Taiwan Lecture Series - Summer Term 2018
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Taiwan Lecture Series 2018: Ethnicity, Identity and Marginality in Taiwan—Multimedial Reflections Convener: Prof. Dr. Barbara MittlerThis term’s Taiwan Lecture Series which is held in cooperation with the SOAS Taiwan Studies Program, will highlight questions of ethnicity, identity and marginality. It will introduce a number of film makers, novel writers, composers and scholars working on these topics in film, literature, music and it will also include a workshop and performance of Händel’s Messiah in a recomposition including Taiwan composer Chen Cheng-wen and the Beiguan Water Stage Ensemble. |
Class Requirements
The following requirements have to be met If you are taking the class as an Oberseminar. |
Hinweis: In diesem Semester ist der Textlektüre modern (Taiwan-Texte) Kurs von Frau Chien (Donnerstag 11-13) mit der Taiwan Lecture Series verbunden, es werden Texte auf Chinesisch gelesen, die zu den Unterrichtseinheiten in der TLS dazupassen! |
Course Schedule (Login to all of the readings with your Uni-ID)
| Date: 25.4.2018 Time: 12.15-14.45 Place: Room 201 |
INTRODUCTION Ethnicity, Identity and Marginality in Taiwan |
Symposium: Messias-Zarathustra-Laozi-Buddha: Prophetie und Messiasgestalten im globalen Kontext
12. Mai 2018, ab 10:00 Uhr, Casino-Gebäude der Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt, Raum 1.108
This workshop takes place at the Goethe Universität (Campus Westend) in FRANKFURT. You must attend the parts marked in yellow.
| 10.00 Uhr | Begrüßung und Einführung King of Kings—Händels Messiah, eine musikalische Montage zum Dialog der Religionen Jonathan Hofmann, Junge Kantorei Frankfurt Silke Leopold Musikwissenschaft & Barbara Mittler Sinologie Heidelberg | |
| 10.30 | Ex oriente lux - Zoroastrischer Messianismus? Frederek Musall (Islamwissenschaft, Religionswissenschaft, Judaistik Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) | |
| 11.15 | Der Messias und andere Missverständnisse: Zur messianischen Idee in Judentum und Christentum Frederek Musall (Islamwissenschaft, Religionswissenschaft, Judaistik Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) | |
| 12.00 | Prophetie und der Messias Hartmut Leppin (Alte Geschichte Frankfurt) | |
| 13.30 | Vom Tabubruch zum Herrschaftszeichen: Händels Messias und seine vielen GesichterSilke Leopold (Musikwissenschaft HD) | |
| 14.15 | Höhere Kraft ist kraftlos: Nicht-Wissen, Autorität, Prophetie und Weissagung zwischen Chan und DaoBarbara Mittler (Sinologie Heidelberg) Lecture Video:
Taiwan Lecture Series: Höhere Kraft ist kraftlos: Nicht-Wissen, Autorität, Prophetie und Weissagung zwischen Chan und Dao Speaker: Prof. Barbara Mittler Symposium: Messias-Zarathustra-Laozi-Buddha: Prophetie und Messiasgestalten im globalen Kontext |
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| 15.30-16:30 | Roundtable Gespräch mit den Komponisten: “Fenster öffnen” — Händels Messiah als musikalische Montage im Dialog der Religionen CHEN Cheng-wen (Bremen), Ali Gorji (Berlin) Moderation: Silke Leopold (Heidelberg) Roundtable-Video:
Taiwan Lecture Series: Roundtable "Fenster öffnen" - Händels Messiah als musikalische Montage im Dialog der Religionen Speakers: Silke Leopold, Chen cheng-wen, Ali Gorji |
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| 16.30 | Öffentliche Probe mit der Jungen Kantorei |
| Date: 21.5.2018 Time: 16.00-20:00 Place: Neue Aula |
King of King’s—Händels Messiah: Eine musikalische Montage
Einführung (ab 16.00 mit Barbara Mittler und den Komponisten, u.a. Chen Cheng-wen) und Konzert (ab 17.00) mit der Jungen Kantorei und dem Water Stage Beiguan Ensemble Reading material
Lecture videoTaiwan Lecture Series: Einführung: King of King’s — Händels Messiah - Eine musikalische Montage Speakers: Barbara Mittler, Chen Cheng-wen, Ali Gorji |
| Date: 30.5.2018 Time: 18.00-20:00 Place: Room 208 |
Lin Guo-Ting (Media Studies, Westminster, London): The Interaction Between the Indigenous Music and the Media in Contemporary Taiwan Reading material
Lecture videoTaiwan Lecture Series: The Interaction Between the Indigenous Music and the Media in Contemporary Taiwan Speaker: Lin Guo-Ting (Media Studies, Westminster, London) |
| Date: 07.6.2018 Time: 12.00-15:00 Place: Room 208 |
Shih Chiung-Yu (Writer) Masked Dolls and Wedding in Autumn Reading material
Lecture videoTaiwan Lecture Series: Masked Dolls and Wedding in Autumn Speaker: Shih Chiung-Yu |
| Date: 05.7.2018 Time: 12.00-14:00 Place: Room 208 |
Joyce Yeh (Sociology Dong Hwa University Taiwan): Food, Ethnicity and Cultural Identity Lecture videoTaiwan Lecture Series: Food, Ethnicity and Cultural Identity Speaker: Joyce Yeh (Sociology Dong Hwa University Taiwan) |
| Date: 12.7.2018 Time: 20.00-22:00 Place: Room 112, Voßstraße 2 |
Tien-tai Wu (Ethnic Relations and Cultures, Dong Hwa University Taiwan): Indigenous Cultural Identities and Practices in Higher Education Reading material
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Filmreihe Kevin Lee
In mid-July we are expecting controversial Taiwan Film Director Kevin Hui-Jen Lee: a TV news cameraman since 1994, Kevin Lee has worked at half of the dozen news stations in Taiwan. He has won numerous awards and recognitions for his work. A daring master of many topics and styles, Director Kevin H.J.Lee’s greatest interest is with the interconnection between politics and society. His documentaries uncover public secrets, corruption and ironies between Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. His films and the roundtable discussion and introduction to this work will all take place in the Karlstorbahnhofkino!
Reading material
| Date: 17.07. Time: 17:00 |
Screening: Unveil the Truth I：Government Virus Taiwan 2011 / Regie: Kevin H.J. Lee / 65 min. In his 2011 不能戳的秘密Ⅰ:政府病毒 Unveil the Truth I: The Government Virus, Lee uncovers the cover up of bird flu in Taiwan. Over the past few years, Lee has earned a lot of respect for his seriesUnveil the Truth. He is recognized for his thorough research, perseverance, and his bravery of revealing how Taiwanese bureaucrats shield one another to the public. |
| Date: 17.07. Time: 18:15 |
Screening: Unveil the Truth II: State Apparatus Taiwan 2013 / Regie: Kevin H.J. Lee 2013 不能戳的秘密II：國家機器 Unveil the Truth II: State Apparatus won the Grand Prize and best documentary at the 2014 Taipei Film Awards. The jury considered that the film maintained an uplifting and humorous tone, while exposing the chaotic madness of government bureaucracy, thus illustrating the dark side of Taiwanese society. Currently, Kevin Lee is working on Unveil the Truth III. |
| Date: 17.07. Time: 19:45 |
Roundtable discussion With Kevin Lee and Wennie Liu Lecture video |
| Date: 17.07. Time: 20.30 |
Screening: The Taste of Apple Taiwan 2016 / Regie: Kevin H.J. Lee / 119 min. In 蘋果的滋味 The Taste of Apple which, in 2016, won the Taipei Film Award ceremony, Kevin Lee celebrates the existence of freedom of speech in Taiwan: “I realized how much of an impact “Apple” (nickname of the Next Media, a Hong Kong media corporation entered Taiwan,) has on Taiwanese readers’ reading habit, and how it changed the traditional media ecology in Taiwan". |
| Date: 19.07. Time: 19.30 |
Screening: Self-Censorship with an introduction by the Director, Kevin H.J. Lee and Wennie Liu Taiwan 2017 / Regie: Kevin H.J. Lee / 117 min. Self-censorship begins by depicting a series of protests by the Beijing artist, Hua Yong, which eventually led to his arrest and imprisonment by the Chinese government. It subsequently moves to the mysterious disappearances of five shareholders from Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong, and then onto incidents involving Chou Tzi-yu, Leon Dai and Lee Ming-che. It thoroughly, and in great detail, exposes the Chinese government’s pervasive control over “Greater Chinese” society. |
| Date: 26.7.2018 Time: 14.30-16:00 Place: Room 102 |
FINAL DISCUSSION: Ethnicity, Identity and Marginality in Taiwan |
