※ [本文轉錄自 NTU04DFLL 看板] 作者: spanisheyes (hazel) 看板: NTU04DFLL 標題: [公告] 外國語文學系學術演講 時間: Sat May 17 17:35:03 2008 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講 （升等演講 Promotion Lectures） Lecture One: Self-Otherization and Self-Solidification: A Discursive Analysis of People’s Visions of Peace in Taiwan Speaker: Prof. Theresa Der Lan Yeh (DFLL Associate Professor) 演講人：臺大外文系葉德蘭副教授 Moderator: Dr. Ya-Feng Wu (DFLL Associate Professor) 主持人：臺大外文系吳雅鳳副教授 Time: 1:00 ~ 2:00 pm, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 時間：2008年5月21日週三下午1:00-2:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, 1F Old Main Library 地點：臺大舊總圖一樓外文系新會議室 Abstract: Peace is usually viewed as an ideal status of human existence. Yet the conceptualizations of peace among people vary in accordance with many factors such as life experiences, regional environment and current events. In Taiwan, discourse of peace and security has long been exclusively associated with national defense. Even after the marshal law was removed in 1987, peace is still a subject not to be talked about often in the public until recently. Between 2003 and 2005, Taiwan was under tremendous pressure to commit to a multi-year weapon purchase deal of two hundred billion U.S. dollars from the United States for the island’s self defense against China’s potential attacks. Refusing to leave the peace/security discourse to politicians, the Non-War Homeland, a non-government organization derived from the anti-weapon purchase campaign in 2003, traveled around the island and held a series of open forums for citizens in towns and cities between April to October, 2005. Based on the data collected in these citizens’ forums, this talk attempts to construct people’s visions of peace in Taiwan and the discourse practices of otherization and solidification in the process of ordinary people’s wrestling with a subject marginalized in the Taiwanese society for more than fifty years. Given that women are traditionally marginalized in the peace/security discourse, gender is used as a major factor in examining the discourse built around the concept of peace and the discourse strategies used by them to resist the double otherization usually applied to women talking about peace. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lecture Two: Urban Governance and Cosmopolitan Imagination: From H. G. Wells to Shunji Iwai Speaker: Prof. Chi-she Li (DFLL Assistant Professor) 演講人：臺大外文系李紀舍助理教授 Moderator: Dr. Bennett Yu-hsiang Fu (DFLL Assistant Professor) 主持人：臺大外文系傅友祥助理教授 Time: 2:00 ~ 3:00 pm, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 時間：2008年5月21日週三下午2:00-3:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, 1F Old Main Library 地點：臺大舊總圖一樓外文系新會議室 Abstract: I will address H. G. Wells’s A Modern Utopia (1905) and Iwai Shunji’s Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) as two examples of cultural representation that embodies cosmopolitan imagination in the city. The creative attempts of H. G. Wells’s utopian writing, linking two major historical contexts of his day, liberal governance and global trading, give expression to a cosmopolitan imaginary of classical globalization. London as an imagined city in the Wellsian utopia substantiates what the Great Exhibition of 1851 stands for, the vision of light that takes for granted imperialism and celebrates in the urban locale concentration of commodities brought forth by global trading. The second work covered in the talk is Swallowtail Butterfly, a film produced at the time of economic liberalism. When the migrant policies remain unchallenged, effectively denying illegal immigrants fundamental legal representation in the state, how do immigrants survive in this vacuum of political representation? I will argue that, using cinematic language to represent migrant population not yet visible in political representation, Iwai shows how the claim of attaching to the place is necessary for one to survive before a negotiation with the reality takes place. The subject in Swallowtail Butterfly is a speaking subject claiming to have rights of the city to make up for the severely insufficient cultural protection by the nation state. 外文系系辦 --

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