CCLC | When Yellow Emperor encounters Zeus: A Comparison between Chinese and Western Myths
Event Name of event and organizer | When Yellow Emperor encounters Zeus: A Comparison between Chinese and Western Myths, Centre for Chinese Language & Culture and NTU Chinese, School of Humanities, NTU. |
Date If held over multiple dates, please note too | 16 August 2018 (Thursday) |
| Time | 1.30p.m.-3.00p.m. |
Venue Venue name + Unit number Insert address if outside HSS Building | SPMS- Lecture Theatre 2, NTU |
Registration/ Information Registration link Open to students/faculty/public/private event | https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA18072614530924 |
| Event write-up | Mythology is the source of human culture where history, philosophy, religions and literature came from. In this talk we compare and analyze a number of examples in Chinese, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman myths, in terms of media, themes, characters, reception etc., so as to re-examine the origin of our civilizations. |
Speaker /s Name and designation of speakers | Associate Professor Nicholas L. Chan |
| Speaker profile/s (if any) | Department of Chinese Language and Literature, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Ph. D. & M. Phil. (Chinese Division, CUHK), BBA (CUHK) |