Stranger Next Door Lecture Series (Grilling Borders Satellite Program)
Stranger Next Door Lecture Series in the summer of 2024 starts from reflections on Grilling Borders. TheCube invites 3 groups of researchers, writers, and artists from Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan to deliver 3 lectures from the perspectives of literature, visuals, history, society, and politics. A multi-dimensional discussion on ethnic and national borders will take place at TheCube on 3 consecutive Saturday from 29th June. The word “Stranger” in the original Greek text refers to “the people outside the fence, that is, the alien people.” Stranger Next Door Lecture Series originated from some thoughts on Taiwan’s southward policy. The exchanges and transactions carried out under the policy are like the construction of relationships with strangers. Through the unconsciousness or subconsciousness hidden under the word “stranger (person)”, Stranger Next Door Lecture Series hopes to loosen the invisible borders or boundaries and develop an action to understand the gaps in each other’s historical, social, political, and cultural networks.
More