Bridging Ancient Wisdom and the Modern World

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2023
#EmbraceEquity
International Women’s Day

Introduction to Wisdom of the Elders from Bridging Ancient Wisdom with the Modern World ~ IWD 2023

Photos from Bridging Ancient Wisdom with the Modern World ~ IWD 2023

Panel discussion – Bridging Ancient Wisdom with the Modern World ~ IWD 2023

介紹 Introduction

世界宗教博物館發展基金會 Museum of World Religions Development Foundation and the Red Room is celebrating International Women’s Day! Join us on Saturday, March 18, 2023.

世界宗教博物館發展基金會及紅坊藝文協會攜手慶祝國際婦女節! 敬請於3月18日2023 (六)加入我們。

“Equity is the quality of being fair and reasonable in a way that gives equal treatment to everyone. We base this call on grounds of social justice and equity.” ~ Collins Dictionary

There is so much we have forgotten, let us bring in ancient wisdom into the modern world. Highlighting women working, living, and creating in Taiwan and inspiring others to embrace an equitable world.

The day will begin with Messages from the Elders honoring the elder women of Taiwan’s indigenous tribes. This will be followed by a panel discussion with speakers from diverse backgrounds, each in their own way bringing the wisdom of the past to their life and work discipline. After a short Q&A session, lunch will be served, followed by a tour of the Museum of World Religions.

We hope you can join us in person to honor all women, celebrate our community, and commit to driving change by embracing equity.

“公平是一種公平合理的品質，是對每個人的平等對待。我們基於社會正義和公平的理由發出這一呼籲”。~ 柯林斯詞典

有很多東西我們已經遺忘，讓我們把古代的智慧帶入現代世界。突顯女性在臺灣的工作、生活和創造，並激勵其他人擁抱一個公平的世界。

當天的活動將以 “長者的心聲 “開始，向臺灣原住民部落的女性長者致敬。隨後，來自不同背景的演講者將進行小組討論，每個人都以自己的方式將過去的智慧帶到他們的生活和工作領域。在簡短的問答環節後，將提供午餐，隨後是自由參觀世界宗教博物館的時間。

我們希望您能加入我們，向所有女性致敬，慶祝我們的社群，並承諾通過擁抱公平來推動變革。

時程 Itinerary

10:30 am 報到 Check-In at the Museum 7th FL in front of the Gift Shop
11:00 -11:05 am: 開幕致辭 Opening Remarks
11:05 am-11:20 am: Wisdom of the Elders from Taiwan’s Indigenous People
11:20 am-1:00 pm: 沙龍論壇：連接古代智慧與現代世界的橋樑 Panel Discussion on Bridging Ancient Wisdom with the Modern World
1:00-2:00 pm: 午餐及交流 Lunch is served. Networking
2:00-3:00 p.m: 參觀博物館的自由時間（出示門票）Free time to visit museum (Show ticket)

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Dr. Malabika Das – Panelist

Dr. Malabika Das is an integrative social worker, educator and wellness practitioner. She was born in the United States with roots from Nepal. She has lived in Taiwan for the past 7 years with her husband and daughter.

She is passionate about integrating spirituality as a wellness construct and combining Eastern and Western therapeutic modalities. Her Western training in mental health services and community development laid the foundation for more holistic focused approaches when she moved to Asia 12 years ago. She has trained in several integrative and holistic healing modalities such as Reiki energy work, holistic bodywork and sound therapy. Also, she is passionate about sharing a variety of yoga styles such as yin yang yoga, yin, and yoga nidra. She facilitates trauma awareness, social work, yoga and wellness workshops, courses and retreats around the region.

She has two decades of experience working with diverse communities including families in crisis and ethnic minority groups in New York City, refugees and asylum seekers in Hong Kong and university students in Taipei. At National Taiwan University, her widely popular course, the Science of Joyful Living, enables students to enhance self-awareness, resilience, emotional agility, mindfulness, self-care, positive neuroplasticity, chi cultivation and connection to others and the natural environment-all through a body-mind-spirit lens. She recently completed research about the impact of the Course on the students’ self-compassion and perceived stress, with exciting results soon to be shared.

She holds a BA in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois, a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and a PhD in Social Work from the University of Hong Kong. Malabika’s purpose is to assist herself and others in body-mind spirit balance and wellbeing. Her future aspiration is to build an integrative wellness center in Nepal focused on services, training and research.

戴可馨-與談人
戴可馨 (Malabika Das)博士是一位綜合社會工作者、教育家和健康從業者。她出生在美國，祖籍是尼泊爾。在過去的7年裡，她與她的丈夫和女兒居住在臺灣。
她熱衷於將靈性作為健康結構的一環，並結合東方和西方的治療模式。
12 年前她移居亞洲時，她在西方接受的心理健康服務和社區發展培訓為更全面的重點方法奠定了基礎。她接受過幾種綜合和整體治療方式的培訓，如靈氣能量療法、整體身體療法和聲音療法。此外，她還熱衷於分享各種瑜伽風格，如陰陽瑜伽、陰瑜伽和瑜伽Nidra。她在各地主持創傷意識、社會工作、瑜伽和健康的研討會、課程和靜修會。
她有二十年與不同社區合作的經驗，包括紐約市的危機家庭和少數族裔群體，香港的難民和尋求庇護者以及在臺北的大學生。在國立臺灣大學，她的課程
“快樂生活的科學 “廣受歡迎，使學生能夠提高自我意識、復原力、情緒敏捷性、正念、自我保健、積極的神經可塑性、氣的培養以及與他人和自然環境的聯繫–所有這些都是通過身體-心靈-精神的視角。她最近完成了關於該課程對學生的自我同情和感知壓力的影響的研究，即將分享令人興奮的結果。
她擁有伊利諾大學的城市和區域規劃學士學位，哥倫比亞大學的社會工作碩士學位和香港大學的社會工作博士學位。戴可馨協助自己和他人實現身體-心靈的平衡和健康是她的目標。她未來的願望是在尼泊爾建立一個專注於服務、培訓和研究的綜合健康中心。

Lou Mo – Panelist

Lou Mo (b. 1990, France) is a Chinese Canadian art professional, artist, and curator. She lives and works in Taipei. She graduated from Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris with a degree in Asian Studies. As an art professional, she has worked in museums, an auction house, and galleries in Canada and in France. Currently, she works as cultural attaché for the Bureau française de Taipei. As an artist and curator, her research is focused on modern and contemporary Afro-Asian connections and Third World artists’ creative practices. She is also interested in issues of diaspora, identity, and perception in relation to post-colonial history and the centre-periphery model. She was invited curator of the 14th Dakar Biennial in Senegal where she presented ‘Havana, Forging the Souths’ exhibition at the Musée Théodore Monod – IFAN.

As a member of the School of Mutants collective, her works have been exhibited in venues such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Centre Pompidou Metz and the 12th Berlin Biennial. Her other research-based works have recently been exhibited at the Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei and the Kochi Biennial in India. She has participated in residencies at the A4 Art Foundation in South Africa and the Het Nieuwe Instituut in the Netherlands. Her articles, translations, and exhibition reviews have appeared in ‘Something we Africans got’, the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Modern Art (TFAM), with Nanjing’s Yilin Press, e-flux and Ocula.

莫奴是加拿大籍華裔藝術行業從業者、藝術家和策展人，現居臺北。她畢業於法國社會科學高等研究院亞洲研究專業。她曾在加拿大和法國的博物館、拍賣行以及藝廊工作，現擔任法國在台協會的文化專員。作爲藝術家和策展人，她的研究主要側重在現當代的亞非交流與第三世界藝術家的創作，也對中心與邊緣、後殖民的歷史中產生的離散、身份認同與感知差異剛興趣。她是第十四届達卡雙年展的客邀策展人（「哈瓦那：南方熔爐」在達卡IFAN博物館展出）。她是藝術家團體變異派學校的成員，近年他們的作品在臺北市立美術館、龐畢度中心梅兹分館與第十二屆柏林雙年展等場館展出。她的其他研究作品近期在鳳甲美術館和印度科欽雙年長展出。她曾參與南非A4 藝術基金會以及荷蘭Het Nieuwe Instituut等機構的駐村項目。她的寫作、譯作和展評曾在《Something we Africans got》、《Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art》、臺北市立美術館《現代美術》等期刊以及南京譯林出版社、e-flux、Ocula等平臺上出版。

Dr. Christie Chang – Moderator

Dr. Christie (Yu-ling) Chang is a leading Buddhist activist. She was the President of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women between 2009-2013 and has continued to serve in its International Conference Planning Committee until 2020.

In 2017, Dr. Chang was elected as one of the eight Joint-Presidents of the International Buddhist Confederation (https://www.ibcworld.org/), and she also chaired the Steering Committee for the International Lay Buddhist Forum (ILBF) between 2014 and 2019. Professionally, Dr. Chang is a prolific linguist, translator and educator, leading CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange/www.ciee.org) study abroad programs at National Chengchi University in Taipei between 2001 and 2020. Dr. Chang has won various awards, both nationally and internationally, such as Mentor of the Year Award (2003, Taiwan), and Buddhist Peace Activist Award (2016, India), International Tara Award (2017, Thailand), and Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award (2018, Thailand).

Currently, Dr. Chang has continued to serve as the President of Sakyadhita Taiwan, and during this pandemic, Dr. Chang has remained active in speaking and moderating online webinars while writing for various organizations/publications, including a column on “Dharma ABC” for the prestigious Humanity Monthly Magazine for the Buddhist Dharma Drum Mountains in Taiwan.

Meanwhile, Dr. Chang has also started spreading the messages for love and peace through
singing. Her first album, “M. Sam in the Met(t)verse” has just been released in 2022
(https://ladiesgentlemen.lnk.to/SamintheMettaverse). Lately, Dr. Chang also taught in Bhutan for three months (between September and December 2022) and has just returned from the Vatican after speaking at the very first women’s inter-religious conference held there.

張玉玲博士出生成長於台灣，1990年自台灣大學外文系畢業後於台北任教兩年，並於1993年赴美深造，先後獲頒美國夏威夷大學語言學碩士暨博士學位，2001年回台後曾任教於台灣大學外文系與政治大學華語文教學碩博士學程，並在2001-2020年間擔任CIEE 美國國際教育交流協會台北中心主任。張博士自從1995年於夏威夷皈依來自福建晉江的上瑞下妙法師以來，熱心服務於佛教界各項法務。在夏威夷期間，張博士協助建立慈濟第一所海外人文學校，離開夏威夷前為其校長。回台後，張博士亦投入臺灣境内各項佛教公益事務，除了參與協辦各式國際佛教會議和活動外，並竭力組織訓練佛教翻譯團隊，同時亦經常受邀於各式教內大型活動，包括多次擔任林囗齋僧英文主持人，亦曾任世界佛教徒友誼會（WFB)佛教與企業論壇之執委暨大會主持人，又如年前（2016）亦應邀出仼慈濟論壇之首席翻譯官，並常參與霛鷲山與宗教博物館各式活動擔任主持人或與談人等。在國際佛教事務方面，張博士除了先後曾出任國際佛教善女人協會秘書長和主席之外（2009-2013), 亦曾任國際佛教居士論壇（International Lay Buddhist Forum) 國際執委會主席(2014-2020)。多年來，張博士在國際佛教圈甚爲活躍，除了曾經獲得各式國内外獎項之肯定外（如2003年的臺灣教育百人獎、2016年印度的佛教和平獎、2017年泰國的國際度母獎、2018年的聯合國國際傑出佛教女性獎），2017年12月亦不負衆望，於印度德里獲選成為國際佛教聯邦（International Buddhist Confederation) 的八位主席之一, 是主席群中唯二的女性與唯一的居士代表。
疫情期間，張博士仍常應邀擔任各式綫上國際佛教會議之論文發表人或主持人，並且在因緣際會之下亦開始以佛曲演唱的方式來分享佛法。其首張專輯“元宇宙之普賢先生”已於2022年春節期間由福茂唱片數位上架。去年（2022）9月到12月期間，張博士亦與其夫婿在不丹教書三個月，而最近張博士亦應梵蒂岡之邀，參與當地首度舉辦的全球女性跨宗教大會圓滿返台。目前張博士仍擔任台灣佛教善女人協會之理事長，隨順因緣應邀演講及寫作（包括目前在法鼓山人生雜誌開設寫作“佛法ABC專欄”等）。

Elisa Chiu – Panelist
Founder & CEO at Anchor Taiwan

Elisa Chiu is an entrepreneur and investor who operates at the intersection of innovation, investment and cross-border collaboration. She sailed from Wall Street with a decade of experience at top tier investment banks and hedge funds, overseeing US$1 billion+ in APAC. In 2017, she founded Anchor Taiwan, a platform to provide industry access, market immersion and technology partnerships in Asia with clients and partners from 15+ countries.

Elisa is an ecosystem builder at heart (e.g. convener for Corporate Venturing Roundtables with 100+ corporates, and Women in Venture network with 100+ women investors). She sits on the Advisory Committee of MIH, an open EV platform initiated by Foxconn, the Strategic Advisory Council of Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Canadian Women’s International Network (CanWIN), and Taiwan-Hong Kong Economic and Cultural Co-operation Council (THEC). She was a Gen.T X Credit Suisse Social Impact Awardee in 2020.

Elisa received her BA in Economics from the University of British Columbia and Master of Financial Economics (MFE) from the University of Toronto. She is a failed war zone photojournalist and a cyclist known for riding 100KM+ on YouBike at one go. More about her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisachiu/

邱懷萱-與談人
Anchor Taiwan 創辦人暨執行長
邱懷萱是一位企業家及投資者，在創新、投資和跨國合作的交叉點上運作。她從華爾街起航，在頂級投資銀行和對沖基金有十年的經驗，在亞太地區監管10億美元以上的資金。2017年，她創立了Anchor Taiwan，這是一個在亞洲提供行業通路、市場沉浸體驗和技術合作的平臺，客戶和合作夥伴來自15多個國家。
Elisa的內心是一個生態系統的建設者（例如，有100多個企業參加的企業創業圓桌會議的召集人，以及有100多個女性投資者參加的婦女創業網路）。她是富士康發起的開放式電動車平臺MIH的諮詢委員會成員，也是加拿大亞太基金會策略諮詢委員會成員、加拿大婦女國際網路（CanWIN）和台港經濟文化合作委員會（THEC）的成員。她是2020年Gen.T X Credit Suisse社會影響獎獲得者。
Elisa在英屬哥倫比亞大學獲得經濟學學士學位，在多倫多大學獲得金融經濟學碩士學位。她是一名失敗的戰地攝影記者，也是一名以在YouBike上一口氣騎行100KM以上而聞名的自行車手。關於她的更多資訊https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisachiu/

管若芬Romona Guan – Panelist

Current Position: Global business value director at FiO 豫亨科技股份有公司

Volunteer Experience:
Taiwan Chapter leader for WiSE 24 global female entrepreneurs showcase in 2019 and 2020 (expanded from 7 to 13 countries, started from Women’s Startup Lab Silicon Valley)
GIF Korea female entrepreneurs coordinator in 2021 and 2022
Founding team member of Sing for Taiwan event in 2016

Co-founding team member and Business value director at FiO since 2020. FiO enables enterprises to generate new revenue streams from carbon monetization in web3 technology.
Founder of Share 4 Impact from 2016 to 2020
Participant in Women’s Startup Lab Batch 8 in 2016.

管若芬 – 與談人
現任: 豫亨科技股份有公司全球商業價值總監
志工經歷:
2019- 2020年WiSE 24全球女性創業全球路演臺灣分會負責人（從7個國家擴展到13個國家，從矽谷女性創業實驗室開始。)
2021- 2022年GIF韓國女性創業者統籌
2016年 “為土地唱歌 ” 創始團隊成員
工作經歷。
2020年豫亨科技股份有公司FiO聯合創始團隊成員和商業價值總監。
使企業能夠從web3技術的碳貨幣化中產生新的收入來源。
2016-2020年，Share 4 Impact的創始人
2016年矽谷女性創業加速器第8期畢業生。

Mulinung Tangiradan – Panelist
PAIWAN & RUKAI

位於三地門鄉最高的部落，同時盛產享譽世界咖啡的Tukuvulj(德文村) 是我母親的家人稱山中的石頭城，黑鳶的故鄉Tjavatjavang(達來村)是我父親的根我的名字來自從未見過的Vuvu(曾祖母)，為了紀念她的存在，同時期許我聰明能幹、勇敢有力量如同她，而為我命名為Mulinung Tangiradan是家的名字，猶如臍帶緊緊相連我生命的起源.

來自於屏東三地門的Mulinung 是隨著曾祖母的名字,紀念老人家, 也期許Mulinung 聰明能幹、勇敢有力量。
曾任社工員, 長期關心原民文化傳承，發起創新與教育行動。2011起,連續7年於全台各地參與衛生福利部辦理「原住民及離島地區暑寒期大專青年健康服務營」更拿下全國1至3名之殊榮。曾於2014在輔仁大學創立「FALOCO法路祖」品牌並持續至今。在國際交流部分, ：2012年開始辦理「原住民族學生國際菁英人才培育計畫」至今培育輔大原住民族學生超過百名，並至世界五大洲，七大國家進行文化交流，海外文化交流與服務高達12,230人次。

2019年獲原住民族委員會「推展原住民族影視音樂文化創意產業補助計畫」製作首張學生創作專輯「VUSAM」，並拍攝6隻MV，2021年因這張專輯，輔大再獲原住民族委員會「原住民族流行音樂學分學程補助計畫」推展原住民族音樂產業。
2013年獲選原住民委員會「原住民大專生畢業青年人力紮根產業加分專案計畫-職場楷模評比競賽」及2017年第13屆原曙獎─傑出成就獎有功團體。

Mulinung, from Sandi Men, Pingtung, is named in memory of her great-grandmother, and is also expected to be smart, capable, brave and powerful.
Since 2011, she has participated in the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s “Summer Youth Health Service Camp for Aborigines and outlying Islands” for seven consecutive years and won the first to third place in Taiwan.

In 2014, she founded the “FALOCO” brand at Fu Jen Catholic University that continues today. The “International Elite Talent Training Program for Indigenous Students” was started in 2012 and has trained more than 100 indigenous students from Fu Jen Catholic University with cultural exchanges in seven countries on five continents. Presently the number of overseas cultural exchanges and services has reached 12,230.

In 2013, she was selected by the Aboriginal Peoples’ Council for the “Aboriginal College Graduates’ Youth Workforce in the Workplace Project – Model Workplace Competition” and for the 13th Annual Original Dawn Award – Outstanding Achievement Award in 2017.

In 2019, she helped Fu Jen Catholic University students establish 「VUSAM」, with a grant from the Council of Indigenous Peoples for the promotion of cultural industries of indigenous peoples in film and music.

In 2021, She was awarded the Aboriginal Peoples Commission’s “Aboriginal Pop Music Credit Program” for promoting aboriginal music.

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