ICS Lecture: Lynn Struve, "The Historicity of Dreaming: A Case from Later Imperial China"

April 13, 2018

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Mendenhall Lab 191 (125 S Oval Mall)

Add to Calendar 2018-04-13 16:00:00 2018-04-13 17:30:00 ICS Lecture: Lynn Struve, "The Historicity of Dreaming: A Case from Later Imperial China" The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:Lynn StruveEmeritus Professor, Department of HistoryIndiana University, Bloomington"The Historicity of Dreaming: A Case from Later Imperial China"Flyer: File Lynn Struve Flyer.pdf435.06 KB Abstract: This talk will suggest a new way of addressing a universal phenomenon, human dreaming, as it is given expression in aggregate during particular historical periods by articulate contributors to the cultures of those times. The approach is to focus not on what dreams mean, but on how dreams seem, as based in our present knowledge of the sleeping-and-waking human brain. The talk posits that a certain array of common associations of dreaming, which derive from universal experience, proliferate into innumerable dream cultures by refraction through prisms of specific belief systems, written traditions, and enduring socio-political systems. Further, by complex processes of secular change, certain periods exhibit higher degrees of affective resonance with the common associations of dreaming and, thus, generate special flowerings of attention to dreams as well as deployment of dream conceits in the literary and visual arts.One such period, matched in salience perhaps only by the European Romantic era, was the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century in China. The talk will outline and illustrate the primary factors in the generation of an “arc of dreaming” across the late Ming and early Qing scenes.Bio: Lynn Struve is Professor Emerita of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her longstanding, general interests lie in the political, intellectual, and cultural history of the late Ming and early Qing periods in China. In recent years she has focused on the salience of dreams and dreaming in China from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century.Free and Open to the Public This event is supported by OSU's Department of History and by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center. Mendenhall Lab 191 (125 S Oval Mall) OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2018-04-13 16:00:00 2018-04-13 17:30:00 ICS Lecture: Lynn Struve, "The Historicity of Dreaming: A Case from Later Imperial China" The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:Lynn StruveEmeritus Professor, Department of HistoryIndiana University, Bloomington"The Historicity of Dreaming: A Case from Later Imperial China"Flyer: Abstract: This talk will suggest a new way of addressing a universal phenomenon, human dreaming, as it is given expression in aggregate during particular historical periods by articulate contributors to the cultures of those times. The approach is to focus not on what dreams mean, but on how dreams seem, as based in our present knowledge of the sleeping-and-waking human brain. The talk posits that a certain array of common associations of dreaming, which derive from universal experience, proliferate into innumerable dream cultures by refraction through prisms of specific belief systems, written traditions, and enduring socio-political systems. Further, by complex processes of secular change, certain periods exhibit higher degrees of affective resonance with the common associations of dreaming and, thus, generate special flowerings of attention to dreams as well as deployment of dream conceits in the literary and visual arts.One such period, matched in salience perhaps only by the European Romantic era, was the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century in China. The talk will outline and illustrate the primary factors in the generation of an “arc of dreaming” across the late Ming and early Qing scenes.Bio: Lynn Struve is Professor Emerita of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her longstanding, general interests lie in the political, intellectual, and cultural history of the late Ming and early Qing periods in China. In recent years she has focused on the salience of dreams and dreaming in China from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century.Free and Open to the Public This event is supported by OSU's Department of History and by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.  Mendenhall Lab 191 (125 S Oval Mall) East Asian Studies Center easc@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:

Lynn Struve
Emeritus Professor, Department of History
Indiana University, Bloomington

"The Historicity of Dreaming: A Case from Later Imperial China"

Flyer:

Lynn Struve Flyer.pdf435.06 KB

Abstract: This talk will suggest a new way of addressing a universal phenomenon, human dreaming, as it is given expression in aggregate during particular historical periods by articulate contributors to the cultures of those times. The approach is to focus not on what dreams mean, but on how dreams seem, as based in our present knowledge of the sleeping-and-waking human brain. The talk posits that a certain array of common associations of dreaming, which derive from universal experience, proliferate into innumerable dream cultures by refraction through prisms of specific belief systems, written traditions, and enduring socio-political systems. Further, by complex processes of secular change, certain periods exhibit higher degrees of affective resonance with the common associations of dreaming and, thus, generate special flowerings of attention to dreams as well as deployment of dream conceits in the literary and visual arts.

One such period, matched in salience perhaps only by the European Romantic era, was the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century in China. The talk will outline and illustrate the primary factors in the generation of an “arc of dreaming” across the late Ming and early Qing scenes.

Bio: Lynn Struve is Professor Emerita of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her longstanding, general interests lie in the political, intellectual, and cultural history of the late Ming and early Qing periods in China. In recent years she has focused on the salience of dreams and dreaming in China from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century.

Free and Open to the Public

This event is supported by OSU's Department of History and by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.