Date / Time: 16-05-2026（Saturday) 14:00–16:30

Venue: Liang Kuo-Shu International Conference Hall, 3F College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University

Organizers: European Union Centre in Taiwan (EUTW); Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, National Taiwan University; European Languages Program, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University

Co-organizers: European Community Studies Association Taiwan (ECSA-T); Asociación Taiwanesa de Hispanistas

Link for registration: https://forms.gle/TNQRfm8FhmWuCvUFA

Agenda

14:00–14:30: Opening Remarks

Representative in Taiwan 

Luisa Shu-Ying Chang, Convener, Taiwan–Europe Cultural Forum

Group Photo and Break

14:30–16:30: EUTW Cultural Forum XXXIV “Disease, Writers & Artists, and Medicine in Europe”

Moderator:
Luisa Shu-Ying Chang (Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University; EUTW Cultural Forum Convener)

Speakers:

• Fei-Peng Lee (President, Taiwan Hospital Association; Board Member, Taipei Medical University)
  Topic: An Otologist’s Perspective: The Impact of Ear Diseases on the Artistic Creations of Van Gogh and Beethoven
• Ming-Shiang Wu (Distinguished Professor, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University; Dean, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University; President, Taiwan Society of Internal Medicine; President, Taiwan Association of Medical Education)
  Topic: Founders of Germ Theory: From the Microscope to the Revolution of Modern Medicine
• Kang-Yun Lee (Vice President, Taipei Medical University; Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University)
  Topic: From “The Burning of the Romantic Soul” to “The Rebellion of the Diseased Body”: Tuberculosis to Lung Cancer as Century-Long Threats in European Humanities and Scientific History

16:30: Closing Remarks
Luisa Shu-Ying Chang (Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University; EUTW Cultural Forum Convener)