为了推动“学科建设年”工作，促进郑州大学师生与国外知名专家学者之间的学术交流与合作，推动郑州大学外国语与国际关系学院和郑州大学英美文学研究中心的建设和发展，我中心特邀请原莱斯大学讲座教授、伦敦大学高等研究院终身高级研究员Robert L. Patten来我院举办学术讲座。欢迎全校师生积极参加！
讲座题目：“Ignorance and Want”in Dickens’ Works
主讲人：Robert L. Pattern Rice University Professor Emeritus of Humanities
主持人：高晓玲教授（郑州大学）
讲座时间：2024年12月14日（周四）9:00-11:00
讲座地点：512-892-330（腾讯会议）
内容提要：In the 1840s, Britain entered both the industrial and the capitalist age. Workers had jobs in dangerous mines and factories that engaged wives and children for up to 14 hours a day six days a week. There was no time for the children to get primary education, and often no food to last between pay days. Parliament blocked any provisions for national schools, and economists preached that the poor should save, marry late, and have few children. To change things required “influencers” to move hearts and minds. Dickens was one of the most powerful of those writers and public figures who lobbied for allaying hunger and providing sustenance. This is the narrative of how he worked to overcome resistance to getting children taught and families fed.
主讲人简介：Robert L. Patten (“Bob”) received his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. Until retirement he was a chaired Professor in Humanities at Rice University and is a lifetime Senior Research Fellow at School of Advanced Study, University of London. Recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Endowment Fellowships, he has also held Fellowships at the National Humanities Center and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. He was named Editor of the Year for 2012 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for his editing of SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900.
He has written principally about British Victorian Art and Literature. His two-volume biography of George Cruikshank, the most productive graphic artist in Britain in the 19th century, was named the “Best Biography of the 1990s” by the Guardian newspaper. He was the first Scholar in Residence at the Charles Dickens Museum, and is now on the Advisory Board for the Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, and editor of the volume containing the five Christmas books and Dickens’s Life of Our Lord. He has lectured in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and will give his first lecture in China through Tencent Meeting on 14 December.
郑州大学英美文学研究中心
郑州大学外国语与国际关系学院
一审一校：李星
二审二校：张雯
三审三校：张莉
