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*Key to Room Number
V= Vernon Square, B=Brunei Gallery(Russell Square), G=Ground floor, 1=First floor, LT= Lecture Theatre
Ex. V111=Vernon Square, First floor, Room no. 11
Brunei Suite= Brunei Galley (Russell Square), Ground floor
BGLT=Brunei Galley(Russell Square), Ground floor, Lecture Theatre
June 18 (Thursday), 2015 / June 19 (Friday), 2015 / June 20 (Saturday), 2015
Day2: June 19 (Friday)
Venue: SOAS (Vernon Square Campus)
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09.00- |
Audience Registration (Rm. VG06) and Book Displays (Rm. VG10)
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9.30-11.30 |
Panel 8: Cross-Strait Relations |
Rm. V111 |
Chair: Winnie King (School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol)
Gunter Schubert (European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), University of Tübingen, GERMANY) , Rui-hua Lin (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, CHINA) and Yu-chen Tseng (Yi Shou University, TAIWAN)
Reviewing Taishang Studies: A Rising or Declining Research Field?
Abstract
Jieh-min Wu (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN)
Rediscovering the China Factor: Overview of the China Impact in Taiwan
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Scott L. Kastner (Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, USA)
International Relations Theory and the Relationship across the Taiwan Strait: State of the Field
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Francoise Mengin (Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, Sciences Po, FRANCE)
Mapping the Many Displacements of the China-Taiwan Border
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Panel 9: Rewriting Taiwan History |
Rm. V211 |
Chair: Lars Laamann (Department of History, SOAS, University of London, UK)
Ann Heylen (Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University, TAIWAN)
Reflecting on the Past against the Backdrop of New Directions
Abstract
Paul Katz (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN)
Bridging the Gaps: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Taiwanese Popular Religion
Abstract
John Shepherd (The Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, USA)
Winning a Place in the History of Taiwan: The Siraya
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Rwei-ren Wu (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN)
The Meta-history of History: Some Reflections on Tsao Yung-ho’s Thesis of “History of the Taiwan Island”
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Panel 10: Literature and Arts |
Rm. V121 |
Chair: Michel Hockx (Director, SOAS China Institute, University of London, UK)
Sung-sheng (Yvonne) Chang (Department of Asian Studies, The College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Wartime Taiwan: Epitome of an East Asian Modality of the Modern Literary Institution?
Abstract
Kuo-ching Tu (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
The State of Taiwan Literature in English Translation
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Fang-mei Lin & Li-ju Wang(Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University, TAIWAN)
Women Writers’ Historical Fiction in the 21st Century: Gender as National Allegory Revisited
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Marc L. Moskowitz (Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, USA)
Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and its Cultural Connotations
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11.30-12.00 |
Coffee
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12.00-13.00 |
Keynote Speech II |
Rm. V111 |
Chair: Dafydd Fell
Speaker: Christopher Hughes (Department of International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Topic: Cross-Strait Relations as a Problem of Chinese Militarisms
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12.00-14.00 |
Lunch
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14.00-16.00 |
Panel 11: International Relations |
Rm. V111 |
Chair: Sasa Istenic (Assistant Professor of Sinology and President of the Taiwan Research Center at the Department of Asian and African Studies of the University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA)
Dennis Hickey (Department of Political Science, Missouri State University, USA)
Back to the Future: US Arms Sales to Taiwan Since the 1982 US-PRC Arms Sales Communiques
Abstract
Gary Rawnsley (Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK)
Selling Taiwan: A Reconsideration of Taiwan's Public Diplomacy
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Jacques deLisle (Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania Law School, USA)
U.S.-Taiwan Relations and the Taiwan Relations Act: Assessing a Steady Anchor in a Sea of Troubles
Abstract
Vincent Wei-cheng Wang (Department of Political Science, University of Richmond, USA)
Taiwan’s Quest for Greater Participation in the International Community: Retrospect and Prospect
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Panel 12: Modern Taiwan History |
Rm. V211 |
Chair: Ernest Caldwell (Law School, SOAS, University of London, UK)
Julia C. Strauss (Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK)
Campaigns, Bureaucracy, and Theatre in State Making from Above: Regime Consolidation in Taiwan, 1949-1954
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Lung-chih Chang (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN)
Island of Histories: Memory, Identity and Heritage in Contemporary Taiwanese Historiography
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Michael Rand Hoare (Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK)
Trade, Politics and the 'Preemptive Cringe' in UK-Taiwan Relations 1950-80
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Wendy Cheng (Justice and Social Inquiry and Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, USA)
Island X: Taiwanese/Americans and Oppositional Political Formation in the Diaspora
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Panel 13: Ethnic Relations and Politics |
Rm. V121 |
Chair: Thomas Gold
Scott Simon (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa, CANADA)
Taiwan Studies and Indigenous Studies: A Complex Ontological Relationship
Abstract
Stéphane Corcuff (French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) Taipei branch, TAIWAN)
From "Pluralistic National Identification" to "Geopolitical Liminality”
Abstract
Chun-chieh Chi (Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, National Dong Hwa University, TAIWAN)
Indigenous People and Indigenous-Han Relationship in Taiwan: A Postcolonial Perspective
Abstract
Fu-chang Wang (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN)
Studies on Taiwan’s Ethnic Relations: The State of the Field
Abstract
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16.00-16.30 |
Coffee
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16.30-18.00 |
Panel 14: Civil Society and Social Movements |
Rm. V111 |
Chair: Chun-yi Lee
Ming-sho Ho & Chun-Ta Juan (Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN)
Social Movement Study in Taiwan: A State-of-the-field Report
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André Laliberté (School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, CANADA)
The Effect of Religions on Civil Society and Democracy in Taiwan
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Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao
The Middle Classes, Civil Society and Democracy: The Post-war Taiwan Experience
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Panel 15: Economics and Political Economy |
Rm. V211 |
Chair: Robert Ash
Peter Chow (Department of Economics, The City College of New York, USA)
The State of Studying Taiwan Economy: Retrospect and Prospect
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Joseph Wong (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, CANADA)
Healthy Democracies and Welfare Politics in Taiwan: The Arguments, Refinements and Limitations
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Jan Knoerich (Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK)
Mainland China’s Outward Investment into Taiwan after Ecfa: Challenges and Opportunities
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Panel 16: Language |
Rm. V121 |
Chair: Paul Jen-Kuei Li (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN)
Elizabeth Zeitoun (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, TAIWAN)
Language Contact in Saisiyat
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Amy Pei-Jung Lee (Department of Indigenous Languages and Communication, National Dong Hwa University, TAIWAN)
Euphemism in Formosan Languages
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Henning Klöter (Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), Georg-August University Göttingen, GERMANY)
Writing Taiwanese: Now and Then, Who and Why?
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18:30- |
Dinner
(Recommended local restaurants)
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19.15-21.00 |
Music Event (Rm. V111)
The music and musical career of Lin Sheng-hsiang, a discussion with Shzr Ee Tan(Department of Music, Royal Holloway)
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