Koło studenckie Chamelinguon Language and Culture Club działające przy Instytucie Filologii Angielskiej UWr zaprasza na wykład mistrzowski

Koło studenckie Chamelinguon Language and Culture Club działające przy Instytucie Filologii Angielskiej UWr zaprasza na wykład mistrzowski 26 marca 2021 o godz. 18:00.

Tytuł: Experimental Methods for Literary Studies: Measuring Affects and Effects

Prelegent: dr hab. Wojciech Małecki

Adiunkt w Zakładzie Teorii Literatury Instytutu Filologii Polskiej UWr. Zajmuje się m.in.

neopragmatyzmem, teorią interpretacji, animal studies, ekokrytyką, posthumanizmem, estetyką oraz empirycznymi badaniami nad literaturą

Język wykładu: angielski

Opis wykładu:

Does literature make us more empathic toward others? Can it recalibrate our affective responses, refine our moral judgments, influence political attitudes, and contribute to social change? And if so, how significant and universal are such effects, and what are their causes?

Questions like this have been asked by literary scholars for a long time, but they are particularly pressing now that literary studies have become more activist in their approach than ever. The aim of this lecture is to show how experimental methods may help in answering such questions, and how they have been used to that purpose already in fields such as social psychology, affect studies, and empirical ecocriticism. It will talk about clinical trials, natural experiments, statistical analyses, brain scans, as well as implicit attitudes tests, where millisecond differences in how we react to different stimuli reveal subtle unconscious biases. And it will also try to show how such measures can not only shed light on intuitions we literary scholars already have, but also stimulate entirely new ideas and intuitions, some of which we might not come up with otherwise.

Forma:

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