October 2

9:10-10:50 a.m., Conference Room

Workshop I: Critical Theory Conference: On Waiting

First Session

Chair:
David Theo GOLDBERG (University of California Humanities Research Institute, USA)

Speakers:
Kwai-Cheung LO 羅貴祥 (Hong Kong Baptist University, HONG KONG)
Title: Waiting to Know Critically
Jon SOLOMON 蘇哲安 (University of Lyon-Jean Moulin, FRANCE)
Title: Awaiting Translation Enlightenment

 

11:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.,

Panel 1: Ecology

Chair:
Jiann-Guang Lin 林建光 (National Chung Hsing University, TAIWAN)

Presenters:
Daniel BROUDY (Okinawa Christian University, JAPAN)
Title: Waiting: A Weapon of Defense Against Military Aggression Aimed at the Environment
Catherine Ju-Yu CHENG 鄭如玉 (Fo Guang University, TAIWAN)
Title: Ecological Time in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Christopher D. MELLEY (Okinawa Christian University, JAPAN)
Title: Locked in the Past along with Everyone Else: How We View and Think as Necessarily Past Perception and Past Thought

 

11:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.,

Panel 2: Alternative Modernity

Chair:
Yen-Bin CHIOU 邱彥彬 (National Chengchi University, TAIWAN)

Presenters:
Ryszard W. WOLNY (University of Opole, POLAND)
Title: Samuel Backett’s Modernist Waiting For Godot And Asia’s Postmodernist Waiting For World Supremacy
Chun-Yen WANG 汪俊彥 (National Chung Hsing University, TAIWAN)
Title: Waiting to be Translated: Theatre of Traumatized Modernity in Contemporary Taiwan
Yu-Yen LIU 劉于雁 (Huafan University, TAIWAN)
Title: Tarrying with Alternative Visions: Asia and Modernities in a Global Repositioning

 

2:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m., Conference Room

Workshop II: Native Theory

First Session

Chair:
Shu-Mei SHIH 史書美 (The University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG)
Li-Chun HSIAO 蕭立君 (National Taiwan University, TAIWAN)

Speakers:
Shu-Mei SHIH 史書美 (The University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG)
Title: Waiting, Belatedness, Imitation
Chun-Mei CHUANG 張君玫 (Soochow University, TAIWAN)
Title: The Postcolonial Cyborg: on Molecular Cultural Translation
Li-Chun HSIAO 蕭立君 (National Taiwan University, TAIWAN)
Title: Theory from the Ground Up, or, the Taking Place of Native Theory

 

4:00p.m.-5:40 p.m. , Conference Room

Workshop III: Document and Limbo

Limbo and Materiality Session

Chair:
Ming-Hung Alex TU 涂銘宏 (Tamkang University, TAIWAN)

Speakers:
Masaya CHIBA 千葉雅也 ( Ritsumeikan University, JAPAN)
Title: Materiality in Limbo
Tetsuya MIURA 三浦哲哉 (Aoyama Gakuin University, JAPAN)
Title: Time and Waiting After 311
Ming-Hung Alex TU 涂銘宏 (Tamkang University, TAIWAN)
Title:“Still Waiting”: Speculating limbo in Interstellar