主题：The Politics of the Universal: The Task of Postcolonial Translation
时间：2016年6月30日（周四）下午15:00－17:00
主讲人：谢少波教授
主持人：乔国强教授
讲座摘要：This lecture is about why the present world has to rethink the problem of universality, why postcolonialtranslation plays so preeminent a role in restaging the universal, and how to translate the universal across linguistic or cultural boundaries to the satisfaction of all concerned. The author asserts that we are living in a world besieged with crises on all sides and the world needs to begin with new beginnings, redefining modernity and its coordinates. The first step towards imagining new beginnings is, by way ofpostcolonial translation, turn the concept of universality into apolitical space of (re)negotiation between the local and global, the hegemonic and the subaltern, and the West and the rest, so as toreflect or represent different ways of being human, different political legacies, and different cultural traditions in the globally shared concepts of development, democracy, and happiness.
报告人简介：Shaobo Xie teaches literary theory, postcolonial literature and theory, and translation studies in the Department of English, University of Calgary. He is Senior Editor of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. His articles have appeared in journals such as New Literary History, Cultural Critique, Neohelicon, Semiotica, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Science & Society, Boundary 2, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, China Perspective, and International Social Science Journal. Among his recent publications are “Translation and Transformation: Theory in China and China in Theory” (ISSJ), “Is the World Decentered? A Postcolonial Perspective on Globalization” (Routledge anthology Global Literary Theory), and Thinking through Postcoloniality (ARIEL 40th anniversary special issue).
