ใ€Guest Lectures ใ€‘Cities, Materials & Imagination Talk Series

Cities, Materials & Imagination Talk Series

Cities, Materials & Imagination Talk Series (Day 1)

Topic: "Port Cities, Periodicals, and Literary Histories"
Time: Tuesday, October 13, 10:15–11:15 a.m.
Venue: Room 715, General Studies Building
Speaker: Dr. Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee (Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong)
Followed by a Book Launch (11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.)
"Cities and Fantasy Across Cultures, 1830–1930: Urban Imaginaries and Transnational Encounters"
Edited by Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee and Sharin Schroeder, Liverpool UP, 2026
Registration: Click here to register online

Cities, Materials & Imagination Talk Series (Day 2)

Topic: "Literature, Material Culture, and Pedagogy"
Time: Wednesday, October 14, 3:30–5:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 715, General Studies Building
Pedagogy Roundtable Topics and Speakers:
  • "Memory and Place: Writing the Self and Experiencing the City"
    - Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
  • "Textiles, Decorative Art, and Silk Utopia"
    - Li-hsin Hsu (National Chengchi University)
  • "Tracing Hardy’s The Trumpet-Major: Archives, Periodicals, and Performance"
    - Te-Chun Ho (National Chung Hsing University)
  • "The Water Imagery in the Short Stories of the American Southern Literature: Elements and Lived Experiences Based on Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy"
    - Pei-Wen Clio Kao (National Ilan University)
  • "Nineteenth-Century Collections: Print, Objects, Archives, Folk-Lore"
    - Sharin Schroeder (Taipei Tech)
  • "Fashion in Modernist Fiction"
    - Hannah Wen-Shan Shieh (Shih Chien University)
RSVP Deadline: Please register by October 6.
Registration: Click here to register online

Sponsored by NSTC, Taipei Tech OIA, and Taipei Tech English Department