Dear all，
The fifth lecture of ShanghaiTech Seminar in Global Humanities will be hold at 18:30 on November 7th in Room 302, Library of Shanghaitech University. Welcome!
Title: Roming with Fish：Affective Painting in Song China
Abstract:
How does one paint joy? Joy, or le, in literary and visual representations had become one of the codified feelings through classical discourses by the middle period in China (9th-14th centuries). This talk asks how the canonized feeling of joy inspired and challenged artists in the middle period. Focusing on a series of paintings depicting swimming fish, the talk explores how the tension between “knowing” and “feeling” of joy—in the process of both creating and viewing of the paintings—registered distinctive modes of engagement between worlds at multiple levels: between the non-human and the human, between water and air, between ancient and contemporary, and between official and unofficial realms in society. By delving into these modes of epistemic and emotional engagement, the inquiry articulates how the somatic dimension of the fish in the visual representations—including their quintessential relationship to surrounding environs and their unlikely human faciality—reveals contemporary interest in “feeling” the ontologically distinct worlds in a way that was otherwise indefinable in words. I suggest that these works not only inscribe traces of a changing epistemological paradigm of the self in the phenomenal world, but also demonstrate the new potential of painting as a medium aspiring to transcend “patly” mimetic stagings of sanctioned emotions.
Speaker: Jeehee Hong, Gretta Chambers Chair in East Asian Art History McGill University.
Inviter:Xu Peng , Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Assistant Dean of Institute of Humanities, ShanghaiTech University
Registration link:https://wenjuan.shanghaitech.edu.cn/vm/eaWDvBS.aspx
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“全球人文讲座系列”（ShanghaiTech Seminar in Global Humanities）的创建宗旨是服务于上海科技大学人文院的前瞻性学科建设，突出全球人文学的跨学科、跨国界的视野。以各学科前沿的新实践、新方法论为基点，全方位探索人文学不同研究领域的未来路径。从2023年底开始筹备至今。我们采取学院内PI教授邀请并提名的策略。受邀者在海外名校任职，讲座内容是未发表或者发表一年以内的最新研究成果。2024年将陆续有六位在各自领域里成就卓著的知名学者加盟全球人文讲座系列。敬请关注。
Global Humanities aims to foster the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University by highlighting its interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives. It focuses on new practices and methodologies in various disciplines of Arts and Humanities. Preparation started at the end of 2023 and is ongoing.
Speakers are nominated and invited by Primary Investigators in the Institute. The lectures must be unpublished or at least be published within the previous year. So far, we have invited six leading scholars from world-renowned universities, who have delivered talks or will be arriving between June and December 2024. These include Ling Hon Lam (Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, USA), Anke Hein (Peter Moores Chair Associate Professor, University of Oxford, Britain), Ekaterina Pravilova (Rosengarten Chair Professor, Princeton, USA), Jeehee Hong (Gretta Chambers Chair of East Asian Art History Associate Professor, McGill, Canada), and Nam-lin Hur (Professor, UBC, Canada), etc.