主持人：孙艳萍 副教授
时间：2024年9月18日10:00 am - 12:00 am
地点：浙江大学紫金港校区研究生院楼102
主办单位：浙江大学外国语学院英文系、浙江大学外国文学研究所、浙江大学世界文学跨学科研究中心
讲座题目：The Ethics and Aesthetic of Representation: The Case of Jan Karski
专家介绍：
Seán Hand is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Europe) at the University of Warwick, where he is the Academic Lead for the EU-funded EUTOPIA European university alliance. His research examines reflexive or philosophical writings in French, and he has written, edited or translated nine books. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford (B.A., M.A., D. Phil.) and Warwick (MBA, D.Litt.). He is a Chevalier des PalmesAcadémiques, a member of the Academia Europæa, and an Honorary Professorial Fellow and International Advisory Board member of Zhejiang University.He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has assessed for the Irish Research Council, the Israel Science Foundation, the South African National Research Foundation, and the French National Higher Education authority HCÉRES. He is a Scientific Advisory Board member at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, sits on several international advisory boards, and as acted as a European Commission Vice-Chair.
讲座提要：
Representions of the Holocaust or Shoah have been made the exemplary enactment of ethical and artistic imperatives. Loss, memory, and restoration, or remembering, repeating and working-through exemplify restorative closure and institutionalised memorialisation in a space of high commentary. Given France’s historical involvement in the Shoah, these imperatives can still signify controversially. The talk reviews a controversy arising from the 2009 publication of Jan Karski by Yannick Haenel, which was strongly denounced by Claude Lanzmann. It then uncovers the common blindness hidden in plain sight within their terse disagreements: the non-human world, whose different witnessing is located within human reconfiguration and rebirth.
