讲座信息
讲座时间：2026年6月5日（周五）9:30-11:30
讲座地点：上海交通大学闵行校区杨咏曼楼225室
主讲人：Péter Hajdu 深圳大学特聘教授、国际比较文学期刊Neohelicon主编
主持人：邹理 上海交通大学长聘教轨副教授
讲座摘要
The lecture discusses two main topics. First the problem of how ideological messages are encoded in a cityscape and how literature can articulate them. This will be shown through the example of two temples of ancient Athens and the literary and archeological witnesses that refused to see important objects on the Acropolis. Ideology is inscribed in the cityscape, but it also needs interpretation as some examples from the ancient Rome will suggest.
After a short reference to the literary representations of cities and some literary genres that are said to be strongly connected with urban experience, the lecture turns to the second main topic, namely that of how literature may influence a cityscape. This will analyzed through the example of Budapest. Street names and public monuments frequently celebrate the memory of national literature (rarely world literature). The cityscape seems to be designed to celebrate national history, and first of all the success of the nation building project. This public and centrally suggested image seems to contradict the locals' ideas about themselves, which is rather highlighting issues of cool resistance. The reconstruction of Kossuth square in Budapest will be a main example for both.
主讲人简介
Péter Hajdu is a professor of Shenzhen University, China. He studied Literature, Greek and Latin at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, and wrote his dissertation on late Roman epic poetry. He is editor-in-chief of Neohelicon, an international journal on comparative literature studies. He has published 7 books and more than 130 papers, and presented his research achievements in more than 70 international academic conferences. He edited or co-edited 15 collections of articles on topics of literary theory, translation studies, nineteenth-century European literature, generic traditions, and Horace’ poetry; he guest-edited three special issues for international academic journals.