January 21, 2026: Film screening of the documentary movie “Invisible Nation” at Kino Atlas: https://kinoatlaspraha.cz/?program=6949.
January 9, 2026: Taiwanese Poetry Night with Un Lui, an exchange student from National Taiwan University, at Hedvábná Chobotnice
December 15, 2025: Public lecture by Dr. Niki Alsford (University of Central Lancashire) “Taiwan as Ocean”
November 20, 2025: Guest lecture at Palacký University Olomouc “Technologies of Animation in Taiwanese Popular Religion”
November 13, 2025: Public meet & greet with Ambassador, H.E. Remus Li-Kuo Chen: “Taiwan’s Diplomatic Showcase of Culture and Values: A 30-Year Diplomat’s Insights”
November 4, 2025: Jacob F. Tischer as guest speaker on podium discussion “Taiwanese Identity in Times of Geopolitical Crisis” with Lin Yu-Li, Stelling Chen, and Kacey Wong, moderated by Filip Noubel (Link: https://www.tydenavcr.cz/program/akce?id=6180&a=taiwanese-identity-in-times-of-geopolitical-crisis)
October 29, 2025: Guided tour of the exhibition “100 Treasures, 100 Stories” at the National Museum in Prague, by Dr. Olga Lomová (Link: https://www.nm.cz/en/program/exhibitions/100-treasures-100-stories)
October 23, 2025: Public lecture by Dr. Chen-Yu Lin (Cardiff University) “Taiwan’s Popular Music and Industries: Transnationalising the Local and Localising the Transnational”
October 22, 2025: Screening of “Taiwan Docs: Silenced Sunrise: Taiwan’s Music vs. the China Factor & Chasing the China Wind: A Musical Journey” at Kino Atlas, including Q&A with the director, Chen-Yu Lin (https://www.kinoatlaspraha.cz/?program=6177)
Lecture by Dr. Tischer at Czech Technical University, April 9, 2025: Humor, Social Media, and Fighting Online Disinformation with Memes in Pandemic-Era Taiwan
In the lecture, I pursue several questions, including: Is humor culturally specific? Do memes have to be about humor? And if humor expresses in different, culturally mediated ways, can memes look different around the world, too? I address these questions by looking at government-sponsored memes in Taiwan during the Covid-19 pandemic as well as how these memes resonated in society at large, how they were remixed and redistributed. Can social media — decried as creating echo chambers that threaten to undermine democracy — actually become tools in the fight against online disinformation?