EUTW Cultural Forum XXXIV “Disease, Writers & Artists, and Medicine in Europe”

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

Agenda

14:00–14:30: Opening Remarks

Representative in Taiwan ; 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)