Center for General Education

• Information:

Date: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm, Mar. 24 (Tue.), 2026

Venue: Room 102, Boya Lecture Building

Language: English

Speaker: Prof. Imre Szeman, Dept. of Human Geography, Univ. of Toronto

Discussant: Prof. Hung Kuang-chi, Dept. of Geography, NTU

           Prof. Hannes Bergthaller, Dept. of English, NTNU

 

• Introduction:

Prof. Imre Szeman is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of thirty books, including (mostly recently) On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, and Energy (2019), which explores the socio-cultural dimensions of energy use and its implications for energy transition and climate change; Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over Renewable Life (2024), a book examining corporate and state control of the transition to renewables; and Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics of Energy (co-edited), a lexicon of the politics of energy today. His latest book, Green Dreams: Why Technology Can’t Save the World (co-written), will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.     

 

• Activity Process:

                6:30 pm -7:00 pm: Open for check-in

                7:00 pm -7:10 pm: Opening Speech

                7:10 pm -8:20 pm: Lecture Start

                8:20 pm -8:50 pm: Question & Answer

                8:50 pm -9:00 pm: Present souvenirs and certificates/Photograph

 

• Note:

1. Link: https://my.ntu.edu.tw/actregister/sessionList.aspx?actID=20263700_03
2. 300 people will be allowed to register. Attendees are advised to register for this lecture through the NTU registration system. If you cannot come, please cancel your registration immediately.
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4. Civil servants can register for Government Employee Lifelong Learning for 2 hours. For students, this learning record will be linked to their ePo.
5. Organizer: Center for General Education, NTU; The College of Liberal Arts, NTU; Advancing Connected Futures

• Contact: Mr. Yu (Phone: 02-3366-2545 #242; Email: tzuhungyu@ntu.edu.tw)