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