Critical Thinking in a Time of Pandemic: A Forum on COVID-19 and Its Ramifications

Critical Thinking in a Time of Pandemic: A Forum on COVID-19 and Its Ramifications

In this forum, four distinguished scholars will share their thoughts and reflections on COVID-19 related issues such as cultural biases against human/nonhuman others, biopolitics in terms of a dialectic between community and immunity, racialized and sexualized narratives of the pandemic as well as the collective paranoia and the practice of reparation.

※The forum will be conducted in English.※
※Registration is required.※

本論壇探討在新冠肺炎病毒情勢嚴峻的當代社會下,我們應如何以人文角度,關懷因疫情而起的生命政治、共同體、種族、性別等議題,歡迎各位在九月前來中興大學與跨國學者們一同討論。

※論壇全程以英語進行※
※因主辦單位需確認參加人數,故請各位務必填寫報名資料。

【Registration】
https://forms.gle/6doDL5oc5SevcRnZ7

【Theme】
Critical Thinking in a Time of Pandemic: A Forum on COVID-19 and Its Ramifications

【Venue】
Rm.906, 9F, Complex Teaching Building, NCHU

【Date】
Friday, September 18th

【Time】
08:30-12:00

【Presenters】
Chia-ju Chang (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Hannes Bergthaller (National Chung Hsing University)
Howard Chiang (University of California, Davis)
Wen Liu (Academia Sinica)

【Moderator】
Chiung-huei Chang (National Taiwan Normal University)

【Organizers】
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, NCHU
Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture, NCHU

【Contact】
Assisant Liao
yjl1028@email.nchu.edu.tw

 

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