Taiwan Lecture Series - Wintersemester 2015/16
HS/OS Modern, OS Transcultural Studies: Taiwan Lecture Series 2015/2016: Culture and Memory - Facets of Taiwan literary Production This semester’s Taiwan Lecture Series which deals with different aspects of Taiwan literature and will include students’ active participation in creating literary translations that will be read and performed at the workshop in December, their witnessing an academic workshop and active participation in the discussions, and their experiencing a lecture series and learning how to respond critically. The class will be conducted in large parts in Chinese. Sessions are usually on Thursdays from 9-11 (see course plan below). The course includes active participation in a workshop (11.-12.12. 2015/Friday evening, Saturday all day). Students are expected to participate in all three parts of the class: the translation workshop (part 1, including their preparing a literary translation which will be performed at the workshop), the workshop on memory and museums (part 2, with students participating as discussants) and the sessions on women writers and the making of a female consciousness in Taiwan literature with Professor Wang Yi-ting (part 3, with the regular seminar preparations, response papers etc.). |
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Rough Outline of the Sessions:
Session 1: Introduction Date: 15.10.2015 |
Reading material Please prepare translations for the following poems (if possible in German…) : 月光,浪漫外記,相思,相思歌,獄中日記 |
Part 1: Translation Workshop
Poetry and Short Stories by Lai He
Students will learn how to prepare a literary translation. We will translate both prose and poetry together and discuss each other’s translation strategies.
Session 2 |
Reading material
Please read as much as you can of the following short stories:
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Session 3 |
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Session 4 |
Part 2: Workshop on Literary Memory
Students will participate in all parts of the workshop, serving as discussants. They will have produced some of the translations to be performed in the reading/concert on Saturday evening.
Forging Literary Memory in Taiwan: The Commemoration of Writers in Museum Space
「展示作家:博物館空間形塑的台灣文學記憶」學術研討會
Workshop Impressions (Short Film)
Conference Report in the Newsletter of the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (Chinese)
Session 5 |
Keynote: |
Session 6 |
Keynote: |
20:00 |
Workshop Dinner |
Session 7 |
Lai Shuo-Yan (賴碩彥) |
Session 8 |
Chen Wan-Yi (陳萬益) Lecture Record: |
11:30 - 11:45 |
Break |
Session 9 |
Chou Fu-Yi (周馥儀) Lecture Record: |
13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch break |
Session 10 |
Chang Tsai-Fang (張綵芳) Lecture Record: |
Session 11 |
Chee Chiun Sam Lecture Record: |
16:30 - 16:45 |
Break |
Session 12 |
Emily Graf Lecture Record: |
Session 13 |
Concluding Discussion (Chair: Barbara Mittler) |
Date: Saturday, 12.12.2015 Time: 18:30 Place: Sinologie, R.201
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Workshop Reception/Dinner |
Date: Saturday, 12.12.2015 Time: 20:00 Place: Völkerkundemuseum, Hauptstraße 235
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Concert & Recitation of works by Taiwan Authors Lecture Record:
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Part 3: Taiwan Literature and Questions of Gender and Identity
Prof. Wang Yu-ting, Tsing-hua University
In this section of the seminar, students will prepare the readings, writing a short critical summary for each session and responding with questions to the lectures by Professor Wang. These readings are available (with password) below.
The seminar will take place as a virtual lecture series as scheduled below.
Session 14 |
1.中文講題:台港跨文化語境與摩登女郎現象 —談五0、六0年代台灣女作家香港發表現象 2.英文講題:Cultural Exchange between Taiwan and Hong Kong: Literary Career of Female Taiwanese Writers in the 1950s and 60s Hong Kong 3.講題焦點: 4.關注作家:郭良蕙 5.相關論文:
6. 原始文獻(作家文本):將提供PDE檔 Reading material
Lecture Record: |
Session 15 |
1. 中文講題:性別.階級.族群:五○年代女性書寫中的再現政治 2. 英文講題:Gender, Classes and Ethic Groups: Representation Politics of Female Writing in the 1950s Taiwan 3. 講題焦點:本講題從史碧娃克(Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak)研究來關注知識分子對底層人民之代言/再現議題,並從五○年代女性文學中以台籍家務勞動者和養女議題為主題切入,從再現政治的角度進一步釐清台籍女性的形象,以及梳理這些呈現方式所具有的文化意義,關注知識分子對底層人民之代言/再現議題。 4. 關注文本:繁露《養女湖》(1956) 5. 相關論文:
6. 原始文獻(作家文本):將提供PDE檔、鳳飛飛主演《秋蓮》(1979) 7.Reading material
Lecture Record: |
Session 16 Date: 21.01.2016 Time: 9:00 - 11:00 Place: R.208 |
1. 中文講題:想像台灣—五○年代林海音的發言位置及其民俗書寫研究 2. 英文講題:Imagining Taiwan: Speaking Position and Custom Writing of Haiyin Lin in the 1950s Taiwan 3.講題焦點: 4.關注作家:林海音 5.相關論文:
6. 原始文獻:林海音於《國語日報‧周末周刊》(1949~1954)之作品、在島嶼寫作作家紀錄片林海音《兩地》 7. Reading material
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Session 17 |
Schlussdiskussion |