【活動轉貼】Thinking with Islands in the Anthropocene

2023年9月19日（二）10:00（GMT+8）

source: Farm for Change

演講日期：2023年9月19日（二） 演講時間：10:00（GMT+8） 主講者：謝志謙｜國立中正大學外國語文學系 主辦單位：中央研究院歐美研究所氣候變遷人文社會跨領域觀念實驗室 主持人：周序樺（中央研究院歐美研究所副研究員） 活動網址：https://reurl.cc/WG918k 活動地點：中央研究院歐美研究所一樓會議室／同步Webex線上會議直播 報名表單：https://tinyurl.com/5n6mxsst 備註：請於 9 /15(五)前填寫報名表單。報名後主辦單位將於演講前三天以e-mail方式寄發線上會議室連結。

演講大綱

島嶼在當前全球氣候挑戰中首當其中。由於今日人類對環境造成的危機顯現於不同的尺度中，本演講將會探討在現今被稱為「人類世」的地質時代的框架下思索島嶼的意義。在介紹以所謂「群島思維（archipelagic thinking）」為核心而交會的多個領域的對話與發展後，本演講將會轉向加勒比海與跨太平洋地區的島嶼書寫，藉此描繪群島思維作為一種關聯性分析法所帶給我們的啟示。本演講不試圖對這種島嶼及群島的轉向提供一種規範性的理解，而是希望能描繪出與島嶼及其群島框架共事如何提供我們一個機會，消除以大陸為中心的知識典範，並朝向一個更強調關聯性的思考及建構世界的方式。

Islands are at the forefront of current global climate challenges. As today’s anthropogenic environmental crisis manifests itself everywhere on a planetary scale, this talk will explore what it means to think with islands in the current geological epoch that has been termed the Anthropocene. After introducing the conversations and developments in various fields that converge around what has been called archipelagic thinking, the talk will turn to island writings from the circum-Caribbean and transpacific regions to illustrate what archipelagic thinking offers us as a relational analytic. Rather than offering a normative understanding of what this turn to islands and archipelagos entails, this talk hopes to illustrate how working with islands and their archipelagic configurations offers us an opportunity to decenter a continent-oriented paradigm of knowledge and move toward a more relational way of thinking and world-making.

講者介紹

謝志謙，美國布蘭戴斯大學英文系博士，現任國立中正大學外文系專案助理教授。研究領域包括非裔美國、加勒比海與非洲離散文學、跨國與群島美國研究、現代性與後殖民研究、環境人文研究、性別與比較種族研究。學術論文發表於MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States、Modernism/modernity、《英美文學評論》、《中外文學》等期刊。

Chih-Chien Hsieh (PhD in English, Brandeis University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Modernism/modernity, Orbis Litterarum, among others. He is currently working on a project that centers voices and writings from island spaces in the face of global environmental challenges.