With the support from Ministry of Culture, the Taiwan Academy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles partners with UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) to launch "Taiwan in Dialogue" lecture/dialogue series, which features eight online events from February to November 2021.
Leading practitioners from a variety of Taiwan's creative areas, including film, literature, theater, and art, will be invited to deliberate on the contemporary Taiwan culture. Following the four acclaimed events in February, April, and May, 2021, four more events will be held consecutively in September and October, 2021.
The titles of the events include "Tell the Good Taiwan Story," "Writing Taiwan, Translating Taiwan: A Forum with Wu Ming-yi(吳明益) and Darryl Sterk," "From Wild Fire to the Big Sea: In Conversation with Lung Ying-tai(龍應台)," "Dialogue with John Balcom."
The four above-mentioned events will be held through Zoom while livestreaming on the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies’ YouTube channel and Facebook. All are welcome to register online.
Wu Ming-Yi is a multidisciplinary Taiwanese artist, author, Professor of Sinophone literature at National Dong Hwa University and environmental activist.
Lung Ying-tai is one of Taiwan's most popular and beloved writers, a literary critic and a public intellectual. Her 1985 book "The Wild Fire" created a major cultural stir for its honest and introspective look at the social and political problems facing contemporary Taiwanese society.
John Balcom is an award-winning translator of Chinese literature, philosophy, and children’s books who teaches in the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation and Language Education at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
For further information about the "Taiwan in Dialogue" lecture/dialogue series, please follow CCS's website, Facebook and YouTube.