Zhen’s philosophy on March 15–16 (Friday to Saturday), 2024. This workshop aims to bring together experts and scholars to exchange their latest research on Dai Zhen’s philosophy, engage in mutual discussions, and cultivate new knowledge through discussion of previous scholarship.
Mainland China
Prof. LI Changran 李暢然教授 (Editorial and Research Center of Confucian Canon, Peking University)
Prof. LIU Liangjian 劉梁劍教授 (East China Normal University)
Prof. WU Genyou 吳根友教授 (Wuhan University)
U.S.
Prof. HU Minghui 胡明輝教授 (The University of California, Santa Cruz)
Prof. NG On-cho 伍安祖教授 (The Pennsylvania State University)
Hong Kong
Prof. CHANG So-an 張壽安教授 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. CHENG Chung-yi 鄭宗義教授 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)Prof. Justin TIWALD (The University of Hong Kong)
Prof. CHENG Kat-hung Dennis 鄭吉雄教授 (The Education University of Hong Kong)
Dr. CHONG Yun-chak 莊潤澤博士 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. Chris FRASER (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. HUANG Yong 黃勇教授 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. YAO Zhihua 姚治華教授 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. ZHENG Zemian 鄭澤綿教授 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Tel: (852) 3943 7149
Email: rccpc@cuhk.edu.hk
The Buddhist critique of the self raises a host of theoretical and practical difficulties within the philosophical fields of ethics and action theory. Vasubandhu’s essay on the negation of the self (Ātmavādapratiṣedha), constituting the ninth chapter of his Treasury of Metaphysics (Abhidharmakośabhāṣya), acknowledges some of these issues and tries to address them from a Buddhist point of view. One crucial difficulty in this regard, which is of significance both to followers of the Buddhist path who aim for awakening and to ordinary people who seek worldly happiness, is the issue of self-interested concern for the future; that is, the agent’s motivations to undertake actions for his or her future wellbeing. The question is how such an attitude can be justified and explained, if no permanent self exists. In the present talk, I will present Vasubandhu’s answer to this problem. I will begin by introducing Vasubandhu’s treatment of the broader issue of moral agency in the absence of an enduring self and what I see as his understanding of the agent on the two level of truths. The talk will then present the problem of Self-Interested Concern for the Future within this framework and Vasubandhu’s way of accounting for this ordinary motivation. I will argue that it rests on the notion that psychological identification with a persisting self is a necessary condition for being moral rather than a hindrance for ethics. The talk will conclude by showing the relevance of this solution to the broader field of Buddhist ethics.
Online
No registration is required.
Meeting ID: 967 8536 3542
Link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/96785363542
Face-to-face
Register by 10 March 2024
Link: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13683685
Tel: (852) 3943 7135
Fax: (852) 2603 5323
Website: http://phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/
Prof. Leigh-Anna Hidalgo is an Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale. She received her Ph.D. in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who integrates ethnography, digital humanities, and Latinx Studies to analyse urban labour struggles and resistance. She is completing a book under contract with Duke University Press and has published articles in the Journal of Latino Studies and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Born in Los Angeles, to a Salvadoran father and a U.S. mother, she spent her childhood living between Guatemala and El Salvador.
Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Mode: In-person
Venue: Room 213, Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
A light lunch will be served at 12:45 pm. First come, first served.
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This talk reflects on my role as an applied anthropologist, ethnographer, and digital storyteller, with the Los Angeles Street Vending Campaign (LASVC) between 2013 and 2020. The campaign was mobilized by African American, Caribbean, Mexican, Central American, and Latin American street vendor communities whose political entanglements overturned a century-long anti-vending ordinance criminalizing their livelihoods. They persist in creating moments and movements that unmasked power imbalances, sought recognition, and forged solidarities by embracing strategies, cultures, and politics of each other's experiences.
Our research produced augmented fotonovelas, a digital humanities platform for the campaign. This digital and print popular media project utilizes digital humanities and ethnographic methods in combination with augmented reality to make the fotonovela print come to life using a cell phone application. These methods put ethnography "to use" (Van Willigen), incorporating participant observation of street vendors who invited me into their homes, and work sites, along with audio-visual recorded interviews and conversations. Augmented fotonovelas have a liberatory potential when aggrieved communities are directly involved in their production, and the medium is designed for them to speak against indignities they experience and visually and sonically express new policy visions.
anthropology@cuhk.edu.hk
Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUHK
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of our MA in Philosophy Programme, a series of philosophy talks will be held from February to June 2024. The 2nd talk will be given by Prof. Lau Kwok-ying, Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUHK. Details of the 2nd talk
If you are interested to join, please register the 2nd talk at: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13680095 by 2 April 2024 (Tuesday).
If you have registered previously, please do not re-submit a new registration. We will send confirmation email to you around mid-March 2024.
(Limited seats. Registration will be handled on a first come, first served basis)
Tel: (852) 3943 7149
Fax: (852) 2603 5323
The Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture (RCCPC) will organize an international workshop on Dai Zhen’s philosophy on March 15–16 (Friday to Saturday), 2024. This workshop aims to bring together experts and scholars to exchange their latest research on Dai Zhen’s philosophy, engage in mutual discussions, and cultivate new knowledge through discussion of previous scholarship.
If you are interested to join, please register at: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13682697 by 8 March 2024 (Friday).
(Limited seats. Registration will be handled on a first come, first served basis)
Tel: (852) 3943 7149
Fax: (852) 2603 5323
講者
Prof. Zhang Chaoxiong|Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chaoxiong Zhang is a cultural anthropologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research investigates the politics and ethics of drug addiction and treatment in southwest China and examines how socially and morally marginalized Chinese drug users invent legitimate social relationships during their everyday treatment encounters.
In response to the HIV/AIDS and drug epidemic in China, the state-run Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) program provides long-term to life-long replacement/maintenance therapy for drug users. The MMT program posits that methadone, a synthetic opioid, is a healthier alternative with fewer side effects compared to the highly addictive and destructive heroin. However, my ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Guizhou and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China shows that users have diverse and contradictory bodily experiences and contested narratives regarding the impacts of these substances on their bodies and health. By adopting "local biologies" as the analytical framework, this study explores the sociopolitical processes through which embodied differences are created. It also reveals how drug users navigate their "unhealthy" experiences to redefine their relationships with different substances, to strive for moral legitimacy, and ultimately to concretize their often abstract and invisible lives. This study sheds light on how health is understood and experienced among a highly stigmatized and socially excluded population.
Professor Caterina Donati is a full professor at the Université de Paris. She works on syntactic theory and sign language linguistics, and has written, among other books, (Re)labeling (MIT Press, 2015, with C. Cecchetto) SignGram Blueprint, A Guide to Sign Language Grammar Writing (2019, De Gruyter, with J. Quer, et al.), and Generative Grammar: Ideas, history and Models of analysis (in press, Cambridge University Press, with G. Graffi). She is the author of some 50 articles on descriptive, theoretical and experimental syntax published in important journals and venues (Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Glossa, Syntax, The linguistic review, Journal of Memory and Language, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition etc).
Lecture One: Relative Clauses: On Raising, Reconstruction And A Typological Puzzle
Date: 9 March 2024 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1A of Cheng Yu Tung Building (CYT_LT1A),
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lecture Two/ Linguistics Seminar: Age Matters! A Global Assessment Of The Impact of Late Exposure On Language Competences In Deaf Adults
Date: 12 March 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room 306 of Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK_306), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lecture Three: Bimodal Bilinguals: One Grammar Or Two?
Date: 13 March 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Venue: Lecture Theatre 3 of Lee Shau Kee Building (LSK_LT3), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tel: 3943 7911
Željko Bošković is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include syntactic theory, generative typology, the syntax-semantics interface, and the syntax-phonology interface. He has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 1995, when he obtained his PhD degree. He has published four books and over 130 research articles, which have been published in various prestigious linguistic journals, such as Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Glossa. His research has contributed significantly to the field of formal linguistics. He has also overseen over 50 PhD dissertations.
The talk argues that nominal and non-nominal subjects occur in different subject positions, with some superficially nominal subjects becoming non-nominal during the derivation. The talk also shows that this enables us to capture binding effects without appealing to the A/A’-distinction: all that is needed is simple c-command. Certain points of crosslinguistic variation with respect to quirky subjects (more precisely, regarding their ability to bind subject-oriented anaphors), will also be discussed.
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Roberta D’Alessandro is Chair Professor of Linguistics/Syntax and Language Variation and Head of the Linguistics section at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. After earning her PhD from the University of Stuttgart in Germany, she worked as a research associate at Microsoft-Butler Hill in Redmond, Seattle, US, and as a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. Later, she was as research associate at the Di Sciullo Interface Lab at UQAM in Montreal, Canada. Between 2007 and 2016, she held the position of Chair Professor of Italian Language and Culture at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Isogloss and co-editor of the Open Generative Syntax series at Language Science Press. Additionally, she serves as editor-in-chief of the Brill series Grammars and Sketches of the World’s languages – Romance. She is the president of Going Romance, the largest conference of generative grammar of the Romance languages in Europe. D'Alessandro has published extensively on syntax, syntactic agreement, heritage languages, impersonals, and syntax-phonology interface, and recently completed a large European project on heritage language syntax. She is also an European Commission advisor on the Knowledge for policy – Meaningful and Ethical Communication program. Her latest book, Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory, edited with Michael Putnam and Silvia Terenghi, is set to be published this summer by Oxford University Press.
This talk will examine honorificity in Romance by considering the need for a feature HON. Italian features two main honorary pronouns: lei and voi: by examining their agreement patterns and syntactic behavior, it will be shown that their rather complex (and non-homogeneous) agreement patterns result from the interaction of an HON feature with other phi-features. It will be shown that HON is related to gender, and that it is not a purely deictic feature. Finally, by examining ongoing changes in the use of honorific pronouns, conclusions will be drawn regarding the directionality of language change and the relevance of phase edges as loci where narrow syntax “communicates” with its interface systems. Honorificity will be shown to be similar to prosody in targeting phase edges and being external to the core pronominal (or verbal, in the case of prosody) structure.
Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tel: 852-3943 7911