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臺大外文系通訊     第八十三期 九十八年五月一日

No.83
2009.5.1

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發行人: 梁欣榮 (Yanwing Leung)
主 編: 柯悌穆 ( Timothy Casey )

Past Events

April 1

Faculty Colloquium:
Professor Jay L. Halio 的演講系列 (第二場演講)
Moderator:  Professor Hsin-ying Li (李欣穎副教授)
Speaker:  Professor Jay L. Halio (Professor Emeritus of English, University of Delaware)
Title:  The Tragic Obverse of Shakespearean Comedy

April 8

召開系教評會。
A meeting of the DFLL Teachers’ Evaluation Committee was held.

April 11

舉辦金庸國際研討會。
“International Conference on Jin Yong” was held.

April 15

1.Two Faculty Colloquiums:
Moderator:  Professor Hsin-ying Li (李欣穎副教授)

(1) Speaker: Professor Bennett Yu-hsiang Fu (傅友祥助理教授)
Title:  Neither Chink Nor Canuck: The Politics of Dehyphenation in Contemporary Chinese Canadian Writing

(2) Speaker:  Professor Hsiu-chih Tsai (蔡秀枝副教授)
Title:   Flannery O’Connor’s South

2.教學優良教師遴選,本系共10位老師得獎。
Ten faculty members received awards for excellent teaching. The awardees are as follows:

教學優良獎(NTU Excellence in Teaching Award):阮綺霞副教授 (Prof. P. Nguyen), 王珊珊助理教授(Prof. S.S. Wang), 黃宗慧副教授(Prof. T.H. Huang),
張淑英教授(Prof. S.Y. Chang), 林湘漪助理教授(Prof. H.I. Lin), 葉德蘭副教授(Prof. D.L. Yeh)

本院教學優良獎(Collegiate Excellence in Teaching Award):朱杰佑講師(Mr. G. Witton-Davies), 施純宜助理教授 (Prof. C.Y. Shih), 廖朝陽教授(Prof. C.Y. Liao), 傅友祥助理教授(Prof. Y.H. Fu)

April 17

Two Lectures in Chinese on Translation and Interpretation:
Moderator: Professor Ching-Hsi Perng (彭鏡禧教授)

1. Speaker: Professor Tianzhen Xie (謝天振教授), Chair, Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation, Shanghai International Studies University
Title: 翻譯發展史、譯學觀念與翻譯學學科建設

2. Speaker:  Professor Mingjiong Chai (柴明熲教授), Dean, Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation, Shanghai International Studies University
Title: 從人才需求到學科建設——口譯學科的發展軌跡

April 22

為因應高等教育評鑑作業,三位校外自評委員訪問協助本系自我評鑑,分別是阮秀莉教授 (中興大學外文系教授兼系主任)、張郇慧副教授 (政治大學英文系副教授)及梁一萍教授 (師範大學英文系教授)。
Three non-NTU Evaluation Committee members visited the Department to help with the Self-Evaluation report. They were Prof. Rose Hsiu-Li Juan, National Chung Hsing University, Prof. Claire Hsun-huei Chang, National Chengchi University, and Prof. Iping Liang, National Taiwan Normal University.

April 23

召開課程委員會議。
A Meeting of the DFLL Curriculum Committee was held.

April 29

召開系務會議。
A Department Affairs Meeting was held.

Future Events

May 6 (Wed)

Faculty Colloquium:
Moderator:  Professor Hsin-ying Li  (李欣穎副教授)
Speaker: Professor Wei-hung Kao (高維泓助理教授)
Title:  Protestant Women, Memories, and the Black in Christina Reid’s Three War Dramas
Venue:  DFLL New Conference Room, 1F, Gallery of University History (Old Main Library)
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm., May 6, 2009

May 13 (Wed)

1.召開系教評會。
A meeting of the DFLL Teachers’ Evaluation Committee will be held.

2. Faculty Colloquium:
Moderator:  Professor Wei-hung Kao (高維泓助理教授)
Speaker:  Professor Duncan Chesney (齊東耿助理教授)
Title:  “Fail Better”: Beckett, Minimalism, and theQuestion of Postmodernism
Venue:   DFLL New Conference Room, 1F, Gallery of University History (Old Main Library)
Time:  3:30-5:00 pm., May 13, 2009

May 27 (Wed)

Faculty Colloquium:
Moderator:  Professor Yanwing Leung (梁欣榮副教授)
Speaker:  Professor David Punter (Department of English, University of Bristol, UK)
Title:  Imagining the Future in Modern Western Fiction
Venue:  DFLL New Conference Room, 1F, Gallery of University History (Old Main Library)
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm., May 27, 2009

 

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