外文系椰林精英計畫五、六月活動

2022-04-29

外文系椰林精英計畫五、六月活動：英語小聚、與海外校友線上有約、跨領域工作坊

 

5/4 (Wed) Interdisciplinary workshop: Pretext Puzzles – Learning to Decode Lies

  • Speaker: Prof. Lilith Acadia (王莉思助理教授)
  • Time: 12:30-13:15 (food & drinks provided, but to be enjoyed before or after the workshop)
  • Location: 文院115室
  • Short description of the workshop: This workshop aims to give you a superpower: tools you can use to catch lies in conversation, reading the news, even introspecting. Through learning a set of tests and practicing your skills in realistic scenarios, you will learn about a special kind of lie: a ‘pretext.’ Like a fallacy of justification, a pretext is a justification for a belief or action that does not reflect motivations. So you’ll start to see when a purported reason is merely a clever rhetorical trick to strengthen a weak argument or conceal true motives.
  • Sign-up link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhlo16F33lfGLYwnJCKsUqFLTG-DI5TajYW8sa07UhhJM-Mg/viewform

 

5/10 (Tue) English Corner: Can We Get Smarter about Disinformation?

 

5/14 (Sat) Online Alumni Talk: From DFLL to the World of Business – In Conversation with Liu and Huang (joining from Vancouver)

  • Speaker 1: Sandy Liu (劉珊汝) is an experienced marketer with a decade of experience developing product and go-to-market strategies for start-ups, large businesses and nonprofits across the United States, Canada and Taiwan. Her experience spanned from working with Adobe in Silicon Valley as a Product Marketer, being a founding team member of TBWA Taiwan, a top global ad agency, to running a consultancy advising arts & culture organizations in making AR/VR experiences. For the last 4 years she has focused her career on immersive tech, including serving as the Head of Engagement for Shape Immersive, a Vancouver based Metaverse startup to her current position as Head of Marketing for Think Tank Training Centre, a top school training next generation CG artists for film, gaming, and AR/VR industries. Sandy holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and was the president of the student association of DFLL in 2008.
  • Speaker 2: Lyla Huang (黃翾), CPA (Canada), CPA (Washington) is currently a Senior Tax Specialist at Anthem Properties Group, a multinational real estate developer based in Vancouver, BC. In her previous life, she was a published writer decorated with national literary awards in Taiwan. After completing her double majors in English and Chinese literature from National Taiwan University, she was honored to receive the highest entrance scholarship for her MA studies in cross-cultural history at the University of British Columbia. Subsequently, she decided to leverage her communication skills and research background to launch a career in business. In addition to her 9 to 5 role as a tax advisor, she helps start-ups develop compelling marketing strategies and coaches young professionals in perfecting their interviewing skills through her private consulting practice. In her free time, she enjoys learning about wine and following Formula 1.
  • Time: 10:00-11:30 am (Taiwan Time)
  • Location: the Webex link will be sent to those who have successfully signed-up prior to the event
  • Sign-up link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfwIL5oI3DTfXGSUu67ZXAzQ3LgDv2Tp4CrP0d3zTcIc7D8jw/viewform

 

5/19 (Thu) English Corner: 2030 Bilingual Nation Policy

 

5/27 (Fri) Interdisciplinary workshop: Love in the Time of Pandemics

  • Speaker: 陳重仁教授
  • Time: 12:30-13:15 (food & drinks provided, but to be enjoyed before or after the workshop)
  • Location: 文院115室 (on-line)
  • Short description: This seminar aims to provoke a discussion of ethical conflicts in the time of pandemics. As contagious diseases challenge and redefine our understanding of interpersonal interactions and social obligation, writings about pandemics often radicalize existent social conflicts that underlie current problems of gender, class, race. Pandemic writings, in a sense, reveal our anxiety and anticipation of who we are and what our society becomes. Participants will be provided passages of quotes from literary writings about plagues, cholera, AIDS, Spanish Flu, EBOLA, and of course, COVID-19. Altogether, we will read and engage in the discussions of “what’s true of all the evils in the world,” in Camus’s words, in order to “rise about” ourselves.
  • Sign-up link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScppptgotU-svILmVL1V6YELFBTdKN30_8xNH4f6ddbW5U_7w/viewform

 

6/8 (Wed) English Corner: Censorship – What can we see, and who allowed us to?

 

In principle, most events will be held in person, but we will make adjustments if necessary based on recommendations from the NTU Epidemic Prevention Team（國立臺灣大學防疫小組）.

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