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Public Lecture - Life on the Move-Transnational Migration and Cross-Cultural Imagination in Taiwan Literature and Film

Wednesday, 05 October, 2022

Asian Studies Presents

“People on the Move: Transnational Migration and Cross-Cultural Imagination”

Mini-Series

Part I: Public Lecture

“Bringing the World to Taiwan: Border-crossing and Transnational Cultural Flow in Contemporary Taiwan”

BRN 228

October 5, 5:30 p.m., 2022, Reception 

October 5, 6:00 p.m., 2022, Public Lecture

(free and open to the public)

With the growing population of the inbound migration since the 1980s, particularly from Southeast Asian countries, the cultural landscape of Taiwan has been reshaped with various cultural productions and multicultural elements of both migrants’ homelands and the host state. This lecture will explore how Southeast Asian migrants (as cultural producers) & their lived experiences have shaped and been represented in these cultural productions as a means of cultural negotiation, empowerment, identity construction and socio-cultural intervention.

Dr. Hsin-Chin Evelyn Hsieh is Associate Professor in the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at National Taiwan University. Prior to joining NTU, she taught at Wesleyan University, U.S.A. and National Taipei University of Education. She was a visiting scholar at European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan at University of Tubingen, Germany. Her research interests include contemporary Taiwan literature, film and documentary, migration studies, Sinophone studies, and women studies, particularly looking at the relation between contemporary cultural production and the inbound and outbound migration of Taiwan.

Sponsored By:

Asian Studies Program and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Scranton, Taipei Cultural Center in New York, Taiwan Ministry of Culture

 

 

 

Contact:

Ann Pang-White

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Brennan Hall, Pearn Auditorium, (228)

320 Madison Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510