Algorithms into Humanities – Conversation with Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang

03/06/2021
Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Algorithms into Humanities - Conversation with Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang  Keynote Speaker: Minister Audrey Tang 唐鳳 (Digital Minister, Taiwan) Discussant: Dr Wayne Lai (University of British Columbia/Kelowna Taiwanese Cultural Society) Chaired by Dr Chia-Ling Yang (University of Edinburgh)   TIME 2 June 2021 5:00-...
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FLYING INTO THE FUTURE: FANTASIES OF MODERNITY IN LATE QING LITERATURE //李歐梵//文化時空//

20150615
Prof. Ou-Fan Leo Lee 李歐梵 (Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong) //飛向未來:晚清文學中的現代幻想// The renowned scholar and cultural critic Ou-Fan Leo Lee gives a lecture about "flying" as a time-space transformation in late Qing literature. By exploring works of modern Chinese fiction and translations, Prof Lee aimed to recover the moment in hi...
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‘DIMENSIONS OF MOBILITY’ INTERNATIONAL NETWORK WORKSHOP //跨域//行者物語//

20150615
16/06/2015
Dimensions of Mobility: Travel and Adventure in Modern China's Literary and Cultural Landscape Network Organisers: Kean-Fung Guan (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh) Edinburgh Co-organisers: Christopher Rosenmeier (Asian Studies), Chia-Ling Yang (History of Art)   Modern Chinese culture arose in a time that witnessed the ...
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SEX, FOOD AND POLITICS //李昂//食色性也//

20150827
Ang Li 李昂 (Writer) Ang Li is the most controversial woman writer in Taiwan. In this lecture, she examines the intertwining of gender, food and politics, which continues to break new ground of literary reflection, creating a new space of questions involving female sexuality and Asian women’s literature in the international literary scene.     ABOUT THE SPEA...
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MISSING FRACTIONS: THE CHINESE DIPLOMATIC ARCHIVE IN TAIWAN AND ITS CONTEMPORARY MEANING //沈呂巡//失落的歷史//

20131003
  Speaker: Dr. Lyu-shun Shen (Taipei Representative in the US) This talk falls into two parts. In the first part, Dr. Shen -- speaking in his capacity as one of the co-editors of an important book entitled A Century of Resilient Tradition: Exhibition of the Republic of China's Diplomatic Archives -- offers a critical review of the diplomatic archives of the Repub...
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