Recent Events at NCKU

• seminar: A Cross-Nation Investigation of Women – Organized by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
  The capital globalization in the recent 30 years has brought about the capital flow around the world as well as the circulation of culture, information and laborers across boundaries. In addition, under the impact of the post colonialism, the scattering and cross-border phenomenon, multiculturalism and globalization, feminism is facing more challenges. Feminism is thus being constantly revised. This seminar will be conducted to probe deeply into the studies on international women under the trend of globalization from the international perspective. More discussions on the multiculturalism and feminism will be held. The seminar plans to read the essays about international feminism, decolonization, and the relationships between women of different cultural backgrounds, countries and places.
  Time: Friday, January 25^th, 2008 1-3pm
  Venue: 7F, Conference Hall, Hsiu-Chi Building, NCKU
  Moderator: Chairperson and Professor Kai-Ling Liu (Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature)
  Article: Caren Kaplan and Grewal Inderpal. “Transnational Practices and Interdisciplinary Feminist Scholarship: Refiguring Women’s and Gender Studies.” Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002. 66-81.
  Contact: Assistant Ms. Lin (k2694112@mail.ncku.edu.tw or call 06-275-7575 # 52222)
  Deadline for sign-up: January 20^th, 2008
  P.S. Please include your name, department, and title when you email to sign-up.
• Call for Paper
  Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies
  Topic: Imaging the Rise of China
  Planner and Contact: Dr. Quah Sy Ren (Associate Professor & Deputy Head of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University)
  Email: SRQuah@ntu.edu.sg
  Deadline: March 31^st, 2008
  For more detail, visit http://chst.nctu.edu.tw/router/pro/Router4/cfp.html
• Topic: Nanoscale Radiative Transfer for Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Devices (Speech)
  Speaker: Dr. Zhuomin Zhang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Date: Thursday, January 10^th, 2008
  Time: 11:10 – 12:00 a.m.
  Venue: Jun-ming Lecture Hall, 1F, Mechanical Engineering Building, Tzu Chiang Campus
  Moderator: Yu-Bin Chen, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, NCKU
  Tel: 886-6-2757575 ext. 62119
  Email: ybchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Other Events

• Taiwan’s Panorama—T.J.Chiang’s panoramic photography exhibition and a series of forums!
  Taiwan’s Panorama—T.J.Chiang’s panoramic photography exhibition and a series of forums will be at the art gallery of NCKU until Jan. 6^th
  For those who are interested in panoramic photography, please seize the last chance！
  
  Besides, at 12:40 on Jan. fourth (Friday), 2008, there will be a speech presided by Doctor Ming-Liang Lai at the fourth lecture room of NCKU Medical Center. The speaker is T.J.Chiang; the topic is “Photography and Semiotics” (excellent demonstration of semiotic language).
  
  In the meantime, Doctor Lai will also host the speech at the third lecture room of NCKU Medical Center at 14:00 on Jan. fifth (Saturday), 2008. The topic is “The photographic view in the digital times—(the difference between film and “digital,” the baffling problem of digital photography, and how to make a decision for the instant photographers) Welcome to join this activity.