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Tuesday | 01:00 PM | Reconstructing Survival Mechanisms—Travel Narrations of Yin Hai-guang and Wu Zhuo-liu during the Martial Law Period LIN Shu-Hui Traveling far away creates distance—useful to critical (philosophical) thinking. Travelers are in a unique position to review the past, revise their outlook on life, and choose a direction for the future. Yin Hai-guang wrote his travelogues as a visiting scholar to the Unitied States of America in 1955. They not only have a meaning as life reconstructions but they also implicitly criticize Taiwan under martial law. From the travel narratives that Yin published in different media, among them Free China 自由中國and, “Motherland Weekly” 祖國周刊, we find the use of space/travel as metaphor in the reconstruction of his life as self-narrative—the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle, USA, for example, becomes a metaphor of longing for freedom. Reading Yin Hai-guang’s travel narratives, readers are able to learn about some of the rather existentialist questions posing themselves to a Taiwanese in this very special era of Cold War. Address Institut für Sinologie 010.01.05 Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Event https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie/research/tls Organizer Institut für Sinologie Homepage Organizer www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie Contact Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series 2024 ': 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 SinophoneWworld, 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). Tuesday 07th May 2024, 01:00 PM Security community vs. Global South—Taiwan’s coloniality SHIH Chih-yu Wednesday 08th May 2024, 06:00 PM An Ontological Security Dilemma—Beijing, Washington Taipei SHIH Chih-yu Sunday 12th May 2024, 06:00 PM Israel in Egypt: Konzert/Projektion/Installation—Heimat? Auf der Suche Chi-Han FENG & Junge Kantorei Wednesday 15th May 2024, 06:00 PM ASEAN, SCO, and Taiwan’s Desecuritization Options SHIH Chih-yu Tuesday 21st May 2024, 01:00 PM Reconstructing Survival Mechanisms—Travel Narrations of Yin Hai-guang and Wu Zhuo-liu during the Martial Law Period LIN Shu-Hui Tuesday 28th May 2024, 01:00 PM Taiwan Perspectives on the United States—Travelogues from the Cultural Cold War LIN Shu-Hui Tuesday 04th June 2024, 01:00 PM Pursuing Happiness: Human Rights and Taiwan’s Contemporary Travel Culture LIN Shu-Hui Tuesday 18th June 2024, 01:00 PM Thinking with/as feminists: an introduction to key terms Paola ZAMPERINI Wednesday 19th June 2024, 06:00 PM Film screening: Woman Demon Human (1987) directed by Huang Shuqin—China's first feminist film? Tuesday 25th June 2024, 01:00 PM Studying Feminism in 21st Century Anglophone Academia Paola ZAMPERINI Tuesday 25th June 2024, 07:00 PM Film screening: BIG, including discussion with the filmmaker Wei Te-Sheng Wednesday 26th June 2024, 06:00 PM Film screening: The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006) directed by Ann Hui Tuesday 02nd July 2024, 01:00 PM Paola ZAMPERINI Tuesday 09th July 2024, 01:00 PM The Search for Home in the Feminist Classroom and Beyond Paola ZAMPERINI Tuesday 16th July 2024, 01:00 PM Texts and Contexts of Sinophone Feminisms Paola ZAMPERINI Wednesday 17th July 2024, 06:00 PM Film screening: Missing Johnny (2017) directed by Huang Xi |