News and information

A new book by Jana S. Rošker entitled "Crisis as Danger and Hope: The Ethics of Pandemics, the Rise of Autocracies and the Dream of Autonomy in a Transcultural Perspective" was published on March 22, 2021, as part of the Studia Humanitatis Asiatica collection.

We would like to inform you that from 5 April 2021 to 11 May 2021, applications for participation in the DUO-Korea program are open. The DUO-Korea Scholarship Program was established in 2001 with the aim of promoting a balanced and lasting exchange between South Korea and 30 European countries.

You are cordially invited to a virtual tour of two Taiwanese film classics and a relaxed conversation with film experts on 22 April 2021 at 4.30 pm. Two films in different genres, spy drama and comedy, will be presented to the Slovenian audience in April as part of the Taiwan Lost Commercial Films European tour, and will offer us valuable glimpses from Taiwan's past.

We are cordially inviting you to the online guest lecture by Prof. André Laliberté (University of Ottawa): »Filial piety in Taiwan’s religious ecology« on Thursday, April 15, 16:30-17:30 (CET).

We are cordially inviting you to the online guest lecture of dr. Bi-Yu Chang (張必瑜): “Nationalisation of Nature & Landscaping the Nation in Taiwan” on Thursday, April 1, 16:30-17:30 (CET)

The "Taiwan-France Cultural Award," jointly established by the Ministry of Culture and the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences under the Institut de France, hosted its 25th awards ceremony at the institute in Paris on March 1.

We are cordially inviting you to the online guest lecture by Prof. Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (University of Texas at Austin): »The Modernist Literary Movement in Taiwan (1950s to 1970s)«, on Thursday, March 25, 16: 30-17:30 (CET).

Project MUSE Premium is a collection of high quality, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals and is designed for institutions acquiring comprehensively in the humanities and social sciences. Until 5 may 2021, all members of the UL, CTL, and NUL libraries have remote access to Project MUSE Premium.

Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS) is a research database of full-text scholarly journals published in central and eastern European countries. Until 30 April 2021, all members of the UL, CTL, and NUL libraries have remote access to Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS).

We are cordially inviting you to the online guest lecture of dr. Isabelle Cheng: “We asked for workers but human beings came: Labour migration in East Asia” on Thursday, March 18, between 16: 30-17:30.