Time: 10/20/2007 (Saturday), 2:00pm
Place: CMA 3.116
Speaker: 陳龍男（MFA Candidate, RTF- FILM PRODUCTION）
Host: 張凱滿 (Kai-man Chang)
紀錄片欣賞及討論
片名: UTaiwan
紀錄片 / DV / 彩色 / 20分鐘 / 台灣,美國 / 2007 / 世界首映
----導演簡介----
凡亞思‧以撒克（陳龍男），阿美族，執導並製作過多部得獎紀錄片及短片，其中描述年輕搖滾樂團的第六部作品「海洋熱」更分別得到台灣、美國、瑞士、南韓及香港等地影展的高度肯定；和台灣公共電視也曾有多項合作計畫。2005年獲教育部公費，目前正於美國德州大學奧斯汀分校(University of Texas at Austin)就讀電影製作學系碩士。
----影片介紹---- (王佩瑜)
你都用什麼樣的話語在異地他鄉對別人形容故鄉"台灣"呢?
馬德生，曾懷萱，和陳銘駒，三個來自台灣的UT留學生，用行動表達出他們對台灣的情感和認同。這部紀錄片不僅刻畫著他們對家鄉的愛，也描繪出我們每一個人對於家鄉的執著。
台灣聊天室
配合龍男的影片,這禮拜的台灣聊天室就以 "影像台灣" 為主題,台灣是我們的故鄉我們的家, 但在別人眼中又是什麼呢? 美國人看到的台灣是什麼樣子? 沒看到的又是什麼? 台灣是不被聯合國承認的國家, 是全球最大的晶圓代工國, 也是王建民的國家, 還有呢? 下面是我在Youtube上看到有關台灣的影像, 歡迎大家能提供各種不同的台灣影像, 来幫助我們看見其中的異同．
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvA-nKGbgzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaSqgVIDdHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_FG_pKH5Q8
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/tinyzhan/article?mid=2635&prev=3015&l=f&fid=58
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Fall 2007 Schedule
date Speaker/Host
9/22 怡慧/維邦
10/13 guest speaker/志成
10/20 龍男/凱滿 Open house
11/3 維邦/承甫
11/17 維菁/靜慧
12/1 期末聚餐/湘韻
9/22 怡慧/維邦
10/13 guest speaker/志成
10/20 龍男/凱滿 Open house
11/3 維邦/承甫
11/17 維菁/靜慧
12/1 期末聚餐/湘韻
Thursday, April 19, 2007
靜慧 3/17/2007
Time: 3/17/2007
Place: Ching-hui's apartment at Brackenridge
Speaker: Ching-hui Hsiao (蕭靜慧), Foreign Language Education
Host: Kaiman Chang
Do family Influences really matter?
--Researching the role of family influences on English education in Taiwan--
The purpose of this study is to investigate family influences on EFL education in Taiwan. Bourdieu (1977) uses the term, social reproduction, to analyze how the various forms of capital tend to transfer from one generation to the next. The children of privilege fit into the world of educational expectations with apparent “ease”, a process he calls “under-selection”. The unprivileged found the process to be “difficult”, presenting “challenges”, a process he calls “over-selection”. Yet both are dictated by their upbringing. Bourdieu regards this “ease” or “natural“ ability as the product of a great social labor, largely on the part of the parents, equipping their children with the dispositions of manner and ensuring they are able to succeed within the educational system and can then reproduce their parent’ class in the wider social system.
In his study conducted in a city in central Taiwan, Broaded (1997) nevertheless finds the standardized test scores of the entrance examination are not significantly correlated with students’ family backgrounds among a sample of 1,098 junior high graduates and concludes that institutional tracking in junior high schools in Taiwan reduces the influence of family background characteristics on the distribution to stratified senior secondary opportunities. Other than institutional factors, cultural (Confucianism) factors also help explain these differences--educational achievement values are more diffused into the lower levels of Taiwan’s class structure than the case in the U.S. because of the cultural legacy of Confucianism.
Place: Ching-hui's apartment at Brackenridge
Speaker: Ching-hui Hsiao (蕭靜慧), Foreign Language Education
Host: Kaiman Chang
Do family Influences really matter?
--Researching the role of family influences on English education in Taiwan--
The purpose of this study is to investigate family influences on EFL education in Taiwan. Bourdieu (1977) uses the term, social reproduction, to analyze how the various forms of capital tend to transfer from one generation to the next. The children of privilege fit into the world of educational expectations with apparent “ease”, a process he calls “under-selection”. The unprivileged found the process to be “difficult”, presenting “challenges”, a process he calls “over-selection”. Yet both are dictated by their upbringing. Bourdieu regards this “ease” or “natural“ ability as the product of a great social labor, largely on the part of the parents, equipping their children with the dispositions of manner and ensuring they are able to succeed within the educational system and can then reproduce their parent’ class in the wider social system.
In his study conducted in a city in central Taiwan, Broaded (1997) nevertheless finds the standardized test scores of the entrance examination are not significantly correlated with students’ family backgrounds among a sample of 1,098 junior high graduates and concludes that institutional tracking in junior high schools in Taiwan reduces the influence of family background characteristics on the distribution to stratified senior secondary opportunities. Other than institutional factors, cultural (Confucianism) factors also help explain these differences--educational achievement values are more diffused into the lower levels of Taiwan’s class structure than the case in the U.S. because of the cultural legacy of Confucianism.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
志成 2/24/2007
Time: 2/24/2007, 2-5pm
Place: UTC 3.102
Speaker: Almond Meng (蒙志成), Department of Government
Host: Cheng-Fu Chen
Help Hindering? The Political Economy of Migrant Remittances Flows to Developing Democracies
This paper proposes to investigate the relative agenda-the impacts of migrant remittances on recipient countries’ politics and economic development. In practice, the study of the impact of remittances has never been more important than it is today. Migrant remittances are the crucial issues that accompany the mobility of migrant labors to many labor-outflow countries. According to the United Nations’ (2002) statistics, migrant remittances in developing countries have played the second-largest source of capital inflows, just behind the FDI. Moreover, a lack of research on migrant remittances has created the theoretical gap. Although migrant remittance is recognized by international financial institutions (IFIs), such as World Bank and IMF, and many development scholars, most of their revealed optimistic perspectives to development are unfounded. The key problem with current research on remittances is that researchers rarely pay attention to the impact that remittances have on politics. Within contemporary theoretical perspective, little study conveys how the substantial remittances affect recipient countries’ democratic ruling and constituents’ political attitudes as well. There is no study working on investigating how the regional or international political economy influence recipient countries’ governance and citizen’s ideas toward democracy through the inflows of remittances.
The objective of the paper is four-fold: to examine whether more inflows of remittances reduce citizens’ willingness of voicing dissent through political channels; to investigate whether more inflows of remittances result in defection of recipient governments’ accountability; to explore whether more inflows of remittances assimilate the citizens’ ideas towards democracy to the emigrant destination countries; and to analyze whether and how more inflows of remittances along with relative actors’ expectation retard the other external capital inflows thereby influencing recipient countries’ macroeconomic and socioeconomic development.
The time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) analysis of global data, vector autoregression (VAR) and spatial econometrics estimation will be conducted to test a series of hypotheses related to the paper’s objectives across 153 developing countries over 1980 to 2003. The results will provide insight into the real-world effects correlated to the dramatic increases of remittances within developing countries during the era of globalization.
Chat room topic: 留與歸 It's either this way or that way...
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Happy New Year from Jimmy at Spain
Dear Friends,I didn't tell all of you about my recent status. Yes, I'm still at Intel and travel a lot. Even today is the Chinese New Year, I'm still in a conference room at Spain. By the way, after this email is sent out, Christine, Chia-chien and I are heading to London for the New Year vacation. Before this, we staid at the Malaga, Spain for a whole week. The Hotel is next to the beach, yes, it's the Mediterranean. And Attachemt are the photo, we went to the Mijas, a small white town.
To Tienming,
I still don't have a chance to Chicago. By the way, maybe in the middle of March, and we don't know what's happen in Intel. Maybe I'll be in the other side of the Mediterranean, Isreal. Who knows.
Happy New Year,
Christine, Chia-chien, and Jimmy
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