歷史學X醫療史新時代

版主：目前，韓依薇(Heinrich)教授好像在中興大學「人文與社會科學研究中心」訪問( 2011/02/01 - 2011/04/30 )。此中心似以文學分析為取向，而非歷史研究為主（但也收了一些有關歷史專長的學者作博士後與相關研究）。 韓 教授本來就在美國加州州立大學聖地牙哥分校文學系任教，而非歷史系。其專業學術專長除了現代文學和比較文學之外，更近一步探討文化相關的研究，如文學與文化歷史、醫學之文學與文化、視覺文化等等。這是她的著作目錄：http://rchss.nchu.edu.tw/download/LarissaHeinrichPublication.pdf

以下轉貼一則演講訊息：

題目：Preserving Stereotypes Forever: Cross-cultural Representations of Chinese Identity in the Body Worlds Exhibits (人體奧妙展覽等類) and Beyond

主講人：Prof. Larissa Heinrich ( University of California )

時 間 ：100年5月5日(星期四) 14：00

地 點 ：中研院人社中心B202會議室

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 The incredible worldwide success of the various kinds of plastinated human body exhibits over the last ten years, which often use bodies “sourced” and “processed” in Mainland China, has coincided with rapid growth in media technologies and communications worldwide. Consequently, the plastinated bodies have taken on a disturbingly ambassadorial role in introducing (and reinforcing) stereotypes about Chinese culture to a hungry global mediasphere. This talk will treat the global phenomenon of plastinated body exhibits as an example of contemporary transnational Chinese cultural production, and the divergent Chinese- and Western-language media treatments of the exhibits as an occasion for comparative discourse analysis. In North America, Europe, and Australia, for instance, suspicions about unethically-acquired Chinese “donations” of bodies or bodies “sourced” from Chinese prisons has led to a near-total saturation of Western-language media discourse with highly over-determined (and often sensationalist) human rights critiques. Media from China , Taiwan , and Hong Kong , meanwhile, generally characterize the exhibits more mildly, emphasizing their educational merits or their potential to inspire nationalist sentiment over their shock or entertainment value. This talk will not attempt to address the truth or falsehood of claims about the use of Chinese prisoners as “sources” for the plastinated human body exhibits. Instead, it will suggest that a critical reassessment of Western-language human rights discourse in light of Chinese-language treatments of the same exhibits can expose the constructed nature of “Chineseness” and “Chinese identity” in contemporary Western-language media and culture.

http://www.issp.sinica.edu.tw/hygiene/seminar.html

文章大綱http://www.issp.sinica.edu.tw/hygiene/activity/Academia_Sinica_talk.pdf