Taiwan Cinema Symposium and Book Release: Yesteray and Today

Colombia University hosts a conference that includes lectures, panel discussions, book talks, and movie screenings looking at Taiwanese cinema.

The film screenings, lectures, receptions and panel discussions open to public. Co-sponsored by Columbia University Libraries, Columbia University Press, and the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

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April 21 (Thursday), 2016
Location: 203 Butler Library, Columbia University

10:00-12:00 a.m.
Film Screening
Banana Paradise / 香蕉天堂 (Wang Tong, 1989)
Introduction, Q & A by Prof. Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University

1:00-1:45 p.m.
Panel Discussion on the book: An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies
Authors: Jim Cheng, James Wicks, and Sachie Noguchi
Scholars: Prof. Ying Qian, Robert Chen, and Guo-Juin Hong
Moderator: Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press

1:45-2:30 p.m.
Lecture by the guest speaker
What Does the Taiwan New Cinema Movement Mean 30 Years Ago? / Prof. Robert Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

2:30-3:15 p.m.
Lecture by the guest speaker
Dire Straits: Representation of 1949 and Wang Tong’s Cinema / Prof. Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University

3:15-4:00 p.m.
Lecture by the guest speaker
Recent Taiwan Films: Currencies & Circulations / Prof. James Wicks, Point Loma Nazarene University

Location: Taiwan Cultural Center of TECO New York (1 E. 42nd St., New York, NY, 10017)
5:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Reception for the Book Release
Remarks by:

Ambassador Lily L. W. Hsu 徐儷文, TECO (5 min.)
Maria de los Angeless Crummett, Executive Director of Fulbright Scholar Program (5 min.)
Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press (5 min.)
Ann Thornton, Vice Provost and University Librarian, Columbia University (5 min.)
Jane Gaines, Professor and Director of the M.A. in Film and Media Studies, Columbia University (5 min.)
Robert Chen, Professor, Department of Radio & Television, Vice Dean of the College of Communication, National Chengchi University (5 min.)
Jim Cheng, Author and Director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University (5 min.)

6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Reception

7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Film Screening
Buddha, Bless America / 太平天國 (Wu Nien-Jen, 1996)
Introduction, Q & A by Prof. James Wicks, Point Loma Nazarene University

April 22 (Friday), 2016
Location: 203 Butler Library, Columbia University

10:10 a.m.-noon
Film Screening
Maverick / 菜鳥 (2015)
Introduction, Q & A by Prof. Robert Chen, National Chengchi University

Location: Taiwan Cultural Center of TECO New York (1 E. 42nd St., New York, NY, 10017)
7:00-9:00 p.m
Film Screening
10 + 10 (Hou Hsiao-hsien and others, 2011)
Introduction, Q & A by Prof. Robert Chen, Guo-Juin Hong, and James Wicks