Taiwan Lecture Series 2025
Taiwanese Environmental Imagination in the Age of Globalization

This year’s Taiwan Lecture Series "Taiwanese Environmental Imagination in the Age of Globalization” engages with various cultural responses to Taiwanese and global transformations of environments. Against the backdrop of multiple crises in an entangled world, authors and filmmakers are striving for shifts in human-nonhuman interaction and perception, zooming in on the diversity of Taiwanese environments and social constellations and placing them in a context of global economical exchange and shifting world orders. The class comprises lectures by renowned scholars, film screenings and readings and discussions, among others with eco-writer Wu Ming-yi, as well as seminar sessions. During the latter, we engage in discussions on a broad range of textual and audiovisual material and ask for its critical potential in rethinking environments in and beyond Taiwan.

Location: CATS Campus, seminar building, R. 010.01.05 (1^st floor)