{"id":8067,"date":"2021-01-25T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/~sandbox\/aksorn\/th\/?p=8067"},"modified":"2021-02-04T00:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:15:04","slug":"international-arts-talk-iii-time-shame-and-tenderness-making-sense-of-our-lives-in-languages-and-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/arts-activities\/2021\/01\/25\/8067\/","title":{"rendered":"International Arts Talk III, Time, shame, and tenderness: Making sense of our lives in languages and cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday, January 25, 2021, the Faculty of Arts started the semester with the virtual International Arts Talk III, <em>Time, shame, and tenderness: Making sense of our lives in languages and cultures<\/em> by guest speaker, Adam G\u0142az, Department of Modern Languages, Maria Curie-Sk\u0142odowska University (UMCS), Lublin, Poland. The talk emphasizes the fact that \u201cto make sense of ourselves and the world around us we need to view language as a cultural phenomenon\u201d.&nbsp; Examples discussed illustrate that \u201ccultural notions are inherently present\u201d in simple concepts such as time, tenderness, land, compromise, and dragons.&nbsp; G\u0142az believes that \u201c[t]he worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached\u201d&nbsp;(Sapir 1929: 209). To prove his point, G\u0142az presented the speech of the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk. Tokarczuk \u201cconstructs (in her Nobel Lecture) the notions of the <em>tender translator<\/em> and <em>tenderness<\/em> (in the original Polish: <em>czu\u0142y narrator<\/em> and <em>czu\u0142o\u015b\u0107<\/em>, respectively). The Polish notions are more sensuous, concerned with touching and feeling; the English ones have more to do with care, attention, and being mentally alert. When Tokarczuk speaks in Polish, she appeals to Polish speakers in some way; when she is translated, she talks to others in a slightly different way \u2013 and so a dialogue can ensue. He concludes that \u201ctranslation involves loss but also gain.&nbsp; Through the use of languages we construct our natural habitats: symbolic and conceptual cultures. These different \u201cconceptual and cultural worlds\u201d allow for intercultural dialogue\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The content that encompasses the areas of linguistics, literature, translation, and cultural studies attracted 40 participants from different countries.\u00a0 International Arts Talk III is organized monthly to provide virtual international academic exposure on the topics related to the humanities to students, staff, and the public. All recordings can be accessed via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arts.chulalongkorn\/videos\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arts.chulalongkorn\/videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, January 25, 2021, the Faculty of Arts started the semester with the virtual International Arts Talk III, Time, shame, and tenderness: Making sense of our lives in languages and cultures by guest speaker, Adam G\u0142az, Department of Modern Languages &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}