Symposiums

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