Symposium XV

Date: June 21, 2019

• “The Sheep, the Possessed, and the Human Folly in Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase”

  • Presented by Sheng-yen Yu

• “The Female Voice in Jim Harrison's Legends of The Fall”

  • Presented by Ju-ying Vinia Huang

• “Viral Behavior in the Era of Techno-Media Saturation”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

Symposium XIV

Date: June 26, 2018

• “Disability and the Ethics of Sympathy: A Nietzschean Perspective on Shimamoto’s Limitations in Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun”

  • Presented by Sheng-yen Yu

• “Possibility and Necessity in the Modal System of Cebuano and Tagalog”

  • Presented by Michael Tanangkingsing

• “Film and Social Prospects: The Convergence of The Shape of Water and Hidden Figures”

  • Presented by Ju-ying Vinia Huang

• “Faces in Tsai Ming-liang's Walker Enters the Dune”

  • Presented by Louis Lo

• “People Should Not Exist: David Benatar’s Neo-Gnosticism”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

• “Critical Course Design in an EFL Context”

  • Presented by Diane Sun

Symposium XIII

Date: June 26, 2017

• “‘This was so and no slumber’: Antigonus’s Uncanny Experience in The Winter’s Tale”

  • Presented by Sheng-yen Yu

• “Modality in Philippine and Formosan Languages”

  • Presented by Michael Tanangkingsing

• “Cross-cultural Adaptations of Fairy Tales”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Taking It Slow: Suffering in Tsai Ming-ling's Stray Dogs”

  • Presented by Louis Lo

• “Ethics, Aesthetics, Poetics, Politics: Emmanuel Levinas and Giorgio Agamben”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

Symposium XII

Date: June 26, 2015

• “The Magical Elements in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore”

  • Presented by Sheng-yen Yu

• “The Pragmatic Functions of the ‘What’ Word in Cebuano”

  • Presented by Michael Tanangkingsing

• “Tolkien and Chaucer’s ‘Pardoner’s Tale’”

  • Presented by Sharin Schroeder

• “Punning: Having Fun with Language”

  • Presented by Caroline C. Hwang and Andy Cheng

• “The Amazing Maze as a Recurrent Motif in Contemporary Young Adult Novels”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Effects of Language Background on the Perception of Non-native Tonal Contrasts”

  • Presented by Shawn Chang

• “Time, Mathematics, and Cosmology”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

• “‘No Ideas but in Things’: Translation and Translucency in Ezra Pound’s Cathay”

  • Presented by Louis Lo

Symposium XI

Date: June 20, 2014

• “Groping for ‘Felicity within Limits’: E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “A Comparison of Epistemic and Evidentiality Markers in Cebuano”

  • Presented by Michael Tanangkingsing

• “On Student Ownership of Learning and Knowing”

  • Presented by Diane Sun

• “The Theatricality of Revenge: Acting, Being, and Performing in Hamlet”

  • Presented by Louis Lo

• “She and He: Travel Fiction, Borrowing, and Literary Plagiarism”

  • Presented by Sharin Schroeder

• “The Profile of Collocations in the Example Sentences in Taiwanese English Textbooks”

  • Presented by Caroline Hwang & Anna Lee

• “Walt Disney Studios' New Midas Touch on the Old Literary Canons”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Use of Social Information in the Perception of Mandarin Alveolar-retroflex Contrast”

  • Presented by Shawn Chang

Symposium X

Date: June 26, 2013

• “The Attitudes toward Love, Sex, and Marriage in Three Hours after Marriage and The Beggar’s Opera”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “Beyong Ressentiment: ‘Feminine Revenge’ in Henry James’ The Wings of the Dove”

  • Presented by Louis Lo

• “Andrew Lang: Man of Letters”

  • Presented by Sharin Schroeder

• “Houdini’s Congressional Testimony on Spiritualism”

  • Presented by Kurt Cline

• “Rule, Law, Form-of-Life: Agamben’s ‘Highest Poverty’”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

• “Femininity in Ang Lee’s Movie Adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

Symposium IX

Date: June 25, 2012

• “Superheroes, Secret Knowledge and Myth”

  • Presented by Kurt Cline

• “Pronouns and Word Order Change in Cebuano”

  • Presented by Michael Tanangkingsing

• “The Naked Chaucer: (Strip)Mining the Medieval Period to Fuel Modern Films”

  • Presented by John Griffith

• “Speculation, Antagonism, and Resignation: Theological Attitudes to the Inscrutable in Moby Dick”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “The Brush Driven by Pain in Chinese Calligraphy and Western Painting”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Dialogic Learning as Student Empowerment”

  • Presented by Yu-Chi Sun

• “(Im)personal Vengeance: Ressentiment, Nietzsche, and Beyond”

  • Presented by Louis Lo

• “Female Identity Construction in Chinese and English Advertisements”

  • Presented by Caroline Hwang, Anna Lee

Symposium VIII

Date: June 28, 2011

• “Romeo and Juliet in Taiwan and Japan”

  • Presented by John Griffith

• “Transformation and Felicity: Kate’s Marital Adaptation in The Taming of the Shrew”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “Looking Back at Earth: Lacan and Deep Space Gazing”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Cultural Ambivalence in Daniel Defoe: A Feminist Reading of Moll Flanders”

  • Presented by Tsai-ching Yeh

• “But as a Discourse Marker in Negative Face”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “e.e. cummings into infinity”

  • Presented by Kurt Cline

• “Revenge Culture: the Birth of Vengeance (Out of the Spirit of Tragedy)”

  • Presented by Louis Lo

• “Naive and Sentimental: The Films of Terrence Malick”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

Symposium VII

Date: June 25, 2010

• “The Authorial Attitude toward Culture and Philistinism in Howards End”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “Synesthesia, Images, and Energy in Chinese and English Poetry”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Introduction to Maurice Blanchot: Literature and the Right to Death”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

• “From the Halfway-Convenant to the First Modern Nation: Systems-theoretical Perspectives on the Genesis of ‘American Identity’”

  • Presented by Hannes Bergathaller

Symposium VI

Date: June 22, 2009

• “The Language and Implications of Advertisements in Time Magazine: A Contrastive Analysis of the Asian and the U.S. Editions”

  • Presented by Caroline Hwang

• “Passion, Code Conflicts and Justice in The Broken Heart and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “Art History Novels by Anglo-American Female Writers”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Cohesion and coherence in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit”

  • Presented by I-Ping Ho

• “The Biology of Literary Affect: William Flesch’s Comeuppance”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

• “Poetry and Divination”

  • Presented by Kurt Cline

• “Coming of Age, Once More: Americanism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Allegories of National Maturity”

  • Presented by Hannes Bergathaller

Symposium V

Date: June 20, 2008

• “The Contingency of Silences in Henry James's The Wings of the Dove”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “John Berger as the Meeting Point: Borges, Calvino and Eco”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Electronic Communication in Context: Interplay of Participant Factors”

  • Presented by Chia-Ling Hsieh

• “‘The Morning on the Wave’: Approaching the Glory of God”

  • Presented by John Griffith

• “Kant with Freud: Critique and Ambiguity”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall

• “A Pax Germanica of the Agriculteral World: Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac”

  • Presented by Hannes Bergathaller

Symposium IV

Date: June 12, 2007

• “Transacting and Making Meaning with Texts in the Response-Based Classroom”

  • Presented by I-Ping Ho

• “Crossdressing and Gender Identity in The Deceived and Twelfth Night”

  • Presented by Sheng-Yen Yu

• “Citizen Kane's 'Rosebud' in Light of the Heart Sutra: A Buddhist Reading”

  • Presented by Vinia Huang

• “Evidence and Stance: Toward a Functional Description of Chinese Evidential Expressions”

  • Presented by Chia-Ling Hsieh

• “Chaucer and Emersonian Perfectionism”

  • Presented by John Griffith

• “Walter Benjamin’s ‘On Language’”

  • Presented by Thomas Wall