Professor Sinkwan Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong Hatfield College
October – December 2012
Over the past decade Professor Sinkwan Cheng has been awarded six external fellowships and grants for her scholarly work (including a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a DAAD Fellowship). She is the editor of Law, Justice, and Power: Between Reason and Will (Stanford University Press). She has also published in MLN, Cardozo Law Review, American Journal of Semiotics, Law and Literature, and Literature and
Psychology.Professor Cheng is a referee for the Berlin Journal of Philosophy and the International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association, an internal reviewer for the Journal of Translation Studies, and a member of the advisory board of (a): the journal of culture and the unconscious. She was formerly a member of the advisory board of American- Lacanian-Link. In addition to her teaching experience Professor Cheng has delivered lectures in five countries, and has given faculty seminars twice at Columbia University .
Professor Cheng’s research in recent years has focused on conceptual history, translation, and modernity. Her current project is entitled ‘Conceptual History, the Introduction of Linear Time into the Chinese Language, and Chinese Modernity.’ This project explores how and why China’s linguistic revolutions took place alongside the country’s quest for scientific, economic, and political modernity. When discussing the contributions made by translation of Western texts to China’s modernization process, scholars have been focusing on content issues. They have overlooked how translation, through effecting changes in the Chinese language, has transformed the Chinese people’s Weltanschauung at a fundamental level. For example, tenses did not exist in classical Chinese. But given the prominence of the temporal dimension in Western languages, time markers were gradually invented for the Chinese language as intellectuals engaged in translations of Western texts.
Professor Cheng will use her Fellowship to examine how the time consciousness gave the Chinese a new concept of the future and laid the path for China’ s modernization, and elaborate the subject via an analysis of two waves of temporalization of the Chinese language.
Professor Bradley Epps, Harvard University St. Mary’s College January - March 2013
Brad Epps is a distinguished Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor and former Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of W omen, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. He has published over a hundred articles and chapters on modern literature, film, art, architecture, urban theory, queer theory, and immigration from Spain, Latin America, Hispanophone Africa, Catalonia, the United States, and France. He is the author of Significant Violence: Oppression and Resistance in the Narratives of Juan Goytisolo; Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity (with Luis Fernández Cifuentes); Passing Lines: Immigration and Sexuality (with Bill Johnson-González and Keja Valens); All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema (with Despina Kakoudaki); a special issue of Catalan Review on Barcelona and modernity, and a special issue of GLQ(with Jonathan Katz) on lesbian theorist Monique Wittig. He has taught as visiting professor or scholar in Spain, Germany, France, Chile, Cuba, the Netherlands, Sweden, the People’s Republic of China, and Great Britain. He is fitfully preparing three books: El cine como historia, la historia como cine: Incursiones en el (debatido) ámbito del cine iberoamericano, under contract from Colihue Press in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Barcelona and Cinema, which will be at the centre of his research while at the IAS, and The Ethics of Promiscuity, which proposes various and sundry sorts of mixtures as a “counter -ethics” to the conventional emphasis on purity. In December 2012, he was elected to the Chair in Spanish at the University of Cambridge.
Whilst at Durham, Professor Epps will be working on a theoretically informed cultural history of the city of Barcelona in film and other time-based media around the Institute’s ‘scaling time’ sub-theme. He is particularly interested in how the passing, memorialisation, and monumentalisation of time in the Catalan capital are represented in film and how cinematic technique, filmic form, and industrial materiality have themselves changed over time.
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