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Suzanne Marchand's lecture series in Taiwan

Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Marchand (Boyd Professor, Louisiana State University; President-Elect, American Historical Association)

Abstracts of the Talks:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OVFfDgIkkekHAhYodgFuGAaPtRA3jbEl/view?usp=share_link

Main Organizers: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica; New History Journal
Organizers: "Religion and the Anthropocene in Taiwan: Towards a Global Environmental History" (Academia Sinica Thematic Research Program); Research Center of Cultural and Intellectual History, IHP
Co-Organizer: Research Center of World History, IHP

(1) National Taiwan University (NTU)
Title: How the Nineteenth Century Became Embarrassing for American Humanists
Date & Time: Thursday, April 24, 10:00–12:00
Venue: Conference Room, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
Organizers: Research Center for Chinese Cultural and Historical Studies, NTU; Dept. of History, NTU

(2) Institute of History and Philology (IHP), Academia Sinica
Title: Learning from the Father of Lies: How Reading Herodotus Helped Improve Modern Historical Methods
Date & Time: Friday, April 25, 15:30–17:30
Venue: Conference Room, 5th Floor, Museum of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

(3) National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
Title: The Escape from Flattery: How Historians Became 'Objective'
Date & Time: Monday, April 28, 10:00–12:00
Venue: Academic Lecture Hall, College of Liberal Arts, Kuang-Fu Campus, NCKU (1F, Department of Chinese Literature Building)
Organizers: Taiwan Comprehensive University System; Department of History, NCKU; Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, NCKU