讲座题目：What’s in a name? Does the change in name from
multiculturalism to transculturalism make good sense?
主讲人：曲卫国教授（复旦大学）
主持人：施旭教授
讲座时间：2015年6月18日10:00
讲座地点：浙江大学紫金港校区东六-402
讲座内容：
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
By any other name would smell as sweet."
Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
浙江大学当代中国话语研究中心
2015年6月12日
Abstract：
I will argue that the biggest problem in the cross-cultural studies is what Fanon termed as the colonized mind or the postcolonialist identity politics, which conceives and treats the world ahistorically in terms of a false binarism of the West and the non-West, ignoring entirely the complexities of power relations in the intercultural and intracultural interactions, and disregarding the simple facts that there are differences within the Western cultures, within the non-Western cultures, and within each culture. Unless we are freed from the mentality, which reduces “the non-West” to further subjugation, the change in name from multiculturalism to transculturalism does not make good sense.
主讲人信息：
Qu Weiguo is a professor of English at Fudan University, China. Currently he is the dean of College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fudan University. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Department of English, Harvard University (2004), and has won quite a few national and municipal awards for his teaching and research. His research interest covers discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, rhetoric and stylistics. Apart from publishing in Chinese, his publications in English include papers that have appeared in College Composition and Communication, Changing English, English Today and Language and Intercultural Communication, and books such as Introducing Argumentation (2005), Discourse Stylistics (2009) and Introducing Critical Thinking and Argumentation (2013)
