美国学者Lauri Ramey来我校讲学
题 目：The Role of Music in the African American Poetry Tradition
讲座人：Lauri Ramey
(加州州立大学洛杉矶分校教授，华中师范大学客座教授)
时 间：3月29日（周三）下午2：00—3:30
地 点：外语楼101会议室
讲座内容：Since the genre’s beginnings, African American poetry has been integrally connected to music. This tradition originated with spirituals, which are the sung poems created by enslaved African Americans sometime around the 17th century. Spirituals brought together disparate groups of enslaved Africans, who came from multiple oral cultures, and spoke diverse languages, in a literary tradition of their own making. At the advent of Modernism, Paul Laurence Dunbar, who is often regarded as the first African American Man of Letters, stated that his goal was to “be able to interpret my own people through song and story…”as he repurposed the spirituals for the 20th century and beyond. This lecture examines the historical and aesthetic roles of the spirituals and Dunbar as the founding forces of this literary tradition where music and language are inextricably bound.
个人简介：Lauri Ramey is Professor of English and founding Director of the Presidentially Chartered Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at California State University, Los Angeles. She has served as guest professor at the American University of Armenia and Goldsmiths College (University of London), and currently serves as guest professor at Central China Normal University, Yunnan Normal University, and Henan Polytechnic University. She has published nearly 100 peer reviewed articles and book chapters for presses such as Cambridge University Press and Routledge. She is the author or editor of six books, including Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry, The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975.
美国学者Martin Ramey来我校讲学
题 目：The Myth of the Lost Cause After the American Civil War
讲座人：Martin Ramey
(云南师范大学客座教授)
时 间：3月29日（周三）下午4：00—5:30
地 点：外语楼101会议室
讲座内容：Literature, both journalistic and belles lettristic, following the American Civil War created a mythos that lasted until the 1960s. This mythos was that the Southern Cause was State’s Rights rather than the abolition of the institution of race slavery. The reformulated US after the War led to a tragic coalition between the North and the South that resulted in practices of discrimination against African Americans. This lecture will provide examples from literature that demonstrate how this mythos was perpetrated and why its exposure was essential to American political progress.
个人简介：Martin Ramey is an interdisciplinary scholar who works in the fields of literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy. He is Guest Professor at Yunnan Normal University and Henan Polytechnic University. His special interest is in generating dialogue and inquiry on topics found in the intersections of these disciplines. He is a native of Chicago who holds a PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary. His essays and reviews have appeared in Humanitas, Contemporary Theatre Review, Style, Imperium Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Review of Religious Research, and Review of Biblical Literature. He has spoken widely at conferences and universities in the USA and internationally.
