Speeches
　 previous lectures hold by English Department
Topic: Interprefactions: Freud’s Legendary Science

Abstract:
In this lecture, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen attempts to draw some consequences from several decades of work in Freud history. He argues that such work has had the cumulative effect of showing up the legendary nature of Freud’s epistemology, and has demonstrated the direct linkages between his interpretive procedures and rewriting of history. The Freud legend was by no means a supplementary accessory which accompanied substantive advances, akin to the legend of Newton’s apple. Rather, it was constitutive of the very identity of psychoanalysis, and enabled its differentiation from rival psychologies and psychotherapies, and promoted the claim that it formed the only viable science of mind and the most advanced form of psychotherapy. Historical research enables one to grasp the legendary nature of Freud’s achievement.
Moderator: Prof. Chih-chung Shen (Assistant Professor, DFLL, NTU) 沈志中助理教授（國立臺灣大學外文系助理教授）
Speaker: Prof. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (University of Washington)
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Washington and the author of several books on the history and theory of psychoanalysis, psychology and psychiatry: The Freudian Subject; Lacan, The Absolute Master; The Emotional Tie: Mimesis, Psychoanalysis, and Affect; Remembering Anna O.; Folies à plusieurs. De l’hystérie à la dépression; Le dossier Freud. He is also one of the co-editors of Le livre noir de la psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis), which has been recently translated into Mandarin.
Time: 3:00 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Place: 20th Classroom, 1F College of Liberal Arts, NTU 臺大文學院一樓文20教室
Topic: Cultures of Shame, Cultures of Guilt: Masculinity Insufficieny in 'The Count of Ponthieu's Daughter'

Abstract:
Anthropologists used to feel confident in classifying cultures as either 'shame cultures' or 'guilt cultures', depending upon which of these two ways of experiencing personal turmoil and ostracism was more operative in controlling behaviour. The 13th-century prose tale of the Fille du Comte de Pontieu, the earliest literary prose text in French, and one of the most influential on the development of early Anglo-Norman, English, and French narratives, offers an opportunity to muddle these two supposedly different strategies of social control. The daughter in question suffers sterility, rape, attempted murder, kidnapping, religious conversion, child abandonment, and social isolation in the course of this very short text and what emerges is that what spells guilt for her spells shame for the men in her life. This paper will examine these issues through a celebration of a key text that examines crusading ideology, cultural identity and the fragility of feudal masculine identity.
Moderator: Prof. Ming-tsang Yang (Associate Professor, DFLL, NTU) 楊明蒼副教授(國立臺灣大學外文系副教授)
Speaker: Prof. William E. Burgwinkle
(Reader in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Department of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)
Time: 3:00 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Place: DFLL New Conference Room, 1F Old Main Library, NTU 臺大舊總圖一樓外文系新會議室
96年度教學卓越計畫系列講座
Topic: Language Policies
Speaker: Dr. Todd Sandel, 交通大學交通大學通識教育中心富爾布萊特學者／美國奧克拉荷馬大學the Department of Communication專任副教授
Time: 13:40~15:30, Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Place: LA204

跨女性研究
Transnational Women's Studies
主辦單位：教育部「跨國女性研究」整合型計劃、國立成功大學外國語文學系
指導單位：教育部人文社會科學領域專題研究社群發展計畫
補助單位：教育部顧問室
報名方式：助理林玉立 (k2694112@mail.ncku.edu.tw 或 (06) 275-7575 # 52222)
Topic: Beizer, Janet. “One’s Own Reflections on Motherhood, Owning, and Adoption.” Studies in Women’s Literature 21.2 (2002): 237-55.
Moderator: 賴俊雄，成功大學外文系教授兼文學院副院長
Speaker: 陳福仁，中山大學外文系副教授
Time: 15:00~17:00, Friday, April 18, 2008
Place: 成功大學外文系修齊大樓七樓會議室
Topic: Yuval-Davis, N.. “Human / Women’s Rights and Feminist Transversal Politics.” Global Feminism: Transnational Women’s Activism, Organizing and Human Rights. Eds. Myra Marx Ferree and Aili Mari Tripp. NY: New York UP, 2006. 275-95.
Moderator: 游素玲，成功大學外文系副教授
Speaker: 林津如，高雄醫學大學性別研究所助理教授
Time: 15:00~17:00, Friday, May 30, 2008
Place: 成功大學外文系修齊大樓七樓會議室
Topic: Ehrenreich, Barbara. “Maid to Order.” Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Eds. Barbara Ehrenreich, and Arlie Russell Hochschild. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003. 85-103.
Moderator: 賴俊雄，成功大學外文系教授兼文學院副院長
Speaker: 李根芳，台灣師範大學翻譯研究所副教授兼所長
Time: 15:00~17:00, Friday, June 20, 2008
Place: 成功大學外文系修齊大樓七樓會議室
Topic: Shu-Mei, Shih. “Towards an Ethics of Transnational Encounter, or ‘When’ Does a ‘Chinese’ Woman Become a ‘Feminist’?” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Study 13.2 (2002): 90-126.
Moderator: 陳健宏，成功大學外文系副教授
Speaker: 陳慧琴，成功大學外文所博士生
Time: 15:00~17:00, Friday, July 4, 2008
Place: 成功大學外文系修齊大樓七樓會議室
　 　
　 　

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Previous lectures hold by English Department

Lecture Series, Dr. Martin Elsky
95年度教學卓越計畫系列講座

Posters and Announcement
　
Topic: Managing a Country House: Ben Jonson and a Seventeenth-Century Household

This paper uses archival materials (the correspondence of Robert Sidney, including correspondence with his wife) to contrast Jonson’s image of Penshurst,. Robert Sidney’s principal residence, with the social realities of life in the country on the periphery of the court. The emphasis will fall on the attempt to use a local, county identity to forge an identity based in a national monarchical center, London.
Discussant: Prof. Wang I-chun, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, NSYSU
王儀君，國立中山大學外文系教授
Time: January 8, 2007 (Monday). 9:30~11:30
Place: SF901
Topic: Architecture and Renaissance Poetry

It will first focus on the Renaissance invention of the private room, the studio, as part of the division between private and public spaces that developed in Renaissance domestic interiors. It will then show how this architectural innovation is reflected in the poetry of the period, probably with emphasis on Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella.
Time: January 10, 2007 (Wednesday). 10:10~12:00
Place: SF130
Topic: Religion and the Politics of Identity in the Literary Criticism of Erich Auerbach

As author of Mimesis (1946; English trans. 1953), Auerbach made a lasting mark on literary criticism in Europe and America. There has been a steady stream of interest about his work in the US and now especially in Germany. In collaboration with a German and an American colleague I have just completed a translation of some of Auerbach’s war time letters; the translation will appear in PMLA (2007). I also note that a scholar in Taiwan (National Central University) has recently published an article on Auerbach in a prestigious American journal (Daniel Fried, Comparative Literature 57 (2005): 312-327).

My paper concerns Auerbach as a twentieth-century transcultural intellectual within the context of Germany’s "tri-confessional" history. Born in Berlin to a Jewish family, he received a French Protestant education, and ultimately adopted a Catholic view of European culture and literature. By the time he was forced from Germany under the Nazis, and in exile in Istanbul, he turned to biblical exegesis as the basis of the entire Western literary tradition. His turn to biblical narrative was in essence a meditation on the relation between religion and national identity. In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany, ancient religious controversy about the orientation of Greek, Jewish, and Christian religion and thought became a focal point for determining the relation between Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism in the formation of the German national state. Philological scholarship presented itself as the means to adjudicate the public claims of religious denominations. Auerbach’s escape to Istanbul was an occasion to apply the philology he took with him from Germany to look back upon the relation between scholarship, religion, and identity; Istanbul became the location for a "tri-confessional" meditation that produced a powerful account of European literature. My focus will center around his best known essay, "Figura," as the turning point in his outlook on literature and as the first step towards his masterwork Mimesis, which has recently been re-released by Princeton University Press with an introduction by Edward Said.
Discussant: Prof. Daniel Fried, Department of English, NCU
傅雲博，國立中央大學英美語文學系助理教授
Time: January 11, 2007 (Thursday). 13:40~15:30
Place: LA302

Lecture Series, Prof. Jesse Crisler
Topic: Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself
Speaker:  Jesse Crisler, Professor of English, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
Time: Thursday, January 11, 2007, 9:10 a.m.- noon
Place: SF901
Topic: Through Western Eyes: Young Adult Literature Set in China
Speaker:  Jesse Crisler, Professor of English, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
Time: Friday, January 12, 2007, 3:40-5:00 p.m.
Place: LC302

Lecture Series, Dr. Marguerite Connor
94年度教學卓越計畫系列講座

Posters and Announcement
Topic: Evolutions in Detective Fiction: Old Themes/Modern Interpretations
Speaker:  Dr. Marguerite Connor
Time: April 11, 2006 (Tuesday). 12:00~13:40
Place: LA202
Topic: Shakespeare, The Movie: 20th Century Shakespeares
Speaker:  Dr. Marguerite Connor
Time: April 13, 2006 (Thursday). 12:00~13:40
Place: LA202
Topic: The Paper War: American Literary Responses to British Anti-Americanism, 1800-1828
筆戰：1800~1828年間美國與英國反美主義的作家論戰

The discuss will be the war of words that took place between British and American writers during the first quarter of the nineteenth century.  That British commentary on America often suited domestic political purposes.  American responses to British criticism generally became more nationalistic as time went on but also reflected political and regional variations.   The strengths and weakness of American replies to British criticisms also will be discussed.
Speaker:  Dr. William Joseph Eaton 周一騰教授
淡江大學美國研究所傅爾布萊特客座教授，美國聖喬治大學Humanities Division主任
http://intranet.stgregorys.edu/people/faculty/wjeaton/
Time: December 14, 2005 (Wednesday). 13:30-15:30
Place: 外語學院LA302
Topic: The Joys of Linguistic Research 語言研究的樂趣
Speaker:  王士元院士
Host: Prof. Agnes, Yun-Pi Yuan
Time: October 11 (Tuesday), 2005, 11:00~12:00
Place: LA302
Topic: Assessment in a Digital Age
Speaker:  Prof. Clifford Hill
Host: Prof. Agnes, Yun-Pi Yuan
Time: November 12 (Wednesday), 2003, 1:40~3:30
Place: SF131
Topic: American Cultural Diversity 
美國文化的多元性
Speaker:  Ms. Judith Mudd-Krijgelmans (美國在台協會文化新聞組組長柯玖蒂女士）
Time: November 26 (Wednesday), 2003, 1:30~3:30
Place: SF131

Educational Theatre and Cultural Studies Forum

Wandering about Capital Cities--Residence Authors' Creative Writing
台北市政府文化局 「都市吟遊─國際作家駐市創作」專案活動

Speaker: Mr. Bernard Cohen柏納．柯漢先生
Time: Dec. 14, 2000, Thursday, 1:30 ~3:30
Place: LH103綜合教室
Website: http://www.hermes.net.au/bernard/

Speaker: Mr. Chaz Brenchley 夏滋．布藍齊利
Time: December 20, 2000, Wednesday, 1:30 ~ 3:30
Place: LC501-502（比研所教室）
Website: http://www.users.zetnet.con.uk/iplus/misc/cb.htm
co-sponsored by The Graduate Institute of Comparative Literature

Speaker: Mr. Greg Gatenby 葛列格．葛譚比
Time: Dec. 21, 2000, Thursday, 1:30~3:30
Place:  Geng-Hsin Lou Meeting Room 104 (耕莘樓一樓 104 室 )

輔仁大學外語學院『外交認知 』系列講座（五）
（英文系與西文系主辦）

  • Topic: 當前我國外語人才培訓的前瞻與願景
    在我國邁向廿一世紀之際，教育國際化與外語人才培訓是提升國家全面發展，與環球全方位外交的重要基石。無論是個人生涯規劃，或社會現代化，外語，尤其是英語人才的有效培訓，是當今不可忽略，且極為迫切的國際性重點工作。
        本演講將從我國目前外語人才缺乏所引發的嚴重問題，外語學習理論與方法，以及現代大學生應如何配合時代的脈絡，開創一個更有意義、內涵充沛、多采多姿的美滿人生。演講內容除了分析我國學生外語學習的缺失、可行的現代理念，以及全球高等教育發展所涵蓋的願景外，並將介紹國內外各政府單位外語人才培訓的最新前瞻性政策。
  • Time: May 10, 2000, 1:30-3:30
  • Place: SF131
  • Speaker: 李振清，教育部國際文化教育事業處處長
    • 學歷
      1979 美國夏威夷大學語言學博士
      1979 美國夏威夷大學英語教學（ESL）語言學
      1963 國立台灣師範大學英語系學士
      1988 革命實踐研究院文教建設第一期結業（學員長）
    • 經歷
      1985-92 國立台灣師範大學英語系及英語研究所教授，
             兼國語教學中心主任
      1979-85 國立台灣師範大學英語系副教授，
              兼國語教學中心主任
      1982-88 國立台灣師範大學外國語文學系兼任教授
      1992-97 駐美國台北經濟文化代表處文化組參事兼組長
      1993    美國馬利蘭大學東歐及亞洲及東歐語言文化系兼任教授
    • 現職：教育部國際文化事業處處長
    • 研究領域：Linguistics, ESL, Translation & Interpretation-T&I), English reading and writing
    • 教授課程：Linguistics, ESL, Translation & Interpretation-T&I), Advanced English reading and writing
    • 著作：
      李振清、李金詮。1987《密宗黑教看人生》（台北：久大文化）
      Li, Chen-ching. 1999.  "Sweeping Education Reform in Taiwan: From Primary Education to Lifelong and Global Learning."   Proceeding, APEC Education Forum Meeting, Sanitago, Chile.
      ---.  1994.  "The Impact of College Entrance Examination on High School ESL/EFL Writing."  Georgetown University on Language and Linguistics
      其他九本專書，120篇專文

輔仁大學外語學院『外交認知 』系列講座（二）
（英文系與西文系主辦）

  • Topic: 我國與美國之外交關係
  • Time: March 1, 2000, 1:30-3:30
  • Place: SF131
  • Speaker: Mr. Liu, Che-gueng, Director of Department of North American Affairs  (外交部北美司 劉志攻司長)
    • 出生日期：44年4月7日
    • 籍貫：江蘇省阜寧縣
    • 學歷：國立政治大學外交學系畢業、國立政治大學政治研究所碩士、國立政治大學政治研究所博士
    • 經歷：國立政治大學國際關係研究中心副研究員、外交部禮賓司薦任科員、外交部禮賓司專門委員、外交部北美司專門委員、北美事務協調委員會駐波士頓辦事處副處長、駐南非大使館參事、北美事務協調委員會駐美國代表處秘書（政治）組組長
    • 現職：外交部北美司司長
    • 著作：《中華民國在聯合國大會的參與》（台灣商務印書館）
　

輔仁大學外語學院『外交認知 』系列講座（一）
（英文系與西文系主辦）

  • Time: December 22, 1999, 1:30-3:30
  • Place: SF130
  • Speaker: Mr. Hsia, Li-Yen, The Director of Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs  (外交部國際組織司 夏立言司長)

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