Taiwan Lecture Series - Summer Term 2024
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Sinophone Authenticities/Cross-sectional perspectives This year’s Taiwan Lecture Series is devoted to questioning Sinophone Authenticities from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic In Search for Home—Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the Sinophone Worlds, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home—Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist, FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).
LecturersChi-Han Feng is a Sound and Visual Artist, Architectural Designer and Freelance Writer. She lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan, with a Taiwanese-Hongkong background. In 2020 she graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M, she also holds an M.A. in Architecture. Current works focus on digital art, bodily sensation, perception, complex embodiment, and the transformation method. She has been using visual and auditory elements to note her sibling‘s daily life to convey his unique perception and to creat a new language/ medium through experiments, installations, and performances. Her aim is to find ways to re-examine our sensory perception. In Heidelberg, she will be the director for a reconsideration of Georg Friedrich Händel’s Israel in Egypt: Auf der Suche nach Heimat?! Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education and University Chair Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. With his concept of Post-Chineseness and combining the fields of international relations, cultural politics, and intellectual history, Shih boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chineseness in existing scholarship through the revelation of the multiplicity and complexity of the uses of Chineseness by strategically conceived insiders, outsiders, and those in-between. He is the author and editor of many books, including Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self and Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations. Shu-hui, Lin is Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. She specializes in research on travel writing, Taiwan literature, and culture. Her publications include Customs, Memories and Enlightenments: A Digital Archive of Taiwanese Cultural Discourse, The Mood of the Travelers: Taiwanese Travel Writings during the Japanese Colonial Period, Represent Culture: Imagined and Discourse of Moving during Modern Period in Taiwan, and Imagining Space-Time in Taiwan Fiction. Paola Zamperini is Associate Professor in Chinese Literature and Culture, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago. She has written and published extensively about representations of prostitution, female suicide, fashion theory and history, pornography, and spiritual resonance, in Chinese literature and culture and beyond, including the sinophone worlds in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and elsewhere e.g. Lost Bodies. Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction. She has recently completed her manuscript Sinopornologies. Writing Sex in Late Imperial Fiction and is currently working on a monograph on gambling and gender, and another on fashion and desire in early modern literature. |
