讲座预告

讲座题目：The Unpredictable Past

主讲人：Etienne van Heerden教授

时间：11月7日（周二）14:00

地点：外国语学院一楼连廊会议室

讲座摘要

South African novelist, Etienne van Heerden, talks about the role of the writer in a time of great shifts in power and culture in South Africa. The lecture will examine the role of the writer confronted with a past which often is as unpredictable as the future. He will discuss literature as a way of documenting the recent past (the fiction writer as 'New Journalist' or narrative historian) or the more distanced past (the fiction writer as 'contra-historian').

主讲人简介

Etienne van Heerden

Etienne van Heerden, BA Honours (cum laude), LLB ((Stellenbosch University) MA (cum laude) (Wits University), PhD (Rhodes University), DLitt Honorary Doctorate (University of Free State), was admitted to the side-bar as attorney but later turned to researching, writing and teaching. Van Heerden is currently professor emeritus at University of Cape Town. He regularly teaches at universities in Europe and has been writer-in-residence at the Leiden University in the Netherlands and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Van Heerden's books have been published in 13 languages worldwide and won the major awards in South Africa. His research interests in literature include literary theory, Afrikaans prose since the early 1980s, and specific areas such as historiography and fiction, as well as Afrikaans and Dutch literature from South Africa and the former Dutch colonies in the Caribbean and the East.