Theme: "Love and Fear in the Digital Age"

Time: December 28, 2024 (Saturday) 15:00-17:00

Address: Report Hall, 2nd Floor, Guanshan Yue Art Museum

Lecture format: Offline live lecture, WeChat video account

Dai Jinhua, graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University and taught at the Film Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy for 11 years. Since 1993, have been teaching at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture at Peking University. Currently, a distinguished professor of humanities at Peking University and the director of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies at Peking University. Engaged in film, mass media, and gender studies, offering dozens of courses such as "Film Intensive Reading," "History of Chinese Film Culture," "Theory and Practice of Cultural Studies," and "Gender and Writing. He has written works such as "Emerging from the Surface of History", "Scenery in the Mist", "Film Theory and Criticism", "Invisible Writing", "Crossing the Boat", "Yesterday's Island", "Gender China", etc; Monographs and papers have been translated and published in over ten languages including Korean, Japanese, German, French, etc.

The speaker intends to explore the narrative of love in the digital age, as well as the social rhetoric and emotions involved, starting from a 2013 Hollywood film "She". They will then investigate social issues and psychological symptoms under the impact of the new technological revolution, attempting to sort out new cultural problem systems and approaches to thinking and action.