Stephanie Shirilan - ARUS Symposium 2024

CETAPS + Cultures of the Future Lectures is proud to present the lecture that Professor Stephanie Shirilan shared at the ARUS Symposium 2024 as a Keynote Speaker: "‘Sighs and Groans and Shrieks that Rend the Air’:Pain, Plague, and the Limits of Empathy for Christian Utopianismin (and beyond) Shakespeare"
Stephanie Shirilan is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University and a member of the Jewish Studies Program. She is the author of Robert Burton and the Transformative Powers of Melancholy(Routledge, 2016) and of numerous articles on a range of topics including the literary histories of science, medicine, religion, and empire. Her current book project, The Breathing World: A Natural History of Air in Shakespeare, examines the pneumatic and respiratory elements of Shakespeare's plays and their implications for contemporary respiratory justice work.
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The "CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future" project, through the research strand "Mapping Utopianisms" coordinated by Fátima Vieira, consists of an online cycle of conversations and lectures about issues in the arts and humanities that can contribute to building a better, more sustainable, and more inclusive future. Different topics are addressed with a group of invited experts and, because international cooperation is one of the key ideas that should guide us into the future, in each conversation a partnership with a different international institution is established.
This cycle aims to bring together a handful of experts to reflect on a relevant topic from a socio-cultural perspective: how the literary and cultural academic community can contribute to the betterment of society. Topics such as the importance of museums and the impact of the Digital Humanities, among others, will be the subject of conversation and analysis in this cycle of conversations. The aim of this project is to involve the academic world in sharing ideas and strategic solutions for the development of a society richer in actions of ecosystem preservation and social inclusion with the help of new technological resources.
More about CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future here:
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Financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UIDB/04097/2020 & UIDP/04097/2020 - CETAPS