▌ 國科會外文學門 2025 年度跨域人文系列講座・第五場論壇 ▌

主題｜冷戰風雲之下的「人類世」：淺談環境人文的跨領域研究與實踐
講者｜周序樺｜中央研究院歐美研究所副研究員
主持｜蔡振興｜淡江大學英文學系教授
時間｜2025年06月07日（六）14:30~16:30
線上｜Webex 視訊會議 ｜連結將於活動前兩天，寄送至報名所使用信箱
報名｜https://bit.ly/FLNSTC-20250607，6/4（三）23:59 截止
主辦單位｜國科會人文處外文學門
聯絡助理｜陳信彰 jessechen0110@gmail.com；林嘉瑩 kelly.cy.lin@gmail.com

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▌ 演講簡介 ▌

文學評論如何跨領域？援引哲學、人類學、地理學、精神分析與理論的文學評論，是否為跨領域研究？什麼是有效的「跨」？最近的「跨」有何特色？作為一種方法學，它試圖挑戰何種傳統？在環境人文研究（environmental humanities）中，文學或文學研究扮演什麼角色、又能提供人文甚至是科學研究什麼不同的視野？

西方生態批評（ecocriticism）發展的歷史脈絡顯示，六○、七○年代至今、冷戰與大歷史敘述之下的西方反文化運動（counterculture）召喚實用主義（pragmatism）精神，由看似微不足道的「日常」環境行動出發，奠定環境人文「跨領域」研究的學術視野。但如同大多反文化運動在被主流文化所接納、甚至是受歡迎的同時，環境人文研究也終究必須面對淪為意識形態與政治口號挑戰的宿命。

我將從近日的「人類世」 （Anthropocene）風潮為例，由它所掀起的學術思潮，談談文學研究所遇見的挑戰，並透過提問「人類世是什麼？」反思跨領域研究為文學帶來的機會與困境。對於文學研究者而言，它與之前的性別、族裔、階級與理論等文學評論有何不同？若泛指各環境相關研究的人文領域學科，環境人文研究已暗示其「跨領域」屬性。究竟什麼是跨領域研究？作為一種方法學，跨領域與實踐的關係為何？

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▌主講人與主持人簡介 ▌

主講人｜ 周序樺
美國南加州大學比較文學博士，現任中央研究院歐美研究所副研究員，「Farm for Change」氣候變遷：生態文學、環境人文與韌性社會跨領域觀念實驗室主持人。 曾任中山大學外國語文學系助理教授、副教授；主要研究領域為美國環境文學與環境論述，近年學術志趣包含美國有機農業書寫、後殖民環境論述、亞裔美國環境書寫等。

主持人｜ 蔡振興
國立臺灣大學外文所比較文學博士。淡江大學英文系教授，為陽明交大「醫療人文淑世計畫」團隊成員，也是現任中華民國文學與環境學會（ASLE-Taiwan）理事長。曾任淡江大學英文系系主任、英美文學學會理事長、中華民國比較文學學會理事長、中華民國文學與環境學會（ASLE-Taiwan）理事長，以及Tamkang Review和《英美文學評論》等主編。主要研究領域為文學理論、史耐德研究、全球暖化論述、生態文學和醫療人文研究。論文發表於Comparative Literature Studies、Neohelicon、《中外文學》、《英美文學評論》、《歐美研究》和《中山人文學報》等國內外期刊。主要著作有Gary Snyder, Nature and Ecological Communication，以及《生態危機與文學研究》(榮獲第八屆中央研究院人文及社會科學學術性專書獎)。主編《生態文學概論》、Key Readings in Ecocriticism （合編）等。最新論文〈醫療人文中的疾病書寫〉（2020）、〈敘述失能：林區《邊界之歌》中的邊界政治、自閉症與大地藝術〉分別收錄於《人文與社會科學簡訊》與《文學、視覺文化與醫學：醫療文人論文集》，馮品佳主編〈臺北：書林，2020），以及 “Toward an Ethics of Transcorporeality and public Health in Taiwanese Ecopathodocumentary”，收錄於The Bloombury Handbook to The Medical-Environmental Humanties (2022)。2023年主編《文學薪傳：臺灣的英美文學研究(2001-2022)》，2024年與林耀福合編《環境文學：物我去殖藝與醫》。

主講人：張雅蘭 (臺東大學英美語文學系教授)
主持人：阮秀莉 (中興大學外國語文學系名譽教授)
日期：2月 21日 (星期五)
時間：12:00 – 1:00 P.M. (以 Microsoft Teams線上舉辦)
講題：《沙丘》與香料殖民
會議連結：https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YWNlZjgxM2QtZmZkNC00MWUyLWJlMWItMzY4N2UwM2RiM2Ey%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22399232fb-17d1-45ca-bda6-5b540441bd62%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2255895c48-48a5-4872-9b31-97cf0df8955a%22%7d

演講主題
Literary Nature Writing and the More-Than-Human Garden

Ÿ 講者：Jessica J. Lee （李潔珂）｜Course Director and Panel Tutor, Creative Writing-Nonfiction, University of Cambridge｜Course Instructor, Orion Creative Writing Workshops｜Course Director, Granta Nature Writing Workshop｜Author of《山與林的深處》（2024）
Ÿ 主持：周序樺｜中央研究院歐美研究所副研究員
Ÿ 時間：2024年9月12日（四）14:00
Ÿ 地點：中央研究院歐美所一樓會議室｜視訊與實體並行

主題簡介
In this talk I’ll present my second book, Two Trees Make a Forest, which was published in 2019. Taking formal inspiration from novels The Stolen Bicycle (by Wu Ming-Yi) and Do Not Say We Have Nothing (by Madeleine Thien), Two Trees Make a Forest engages critically with the notion of memoir in the English-language nature writing genre: through an examination of the fragmentary stories of my grandparents’ lives, alongside the history of Taiwan itself, it asks how the genre can be expanded beyond the scope of Anglo-American landscapes without reifying an orientalist gaze. I’ll read briefly from the book before discussing its origins and formal and genre-specific challenges.

Literary Nature Writing and the More-Than-Human Garden: In this presentation, I’ll consider the ways gardens have been centred in three works of very recent contemporary nature writing: Unearthing by Kyo Maclear, Rootbound by Alice Vincent, and Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell. In each of these books, the story of the garden is complicated and far from idyllic, whether as a framework for understanding kindship and relation, a means for understanding individual coming-of-age against the background of urban life, or as a means for exploring the legacies of migration and empire. In each of these works, the garden is a way of leaning more closely into the world. I’ll consider the ways literary nature writing can provide a means for narrating one’s experience of more-than-human kinship and connection, and ultimately provide a complex re-imagining of tropes of the garden as escape or salve.

講者簡介
李潔珂 (Jessica J. Lee)，作家、環境歷史學家，英國國王學院學士學位、倫敦大學碩士學位，加拿大約克大學環境史及環境美學博士。曾獲2019年RBC Taylor Prize潛力作家獎。著有《轉身：一部游泳回憶錄》(Turning: A Swimming Memoir)，《山與林的深處：一位臺裔環境歷史學家的尋鄉之旅，在臺灣的植物、島嶼風光和歷史間探尋家族與自身的來處與記憶》(Two Trees Make a Forest) 是她的第二部著作，最新出版著作Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging (Catapult, 2024)。

報名表單：https://forms.gle/31HP85B6zxuMXyVi9
活動網址：Literary Nature Writing and theMore-Than-Human Garden

本次演講採視訊方式進行，請於 9/10(二)前填寫報名表參加，並確實填寫您的聯絡資訊，主辦單位收到報名表後將於演講前以e-mail回覆線上會議室連結。

有任何問題，請來信 farmforchange2022@gmail.com

第十二屆海峽兩岸生態文學研討會暨後人類語境下的生態批評與生態文學研討會

福建·廈門，2024年10月

自第一屆海峽兩岸生態文學研討會於2011年由廈門大學舉辦以來，中興大學（台灣）、山東大學、中山大學（台灣）、南京大學、中國人民大學、台灣大學（台灣）、廣東外語外貿大學、蘇州大學、淡江大學（台灣）、西安外國語大學等兩岸著名高校成功舉辦了十一屆盛會，為兩岸學者共同探討生態文學和生態文明提供了對話平台，促進了海峽兩岸的學術交流。
第十二屆海峽兩岸生態文學研討會將會回到其創始地廈門，由集美大學舉辦。為研討海峽兩岸生態文學和生態批評研究的在後人類語境中的新動態，建構和解讀中西經典文學和影像中的生態思想，進一步探索新世紀生態批評研究的新路徑與新動向，集美大學文法學院、集美大學後人類文化研究院、中華美學學會生態美學專業委員會，擬於2024年10月中旬舉辦第十二屆海峽兩岸生態文學研討會。
我們誠邀您惠賜大作，主要議題包括但不限於：
1， 後人類狀態與生態批評
2， 新世紀生態文學和生態電影研究
3， 海洋生態文學與影像研究
4， 生生美學與生態美學
5， 其他相關議題
期刊支持：
天津社會科學、南京社會科學、廣州大學學報、藝術評論、集美大學學報

ASLE 2024 Symposium: Green Fire
University of North Florida
May 16-19, 2024

Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction

Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals

The concept of energy has a history that long pre-dates any dreams of resource extraction or electrification. Cultures around the world have viewed different energies, plural, as living forces. Depending on the context, the word “energy” might call up images of interconnected beings, landforms, species, and worldviews. Phases of existence have even been understood in terms of energy, since spirits of the dead are often thought to exert their energies on behalf of, or in opposition to, the living. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s explanation of the Potawatomi word puhpowee—“the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight”—pertains to conceptions of energy in many different Indigenous cultures. According to this paradigm, humans are just one of the many types of life-forms inhabiting a “world of being, full of unseen energies that animate everything.” Kimmerer stresses that humans have the responsibility to regulate our personal energies in reciprocal relationships with the energies of the nonhumans with whom we share the world. Aldo Leopold’s famous description of the “fierce green fire” leaving the eyes of a mother wolf he helped kill, along with his definition of land as “a fountain of energy” rather than mere property, shows how similar ideas have taken shape in Western cultures.

Yet, while the dream of “a world of being” has endured, it has mostly been eclipsed by the notion that energy exists to be harnessed. The extractivist way of thinking about and living with energy has resulted in forms of devastation and injustice that everyone concerned about the state of the Earth knows all too well.

We invite proposals—for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and creative new forms of dialogue—addressing what ecocriticism, the energy humanities, and other disciplines can do to help change the current situation. We seek contributions that explore different ways of understanding energy and being in the world. Scholars in any discipline are welcome to apply.

Guiding questions include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Which alternative, Indigenous, or non-Western cosmovisions and cosmologies of energy do people living in extractivist energy regimes need to learn about?
• How are day-to-day energetic practices changing in the so-called Anthropocene?
• How can environmental humanists, activists, and ordinary people claim seats at an energy “table” dominated by scientists, technocrats, and billionaires?
• What might scientific and spiritual energy practices have to learn from each other?
• How do those who spend most of their time resisting the extractivist paradigm channel personal, cultural, and more-than-human energies in ways that help them avoid draining their own energies (in the form of burnout)?
• How can recent scientific discoveries about how people and nonhuman beings experience energies inform our research and teaching as scholars in the humanities?
• Which literary, cinematic, rhetorical, and other representational energies are doing the best work in changing how various publics think about energy?
• How are energies being restor(i)ed as meaningful parts of everyday life-worlds?

The symposium will take place in person at the University of North Florida, in Jacksonville, from Thursday, May 16 to Sunday, May 19, 2024. (Scholars who seek alternative presentation formats may contact the co-organizers.) Friday and Saturday will be devoted to panels and plenary speakers, while Sunday will involve workshops at UNF (possibly elsewhere) and field trips and service activities in the ancestral homeland of the Mocama people, also known as the First Coast—site of the oldest permanent European settlements in what is now the United States.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Dr. Kendra Hamilton of Presbyterian College (author of the forthcoming book Romancing the Gullah); author and activist Janisse Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and numerous other books); and Dr. Heidi Scott of the University of Maryland (Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century, Fuel: An Ecocritical History, and many essays).

To propose an individual paper, please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words and a brief speaker bio to the proposal portal link below.

For pre-formed panel and roundtable proposals, please list names and emails of panelists in the “co-presenter” field; include an overall abstract for the session, as well as titles, brief proposal descriptions and one-sentence speaker bios for each contributor (500 words total).

All proposals are due by by February 2, 2024.

Proposal Submission Form

To discuss ideas regarding workshops and non-traditional dialogues, or to ask about anything else relating to the symposium, please contact the co-organizers, Jennifer Lieberman and Bart Welling, at greenfireASLE@gmail.com.