農業歷史與文學國際研討會
時間：2026年12月11~13日（五～日）
地點：中央研究院歐美研究所
研討會議程：more
研討會報名：coming soon
※大會將提供AI同步翻譯。因會場座位有限，本次活動優先錄取相關領域學者、專家（含作家與農業從業者）與學生。主辦單位保留審核與核准報名資格之權利。
研討會主題
This international symposium seeks to bring together historians, literary scholars, and farm activists to explore the entangled histories and imaginings of agriculture across time and regions. Farming has long been more than a mode of food production——it is a site of imagination, knowledge-making, and human-nonhuman interaction and negotiation. As such, farming offers a rich terrain for investigating how we remember, envision, and contest our relationship with land, labor, and the living world. This interdisciplinary conference invites reflections on the narratives, metaphors, and materialities that shape both small-scale as well as commercial agricultural knowledge and experience.
Bringing scholars from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the United States, this conference will adopt a transnational framework, encouraging innovative comparative or interdisciplinary approaches that understand farming not merely as a local or national enterprise, or within a colonizer-colonized frame, but as a global-local practice of cultural, ecological, and economic exchange. Through such dialogues, we aim to illuminate how agricultural practices, narratives, and knowledges circulate, adapt, and resonate across borders and historical contexts, producing shared visions of agroecological resilience and planetary coexistence.
Themes may include, but are not limited to, the following:
farmers, crops, and the environment
land, labor, and community
crops, food, and cuisine
farm/rural disease, medicine, and well-being
agricultural practices, technologies, and science
agricultural rituals, spirituality, and human-land relationships
famine, scarcity, and productivity
climate change, environmental hazards, and agricultural adaptation
colonialism, empire, and transnational (seed, crop, and knowledge) exchange
organic farming, regenerative practices, and resilience
food literacy, agricultural pedagogy, and environmental citizenship
rural lives, everyday practices, and place attachment
writing agricultural history and literature
講者
Michael Ableman｜Farmer, author, photographer, urban and local food system advocate, Canada
Chen, Yu-jen 陳玉箴｜Professor, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena 周序樺｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
George Handley｜Professor, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters, Brigham Young University, United States
Iijima, Wataru 飯島涉｜Professor, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Japan
Eva-Lynn Jagoe｜Professor, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada
Low, Bjorn 劉悅｜Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), College of Design and Engineering, Department of Architecture and Co-Founder and Chief Urban Farmer of Edible Garden City, Singapore
Lu, Shao-li 呂紹理｜Professor, Department of History, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
William Major｜Professor, Department of English, University of Hartford, United States
Miyagawa, Takuya 宮川卓也｜Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Environmental Studies, Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan
Scott Slovic｜Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Idaho, United States
Tsuru, Shuntaro 都留俊太郎｜Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
主持人
Chen, Huang-Hua 陳皇華｜Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Chen, Wei-Chi 陳偉智｜Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chen, You-Ting 陳宥廷｜Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Chung, Shu-min 鍾淑敏｜Director, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hu, Hsin-Yu 胡心瑜｜Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Ku, Ya-wen 顧雅文｜Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Teng, Y. Norman 鄧育仁｜Director, Institute of European and American History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
主辦單位
中央研究院台灣史研究所
中央研究院歐美研究所