Bulletin Spring‧Summer Autumn‧Winter 1999

Research Institute for the Humanities Management Board • To manage the institute • To design development plans • To vet research proposals Composition Chairman: Dr. Ho Hsiu-hwang Dean of Arts Members: Prof. Liu Shu-hsien (Philosophy) Director of the Institute Dr. Chou Ying-hsiung (English) Associate Director of the Institute Mr. Dang Shu-leung (Chinese Language and Literature) Dr. Serena Jin (Translation) Prof. Mayching Kao (Fine Arts) Prof. D.C. Lau (Institute of Chinese Studies) Dr. Daniel P.L. Law (Music) Dr. Ng Lun Ngai-ha (History) Dr. Philip Shen (Religion) Executive Committee • To supervise day-to-day operation Composition Director Associate Director Programme Directors Faculty Office of Arts • To provide administrative support Three Ma j or Conferences Three important conferences were also organized by the institute between 1992 and 1994, which laid the foundation for academic collaboration and exchange at the international level. International Conference on Cu l t u r al Criticism 1993 (27th December 1992-10th January 1993) The two-week conference drew together 40 overseas participants and 70 local scholars. Its general theme was public spheres and public cultures, and major topics were culture, mode r n i ty and democracy i n comparative perspectives; cross-cultural negotiations; images and boundaries; cultural criticism and the public sphere; mode r n i t y, i den t i ty and cu l t u r al ambivalence; and politics of cultural criticism. Overseas participants included such famous names as Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, Virginia Dominguez, Vincent Crapanzano, Jane Kramer, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Benjamin Lee, Helen Siu, Susan Introducing the Research Institute for the Humanities 4