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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG: 'Crossing Boundaries: Reflections on Leading Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Food Systems'
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn recent years\, I have had the opportunity to lead and participate in cross-disciplinary projects that bring together researchers from the humanities\, social sciences\, and natural sciences to address global challenges in food\, health\, and sustainability. In this talk\, I will reflect on my own experience of working with colleagues across fields such as environmental science\, linguistics\, aquaculture\, nutrition\, computer science\, and political ecology in a project on aquatic food perceptions in Vietnam. Leading such a diverse team taught me the importance of building trust\, negotiating different disciplinary languages\, and creating a shared framework where cultural perspectives are valued alongside quantitative evidence. Through this process\, I came to appreciate how humanities-led approaches can illuminate aspects of food\, identity\, and health that numbers alone cannot capture. My reflections will highlight both the challenges and the rewards of cross-disciplinary collaboration (e.g. publications and further project collaborations)\, and how culturally informed leadership can shape research agendas that strengthen sustainable food practices\, ecological resilience\, and public health. \nBiography: \nDr. Saihong Li (University of Stirling\, UK) is a co-editor of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice and a book series editor for Routledge Studies in Global Food Translation. Her publications include monographs and refereed journal articles on themes ranging from menu translation to bi/trilingualism. Her current research spans four interlinked areas: food and tourism translation; translation and cultural perspectives on One Health; translators’ and interpreters’ mental health using multimodal experimental methods; and political and cultural discourse translation. Widely published and an active editor\, Dr. Li has secured major funding\, received multiple awards\, and regularly delivers invited lectures and keynotes at international conferences.
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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "Australian Literature on Fire"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nFire is a major determinant for life in Australia. The seasonal and spasmodic quality of Australian rain and the hot dry air masses that form in the central arid regions provide the conditions for bushfires in the dry months. Australian literature reflects the recurrence of fire in various ways\, most obviously in providing narratives with their moment of extremity and climax. \n  \nAs a limit moment within the Australian settler imaginary\, fire has always signified a certain terrifying terminus in its literary representations. But this quality has varied with time and Australian literature captures these qualitative changes. In the early settler literature\, fire represented the terrible return of Australian strangeness\, which had been violently pushed away by the settler project. These fires wipe away the daily achievements of settler colonialism\, burning houses to the ground and wiping out crops\, animals\, fences and families. During the world wars of the twentieth century\, Australian literary fires took on the quality of explosions on a battlefield or\, indeed\, the immolated atmosphere of Hiroshima. In the twenty-first century\, fires in Australian literature are the grim face of the Anthropocene\, as fire seasons lengthen in time and spread to areas no longer wet enough to withstand their onslaught. \nBiography: \nTony Hughes-d’Aeth is Professor of English and Literary Studies and Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia\, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has written extensively on the relationship between Australian literature and the environment. His books include Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt (UWAP\, 2017)\, which won the Walter McRae Russell Prize for Australian literary scholarship\, and Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (MUP\, 2001)\, which won the Ernest Scott and WK Hancock prizes for Australian history. His most recent book is Netflicks: Conceptual Television in the Streaming Era (UWAP\, 2024).
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-guest-lecture-australian-literature-on-fire/
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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG Guest Lecture: "The Uses of Aestheticism in Contemporary Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nOver the past forty years literary studies have not been very kind to the idea of aesthetic autonomy. As our field moved away from its formalist roots in order to focus on literature’s social and ideological entanglements\, it has also grown deeply suspicious of claims to aesthetic detachment in their many guises\, from Kantian disinterestedness to Oscar Wilde’s celebration of the aesthetic as a sphere outside the reach of moral judgment\, and further to the New Critical understanding of the literary text as a self-contained object. More often than not\, such claims are seen as distracting or disingenuous\, an expression of a certain kind of Western bourgeois habitus that aim to obfuscate the relationship between the aesthetic and the political. In this talk\, extracted from my new book project\, I argue for a more complex political genealogy behind autonomist literary doctrines: rather than a mere expression of a certain kind of solipsism that we tend to associate with such figures as Charles Baudelaire\, Gustave Flaubert\, or Oscar Wilde\, the demand for aesthetic autonomy constitutes an inherently oppositional gesture\, a form of refusal typically directed at hegemonic social forces and naturally affiliated with various forms of marginality and dissidence. To fully appreciate aestheticism’s dissident potential\, in this talk I focus on aesthetic detachment’s productive second life among immigrant and exiled writers\, among Holocaust survivors and postcolonial intellectuals. I pay particular attention to the work of the Serbian-Jewish writer Danilo Kiš in order to demonstrate how familiar Baudelairean and Wildean assumptions can be retooled to for the purposes of Holocaust representation and political critique in socialist Eastern Europe. \nBiography: \nAleksandar Stević is assistant professor of English at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Primarily a historian and theorist of the novel\, he is the author of Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self-Fashioning (University of Virginia Press\, 2020) and the editor of several volumes\, including a forthcoming special issue of Genre on Aestheticism Now. His essays have appeared in such venues as New Literary History\, Victorian Literature and Culture\, Journal of Modern Literature\, Comparative Literature Studies\, and ELH. He is also the Serbian translator of Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and has recently completed a book on the afterlives of aestheticism in twentieth-century literature.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-guest-lecture-the-uses-of-aestheticism-in-contemporary-literature/
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