Date: Wednesday 10 July - Friday 12 July 2013
Venue: Wed-Thurs in the Graham Wallas Room, Old Building; Fri in Room 32L.G.20, 32 Lincoln’s Inn
Co-organized by:
LSE Taiwan Research Programme
Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University
Wednesday 10 July, in the Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor Old Building
10am-10.30am Opening Remarks
Fang-Long Shih (LSE Taiwan Research Programme)
Shuling Horng (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University)
10.30am-12 noon Memory and Communal Value: heritage in the Sam-Giap maiden temple
Presenter: Fang-Long Shih (LSE Taiwan Research Programme)
12 noon-1.30pm LUNCH
1.30pm-2.30pm Inheritance and Innovation in Taiwan's Paper-Cutting Art
Presenter: Tzu-Yao Cheng (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University)
Discussant: James Johnston (Department of Anthropology, LSE)
2.30pm-3.30pm The New Mission of Confucianism in Modern China and Taiwan: a focus on civil society
Presenter: Iris Ding (New Economy and New Industries Research Centre, Tsinghua University, China)
Discussant: James Johnston (Department of Anthropology, LSE)
3.30pm-3.45pm BREAK
3.45pm-6pm Film and Discussion: The Hermitage Dwellers (2006)
Discussion leader: Barbara Knorpp (Department of Anthropology, Brunel University)
Thursday 11 July, in the Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor Old Building
10am-11.30am On the Poetic Texts and Material Cultural Study of 'Seventh Eve' Customs
Presenter: Shu-Ling Horng (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University)
11.30am-12 noon Tour of LSE Library
12 noon-1.30pm LUNCH
1.30pm-2.30pm Double Face: Images of Matsu under the Kominka period during World War Two
Presenter: Ting-Yu Shih (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University)
Discussant: Stuart Thompson (LSE Taiwan Research Programme)
2.30pm-3.30pm Modernity Disconnecting from Tradition: the dilemma of China's transition to modernization
Presenter: Jim Shen (Department of Management, LSE)
Discussant: Stuart Thompson (LSE Taiwan Research Programme)
3.30pm-3.45pm BREAK
3.45pm-6pm Film and Discussion: Din Tao: leader of the parade (2012)
Discussion leader: Shuling Horng (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University)
Friday 12 July, in Room 32L.G.20, 32 Lincoln’s Inn
9.30am-11am The Zhuangzi on Life and Death: constructing meaning out of the text
Presenter: Dušan Vávra (Center for Chinese Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
11am-12 noon Here and Forever: representations and reviews of folklore beliefs in Taiwan animations
Presenter: Yick Sau Wilson Lau (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University)
Discussant: Barbara Knorpp (Department of Anthropology, Brunel University)
12 noon-1pm Roundtable Discussion: Modernity in Dialogue with Tradition