中国莎学研究的“全景式”解读——评李伟民的《中国莎士比亚批评史》

李伟民教授的《中国莎士比亚批评史》中的莎学研究涉及了多个不同的角度和侧面,做到了史论结合。它以中国当代莎学研究发展史为线索,又对莎学研究的发展作出了自己特定的新见解。这本厚重的著述是中国语境下对莎学研究的“全景式”解读。尤其是蕴涵其中的“莎士比亚批评”显示了我们中国人比较的眼光,构成了中国莎学研究的最鲜明之处,形成了莎士比亚批评的中国特色。     

地方本科院校通识教育课程体系建设的实践

在教育改革实施过程中,通识教育的重要性引起了高等教育界的普遍关注,而作为通识教育主阵地和主渠道的通识教育课程体系建设在推行的过程中也遇到了种种问题,给其顺利实施造成了困境。本文在分析地方本科院校实行通识教育课程体系建设中存在的突出问题的基础上,对高校通识教育课程体系建设的优化提出了相应的对策建议。     

文化、权力与多元性:关于媒介批评学科体系建设的思考

随着大众传媒与社会生活的关系日益紧密,旨在为观察、分析、阐释错综复杂的媒介现象提供理论与方法的传播学分支学科——媒介批评——的重要性正日益凸显。然而,目前我国的媒介批评学科体系中存在着包罗万象、还原主义和重理论轻实践的三种倾向,制约着媒介批评学科的发展。本文认为,媒介批评学科体系的建构需在文化、权力分配与多元性的框架内展开,赋予该学科以真正的批评力量,切实推动社会变迁。     

耶鲁大学学生心灵与智力的培养

耶鲁大学的本科教育理念旨在完善学生心灵与智力,培养训练学生健全的道德人格和综合的智力品质。上述本科教育理念,植根于耶鲁大学自由教育的传统、深切的人文社会关怀使命、发展国家乃至世界文化的办学宗旨及其思想自由的氛围。以该理念为指导,耶鲁人提出为学生未来工作奠定初步基础、为学生未来快乐生活奠定初步基础、为学生领导未来社会奠定初步基础的本科人才培养目标。重视教师指导、寄宿学院、通选课程和自由教育课程,是完善学生心灵与智力的途径。耶鲁大学上述本科教育理念及人才培养目标与途径,体现了西方文化中别样的出世特性,令人回味与思考。     

论荀子性恶说之意义与定位

荀子系先秦儒学之殿军,其学无所不窥,举凡政治、军事、社会、教育、经济、知识、名理、心性及人生等皆有其个人之弘识,然要之,以“礼”为依归。由《荀子》一书中,随处可见荀子行文虽长篇大论,然皆有条不紊,且其立论时,多有严密之推理,其中,尤以性恶说之论证,最为明显。由于性恶说乃荀子之主要学说,故荀子即透过层层严密之论证来建立此论,以期性恶说能为世人所接受且信服。荀子性恶说之论证主要集中于《性恶》篇中,而荀子学说中最著名的即是性恶之主张。有关苟子之研究,中文学界之研究成果极为丰硕,而美国汉学界亦已作出极为可喜之成绩。虽然,荀子以主张性恶著称,然而,吾人发现,中、外学者在性恶之某些议题上之观点,却颇为分歧,其中,所涉及之荀题有：荀子“性恶说”之意义及定位等。依此,本文旨在针对中、外学者所提出的一些与苟子“性恶说”之相关议题,予以分析、诠释,其目的在于厘清中、外学者在《荀子》思想中所发现之问题,并希望借此能对荀子之学说有更确切之理解与把握。     

Cultural Studies and/of Economic Rights: Neglect and Promise

This article theorizes the historical non-relation between cultural studies and economic rights discourse, tracing it to ideal typical distinctions between economy and culture in early cultural studies; Karl Marx's influence on Left thought generally via his critique of bourgeois rights; and Foucauldian governmentalist treatments of rights as neoliberal technologies of control and treatments of economy as having no agency of its own but rather as an effect of governmentality. It then introduces a case-study conjunctural history of American economic rights as a history of present American citizenship and politics in order to demonstrate the historically contingent articulations of individual freedom, government, and economic relations, which are not easily explained by the Marxist or Foucauldian vocabularies. The conjunctural history provides cultural studies research with a new perspective for attention to radical democracy and critiques of neoliberal capitalist policies without surrendering the utility of rights to (neo)liberalism.     

Finopower: Governing Intersections Between Gambling and Finance

Regulatory distinctions between “problem” and “recreational” gambling have contributed to the neglect of important discursive and cultural practices at the intersection of finance and gambling. This intersection is now sufficiently formative of everyday life and popular culture to warrant closer scrutiny within cultural studies research. Through a range of examples, I elaborate the concept of “finopower” as a specific kind of governmentality through which individuals negotiate the mutual imbrications of gambling and finance. The final part of the article draws on theories of “post-disciplinary” societies to explore social and political implications of cultural distinctions between skill and chance-based games.     

Between the Structural and the Personal: Situated Sense-Makings of “Race” This research was supported by a grant from the MOSAIC Multicultural Center at San Jose State University.

Using a critical intercultural communication perspective and cultural studies interviewing method, this study traces individuals’ subjective sense-makings of diversity through the trope of “race.” Such sense-makings represent the key (and taken-for-granted) locus of the structural and personal where social actors live out the constructions of diversity and race in deeply felt ways. Our study reveals how individuals articulate and understand race via raceless diversity encodings (whereby race is seemingly stripped of its power inequalities, and all racial/ethnic groups are made equal) and racial pivoting (whereby participants both discursively pull away from and move toward race to suit their individual experiences).     

Slavic‐Related Pamphlets from the Communist Party USA's Reference Center for Marxist Studies

This article describes the nearly 1,000 Slavic‐related pamphlets acquired in 2006 by New York University's Tamiment Library from the Reference Center for Marxist Studies, which was the library of the Communist Party USA.     

Astana 2014 ASEEES-CESS Joint Regional Conference Report

The report summarizes the joint regional conference of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) in Astana, Kazakhstan in May 2014. This conference is the fourth biennial regional conference of CESS together with the first regional conference organized by ASEEES, and had more than 300 participants from many different countries of the world. Topics discussed included areas such anthropology, economics, education, history, international relations, library science, language and literature, political science, and sociology.