伴随数码平台与介质的升级与转型，如今影像以弥散态势散落生活空间各个角落。毫无疑问，影像已然构成人类与自然、社会世界联系、沟通的主要媒介，且强有力塑造人类对世界的认知。在后电影时期，原本不构成问题的“电影是什么”实则再次成为一个问题，我们应该如何增加对电影的思考，如何看待电影作为我们联系情感与沟通社会的可能性，都值得在当下进行深入探究。本次讲座将通过《阿凡达》《头号玩家》《失控玩家》等案例，对全球文化数字转型之下的电影进行哲学与情感维度的本体思考。

本次讲座希望借明星身体消费探析资本、消费、性别之间的关联性。

中国翻译话语体系的建构资源往往不言自明地指向自身的传统和外在的他者。前者体现在中国传统译论留下的话语宝库，后者体现在对西方他者的借鉴和拿来。这两种资源的重要性不可否认，这种做法背后体现出的文化逻辑似乎成为我们处理很多问题的思维规范，但人们似乎忽略了1949年之后所形成的完全迥异于中国译论传统的新话语传统，即中国社会主义翻译话语资源。本讲座首先指出1949年之后中国翻译话语发生的历史转型，然后从由期刊、杂志、教科书、翻译、单位、出版等各种形式所构成的社会空间中，重新梳理中国翻译话语的资源，分析和评价其概念与内涵，价值与意义，重新想象仍然对今天产生潜移默化影响的中国社会主义翻译话语传统。本研究将更新我们对一个时代的认识，其思考的路径有助于更大范围内反思如何拓宽中国文化的创新发展之路。

This talk aims to debunk the simplified linear thinking that perceives translation as an untroubled process from the source text to the target text. It will focus on the English translation of Yan Geling’s Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling (2005) (translated as The Flowers of War), a case where the source text is not published and has thus remained unknown. The original short novella has undergone a chain of translations—a film adaptation (2011), a Chinese novel (2011), a longer English novella (2012) and a TV series (2014). In this talk, I will use sociological approaches and identify a commercial translation network enacted by the film adaptation operating on the English translation. Moreover, I will analyze how the female experience of the original story is conveyed in the translation through the mediation of the film adaptation. I will argue that the agency of the commercial network tends to perpetuate a gender discourse which downplays female voices in translation.

Myth had a central role in ancient Greek athletics. Athletic competitions were big events in the life of ancient Greek communities and were often taking place in the context of religious festivals or funeral games. Some of them were of local character, while others of panhellenic importance, that is, with delegations participating from all over the Greek world. The Olympic Games, perhaps the most well-known panhellenic athletic event in antiquity and our time, were thought to have been founded by the mythical hero Heracles, or to commemorate Agamemnon’s grandfather, Pelops. Mythical heroes and stories provided the models and the means of praise and commemoration of real-life athletes and their achievements, by poets of the stature of Pindar and Bacchylides. Victorious athletes were cast in a larger-than-life light, acquiring status and honours comparable to those of mythical heroes. In this lecture, we will discuss key sources on the topic, exploring different types of athletic events in ancient Greece and myth’s role in the celebration and commemoration of athletic victors, as members of distinguished families and whole communities. The mythological background and associations of Greek athletics will also help us illuminate the role of athletics in interstate politics and ethnic identity, and aspects of social history, such as hero cult and the role of women in ancient Greece.

The global popularity of The Swiss Family Robinson (which appeared in German in 1812 and 1813 and was quickly translated into English) is undoubted, but the true extent of the work as a “corporate product” that has been adapted for ever new audiences since the early nineteenth century has not been recognized. As part of the numerous translations of the novel into English, numerous rewriting processes were applied to cater to the particular needs of the envisaged reading audience of young readers. The text variously functioned as a belated Enlightenment moral instruction manual and as an instructive source of knowledge related to natural history and philosophy. Since its first publication, numerous illustrated editions have directed audiences to identify particular foci, and illustrations – from the nineteenth century to the present day – have defined the ways in which to read the text intermedially. This lecture will focus on translation processes – processes of rewriting the text and of rendering it from one medium (printed text) into another (illustration). It will centrally examine the woodcut illustrations that accompanied the partial translation of The Swiss Family Robinson that was published in instalments in the Shanghai-based magazine, The Tapestry Portrait Novel, considering at the same time the English source text, a rewriting of the work in one-syllable words by Mary Godolphin. Not only will it focus on the remediation of the story of the family’s shipwreck and their reconstruction of civilization, but it will also shed light on the particular organizational principle of the woodcut designs, which differs decidedly from western practice. The lecture will chart the medial appropriation of Wyss’s text for Chinese reader-viewers and how the illustrators conveyed particular visual castings of scenes that through the indexical medium of the woodcuts became text-defining.