Global Talents: on the Mutuality between Humanities and Sciences/Engineering
全球英才：人文、科学与工程的互动
演讲人：James P. Holloway
Vice Provost for Global and Engaged Education
University of Michigan
主持人：颜海平教授
清华大学外文系主任
主讲人简介：
James Paul Holloway is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, and Vice Provost for Global and Engaged Education at the University of Michigan. Vice Provost Holloway is focused on the ways in which the U-M engages the world through both scholarship and education. He has lived, worked and taught in Thailand, England, Germany, China, and Ghana.
詹姆士·保罗·霍洛韦是核工程与放射学教授、亚瑟·F·图尔瑙讲席教授、密歇根大学全球教育事务副校长，主管密歇根大学国际教育与学术交流，曾在泰国、英国、德国、中国与加纳等地生活、工作和执教。
演讲摘要：
Human beings have been defined as the tool makers, and we are the only species that uses tools to make other tools; in this sense humans uniquely rely on engineers to create the products and tools necessary for life. But humans are, also uniquely, creators of art and seekers of meaning; in this sense we rely on the humanities to structure and critique our understanding of ourselves. It is current to frame the challenges we face as a species as essentially technological undertakings, to be solved thru technological developments and thru the development of policy based in the social sciences. And yet, ironically, it is also current to frame the challenges we face as individuals as spiritual challenges, or challenges of meaning. Yet it cannot be that the challenges of the collective are in fact independent of our personal and individual challenges. This talk will explore, from the context of an engineer, the multiple and essential roles of the humanities in addressing our challenges and shaping our future.
人类被定义为制造工具者，是用工具制造工具的唯一物种；唯有人类依靠工程技术人员创造生存必需的产品和工具；但也唯有人类创造艺术，追寻意义。我们依靠人文学来构建和批评人的自我认识。我们作为一个物种在面对挑战时，往往依靠技术活动或以社会科学为基础的政策发展手段来解决问题。具有讽刺意味的是，我们作为个体所面对的挑战，却往往是来自精神层面或意义层面的挑战。群体所面对的挑战无法摆脱个体所面临的挑战而存在。本演讲从一位工程师的角度出发，探讨在应对挑战与塑造未来的过程中，人文学所扮演的多元和不可或缺的角色。
（本次演讲为文化素质教育讲座专场） |
