Husserl’s phenomenology seeks a full description of the life of consciousness, what he called the ‘ABC of consciousness’, an account of all the component parts of consciousness in their essential interrelation (or ‘grammar’) leading to an account of the constitution of the intersubjective world as a whole. But the primary element of consciousness is perception. Husserl developed a rich and complex ‘phenomenology of perception’. For Husserl, we are anchored to the world via perception in the widest sense. Moreover, this perception is incarnate, embodied and the world is revealed through our bodily movements as well as the apprehensions of our senses. Within the basic connection of perception – there is an implicit valorizing or ‘norming’. We have criteria for normality and within normality there is optimality. Perception is intrinsically normative. In this lecture, I will explain the relation between normality and normativity in Husserl’s phenomenology of perception and its implication for his account of world-constitution.

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Meeting ID: 947 7400 1809 (link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/94774001809)

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五個學科包括：

• 現代語言學（第28位）
• 語言學（第33位）
• 人類學（第36位）
• 人文學科（第47位）*
• 神學及宗教研究（第47位）

這次排名充分證明了文學院全體成員，在教學和研究方面所做出的傑出貢獻。我們衷心感謝所有教師、行政人員以及學生為實現卓越的學術成就和研究成果所付出的努力和貢獻。

在慶祝這些成就的同時，我們也被提醒著未來的種種挑戰與機遇。我們將致力持續追求學術和研究的卓越，培育一個活躍、敢於創新的人文社群，為大學及社會作出貢獻。讓我們繼續攜手努力，將中大文學院成為國際上更負盛名的人文研究與教學學院。

我們邀請您探索我們豐富多元的課程，並加入我們，一同邁向未來更高的成就。

*人文學科為科目類別

Since imperial times, and even more since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese authorities have endeavored to control the historical narrative. This conference will present the essential role played by minjian (unofficial) history in our understanding of the history of contemporary China.

This talk showcases the constructive role of mothers in the formation of male bonding during medieval China, with an emphasis on the Tang dynasty (618-907). The practice of making obeisance to mothers extended beyond a mere family ritual, serving as a crucial mechanism for creating quasi-kinship bonds. Tang intellectuals not only recognized this practice but also conceptualized it within broader frameworks of rituals, emotional attachment, and gender norms. The practice of making obeisance to mothers evolved to gain strategic importance among regional military leaders, emerging as a thoughtful act of goodwill aimed at easing political discord. By redefining the image of women at elite men’s social functions, this research demonstrates that the politicization of domestic space, the reconfiguration of gender relations, and the display of friendship and fraternity together characterized male bonding in medieval China.

This paper begins with a brief discussion of four ways of imagining social change: replacement, transformation, transition,   and reconfiguration. Focusing on transformation and transition, the paper then asks: if examining or experiencing a particular social transformation, how can we understand the presence of things past? How do practices, logics, ideals, and things from the past inform, influence, or simply exist in the “new” social context? Understanding forms of continuity is simply the flip side of the coin of understanding change. Conceptualizing continuity intimately relates to imagining social transformation. The paper proposes two modes of understanding continuity: haunting and recombinant transformation. The paper ends by working through an example of the place of the past in the present: location based social control in the Great Leap Famine, the birth planning policy, and the recent Covid related lockdowns in Shanghai. How do the ideas of haunting and recombinant transformation differentially illuminate this continuity?

Expressivists about ethical discourse maintain (near enough) that an assertion of 'x is good' displays the speaker's positive evaluation of x, opposing those descriptivists who maintain that the assertion instead describes x as having the evaluative property of 'being good'. A familiar promise of this expressivism is the dissolution of metaphysical vexation over how evaluative properties fit into the natural order: talk of 'evaluative properties' is confused, and the vexatious question along with it. An expressivism about mental discourse (including discourse about 'consciousness') would have a comparable promise of dissolving metaphysical vexation over how mental properties fit into the natural order -- namely, the mind–body problem: talk of 'mental properties' is confused, and the mind–body problem along with it. Unfortunately, ethical-discourse expressivism has a familiar tendency to collapse into a subjectivist descriptivism, on which 'x is good' describes the speaker as positively evaluating x: for mental-discourse expressivism, such a collapse would disastrously restore mental properties, while drastically attenuating our ability to speak about them. Fortunately, the collapse can be prevented -- albeit by means of an extremely deep adjustment to the foundations of analytic philosophy, by reassigning the fundamental theoretical role in systematic theory of meaning from truth, the actual world, and metaphysically possible worlds to (what I call) 'endorsement', 'my present stance', and 'phenomenologically possible stances': by exchanging 'logical realism' for 'logical mentalism'.

Online
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Meeting ID: 945 0500 2061
Link: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/94505002061

Face-to-face
Register by 12 April 2024
Link: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13686629
Delivered in English. All are welcome.

蕭校友出生三個月因眼癌摘除眼球，5歲的時候，她問爸爸：“看不見是不是就沒有用？”如今20多年過去了，她已經找到了答案：“天生我材必有用！”
多年來，即使身體殘疾，蕭校友依舊經常參加義演籌集善款，甚至不怕艱苦去貧困山區當義工。而她的夢想，是開一些可以包容不同學生的音樂學校，為祖國不同的孩子作貢獻。

文學院衷心恭賀蕭凱恩獲得此殊榮!

是次講座主要探討亞太地區女性主義神學發展的背景，並指出現今關注議題，包括性小眾歧視、和平與復和、生態公義。

郭佩蘭教授從亞洲和亞裔的視角建構女性主義神學和後殖民神學，著作等身，在學術界享負盛名。她曾獲選為美國宗教學會2011年度的會長，並獲多項國際殊榮。學者向她致敬的論文集於2021年出版。郭教授為本院學士和碩士課程校友，並曾任教本院。她把近著Postcolonial Politics and Theology獻予本院眾師生，以誌其神學之旅之起點。

為慶祝本院60周年院慶，是次講座費用全免。
主辦 ｜ 崇基學院神學院
合辦 ｜ 崇基學院神學院校友會

金教授的教育和翻譯事業生涯跨越數十載，她於1965年加入中大，其後出任翻譯系系主任期間，帶領該系由副修系發展成獨當一面的主修系。金教授曾任中大校董及文學院副院長，現為新亞書院及善衡書院榮譽院務委員。