Prof Liah Greenfeld
專題演講 1
題目:
The Awareness of cultural and civilizational differences and its implication on research in various disciplines
時間:
2018年10月23日 14:00-15:30
地點:
何文田忠孝街81號公大賽馬會校園E座三樓E0311
摘要:
This
workshop will discuss the implications of cultural and civilizational
differences on the study and research directions in various academic
disciplines in humanities and social sciences. The possibility of the
translatability of cultures and cross-cultural understanding is often
overestimated as it is popularly assumed that the perception of reality is
universal. This workshop addresses the fundamental conditions which defines the
subject matter of humanities and social sciences, and thus invoke reflection
upon the directions of intellectual pursuits undertaken by academics of said
disciplines.
語言:
英文
登記:
專題演講2
題目:
The Translatability of Culture
時間:
2018年10月26日 10:00 - 11:00
地點:
何文田忠孝街81號公大賽馬會校園三樓呂辛(振萬)演講廳 (D0309)
摘要:
The lecture will address the nature of culture and the place of language in culture, stressing its centrality as the chief medium of communication, the medium of thinking, and the medium of transmission, tradition, translation (including cross-cultural translation). At the same time, it will emphasize that no culture can be reduced to language, and thus cannot be fully expressed in it, which limits the possibilities of the translatability of cultures and cross-cultural understanding. It then will consider the question to which extent the problem is exacerbated when translations need to make mutually understandable not simply different cultures but different civilizations, as do translations from English into Chinese and from Chinese into English.
語言:
英文