Dr. Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee of City University of Hong Kong will give a lecture at NCHU in Taichung on Monday, 12 October from 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. in Lecture Hall 102 of the Humanities Building: “Space Between: Women’s Writing, Travels, and Transnational Encounters from the Late 19th Century to the Interwar Period” (abstract here). Please register for the 12 October NCHU event in Taichung here.
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Taipei Tech is hosting events with Dr. Lee on October 13–14 in room 715 of the Taipei Tech General Studies Building: “Port Cities, Periodicals, and Literary Histories” (Tuesday, 13 October, 10:15–11:15 [lecture, abstract here]), Cities and Fantasy Across Cultures, 1830–1930: Urban Imaginaries and Transnational Encounters, Liverpool UP, 2026 (Tuesday, 13 October, 11:30–12:00 [book launch]), and “Literature, Material Culture, and Pedagogy” (Wednesday, 14 October, 3:30–5:00 [pedagogy roundtable]).
- Register for either or both Tuesday 13 October Taipei Tech events here.
- Register for the Wednesday 14 October pedagogy roundtable at Taipei Tech here.
Guest speakers for the Wednesday, October 14 pedagogy roundtable (3:30–5:00 p.m., Room 715, General Studies Building, Taipei Tech) will include Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee, City University of Hong Kong (“Memory and Place: Writing the Self and Experiencing the City”); Li-hsin Hsu, National Chengchi University (“Textiles, Decorative Art, and Silk Utopia”); Tai-Chun Ho, National Chung Hsing University (“Tracing Hardy’s The Trumpet-Major: Archives, Periodicals, and Performance”); Pei-Wen Clio Kao, National Ilan University (“The Water Imagery in the Short Stories of the American Southern Literature: Elements and Lived Experiences Based on Gaston Bachelard’s Philosophy”); Sharin Schroeder, Taipei Tech (“Nineteenth-Century Collections: Print, Objects, Archives, Folk-Lore”); and Hannah Wen-Shan Shieh, Shih Chien University (“Fashion in Modernist Fiction”).
Taipei Tech Campus (Located at Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station)
Ongoing Events
Relevant conferences and information on current museum exhibitions on the pages devoted to each.
National Central Library sometimes holds relevant lectures and workshops. Please see their Mandarin site for details.
Bookman Bookstore often holds book events with authors.
Please also see the list of current journal CFPs related to book history.
Please use the contact form if you know of an exhibition or event that is relevant to book history scholarship.
Significant Past Events
- National Central Library has a list of past events here.
Seoul Exhibition of White Terror Banned Books (June 2019) - Taichung Civil Affairs Bureau Banned Books Display (March–April 2017)
- See also Past Conferences
