南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院    名家讲坛  第116期

南京大学高研院110周年校庆系列学术活动之三


演讲主题：  The University, the Human and the New


主讲人：  美国弗吉尼亚大学英语系教授、人文与全球文化研究中心主任

                   Michael Levenson


主持人：           何成洲  教授


时间：2012年5月9日（周三）晚上18:30—20:30

地点：鼓楼校区  逸夫馆9楼高研院报告厅



Abstract:

The paper is a discussion of the contemporary university and its global prospects within the conditions of our modernity. It seeks to offer both
historical context and a theoretical framework for understanding the present situation. My central concern is with new challenges to the concept of
education, from the perspective of both students and their instructor. The lecture will engage with current contributions to the question ‘What are
universities for?’and will place those questions against the background of Virginia Woolf’s contribution to debates in the 1930s. In its final section,
the lecture turns to the writings of Bruno La Tour and Ludwig Wittgenstein, inorder to press the question of knowledge, education and the human.