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Changing the World Lecture Series: Full Schedule

2026/03/13   Courses

Lecture Schedule & Registration

  • Time: Mondays, 16:10–18:00

  • Venue: Cheng-En Lecture Hall (Room 106), College of Law

  • Course Syllabus: Please refer to the University Course Catalog for details.

Date Speaker Topic Registration Link
Mar 2 Prof. Se-Hwa Wu Is Innovation a Science? Link
Mar 16 Prof. Kuan-Yen Hsiao Rousseau’s Social Contract and the Shaping of Modern Republican Democracy Link
Mar 30 Prof. Cyrus Chu The Hegemonic Rivalry Between the US and China Link
Apr 13 Prof. Chi-Jeng Yeh Desire, Idea, and Will: The Collective Mental Mechanisms that Shape the World Link
Apr 27 Prof. Yung-Chin Su Legal Management in the AI Era: A Civil Law Perspective Link
May 11 Prof. Chintay Shih The Incredible Journey: How Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry Built From Zero to One Link
May 25 Prof. Yu-Yu Cheng The New Chinese Poetics: Tradition and Modernity in the Poetic Revolution Link

Speaker Profiles

March 2 | Prof. Se-Hwa Wu

  • Current Position: Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Technology Management and Intellectual Property, NCCU.

  • Distinctions: Former President of National Chengchi University; Former Minister of Education, R.O.C.

  • Selected Works: The Nine Theories of Strategy; The Dawn of Tomorrow’s Education; The Transformation of a University.

March 16 | Prof. Kuan-Yen Hsiao

  • Current Position: Distinguished Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica.

  • Distinctions: Academician of Academia Sinica (34th Session); Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University.

  • Fields: Western Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Theory.

  • Selected Works: Exploring Political Modernity: From Machiavelli to Yan Fu; A History of Western Republican Thought.

March 30 | Prof. Cyrus Chu

  • Current Position: Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.

  • Distinctions: Former Vice President of Academia Sinica; Former Permanent Representative of the R.O.C. to the WTO; Academician of Academia Sinica (22nd Session).

  • Fields: Labor and Demographic Economics, Law and Economics, Public Economics.

  • Selected Works: Cyrus Chu on Social Sciences: New Century Challenges for Taiwan Society.

April 13 | Prof. Chi-Jeng Yeh

  • Background: Renowned Taiwanese Sociologist.

  • Distinctions: Chair Professor at NTU, NCCU, and Shih Hsin University; Named by the International Sociological Association (ISA) as one of the five most influential scholars in East Asian sociology.

  • Selected Works: Heterotopia Beyond Capitalism: An Exploration of the Sociology of Knowledge; From Causality to Mechanism.

April 27 | Prof. Yung-Chin Su

  • Current Position: Chair Professor, College of Law, NCCU.

  • Distinctions: Former Vice President and Justice of the Judicial Yuan; Former Chairperson of the National Communications Commission (NCC).

  • Fields: Property Law, Constitutional Law.

May 11 | Prof. Chintay Shih

  • Current Position: Academician, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

  • Distinctions: Former President of ITRI; Former Chairman of the Institute for Information Industry (III); Former Dean of the College of Technology Management, NTHU.

  • Selected Works: Ten Miles of the World; From the Periphery to the Core: How Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry Became the Heart of the World.

May 25 | Prof. Yu-yu Cheng

  • Current Position: Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica (Note: This is her active primary research role at Academia Sinica)
  • Distinctions: Academician, the 32nd Convocation of Academia Sinica (2018); Former Dean, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University (NTU)
  • Selected Works: 

    • A Comprehensive Study on the Contextual Aesthetics of the Six Dynasties (《六朝情境美學綜論》)

    • Gesture and Speech: A New Theory on the Revolution in the Kingdom of Poetry (《姿與言：詩國革命新論》
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