主讲人：Sally Ann Shuttleworth（牛津大学英语系及圣安妮学院高级研究员、英国国家学术院院士、大英帝国司令勋章获得者）

主持人：杨革新（浙江大学外国语学院教授）

讲座时间：2026年10月29日9：30-11：30

讲座地点：浙江大学紫金港校区东5-201

讲座题目：Minds, Bodies and Machines: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

内容概要：

When the film “RoboCop” was first released in 1987, the publicity slogan was “This cop does not stop for donuts.” Its comic phrasing encapsulates many of our current debates about the differences between man and machine. In this talk I look at the ways in which contemporary concerns around AI are prefigured in the nineteenth century, when the rise of industrial machinery, and also the Darwinian revolution, led to new ways of conceptualizing the operations of the human mind and body. Fears that machines might supersede humans are not new. The talk concludes with reflections on current ambitions in AI, and the impact of science fiction on Silicon Valley tech bros’ visions of the future.

主讲人简介：

Professor Sally Shuttleworth is a Senior Research Fellow in the English Faculty and St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford. She was previously Head of the Humanities Division at the University, overseeing all aspects of research and teaching for the nine Humanities Faculties. Prior to her time at Oxford, she taught at Princeton, Sheffield and Leeds, and held fellowships at Harvard and Cornell Universities. She was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2020 for her services to English Literature, and has served as Vice President of the British Academy. Her research is on the interface between science, medicine and the humanities, particularly in the nineteenth century, and she has published numerous books in this area. Between 2014-20 she ran two large research projects, Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives (ERC) and Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries (AHRC), the latter in partnership with the Natural History Museum, London, the Royal Society, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Joint research works from these projects include Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2019); Sleep and Stress: Past and Present, a Special Issue of the Royal Society Journal, Interface Focus (2020); Progress and Pathology: Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Constructing Scientific Communities (2020). She has recently completed a book on travel for health, In Quest of a Cure: Literary and Medical Cultures of the Health Resort, which was published this year by Oxford University Press.

浙江大学世界文学跨学科研究中心

2026年10月22日