2025

《受活》《文學的變換之旅》——閻連科劉劍梅新書分享會

jzhoudn — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

《受活》《文學的變換之旅》——閻連科劉劍梅新書分享會jzhoudn Tue, 25/11/2025 - 16:00

《受活》《文學的變幻之旅》— 閻連科劉劍梅新書分享會

閻連科教授與劉劍梅教授對談
4:30pm - 5:30pm

現場師生互動
5:30pm - 5:50pm

新書簽售
5:50pm - 6:00pm

講者 :

閻連科教授

IAS Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture 高等研究院冼為堅中國文化教授

劉劍梅教授

Chair Professor

日期 : 2025年11月25日

時間 : 下午4時半至6時

地點 : 學術大樓6555室 (29-30號升降機)

語言 : 普通話

主辦單位 :

人文學部 / Division of Humanities

田家炳基金會 / Tin Ka Ping Foundation

冼為堅基金 / Sin Wai Kin Foundation

中國創意寫作項目 / Chinese Creative Writing Program

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許鞍華導演：電影回顧

jzhoudn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000

許鞍華導演：電影回顧jzhoudn Tue, 11/11/2025 - 15:00

時間：November 10 / November 11 / November 12

地點：香港科技大學盧家聰薈萃樓兆佳業集團演講廳（IAS LT）

語言：普通話

講者：許鞍華導演

主持：魏時煜教授

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Space-time regimes, metaphors, and the “post-” situation

jzhoudn — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:46:56 +0000

Space-time regimes, metaphors, and the “post-” situationjzhoudn Mon, 03/11/2025 - 01:46

Space-time regimes, metaphors, and the “post-” situation

Abstract

Societies that have undergone systemic change are characterized as ‘post’—post-socialist, post-colonial, post-apartheid, etc.—to encapsulate the impact the past still has on their structure and functioning. Research on these societies has therefore tended to adopt a mostly temporal approach, investigating the tension between continuity and change. I make a case for a more balanced approach to post situations by including space as equally valuable. I draw my theoretical inspiration from Hartog’s notion of regimes of historicity and Massey’s space-time to argue that we should investigate space-time regimes. I show that a space-time regime of entanglement, often passéist, with blurred temporal boundaries and messy, place-bound experiences of time, characterizes post situations. Finally, I offer a set of metaphors to describe and analyze the concrete places that this entangled, post space-time produces.

Biography

Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch is a professor at the Institut d’Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes. Alpes. She is a French critical geographer whose research focuses on urban spaces, with a special emphasis on spatial justice, urban inequalities, and the ways in which social dynamics shape the experience of the city. She has extensively studied cities in South Africa, particularly Cape Town, and explored the unraveling (or not) of the apartheid city and other contemporary urban issues. Her current work engages with epistemic justice and the development of a more cosmopolitan geography, and it addresses the geographies of knowledge production, translation, and critical pedagogies.

When: 3 November 2025, Zoom

Language: English

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Zoom:

Meeting ID: 933 8166 6981
Passcode: 577123

Speakers / Performers:

Prof. Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch

Institut d’Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes

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Space and Allegory — Robert T. Tally Jr.

jzhoudn — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:05:50 +0000

Space and Allegory — Robert T. Tally Jr.jzhoudn Mon, 13/10/2025 - 21:05

Abstract

Allegory, one might posit, is inherently spatial, insofar as the establishment of an “other” meaning for a given text will involve matters of place and displacement, dislocation, and dispersal, as well as hierarchies of meaning that may be imagined in architectural or topographical terms. In this talk, Robert T. Tally Jr. will discuss the significance of allegory for spatial literary studies, broadly speaking. Drawing on the work of Fredric Jameson, Tally examines the ways that literary texts serve as cognitive maps that not only figuratively chart the social spaces represented, but also offer inherently spatial allegories by which to make sense of their world. The spaces in question are not necessarily geographical, but are often established as relations (e.g., interior-exterior, public-private, high-low, here-there, and so on). Tally will look at Lu Xun’s 1918 short story “Diary of a Madman,” as well as Jameson’s discussion of it, in order to illustrate these connections. In the situation of the diary and its reading, Lu Xun’s tale evokes different aspects of spatial allegory, which in turn suggest multiple pathways for literary cartography and its study.

Biography

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. He is the author of many books, including Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Spatiality (2013); Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013), and the edited collection, the Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2017), each of which is now available in Chinese translation. Tally is also the general editor of “Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,” a Palgrave Macmillan book series.

When: 13 October 2025

Where: Zoom

Language: English

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Zoom link:

https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96795747511?pwd=459UMha2HVx0U3qD2cXpIBTl5Rtl0d.1

Meeting ID: 967 9574 7511

Passcode: 052582

Speakers / Performers:

Prof. Robert T. Tally Jr.

Texas State University

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Curious Conclusions: On the Singularity of Literature as Response and Appeal

jzhoudn — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Curious Conclusions: On the Singularity of Literature as Response and Appealjzhoudn Fri, 19/09/2025 - 16:00

Curious Conclusions: On the Singularity of Literature as Response and Appeal

Abstract

In this lecture, the speaker reframes literary discourse through Ferdinand de Saussure’s conception of language as a dynamic process of signification rather than representation. Focusing on works by Franz Kafka and Laurence Sterne, the speaker argues that literature operates not as a vehicle for fixed meanings but as an open-ended interplay of comparisons that resist definitive interpretation. Central to this analysis is the tension between singularity and individuality, a distinction that the speaker positions as pivotal to understanding modern politics, theology, economics, and psychoanalysis. By understanding literary language as a site of generative instability, this lecture illuminates how texts unsettle the binaries of cognition/affect and individual/collective, offering new pathways to rethink power, representation, and the politics of meaning.

About the Speaker

Prof. Samuel Weber is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University and Director of its Paris Program in Critical Theory. He studied with Paul de Man and Theodor W. Adorno, whose book Prisms he co-translated into English. The translation of and introduction to Adorno's most important book of cultural criticism helped define how the work of the Frankfurt School would be read and understood in the English-speaking world. He has also published books on Balzac, Lacan, and Freud, as well as on the relation of institutions and media to interpretation.

In the 1980s, Prof. Weber worked in Germany as a dramaturge in theater and opera productions. Out of the confrontation of that experience with his work in critical theory came the book, Theatricality as Medium, published in 2004. His two most recent book publications are: Singularity: Politics and Poetics (2021) and Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague (2022). He is currently working on two book projects, Reconsidering the Uncanny: Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, and Kafka’s Uncanny Animals.

Prof. Weber’s interdisciplinary scholarship resonates across literary theory, media studies, and philosophy.

Information

When: 19 September 2025

Where: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

(Direction)

Language: English

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Speakers / Performers:

Prof. Samuel WEBER

Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University

Organizer:

IAS Distinguished Lecture 高等研究院傑出學人講座

Division of Humanities

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Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past

jzhoudn — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Pastjzhoudn Thu, 18/09/2025 - 18:00

Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past

Speaker: Prof. Hang Tu, National University of Singapore

Moderator: Prof. Xiaolu Ma, HKUST

Date: September 18, 2025 (Thu)

Venue: LSK 1033, HKUST

Abstract

How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As it entered a period of market reform, China did not turn away from revolutionary sentiments. Rather, the post-Mao period experienced a surge of emotionally charged debates about red legacies, ranging from the anguished denunciations of Maoist violence to the elegiac remembrances of socialist egalitarianism.

Sentimental Republic chronicles forty years (1978–2018) of bitter cultural wars about the Maoist past. It analyzes how the four major intellectual clusters in contemporary China—liberals, the left, cultural conservatives, and nationalists—debated Mao’s revolutionary legacies in light of the postsocialist transition. Should the Chinese condemn revolutionary violence and “bid farewell to socialism”? Or would a return to revolution foster alternative visions of China’s future path? Tu probes the nexus of literature, thought, and memory, bringing to light the dynamic moral sentiments and emotional excess at work in these post-Mao ideological contentions. By analyzing how rival intellectual camps stirred up melancholy, guilt, anger, and resentment, Tu argues that the polemics surrounding the country’s past cannot be properly understood without reading the emotional trajectories of the post-Mao intelligentsia.

Bio

Hang Tu is Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the cultural politics of emotion in modern and contemporary China. His monograph, Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past (Harvard University Asia Center, 2025), proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach post-Mao intellectual polemics. In addition, his journal articles have appeared in Critical Inquiry, The Journal of Asian Studies, Modern Intellectual History, MCLC, and Prism.

Event Format

Seminar, Lecture, Talk

More Information

https://engage.ust.hk/event/11443552

Organizer

Global China Center

Division of Humanities

Registration

https://engage.ust.hk/event/11443552

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夏志清與「情迷中國」

jzhoudn — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:07:23 +0000

夏志清與「情迷中國」jzhoudn Fri, 12/09/2025 - 03:07

【講座簡介】

夏志清先生以《中國現代小說史》（A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, 1961）及《中國古典小說》（The Classical Chinese Novels: A Critical Introduction, 1968）聞名於世。尤其前者，更是西方學界中國現代文學研究的開山作之一，後來得所沾溉者不可勝計。《中國現代小說史》原文第二版於1971年面世，當中新增附錄收入夏志清在1967年於衛斯理學院發表的講稿 “Obsession with China: The Moral Burden of Modern Chinese Literature”。這篇論文展示了夏志清研究現代文學一個重要的創見，深遠地影響了英美的現代中國文學研究，固不在話下；文章後來由丁福祥及潘銘燊合作中譯，題作〈現代中國文學感時憂國的精神〉，於1969年2月發表於香港《明報月刊》；然後收入香港友聯出版社在1979年出版的《中國現代小說史》中譯本。丁、潘二人的譯筆流暢清淺，用詞造句都符合現代中文之習慣，絲毫沒有所謂「硬譯」的筆法。從此「感時憂國」轉成夏志清現代文學研究的標記，一直流通至今。然而細讀原文，可知「感時憂國」之譯並不準確，而以「感時憂國」想像夏志清的小說史更是美麗的誤會，也錯過他對現代文學的精闢洞見。這次講座將以他的原文與中譯對照，目的不在翻譯學的討論，而在於探視二者所指涉的中國文學研究之不同面向；繼而剖析夏志清在此文面世後的文學研究，其發展路徑與 “Obsession with China” 以及「感時憂國」的關聯；再進一步建議以「情迷中國」一詞統合夏志清中國文學研究之複雜而多層次的表現。

【講者簡介】

陳國球教授，國立清華大學中國文學系玉山榮譽講座教授，曾任香港教育大學人文學院院長等職。致力於中國古典與現代詩學、文學史以及香港文學研究。主要著作包括《抒情傳統論與中國文學史》（2021），《香港的抒情史》（2016）、《抒情中國論》（2013）、《文學如何成為知識？——文學批評、文學研究與文學教育》（2013）、《結構中國文學傳統》（2011）、《明代復古派唐詩論研究》（2007）等多部學術專著，並主編了十二卷《香港文學大系1919-1949》。

【與談人簡介】

王德威教授，哈佛大學Edward C. Henderson 中國文學教授、香港科技大學高等研究院資深訪問學人、中央研究院院士、美國藝術與科學研究院院士。王教授在哈佛大學東亞語言與文明系和比較文學系擔任聯合職務。他研究方向包括近現代中國與華語文學、比較文學及文學理論。著作包括《眾聲喧嘩》、《小說中國》、《被壓抑的現代性》、《歷史與怪獸》、《後遺民寫作》、《史詩時代的抒情聲音》、《華夷風起：華語語系文學三論》, “The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-century China”, “The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis”, “Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China” 等。

講座時間：9月12日下午4時至6時

講座地點：香港科技大學李兆基校園盧家驄薈萃樓佳兆業集團演講廳（高研院演講廳）

注意事項：

本場活動以普通話舉行。
本場活動歡迎公眾人士參加。座位有限，先到先得。

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