Humanities Day 2021 - Session 1

Tangled Genealogies of a Cultural Identity, Or What Was Madame Bovary Doing in Haiti? (Virtual Session)

sspatterson — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:48:19 +0000

Presenter:

In-Person & Virtual

In-person and live streamed: Jean Price-Mars summed up 10 years of Indigéniste poetics when, in the preface to Thus Spake the Uncle (1928), a pivotal text of Caribbean post-colonial thought, he accused his fellow Haitian writers of “bovarysme,” of fantasizing that they were something that they were not. The passage is familiar—at least to Haitians—but the allusions it builds on are less so. The presenter will track those references backwards to Flaubert and Jules de Gaultier, and forward to Victor Segalen and Édouard Glissant, in hopes of diagnosing one malaise of cultural identity.

Ecocentric Environmental Philosophy

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:47:53 +0000

Presenter:

Bart Schultz

Session 1

In-Person

Many prominent environmental organizations have a dismal record on matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and have paid little attention, historically, to the problems of environmental racism. Philosophically, the analysis of these failures often zeroes in on the issue of “ecocentrism”—a term describing a range of positions seeking to go beyond a “human-centered” or “anthropocentric” perspective. Ecocentrism attributes moral consideration of intrinsic value to holistic entities such as ecosystems rich in biological diversity, the integrity of which might demand the sacrifice of human interests. This session aims to underscore how such criticisms of ecocentrism have missed the better and most important forms of it and the ways in which movements for environmental justice can be—and often are—dependent on the insights of ecocentric environmental philosophy.

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The Pandemic Reshapes Teaching Current Issues Through Language

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:46:23 +0000

Presenter:

In-Person

Due to the global pandemic, most teaching has been remote. This panel of Chinese language instructional professionals in East Asian Languages and Civilizations demonstrates how language teaching around current issues was carried out through technology in the remote learning mode. Four panelists will share their experience of teaching practices with innovative technology and demonstrate how the pandemic is reshaping teaching and education.

Tangled Genealogies of a Cultural Identity, Or, What Was Madame Bovary Doing In Haiti?

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:43:03 +0000

Presenter:

Haun Saussy

Session 1

In-Person & Virtual

In-person and live streamed: Jean Price-Mars summed up 10 years of Indigéniste poetics when, in the preface to Thus Spake the Uncle (1928), a pivotal text of Caribbean post-colonial thought, he accused his fellow Haitian writers of “bovarysme,” of fantasizing that they were something that they were not. The passage is familiar—at least to Haitians—but the allusions it builds on are less so. The presenter will track those references backwards to Flaubert and Jules de Gaultier, and forward to Victor Segalen and Édouard Glissant, in hopes of diagnosing one malaise of cultural identity.

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Range and Race: Vittoria Tesi Tramontini as Singer and Curio

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:38:26 +0000

Presenter:

Robert L. Kendrick

Session 1

In-Person

For good reason, castrati and some female sopranos attracted much scholarly attention in 18th-century opera studies. One famed female contralto, Vittoria Tesi Tramontini, had a stellar career in Italy and Austria but had an unusual background. She was born the child of a sub-Saharan African servant and a Florentine woman in the Medici Court.

The Diversity of Turkic Languages and Literatures: A Well-Traveled Language Family

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:29:55 +0000

Presenter:

Kağan Arık

Session 1

In-Person

This session concerns the Turkic language family, its relationship to other language families, and its historical development and spread on the Eurasian continent. Turkic languages contain more than 30 literary languages, plus numerous dialects that geographically range from Eastern Europe to Northeast China. These languages have been used to reflect the literary heritages of several dozen states, using numerous alphabets, during the past two millennia. They have borrowed words and paradigms from most of the Eurasian languages on the migration paths of the Turkic speakers and have, in turn, imparted an equal amount of their own vocabulary and paradigms to neighboring languages.

**This presentation is full.**

Bart Schultz

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:54:34 +0000

Presentation:

Ecocentric Environmental Philosophy

Session:

Session 1

Philosophy

Bart Schultz’s books include Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2004), the winner of the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for 2004, and The Happiness Philosophers: Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians (Princeton University Press, 2017). He is currently working on a book on utilitarian environmental philosophy titled Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness forthcoming from Polity Books. Schultz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and Executive Director of the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago.

Yujia Ye

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:51:51 +0000

Presentation:

The Pandemic Reshapes Teaching Current Issues Through Language

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Session 1

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Yujia Ye’s teaching interest include advanced Chinese film course, Chinese music, and Chinese business. As a literature fan and an amateur English-Chinese translator, Yujia published her translation of Mark Twain’s essays in 2015. She is Assistant Instructional Professor in Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Yi-lu Kuo

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:50:13 +0000

Presentation:

The Pandemic Reshapes Teaching Current Issues Through Language

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Session 1

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Yi-Lu Kuo’s research interests are second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, reading strategies, language assessment, and curriculum design. Her work about reading strategy use and learning process of Chinese students can be found in the Journal of Technology and Chinese Language Teaching (2014), and Journal of Chinese Teaching and Research in the U.S. (2012). Yi-Lu is Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Xiaorong Wang

jsjoyce — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:47:18 +0000

Presentation:

The Pandemic Reshapes Teaching Current Issues Through Language

Session:

Session 1

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

With a PhD in Curriculum and Instructions, Xiaorong Wang’s research focuses on the learning process of Chinese language learners within online space and multimodality. She is one of the authors of Tales of Chinese Teachers: Case Studies and Reflections from CFL Classrooms in North America (Beijing University Press, 2018) and Tradition and Transition: Teaching Chinese Culture Overseas (Beijing University Press, 2018). Xiaorong is an American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages Oral Proficiency Interview Certified Tester in Chinese. She is Assistant Instructional Professor of Chinese Language in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.