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南京大学高研院成立二十周年系列学术活动

讲座人：美国纽约市立大学哲学教授、作家、策展人

Kyoo Lee

题目：“The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain’d”: Unpacking The Merchant of Venice as an Allegory of Reading

主持人：南京大学外国语学院教授、

     南京大学高研院特聘教授

     从  丛

时间：2025年4月23日（周三）下午16：00开始

地点：鼓楼校区逸夫馆9楼高研院报告厅

备注：英语演讲

内容提要：

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare—a play that unfolds around two main Venetian characters among others, Antonio and Shylock, a wealthy and well-connected nobleman of Venice vs. a marginalized Jewish moneylender—remains a gripping story. Greatly appreciated by ordinary readers and professional critics alike, this epoch-signaling drama that emerged in the early modern period in Europe remains richly resonant today in the age of ongoing global economic crisis, climate change, futural uncertainties and planetary despair/hope. This cross-disciplinary lecture, using the film (Al Pacino as Shylock), unpacks some of the key moments and themes of the play from intersectional and transhistorical viewpoints.

讲座人简介：

Kyoo Lee, currently Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, isa philosopher, writer and curator. She is the author of Reading Descartes Otherwise: Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad and a forthcoming book on visual philopoetics. Also the editor-in-chief of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism and the editor of Queenzenglish.mp3: Poetry | Philosophy | Performativity, her transdisciplinary work has been supported by faculty fellowships, visiting appointments and curatorial projects from Arts Council Korea, Cambridge University, CUNY Graduate Center, KIAS, the Mellon Foundation, Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin, the NEH, Seoul National University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and The Venice Art Biennale among others.