Dates: October 2-5, 2015
Location: National Chung Hsing Univeristy, Taichung, TAIWAN

Waiting is aporetic, and self-surpassing upon being completed. It can be conceptualized as an act that exists in an out-of-joint or liminal time, in which hope, possibility and end are simultaneously suspended, presupposed and anticipated. Further intimated in this act is a sabbatical gesture that aims to cancel its own time and condition in order to fulfill its goal predicated on some faith that points toward another time and world. But what becomes of waiting when these constitutive factors—fidelity and temporal multiplicity—verge on disappearance in our contemporary world? And what possibilities about waiting remain to be envisaged and theorized?

In this symposium, we seek to include papers that expound the conditions, (im)possibilities, and creative practices of waiting in relation to time, theory and action in our contemporary world. 

Organized by

• Taiwan Humanities Society
• University of California Humanities Research Institute, USA
• MOST Project, “Thinking East Asia, Overcoming the Global, and Imaging the World”
• Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University, TAIWAN

Sponsored by

• Ministry of Science and Technology, TAIWAN
• Ministry of Education, TAIWAN
• National Chung Hsing University, TAIWAN
• University of California Humanities Research Institute, USA