interfaceing 2021

Pandemics & Plagues, Languages & Literatures 


College of Liberal Arts,
National Taiwan University



FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2021
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  9:00		 Registration
  9:00
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  9:15		 Opening Ceremony
  9:15
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10:15		 Plenary Session

Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

“Processing the experience of pandemics and plagues in discourse in different contexts”
10:15
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10:45		 Coffee Break
10:45
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12:15		 Session 1A     Session 1B
Literary Representation of the Epidemic.
Transhistorical and Comparative Perspectives

Panel organized by Patrizia Piredda (University of Oxford)		Roman Classifications
Pedro Caldas (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

Representing the Pestilence: Death in Venice as a tragedy

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Davide Crosara (Sapienza University of Rome)

“A close conversing with death”: Living with death in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year

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Gianluca Cinelli (Fondazione Nuto Revelli, Centro Studi per la pace “Sereno Regis”)

From “Gossip” to a “Deplorable Certainty”. Reason and Emotions in Alessandro Manzoni’s Historical Account of the Plague of 1630 		Sven Günther (Northeast Normal University)

Contagium, morbus, pestilentia, and Co: Epidemic Language in Latin Historians

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James L. Zainaldin (Harvard University)

The City and Disease Now and Then: A Roman Perspective

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Katherine D. Van Schaik (Harvard University)

Medical practitioners’ interpretation of evidence and methods of disease classification in the context of a pandemic: the Antonine plague and Covid-19

12:15
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13:30		 Lunch Break
13:30
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14:30		 Plenary Session

Carlos Rojas (Duke University)

“Power, Energy, Capital: A Meta-Epidemiological Analysis of Disease”
14:30
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15:00		 Coffee Break
15:00
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16:30		 Session 2A     Session 2B
Perspectives & Values
Life & Death & Values
Patrizia Piredda (University of Oxford)

Language and surveillance practices. The metaphors of war read through Foucault and Schmitt

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Gallous Atabongwoung (University of Pretoria)

Unpacking the Covid-19 Pandemic: A South African Perspective

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Sarah Phillips (University of Oxford)

The History of Pandemics and Plagues in Early-Modern Europe 		Hannah Wen-Shan Shieh (Shih Chien University)

Tuberculosis, Restlessness, and Katherine Mansfield’s Writing

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Ilana Shiloh (Academic Center of Law and Business)

Survival is insufficient: Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven

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Amalia Calinescu ( (University of Bucharest)

Desire for Human Nature in a Clone-Plagued World

16:30
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17:00		 Coffee Break
17:00
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18:30		 Session 3A     Session 3B
“Us” and “them”
– Pandemics as an Identity Marker in East Asia

Panel organized by Kristin Shi-Kupfer (Trier University)		Politics & Pandemics
Manlai Nyamdorj (Trier University)

Smallpox on the steppe: A historical look at disease related Sinophobia in Mongolian imagination

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Mayya Solonina (Trier University)

Success in containment of COVID-19 as a reinforcement of Taiwanese identity

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Kristin Shi-Kupfer (Trier University)

“Do Chinese or only foreigners import new cases?” A discourse analysis of Chinese social media debates on the official label “imported (from abroad)” regarding the COVID-19 pandemic 		Valerij Grecko (University of Tokyo)

Black on Red: Biopolitics of Plagues under the Soviet Rule

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Madalitso Zililo Phiri (Harvard University)

Unmaking the Political Economy of Empire and Health Inequalities through South Africa’s Covid-19 Responses

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Chung-Jen Chen (National Taiwan University)

Epidemic Blindness and the Politics of Seeing in José Saramago’s Blindness

   
19:00 Conference Banquet (by invitation)




SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2021
  9:00
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  9:15		 Registration
  9:15
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10:15		 Plenary Session

David Butt (Macquarie University)

“Our Silent ‘Topoi’ of Suffering: plague; poverty; and war as textual motivations”
10:15
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10:45		 Coffee Break
10:45
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12:15		 Session 4A     Session 4B     Session 4C
Refiguring the Plague:
Narrative, Intervention, and Risking the Metaphor

Panel organized by Earl Jackson (Asia University)		 Body & Politics “No Mask, No Entry!”:
Multilingualism and Language Diversity of the Linguistic Landscape during COVID-19 Era

Panel organized by Teresa Wai See Ong (Griffith University) & Michael M. Kretzer ((Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Christophe Thouny (Ritsumeikan University)

Pandemic as Recycled Metaphor: Topologies of Bourgeois Domesticity in Guy de Maupassant’s Le Horla

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Michelle E. Bloom (University of California-Riverside)

On Pills and Needles: Visual Metaphor and HIV Stigma in Jeanne and the Perfect Guy and Blue Pills

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Earl Jackson (Asia University”)

Handloom in the Night: Samuel R. Delany's Engagement with AIDS in "The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals" 		Emilio Capettini (University of California -Santa Barbara)

Greek Myth and Etiologies of HIV/AIDS

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Sonakshi Srivastava (Indraprastha University)

T/easing the Corpse: Delineating the Body Politic in Ananthamurthy’s Samskara

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Lilith Acadia (National Taiwan University)

Pandemic Pretexts: Are Governments Exploiting the Chaos to Undermine Democracy?

 Laxmi Prasad Ojha (Michigan State University)

Public Service Announcement as Sites of Social and Linguistic Inequalities: Lessons from COVID-19 related Public Signage in Nepal

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Teresa Wai See Ong (Griffith University)

The Invisible Multilingualism on COVID-19 Public Health Signs in Penang, Malaysia

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Michael M. Kretzer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak, The Vaccination Procedures and Health Crisis Communication in Southern Africa
12:15
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13:30		 Lunch Break
13:30
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14:30		 Plenary Speech

Patrick Finglass (Bristol University)

“Ancient Greek pandemics as a test of leadership: Homer’s Achilles, Sophocles’ Oedipus, and Thucydides’ Pericles”
14:30
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15:00		 Coffee Break
15:00
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16:30		 Session 5A     Session 5B     Session 5C
Malady and Malediction,
Collective and Personal Experience of the Disease in Ancient and Medieval Accounts

Panel organized by Ecaterina Lung (University of Bucharest)		 Discours Medical & la Bonne Voie Values in History, or History of Values
Daniela Zaharia (University of Bucharest)

Punishment by Plague in Diplomatic Treaties in the Ancient Near East

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Alexandra Lițu (University of Bucharest)

Personal strategies in times of collective misfortune in Ancient Greece

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Florica Bohîlțea Mihuț (University of Bucharest)

Describing pestilences in T. Live’s Ab Urbe condita

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Ecaterina Lung (University of Bucharest)

The many functions of plagues in Theophanes Confessor’s Chronographia (cca. 813)

 Jean-Alexandre Perras (European University Institute)

La « contagion des modes » au XVIIIe siècle : Dynamiques économiques et commerce global

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Érika Wicky (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Parfums, épidémie et contagion au XIXe siècle

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Jean-Louis Vaxelaire ((Université de Namur)

Qui croire en temps de pandémie? Des médecins qui rassurent et qui inquiètent

 Paolo Costa (Pontifical Biblical Institute)

La peste, la malattia e il corpo politico: continuità e discontinuità di una metafora nella legislazione tardoantica

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Brian K. Reynolds (Fu Jen Catholic University)

"Mundi totius domina et aegris medicina": Some Considerations on the Virgin Mary as Physician in Medieval and Patristic Sources

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Nevia Dolcini & Veronica Valle (University of Macau)

“Italian Heroes”: the role of gender-specific images in the public discourse around the COVID-19 pandemics in Italy

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17:00		 Coffee Break
17:00
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18:30		 Session 6A     Session 6B     Session 6C
Concepts of Diseases in Ancient and Modern Arts

Panel organized by Chia-Lin Hsu (Tunghai University)		 Teaching & Pandemics Gender & Disease
Michael Vickers (University of Oxford)

An Aristophanic Source for Details of the Athenian Plague

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Chiao-mei Liu (National Taiwan University)

Water Resources and Hygiene in Impressionist Painting: Monet and Cézanne’s Riverscapes in the Environs of Paris

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Hsiu-Ling Kuo (National Chung Cheng University)

Health, Food, and Body Images in Modern Germany

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Chia-Lin Hsu (Tunghai University)

Iconographies of Apollo and Asclepius, and the Greeks’ Concept of Disease

 Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Surfing the waves first: exploring algorithms in ancient Greek epic to improve teaching in times of health crises

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Jörg-A. Parchwitz (Tamkang University)

The Covid 19 pandemic in Taiwan and Germany –two projects in the tertiary GFL classroom

 Ioannis Mitsios (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Athenian heroines during times of plague, famine and war

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Chen-Wen Hong (National Taipei University of Business)

Gendering the Posthuman Corpse: A Feminist Reading of Demon Slayer: Kemetsu no Yaiba vis-à-vis World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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Andrea Núñez Casal (University of Oxford)

Puligwans, Meigas and Microbes: A Feminist Healing Approach during the Coronavirus Pandemic

19:00 Conference Banquet (by invitation)




SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2021
  9:00
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  9:15		 Registration
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11:00		 Session 7A     Session 7B
Perspectives on Diseases Ecology & Pandemics
Figen Geerts (New York University)

Invisible Enemies: Epidemic Scapegoats in Antiquity

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Sheng-mei Ma (Michigan State University)

Ling Ma’s Severance Package for the China Bug

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Duncan Chesney (National Taiwan University)
Contagion and Community: Saramago's Blindness 		Wen-Hui Chang (Chung Yuan Christian University)

Post-Covid-19 era: Reflections on Ecology in European Fairy Tales

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Brigitte N. Stepanov (Grinnell College)

On Contagious Disease, Economy, and Ecology in Marie Redonnet’s Splendid Hôtel

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Hiroko Masumoto (Kobe University)

The Invisible Hazard: Nuclear Accident and Pandemic in Yoko Tawada's Dystopian Novels

11:00
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11:30		 Coffee Break
11:30
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13:00		 Session 8A     Session 8B
Metaphern & Ideologien & das Inselmotiv Discourses of Disease
Shelley Ching-yu Depner (National Cheng Kung University)

Mandarin und deutsche Wortschöpfungen in der Covid-19-Pandemie: Metaphern und die sozialen Konnotationen

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Chris Hein (National Taiwan University)

Fatale Apotheose des Wissenschaftlers - Gedanken zur problematischen Verschränkung von Idealismus, Forschung und
Menschenrechten in Lars von Trier’s Epidemic

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Susanne Schick (Fu Jen Catholic University)

Die Notwendigkeit einer Insel: Gemeinsam erfolgreich gegen das Virus in Taiwan 		Yu Min Claire Chen (National Taipei University of Technology)

Autobiography, Fiction, and Pandemics: Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain

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Iris H. Tuan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

During COVID-19 Pandemics, Reflect on Plagues in Shakespeare’s Plays

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Herrad Heselhaus (University of Tsukuba)

Narratives of Pandemic and Immunity: Adalbert Stifter’s Granite

13:00
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14:30		 Lunch Break
14:30
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15:30		 Plenary Session

Dámaso López García (Complutense University of Madrid)

“Literature in the Times of Cholera: Love and Death in Costaguana”
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16:00		 Coffee Break

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17:30		 Session 9A     Session 9B     Session 9C
Shaping Shifting Realities:
Social Functions of Poetry in Times of Pandemic

Panel organized by Christian Soffel (Trier University)		 Events & Reactions Ways to See – Ways to Die
Matthias Fechner (Trier University)

“Liberalism is what you are sadly lacking.” The Shift of Political Attitudes in Germany during the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Christian Soffel (Trier University)

Pandemic and Personal Health During the 2003 SARS Crisis Reflected in Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan

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Angelika Schmitt (Trier University)

“Coronaverse” – a Digital Anthology of Transnational Russian-Language Poetry on the Pandemic 2020

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Juo-ping Chien (Trier University)

“Nature is Sending us a Message” – The Relationship between Humans and Nature in Contemporary Poetry from Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples

 Constantin Canavas (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)

Coping with plague and trading with cotton: Sanitary discourses in Catalan ports in the eighteenth century

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Hendrik Müller (Hochschule Fresenius Hamburg)

Panic, actionism and protest - recurring patterns of behaviour in dealing with pandemics

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Jae Won Ahn (Seoul National University)

Thucydides' observation on Athenian Plague

 Chang-Min Yu (National Taiwan University)

The Diseased Ecology of Images: Behemoth (2015) and Present Perfect (2019)

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Ana Boicu & Roxana Rogobete (West University of Timișoara)

Pandemics in English and Spanish poetry: A corpus-based study

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Julie Hugonny (University of Stirling)

Mary Shelley’s Last Man. The Delusions of Prophecy

19:00 Conference Banquet (by invitation)






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