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2018 ISLE-EA Coming Up!

The 2018 International Symposium on Literature and Environment, East Asia, is going to take place in two weeks—on 20-21 October! We the conference organizing committee look forward to receiving you and hope this reminder could facilitate your travel here. Below you would find the most updated conference program and the conference and housing venue directory. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions.

 

1. Conference Program

2. Venue Directory (From Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to NTNU Library Campus):

(1) By Taxi:

You may catch a taxi which can be identified by its yellow color at the exit of the airport terminal building and indicate to the driver that you are traveling to NTNU Library Campus located in Taipei City (國立臺灣師範大學圖書館校區). Fare from the Airport to NTNU Library Campus is around NTD1000 to NTD1200. Most drivers do not speak English, so it is better to have your destination’s name in Chinese, along with the projected cost of the trip. You may show the following Chinese address of NTNU Library Campus to the driver if necessary. Upon arrival, you can then walk to the conference venue (i.e. International Conference Center, or ICC) or the housing venues (i.e. NTNU Guest House or NTNU Campus Inn) on foot by following the campus map below.

NTNU Library Campus Address: 國立臺灣師範大學 (圖書館校區) 臺北市大安區和平東路一段129號

(2) By the Airport MRT plus Taipei Metro:

You may find way to the Airport MRT by following the “Taoyuan Airpot MRT” sign. The ticket can can be purchased at Token Issuing Machines or Information Counter. Fare from Airport Terminal Station to Taipei Main Station is NTD160 per person. The travel time for the express train is 36 mins and the price is the same as the commuter train, whose travel time will be 50 mins. Below is the English route map for your reference.

After you arrive at Taipei Main Station, follow the sign indicating “Taipei Metro (Red Line).” You will walk along a long corridor; then pass by the railway station and high speed railway station. Keep following the sign indicating “MRT Taipei Main Station (Red Line)” and you will find the escalator and elevator heading toward the platform. This takes around 5-10 mins.

Before entering the fare gate, you can buy the ticket at Token Issuing Machines or Information Counter. After arriving at the Red Line platform of MRT Taipei Main Station (Click to see the route map.):
a. Catch the train at the platform heading towards Xiangshan or Daan Station direction.
b. After two stops, transfer at CKS Memorial Hall Station (R08/G10) for the Green Line.
c. Catch the train heading for Xindian or Taipower Building Station direction. (It’s just on the opposite platform at the same floor.) After one stop, please get off at Guting Station (G09).
d. For NTNU Library Campus, please take exit 5. Walk alongside Heping East Road Sec. 1, and you will arrive in around 8 mins.

 

We would see you soon and wish you a pleasant journey to Taipei, Taiwan!

2018 Winter Short Talk Series

中華民國文學與環境學會與國家圖書館合作舉辦「​與自然同行​」​演講系列，由林耀福老師領軍，帶領蔡振興、周序樺、張嘉如、盧莉茹、蔡素芬、梁一萍等七位老師從不同角度探討西方生態文學​，誠摯邀請大家踴躍參與！

 

Call for Papers: International Symposium on the Humanities for the Environment

Call for Papers

International Symposium on the Humanities for the Environment

National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

November 18-November 19, 2018

Never in human history as now in the 21st century has our species’ ability to cope with planetary change been so urgent. Although the Anthropocene as an official geological epoch is still under debate, the concept has been widely used to describe the pervasive human impact on the planet since Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutizen proposed that we were “living in the Anthropocene”. An Anthropocene Working Group has been commissioned to investigate the possibility of formally adding the Anthropocene to the Geological Time Scale. Referring to the Anthropocene and its most discussed consequence, climate change, the historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has suggested that humanities as a discipline needs to envision the way the human beings become an agent of historical change. Recently Joni Adamson, Poul Holm, and other scholars across the globe have established The HfE Observatories (Humanities for the Environment: Observatories for Environmental Humanities Researchers) through which to observe, explore and enact the crucial ways humanistic and artistic disciplines may help us understand and engage with global ecological problems by providing insight into human action, perceptions, and motivation. They have collectively publicized “Humanities for the Environment: A Manifesto for Research and Action” as an invitation to the “Humanities for the Environment” open global consortium of humanities observatories. This Symposium presents cutting-edge researches and voices from the HfE Global Network to examine how the humanities and arts contribute to understanding the challenges of global environmental change. Through observing and exploring human actions and motivations, values, priorities, and habits, we propose an agenda that focuses on global humanities research in response to the challenges of planetary environmental change. This Symposium explores the role of the humanities in a time in which human activity is significantly reshaping the geological future of the planet. It demonstrates our continuous effort to expand the network and develop a shared agenda for research and action.

The deadline to submit abstracts is May 20, 2018, and it should be no longer than 500 words. The length of your full paper should not exceed 8,000 words.
To submit your abstract, please click on the following link:
https://goo.gl/forms/inDFlpsvpyI3vunP2

Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: May 20, 2018
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2018
Deadline for full paper submission: October 1, 2018

Organizers:
Center for Humanities Innovation and Social Practices, NSYSU, Taiwan
Center for the Humanities, NSYSU, Taiwan
The Humanities for the Environment, Asia-Pacific Observatory
Asian New Humanities Network

Attachment: 2018-HfE-CFP