講題：What Did COVID-19 Teach us about us?
Understanding Taiwanese Civil Society through its Pandemic Preparedness
時間：110年4月26日(一) 12:30~14:00
地點：臺大社科院108室
講者：駱明正（美國加州大學戴維斯分校社會系教授，亞比中心訪問學人）
主持人：鄭雅文（臺灣大學公共衛生學院副院長）
演講大綱：
While Taiwan’s success at containing COVID-19 is now a familiar story, the pandemic also provides an empirical window for gaining new perspectives on Taiwan’s civil society. This talk will identify the civil society mechanisms in Taiwan that served to demand institutional reforms for enhancing pandemic preparedness and to facilitate discourses of civic inter-dependence among its citizenry. Furthermore, it will discuss the challenges confronting Taiwan’s democracy, such as populism and disinformation, and how these challenges were partially contained during the pandemic. Finally, it explores how Taiwan’s democratic mechanisms for pandemic intervention were compromised by geopolitical power struggles. Taiwan’s COVID experiences highlight new directions for future conversations about the legitimation crisis of democracy.
*本演講以英文為主，預定提供線上直播。
*為響應防疫政策，保護參與演講的來賓與聽眾。現場參與講座需全程配戴口罩，並需配合體溫量測與如實填寫報名資訊。