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Can Literature Come to the Rescue when History is Under Siege? How One Novel Can Be a Trojan Horse to Engage Questions Some Politicians Don’t Want Us to Ask?
Speaker: Shelley Fisher Fishkin｜Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Professor of African and African American Studies at Stanford University｜Author of Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade (2025)
Discussants:
An-chi Wang｜Professor Emeritus, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Jade Tsui-yu Lee｜Professor, Department of English, National Kaohsiung Normal University & President of the English and American Literature Association
Moderator: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 6-25-2025 (Wed) 10:00~12:00
Venue: 1F, Conference Room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica｜Google Meet
#critical race theory #Adventures of Huckleberry Finn #American history #teaching history #morality #racism #global reception
Solving the Degrowth Conundrum with Noam Chomsky’s Anarchism
(talk conducted in Chinese)
Speaker: Chien-Yi Lu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Discussant: Daigee Shaw｜Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
Moderator: Chaolun Allen Chen｜Research Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
Time: 5-27-2025 (Tue) 12:00~14:00
Venue: Cisco Webex
#degrwoth #Chomsky #anarchism #Green Economy #climate change
氣候變遷政策與知識不正義
Speaker: Li-an Yu｜Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Discussant: 區曣中｜Associate Professor, Center for General Education, National Chung Cheng University
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 4-28-2025 (Mon) 14:30~16:30
Venue: Cisco Webex
#climate change policy #epistemic injustices #values #scientific policy advice
Fixing Food with a Limited Menu
Speaker: Julie Guthman｜Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emerita, Program in Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz｜Author of The Problem with Solutions (2024)
Moderator: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 3-7-2025 (Fri) 09:30~11:30
Venue: Cisco Webex
#food and agriculture #Silicon Valley #solution #technology #food system
「知識簡餐」：Transfiguring "Paradise on Earth": Gardening and World-making Practices in the American Organic Movement
Speaker: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Host: Min-Hsiung Huang｜Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Moderator: Te-Hsing Shan｜Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 12-10-2024 (Tue) 11:30~12:30
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
#organic #gardening #world-making #transfiguration #American literature
以氣換油真能永續發展？從天然氣發展看「協和四接」的可能性
Speaker: Chien-Yi Lu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 12-8-2024 (Sun) 10:00~12:00
Venue: Google Meet
#bridge fuel LNG #fourth LNG receiving terminal #greenwashing #methane #hydrogen #carbon capture
Garden Futurity Roundtable Colloquium
Panel 2 The Poetics and Politics of the (Urban) Garden
Speaker: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Discussant: Felix Leung | Climate Change Fellow, The Nature Conservancy
Moderator: Jamie Wang｜Research Assistant Professor, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, Education University of Hong Kong
Time: 12-3-2024 (Tue) 16:20~18:00
Venue: Zoom
荒野公民科學家線上增能課程「永續星球居民的必修課」講座
講座一 Leave No One Behind：從競爭到合作，經濟成長是否能不落下任何人？
Speaker: Chien-Yi Lu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 11-01-2024 (Fri) 19:30~21:30
Venue: Cisco Webex
#green growth #degrowth #democracy #neoliberalism #wealth gap
講座二 綠色成長其實是黑色的：現行推動的綠色改革所造成的問題
Speaker: Chien-Yi Lu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 11-12-2024 (Tue) 19:30~21:30
Venue: Cisco Webex
#green growth #degrowth #extractivism #decoupling #renewable energy
Mindfulness in Activism — A Conversation with Clover Hogan
Speaker: Clover Hogan｜Founder of Force of Nature｜Climate Activist
Discussant: Chien-Yi Lu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Moderator: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 10-10-2024 (Thu) 16:00~18:00
#climate youth #climate anxiety #greenwashing #climate café #mindfulness
Literary Nature Writing and the More-Than-Human Garden
Speaker: Jessica J. Lee （李潔珂）｜Course Director and Panel Tutor, Creative Writing-Nonfiction, University of Cambridge｜Course Instructor, Orion Creative Writing Workshops｜Course Director, Granta Nature Writing Workshop｜Author of《山與林的深處》（2024）
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 09-12-2024 (Thu) 14:00~16:00
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica｜Cisco Webex
#gardens #city #nature writing #migration #kinship
How to Communicate over 100,000 Years? Nuclear Memory and the Management of the Future
Speaker: Thomas Keating｜Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden
Discussant: Chun-Yen Chen｜Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Moderator: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 08-27-2024 (Tue) 14:30~16:30
Venue: Cisco Webex
#nuclear memory #nuclear waste #communication #future
Atmospheric Sensorium
Speaker: Hsuan L. Hsu｜Professor of English, UC Davis｜Author of Air Conditioning（2024）
Moderator: You-Ting Chen｜Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, NCHU
Host: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 08-20-2024 (Tue) 09:00~11:00
Venue: Cisco Webex
#atmospheric sensorium #olfactory media #thermal media #thermal violence #air conditioning
Who Owns Democracy, and Our Planet?
Speaker: Charles Derber｜Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 06-21-2024 (Fri) 09:30~11:30
Venue: Cisco Webex
#capitalism #extinction #climate change #war #democracy #Trump
Mindfulness Essentials and the America Health Movement
Speaker: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Moderator: Yu-Cheng Lee｜Distinguished Research Fellow Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 06-05-2024 (Wed) 12:15~13:30
#mindfulness #health #counterculture #How to Eat #Thich Nhat Hanh
Seed Activism: Patent Politics and Litigation in the Global South
Speaker: Karine Peschard｜Associate Research Fellow, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Right
Moderator: Chien-Huei Wu｜Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 05-23-2024 (Thu) 09:00~11:00
Venue: Cisco Webex
#Intellectual Property #food sovereignty #genetic modified plants and seeds #Monsanto
Ecotheology and Literature: Prospects and Challenges
Speaker: George Handley｜Professor of Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Humanities, Brigham Young University｜Co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (2021-2023)
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 03-19-2024 (Tue) 09:00~11:00
Venue: Cisco Webex
#ecotheology #sacredness #secularism #environmental literature
環境人文研究：哲學家參與的可能路徑
Speaker: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 03-02-2024 (Sat) 10:30~12:00
Venue: 東海大學人文大樓展學廳 H321
#sustainability #practice #study of the environmental humanities
The Four Day Week: Economic, Wellbeing and Climate Impacts
Speaker: Juliet B. Schor｜Economist and Sociologist at Boston College
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 02-27-2024 (Tue) 09:00~11:00
Venue: Cisco Webex
#degrowth #carbon emissions #four-day workweek #well-being
Rewilding and Re-rooting: Ecotherapy with the Earth Spirits of Local Folklore
Speaker: Daniela Kato｜Independent Scholar｜Writer｜Speaker｜Ecotherapy Facilitator
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 02-20-2024 (Tue) 09:00~11:00
Venue: Cisco Webex
#ecotherapy #folktale #healing #spirituality #environmental literature
Climate Justice Design: Bridging Justice Theory and Design Practice in Nature-based Solutions for Community Resilience
Speaker: Chingwen Cheng｜Director of Stuckeman School｜Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University｜President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 01-11-2024 (Thu) 13:30~15:30
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica｜Cisco Webex
#community #resilience #environmental justice #climate change #landscape design
Demystify Artificial Intelligence and Technology Outlook
Speaker: 郭宗杰 C.-C. Jay Kuo｜中央研究院院士｜美國國家發明家科學院院士
Moderator: 鄧育仁｜中研院歐美所特聘研究員兼所長
Time: 12-08-2023 (Fri) 10:00~12:00
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
#green learning #sustainability #AI
Sharing Place & Sharing Power with Animals
Speaker: Will Kymlicka｜ Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada｜Author of《動物公民》（2021）
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 12-06-2023 (Wed) 09:30~11:30
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
#animal rights #animal citizenship #animal's political agency #animal's political participation #human-animal joint politics
誰說了算？你的溝通不是我的溝通？能源政策溝通的虛與實
Speaker: Yeng-Chieh Tsai｜PhD, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 10-04-2023 (Wed) 14:30~16:30
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica／Cisco Webex
#communicative action theory #net zero #energy policy #third LNG receiving terminal #fourth LNG receiving terminal
Thinking with Islands in the Anthropocene
Speaker: Chih-Chien Hsieh｜Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chung Cheng University
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Times: 09-19-2023 (Tue) 10:00~12:00
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica／Cisco Webex
歐威爾的玫瑰 : 園藝、療癒與抗爭
Speaker: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Moderator: Yu-Cheng Lee｜Adjunct Research Fellow Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 05-24-2023 (Wed) 12:00~13:30
#gardening #healing #political demonstration #environmental literature
2023科學史沙龍永續發展－SDG12負責任的生產與消費：永續農產與食品
Speaker:
Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
洪伯邑｜臺灣大學地理環境資源學系副教授
Moderator: 劉龍心｜東吳大學歷史學系教授
Time: 05-20-2023 (Sat) 14:00~16:00
Venue: 台大思亮館國際會議廳
#city #agriculture #climate change #environmental literature
「反思人類世—從負人類世、暗黑生態到病毒世」論壇 - 糧食運動：城市、農業、與人類世的希望論述
Speaker: Serena Chou｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Moderator: Yiping Liang｜Professor, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
Time: 04-29-2023 (Sat) 12:00~17:40
Venue: 國立臺灣師範大學文學院誠大樓8樓 國際會議室／Cisco Webex
#city #agriculture #the Anthropocene #hope
Religion, Nature, and the Future of Religion & Nature: Assessing Environmental Behavior from the World’s Predominant Religions to ‘Dark Green Religion’
Speaker：Bron Taylor｜Professor of Religion and Nature at the University of Florida
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 10-14-2022 (Fri) 15:30~17:30
#religion #environment #future #behavior #environmental literature
Nature Based Solutions: What's the Problem?
Speaker: Simon Counsell｜Independent Researcher writing on nature based solutions, offsetting, and rights-based conservation
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 03-23-2023 (Thu) 14:00~16:00
#nature-based solutions #carbon trading #carbon offsetting #deforestation #carbon neutral
中央研究院歐美研究所溪畔歐美講座 – 存活⺠主 新自由主義下的氣候減緩
Speaker: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Speaker: ：傅大為｜國立陽明交通大學科技與社會研究所榮譽教授
Moderator: 鄧育仁｜中央研究院歐美研究所特聘研究員兼所長
Time: 03-07-2023 (Tue) 14:00~16:00
Venue: 1F, Conference room, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
2023 Congress of Animal Behavior – 永續主題「我的自然不是你的解方」
Speaker: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 01-17-2023 (Tue) 10:30~12:30
Venue：東海大學人文會館
Agrarianism, Spirituality, and the Ecopoetics of Hope: A Conversation with Norman Wirzba
Speaker:
Norman Wirzba | Distinguished Professor of Theology and Ecology & Senior Fellow of Ethics, Duke University
Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 12-08-2022 (Thu) 09:00~11:00
#Agrarianism #spirituality #hope #environmental literature
2022年環境史研習營
Speakers:
呂紹理 | 洪廣冀 | 周序樺｜曾獻緯｜劉士永｜顧雅文
Time: 11-19-2022 (Sat) 09:00~17:00
Venue: 國立臺灣大學凝態物理館1F楊金豹演講廳（臺大綜合體育館對面）
Should Taiwan's Economy Degrow?
Speaker: Timothée Parrique | School of Economics at Lund University, Sweden
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 10-20-2022 (Thu) 14:30~16:30
#degrowth #post-growth #green growth #decoupling of emissions and growth #planetary boundaries
Extraction Ecologies and the Post-Extractive Imagination
Speaker: Elizabeth Carolyn Miller | Professor of English, University of California, Davis
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 10-14-2022 (Fri) 15:30~17:30
#natural resources #industrial revolution #empire #speculative fiction #environmental literature
Speaker: James K. Boyce | Senior Fellow & Professor Emeritus, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Moderator: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 09-27-2022 (Tue) 09:00~11:00
#carbon pricing #carbon dividends #carbon rent #wealth inequality #regressive tax
醫療人文讀書會第七場：邁向療癒【線上直播公告】
國科會「以文淑世：醫療人文跨領域研究計劃」
Speaker: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 09-17-2022 (Sat) 14:00~16:00
#mindfulness #healing #environmental literature
2022能源宿舍 🌏 場次十一：經濟該成長？還是去成長？我們該如何來看待經濟與環保的問題？
Speaker: 蕭代基｜中央院經濟研究所兼任研究員 & Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Moderator: 李翰林｜台灣環境規劃協會理事
Time: 08-03-2022 (Wed) 19:30~21:30
TEDxTaichung 2022《合 TOGETHER》講者－#盧倩儀
Speaker: Chien-Yi Lu | Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 07-10-2022 (Sun)
Venue: 台中裕元花園酒店
Enemies or Model Farmers?: Settler Colonialism and the Agricultural Projects in the Japanese American War Relocation Centers
Speaker: Masumi Izumi （和泉真澄）｜Professor, Department of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University
Moderator: Serena Chou | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Time: 06-06-2022 (Mon) 12:30~14:30
Venue: Cisco webex