MCLC: S-F/Sci-Fi and Planetary Healing symposium

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S-F/Sci-Fi and Planetary Healing symposium
A Symposium on S-F/Sci-Fi and Planetary Healing
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Conference Room, FL 204 English Department
Tamkang University, Tamsui
9:15 – 9:30 am     Arrival and morning refreshments
9:30 – 9:45 Opening Address by Dr. Yung-yu Huang, Chair of the English Department (followed by a group photo) 
1st Session: Writing S-F: Sci-fi and/or Speculative Fiction
9:45 – 9:50  Huang I-min presides over a session of 4 presenters
10:00 – 12:00
Hua Li (Montana State University, US)
“Spaceship Earth: Liu Xinci’s Ecological Science Fiction”
Iris Ralph (Tamkang University, TW)
“When Science Fiction Became Representational Realism”
Dean Brink (National Chiao Tong University, TW)
"The Ecological Futures of Star Trek Enterprise and Neocolonial Temporality of the Early 2000s: Power, Containment, and Pre-emptive Strikes"
Simon Estok (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
“Sci-fi/Cli-fi Case Studies on Imagining the End”
12:15 – 1:00 pm Lunch snacks and light refreshments
2nd Session: Giving Voice to Planetary Healing
1:05 – 1:25 Xinmin Liu presides over a session of 4 presenters
Screening: “When Ruby, the Climate Kid meets Margaret Atwood the world renowned novelist,” a 6-minute video from the YouTube         
1:30 – 3:30
Yung-yu Huang (Tamkang University, TW)
“The Land Ethic and Environmental Justice in Sheng Wu’s Poetry”
Jing Zhao (Kanazawa University, Japan)
“Searching for Therapeutic Landscapes in the Era of Health Endangerment”
Yuwen Hsiung (Chung Yuan Christian University, TW)
“Competing with Urban Verticality: Cinematic Landscapes in Seedig Bale and Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from above”
Xinmin Liu (Washington State University, US)
“Situating Planetary Healing: Memory, Place and Plants in Zheng Yi’s Magical Tree (1995)”
3:45 – 4:15  Mr. Shun-ren Zheng, the local potter/artist, demonstrates his design and manufacture of pottery tea-cups made from eco-friendly prescription of minerals with medicinal effects
4:45 pm     Symposium concludes
5:00            Dinner hosted by Dr. Huang in honor of symposium presenters
*The symposium acknowledges the valuable efforts of co-organizing this symposium by Dr Xinmin Liu, Washington State University, US and Dr. I-min Huang, Tamkang University and the prompt and generous assistance by the English Department of TKU led by Dr. Yung-yu Huang. 
by denton.2 at osu.edu on October 14, 2016
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