Pre-conference seminar
“An Age of Pandemics: Health Crises and Medical Humanities”
With the global onslaught of coronavirus, medical researchers have forewarned that we are on the threshold of entering “an age of pandemics.” While we are becoming increasingly dependent upon innovations of biomedicine and medical technology to weather us through the continuous presence of infectious diseases, it is also of great importance that we contemplate the meanings and impacts of pandemic outbreaks throughout the ages and from different geographical locations. This seminar would like to engage practitioners of medical humanities and those who are interested in pandemic studies in a series of discussions of related topics with the hope to trace the current trajectories and redefine the future of medical humanities research.
Moderator:
Pin-chia Feng, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. 馮品佳∕國立陽明交通大學外文系終身講座教授
Panelists
- Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai, English Department, Tamkang University, Taiwan.
“The Pandemic, Zoonosis and the Outbreak Narrative in Lawrence Wright’s The End of October”
- Cheryl Hsin-Ju Kuo, Center for General Education, China Medical University, Taiwan.
郭欣茹∕中國醫藥大學通識中心副教授
“Through the Lens of Pandemic: Humanity and Ethics Revisited in MaddAddam Trilogy”
- Chien-ting Lin, Department of English, National Central University, Taiwan.
林建廷∕中央大學英文系副教授
“Love of Empire by Dissociations”
- Jade Tsui-yu Lee, Department of English, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan.
李翠玉∕高雄師範大學英文系教授
“Odors and Smells in the Writings of Diseases”
- Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
周序樺∕中研院歐美所副研究員
“Reworlding as Hope in the Anthropocene”
- Jung Su, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
蘇榕∕臺灣師範大學英文系副教授
“Between Times: Hiatus, Aging, and Crisis in an Era of Pandemics”
- Pin–chia Feng, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
“Visual Imagination and Narrativization of COVID-19”
