Thursday, April 4, 2024
Room 129, Mills Hall
4:30 p.m.

(Re)mapping China’s Social-Environmental Landscape through the Lens of Ecocinema with Shu-Chin Tsui

How might we re-define the relationship between nature and culture beyond binary oppositions and away from anthropocentric perspectives? How can we establish interdisciplinary crossings between environmental and cinema studies? How should we re-consider environmental issues as transnational and global interactions, especially the competition for resources? And to what extent can our research and teaching in the humanities help to provide our students with the means to better understand the changing world around them?

Global Languages, Cultures, and Literatures on the Move is a new initiative occasioned by the current renovation of Sills Hall. Its denizens recently moved to other buildings, and they and all their colleagues in all languages and culture departments will share their scholarship-in-progress with colleagues in the campus community.

The intention is to create a hub of scholarly incubation and a forum for shared research, reading, writing, and collaboration among faculty working in global languages and cultures.

Sponsored by all languages, cultures, and literatures departments from 2023–2025 and the George Taylor Files Professorship in Modern Languages. Contact Birgit Tautz at btautz@bowdoin.edu and Shu-chin Tsui at scui2@bowdoin.edu for more information.