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2026/3/31 Guest lecture for the course “Contemporary Culture and Globalisation”
114-2 semester guest lecture for the course “Contemporary Culture and Globalisation”
Topic: Globalization and Mega-Sport Events in South Korea
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 14:00-17:00
Venue: Room 711, Humanities Building
Speaker: Prof. Jaeho Kang (Seoul National University)
Chair: Prof. Song Hwee Lim (National Chung Hsing University)
Speaker Bio:
Jaeho Kang is Professor in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication and a faculty affiliate of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies at Seoul National University. He is the author of Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity (Polity Press, 2014) and a co-editor of Siegfried Kracauer: Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda and Political Communication (Columbia University Press, 2022). He is currently working on the book project, Seoul, the Spectacle of the Techno-City.
Organizers:
International PhD Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies
Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies
2026 NSTC Research Project “Geopolitics and Transnational Cinemas: Focusing on Connections between 21st Century Taiwan Cinema and Southeast Asia”