Conference Venue: College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
**Note: On Friday, registration is in the hallway outside the Auditorium; on Saturday and Sunday, registration is at the main entrance of the College. On Saturday and Sunday, please use the classrooms next to the registration desk as lounge space.
Download Conference Program (final-updated Oct. 14 afternoon)
Speakers
| Name | Title of Paper | Affiliation | Position |
| (Keynote Speaker)
Martin E. Jay |
Experiencing Otherness through Technology: The Lessons of Photography | Department of History, University of California, Berkeley (USA) | Emeritus Professor |
| Eyal Amiran | Technically Yours: The Resistance of Bodies in New Media | Department of Comparative Literature + Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine (USA) | Professor |
| Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan | Artifice and Intelligence: Orientalism, Disability, and Gender in the Fashioning of “Artificial” Intelligence | Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London (UK) | Senior Lecturer |
| Kate Marshall | The Novella as Technology: A Media Story | Department of English, University of Notre Dame (USA) | Associate Professor |
Presenters
| Name | Title of Paper | Affiliation | Position |
| Anthony Curtis Adler | Dis-encapsulation: Object-Oriented Programming and the Philosophy of Experience | Underwood International College, Yonsei University (Korea) | Professor |
| Hannes Bergthaller | Unnatural Contracts: “Earth System Governance” and the Cybernetic Image of the Planet | Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan) | Professor |
| Huang-hua Chen
陳皇華 |
Narrating Horrors: The Uncanny History of Gothic Epistolarity | Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) | Associate Professor |
| Ying-shan Chen
陳櫻珊 |
The Technicity of Quantum Consciousness and Quantum Neuroscience: Descartes, Spinoza and Hegel | General Education Center, National Taiwan University of Arts (Taiwan) | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
| Duncan McColl Chesney | Recent Novelistic Engagements of Contemporary Mediation and Precarization: Saramago and Houellebecq | Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University (Taiwan) | Professor |
| Kate Costello | Can the Machine Translator Be a Surrealist? Towards a Posthuman Poetics | St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford (UK) | PhD Student |
| Steven DeCaroli | Foucault’s Milieu: Power as Medium | Dept. of Philosophy, Goucher College (USA) | Associate Professor |
| Adam Fish | Multispecies Theories of Drone Firmware | School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales (Australia) | Scientia Fellow / Associate Professor |
| Paul Fung | Silenced Photography: Representations of Children and Machinery in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi | Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) | Associate Professor |
| Jens Haarkamp | Heidegger and the Misconceptions of Current Technophilia | Dept. of Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, Chung Yuan Christian University (Taiwan) | Assistant Professor |
| Shih-Yen Huang
黃士元 |
Embodied Experience through Technology: On Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” | Dept. of German, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages (Taiwan) | Associate Professor |
| Kaori Inuma | Developing Eyes to See Fairies: Uncanny Network of Doyle and Photographs | Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University (Japan) | PhD Student |
| Marek Jancovic | Seizure as Technique: Disability, Media and the Technicity of Vision | Institute of Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Mainz (Germany) | PhD Candidate |
| Anand Karthikeyan | Representing the Network: A Study of the Film You Are Here | Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (India) | PhD Student |
| Julia M. Keblinska | Red Chambers and Electric Rainbows: Television Cultures in New Era China (1978-1989) | Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley (USA) | PhD Candidate
|
| Rui Kunze | Memories in Matter: Mediality, Technicality, and the Configurations of Culinary Experience | Institute of Sinology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) | Post-doctoral Research Fellow |
| Wei-Chen Liu
劉威辰 |
A Voice Detached from the Body: Technology of Storytelling in the Origin of the (American) Novel | Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University (Taiwan) | PhD Student |
| Louis Wai-Chun Lo | Questioning Cinematic Time in the Real Slow Motion Sequence in Johnnie To’s Three (2016) | Graduate Institute for Studies in Visual Cultures, National Yang-Ming University (Taiwan) | Associate Professor |
| Kenny K. K. Ng | The Elephant Vanishes: Reading Ye Si with HKSAR Photography and Cinema | Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong) | Associate Professor |
| Irida Ntalla | Theorising Affective Encounters of Environmental Change through Emergent Mediated Experiential Aesthetics | Dept. of Media, Middlesex University London (UK) | Lecturer
|
| Benjamin Olin | Excavating the Franklin Street Arts Center: An Archaeology of a Speculative Media Ecology | Cinema and Television Program, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University (China) | Assistant Professor |
| Babak Rahimi | Technicity, Mediality and Religion | Department of Literature,
University of California, San Diego (USA) |
Associate Professor
|
| Sharin Schroeder | Gains and Losses: Digital Research on Victorian Scots | Dept. of English, National Taipei University of Technology (Taiwan) | Associate Professor |
| Bruce G. Shapiro | Crossing the Deadline: The Technology of Language and the Quest for Unmediated Performance | Language Center, Chaoyang University of Technology (Taiwan) | Adjunct Associate Professor |
| Peng-yi Tai
戴芃儀 |
Zombies and Technological Mediation in World War Z | Dept. of English, National Central University (Taiwan) | Associate Professor |
| Yoshiki Tajiri
(Invited Presenter) |
Virginia Woolf and the Cinematic Perception | Dept. of Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo (Japan) | Professor |
| Laurie Jui-hua Tseng
曾瑞華 |
God and Human Beings in the Technologically-Mediated Living Condition: Reading Philip K. Dick’s Theology in His VALIS Trilogy | Dept. of English, National Taitung University (Taiwan) | Associate Professor |
| Henk Vynckier | The Misplaced Telescreen: On Winston Smith’s Living Room and Other Spaces of Resistance in Nineteen Eighty-Four | Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University (Taiwan) | Professor |
| Leihua Weng | Visuality after Textuality: Individual and Collective Dislocation and Experience in Jia Zhangke’s The World (2004) | Kalamazoo College (USA) | Assistant Professor of Chinese |
| Yuk-yin Bobo Wong | Sounding Bodies: Materiality and Subjectivity in Greene and Beckett | Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Sun Yat-sen University (China) | Associate Research Fellow |
