主讲人：Michael Ranta

讲座时间：10月26日（星期日）15：00—17：00

讲座地点：1教101教室

主持人：向浩源

专家简介：

 Michael Ranta，瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学艺术史副教授。主要研究领域包括美学、艺术史和认知心理学，并撰写了关于符号学、美学、叙事学和艺术史等问题的著作。目前受聘于中国成都四川大学文学与新闻学院，担任研究员/教师；此外，还担任瑞典林奈大学的研究员。最新著作名为《图像如何讲述故事——图像叙事性论文集》（剑桥学者出版社，2022年）。

 Michael Ranta is Associate Professor in Art History from Stockholm University, Sweden. His principal research includes aesthetics, art history, and cognitive psychology, and he has written on semiotic, aesthetic, narratological, and art historical issues. He is currently employed as a researcher/teacher at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (College of Journalism and Literature); further, he is a research fellow at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His most recent book is entitled "How Pictures Tell Stories - Essays on Pictorial Narrativity" (Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2022).

讲座内容简介：

 未来几代人（尤其是远方的）的交流方式可能与当代人不同或有所改变，那么如何才能与他们进行交流呢？除了语言或其他交流方式随时间推移而发生的变化之外，新的符号资源也可能出现。此外，最有可能的是，知识的积累和处理，以及世界观和范畴体系的改变，或范式的转变（托马斯·库恩意义上的），都可能阻碍信息的理解、传播和交流。

 然而，即使分类和概念在过去或将来可能发生改变，甚至发生相当剧烈的变化，概念的某些连续性和可理解性要素仍可能占上风。在本讲座中，我将讨论并反驳认知和交流领域中激进的相对主义形式。

 How would it be possible to communicate with (esp. remote) future generations, which may have different or altered forms of communication, compared to current ones? Apart from language or other communication alterations over time, new semiotic resources may emerge. Moreover, and most probable, the accumulation and processing of knowledge as well as the emergence of altered world views and category systems, or of paradigm changes (in Thomas Kuhn’s sense), may obstruct the comprehension, transmission, and exchange of information.

 Still, even if categorizations and concepts may have changed in the past or will do so in the future, even quite radically, some elements of continuity and intelligibility of concepts may prevail. In this lecture, I will discus and argue against radical forms of relativism in cognition and communication.

编辑：佟博   审核：谭光辉   终审：徐文渊