The Symposium
Date: Saturday 7 October 2017
Venue: The Council Room, 2.29 King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London
SCHEDULE
10.00 – 10:15
Registration
10:15 – 10:30
Welcome by Ms. Cheryl Lai, Director, Taipei Representative Office in the UK.
SESSION 1:
10:30 – 11:10
Professor Gene-Fon Liao (National Taiwan University of Arts) “A Cinema of Living Fossil.”
11:10 – 11:50
Professor Chris Berry (King’s College London) “Taiwanese-Language Films (Taiyupian): An Alternative Cinema of Poverty?”
11:50 – 12:30
Dr. Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (SOAS) “Politics of Everyday: Taiwanese-language cinema of the 1950s–1960s.”
Lunch break: 12:30 – 13:30
SESSION 2:
13:30 – 14:10
Ms. Teresa Huang (Taiwan Film Institute), “The Restoration Effort of Taiyu Pian of Taiwan Film Institute.”
14:10 – 14:50
Ms. Evelyn Shih (University of California, Berkeley), “No Longer Bond’s Girl: Female 007 in 1960s Taiyupian.”
Tea & Coffee Break: 14:50—15:10
15:10 – 15:50
Associate Professor Jeremy Taylor (University of Nottingham), “Beyond Nativism: Examining Taiyupian from a Regional Perspective.”
15:50 – 16:30
Associate Professor Wang Chun-Chi (National Dong Hwa University), “Sinophone Stardom: The Hong Kong Experience of Taiyu Pian’s Female Stars.”
16:30 – 17:00
Final Reflections & General Discussion
EVENING SCREENINGS:
18:15 Fantasy of the Deer Warrior; 20:10 The Lost Kingdom
(Nash Lecture Theatre, 2.31 King’s Building)
SUNDAY SCREENINGS:
14:00 The Best Secret Agent; 16:10 Early Train to Taipei; 19:00 Brother Wang and Brother Liu Tour Taiwan
(Nash Lecture Theatre, 2.31 King’s Building)
