The Crying Students

Introduction In this episode, we invited Pan, a PhD student in the EU, to discuss a series of soul-searching questions: What are the biggest institutional differences between the humanities and social sciences in Europe, the UK, the US, and China? What roles are played by universities, research institutes, national funding bodies, and the European Research Council (ERC)? Does the funding model aff...

Introduction Kinship is to be created, and it can also be continuously generated and transformed through narratives and practices. It is a choice, but not the only social model that brings individuals together. Anthropological research has shown us that before the social form that currently occupies all of humanity's possibilities came to dominate the globe, other societies had alternative modes o...

Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies Guests Qingmeng, Journalism and Communication Introduction Since the turn of the new century, the life and death of journalism has come to be framed as a persistent expectation of decline. Its erosion appears to stem from multiple directions: loss of voice, transformation into a mouthpiece, declining quality, and growing public indifference. This pessimism seeps...

Introduction 数年前曾有一位英文系毕业生向我指出School of English中school一词的双关：英文系的学术训练具有如此强大的解释力，以至于它似乎能借助帝国的力量穿透民族主义，形成一个School（学派）。在我和Fan即将从英文系毕业之际，我们回顾了我们的英文系之旅，并盘点了在英文系可以做的学术与学术之外的各种事情。 为了避免不必要的争议，William在节目中保留了他一贯的观点“英文系学士学位是人类可以获得的最好的学士学位”...

Introduction 自20世纪以来，大学应如何定位其与社会及个体的关系这一问题始终位于公共讨论的核心。作为身处教育机构之中的主体，学生对大学教育的运行逻辑与制度性环境拥有最直接的感知，但也常常承担着失权的处境。在这期播客中，我们通过回望我们在不同地域的高等教育经历，在吐槽和回顾之余，试图进一步拨开那些功利主义、优绩主义和象牙塔的粉红色泡泡，以直面幻像之下那些暗流涌动的日常化的压迫与隐形的权力剥削。 Since th...

Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies William, School of English Introduction 死亡是每一个人终将面对、无可避免的人生课题。但是在死亡降临之后，往往是生者而非死者本身成了事件的核心。泉台青磷黯，人间笑语如常。如何应对亲人的离世，这种哀思如何被演变为一种仪式，仪式下魂灵又如何自处？在不同人的经历中我们或许可以管窥一些属于生者的空域：祖先崇拜的代际划分，亡者与生者的时空界限，不同信仰下的仪式差异、记忆的建...

Hosts William, School of English Hannah, Communication Studies Guest Joey, Communication Studies KEYWORDS 女性与多元群体艺术空间，国内外queer空间观察，读书会 INTRO 传统的和改良型的马克思主义观点都认为，1871年的巴黎公社是1848年法兰西内战以来阶级斗争的继续（如Castells 1983; Harvey 1985）。但是顾尔德认为，工人阶级意识的确在1848年法兰西内战的动员中起有很大作用，但是到了1871年时，巴黎群众的动员基础已不...

Hosts William, School of English Hannah, Communication Studies ...Systematic inequalities that are ultimately backed up by the threat of force can be seen as a form of violence in themselves. Systems of structural violence invariably seem to produce extreme lopsided structures of imaginative identification. - David Graeber, 2007, Revolution in Reverse (or, on the conflict between political ontolog...

Host William, School of English Guest Joey, Communication Studies   在顺性别异性恋社会规范下，时间的感知与再生产冲动密切相关——及时进入一对一的浪漫关系、及时步入婚姻、及时生育。然而这种线性时间（chrononormativity）和与其相关的里程碑往往和酷儿们的生命体验相悖。当机构并不认可酷儿们的身份认同或亲密关系模式时，当他们得不到家庭保障和领养权时，他们当然也就无法与线性时间靠近；当酷儿们走进自己的社群，或在...

Introduction le nationalisme 国家主义 Mouvement politique d'individus qui prennent conscience de former une communauté nationale en raison des liens (langue, culture) qui les unissent et qui peuvent vouloir se doter d'un État souverain. Le nationalisme a incité les peuples à former des États souverains ou à revendiquer leur indépendance. Larousse Dictionary. - Larousse Dictionary 个人的政...

In Introduction to 21st Century Fiction , Peter Boxall discusses three preoccupations of contemporary fiction: first, temporality, encompassing the speeded, slowed, stalled, or fragmented time, as well as a fascination with fleeting moments; second, ‘the real,’ referring to the emergence of new forms of realism and mechanisms for capturing the new reality, with these forms themselves becoming the...

We reviewed the conferences we attended in 2024, vibe-checked, and wished everyone the best of luck. 我们回顾了2024年参加过的会议。 They were not good, they were not bad, they just happened Host William, School of English Hannah, Communication Studies BGM 九月鹰飞-田汨

Host William, School of English Guest Fan, School of English In this episode, William and Fan discussed foregrounding, text-world theory, and other issues concerning stylistics, including the controversies it faces as an academic institution. Materials Mentioned Cureton, R.D. (1979). E.E. Cummings: A Study of the Poetic Use of Deviant Morphology.  Poetics Today, 1 (1/2), 213-224. Available at:  ht...

Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies William, School of English Guest Joey, Communication Studies 本期由于我们焦虑大爆发所以不写按语了。 BGM 万千花蕊慈母悲哀-珂拉琪 Materials Mentioned William's Szonyi, M. (2018).  The art of being governed: Everyday politics in late imperial China . Princeton University Press. Zhou, X. (2022).  The Logic of Governance in China: an organizational approach . Cam...

Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies  William, School of English  Guest  波子, Communication Studies 本期出现了很多残酷二选一界的天问。 Highlights 如何应对文化传统在开放社会的庸俗化、片面化？低门槛会带来庸俗化的风险吗？大众的文化传承是否是一个伪命题？究竟要怎样看待知识民主化？ 消费资本主义对于进步主义文化来说意味着什么？ 中产阶级在中国指代的是哪一群人？他们产生过一种中产阶级文化吗？这个词语对应着某...

本期播客是一次策划已久的残酷二选一, i.e., 一期闲聊。 Hosts Hannah, Communication Studies  William, School of English  Guest  波子, Communication Studies Highlights 什么是反男性凝视？什么是女性凝视？在一个不平等的权力结构中局部倒转权力关系但沿用相同的暴力手段可以被允许吗？ 恶法非法、公民抗命如何正当？非暴力/和平主义是一种结果还是一种目标？ 教师如何反抗新自由主义化的高等教育？ Anti-male gaze? Female...

“If we can wander, without fear, not only in the streets of Paris, which bristle with police, but especially in rustic walks where you rarely meet passersby, is it to the police that we owe this security? Or rather to the absence of people who care to rob or murder us?” ― Pyotr Kropotkin,  Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal “当我们不仅可以在警察林立的巴黎街道上，还可以在少见路人的乡村步道上毫不恐...

This episode is comprised of an introduction to the theories of critical discourse analysis and an interesting article sharing session. Starting with two turns in Fairclough's approaches to critical discourse analysis, William and Fan attempt to draw the critical analysis of discourse into deep, broad and complex critical analysis of the society in specific journal articles. We find that it is...

What is "East Asia"? What is Northeast Asia, Asia, the Orient, the Far East, World literatures of Chinese, Sinophone, and the Sinitic Sphere respectively? Which forces have used these concepts? If East Asia is a vague and diverse geographical designation, where is it? How did it come into being? How does it interact with today's reality as a concept that has been seized by various ideologies? “东...