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Taiwan Lecture Series Pursuing Happiness: Human Rights and Taiwan’s Contemporary Travel Culture

  • Termin in der Vergangenheit
  • Dienstag, 4. Juni 2024, 13:00 Uhr
  • Institut für Sinologie, Raum 010.01.05, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
    • Prof. LIN Shu-Hui, National Taiwan Normal University (Taiwan), Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literture

Cultural heritage sites preserve the traces of people’s life history around the world. With an understanding of the historical context and meaning of such sites, people begin to cherish their value and then adopt appropriate preservation strategies. Human rights as a universal value refer to the inalienable and basic rights of human beings. In this lecture, LIN Shu-Hui will introduce how she has used the National Cultural Heritage Network to trace Taiwan’s human rights-themed sites. The lecture illustrates how she applied the spatial information technology DocuSky, drawing with GIS and visualization tools. By thus combining spatial information with research on human rights-themed cultural assets, she aims to deepen local cultural identity and unveil how knowledge gained in and through the Humanities may shape and influence spatial practice.

About LIN Shu-Hui

LIN Shu-Hui is Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. She specializes in research on travel writing, Taiwan literature, and culture. Her publications include Customs, Memories and Enlightenments: A Digital Archive of Taiwanese Cultural Discourse, The Mood of the Travelers: Taiwanese Travel Writings during the Japanese Colonial Period, Represent Culture: Imagined and Discourse of Moving during Modern Period in Taiwan, and Imagining Space-Time in Taiwan Fiction.

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series'

This year’s “Taiwan Lecture Series” is devoted to questioning “Sinophone Authenticities” from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic “In Search for Home – Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the Sinophone World”, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home – Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last section on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).

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