美國加州大學爾灣分校James Steintrager教授訪台專題講座

講者簡介：

James Steintrager教授，美國哥倫比亞大學比較文學博士，自1997年起擔任美國加州大學爾灣分校英文系教授。主要著作包括：Cruel Delight: Enlightenment Culture and the Inhuman（2004）、The First Sexual Revolution: Libertines, License, and the Autonomy of Pleasure（forthcoming from Columbia University Press），主要研究興趣包括18th-century Comparative Literature; Aesthetics; Ethical Philosophy and Literature; Systems Theory; Amatory and Erotic Fiction

講題：Speaking of Noise.

時間:2011年3月1日 10：10- 12：00

地點：中央大學文學院A116電影教室

主辦單位：中央大學英文系、中央大學電影文化中心

摘要：A talk that would focus on the emerging field of sound studies by taking theoretical accounts of "noise" as its point of departure. My main question is what happened to "noise" after Jacques Attali declared it a revolutionary force--the negative moment in a sonic and social dialectic--in 1977 (i.e., at the height of French theory). I consider the various roles that "noise" plays conceptually in Michel Chion's writings on cinema, theater, and music--up to the point that he declares that we ought to be done with notion of noise in a short essay from 2007. I also consider how the cultural and linguistic considerations that Chion makes might translate--or not, again!--into non-European contexts, with specific emphasis on so-called noise music in Japan and its (quieter) relations.

講題：What Is World Cinema?

時間：2011年3月2日 14：00-17：00

地點：交通大學人社二館106A研討室

主辦單位：台灣聯合大學系統文化研究學程、交大社文所、交大外文系、交大電影中心、交大新興文化研究中心

摘要：A talk on the shifting emphasis in comparative literary studies on world literature and, more importantly, how this might translate--or not--into "world cinema" as a useful paradigm. This would include discussion of a couple major statements on world literature, how these would work in film studies (with an emphasis on the sociological models that I tend to favor these days), and specific analysis of Spivak and Rancière. It could include more or less on the specific cinematic areas that I will eventually treat at greater length: the complex relationship of Hong Kong action cinema to its history (what I call the "Dragon Gate Inn sequence," which involves some discussion of Tsai Ming-liang too) and certain French directors' ambivalent addresses to Hong Kong and other Asian cinemas (mainly on Assayas and, lately, Gaspard Noé).

（更正）講題：The Hierarchies of Minor Literature

時間：2011年3月4日 12：10-14：00

地點：台師大校本部誠大樓八樓英語系視聽室

主辦單位：台灣師範大學英語系

摘要：A talk that sums up where we stand with the category of minor literature since it was announced as a paradigm in Deleuze and Guattari’s “Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature” in 1975. I take off from Spivak’s tacit revisiting of the question in her Death of a Discipline, before exploring various paradoxes of making minor literature a major category. These paradoxes, I argue, are not unhelpful in that they help make explicit what remains latent in many current debates about comparative literature as a discipline and about the role of global English. This talk is drawn from an essay that I am writing for the Routledge companion to World Literature, which should give some sense of the approach and the genre.