April 18, 2008 (Friday)
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, room No. 209, Namesti Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1
| 5:00-15:15 | Welcoming Remarks |
| 15:15-16:00 | Keynote speech 1: The Endangered Languages in Taiwan, Paul Li (Academia Sinica) |
| 16:00-16:45 | Keynote speech 2: Aboriginal literature and the Rise of the New Taiwanese Historical Imaginary in Contemporary Taiwan, Chiu Kuei-fen (Chunghsing University) |
| 16:45 | Registration |
April 19, 2008 (Saturday)
Karolinum, Ovocny trh 5, Praha 1
| 1st Floor – Panel 1: Literature in Transition | 2nd Floor – Panel 2: Politics and Cross Strait Issues | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Trends in development of science fiction literature in Taiwan, David Uher (Palacky University) | The Taiwanization of the Kuomintang: An analysis of the Bentupai Faction, Stefan Braig (Tübingen University) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Baihuawen: Its Origins and Significance, Tá?a Dluhošová (Charles University) | Taiwan’s Mainlanders: Do They Still Matter?, Stephane Corcuff (University of Lyon) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Revisiting the Modernist Literary Movement in Post-1949 Taiwan, Yvonne Chang (University of Texas) (Abstract) | Where is Taiwan’s Military Heading?, Jana Sehnálková (Charles University) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Nature and Taiwan natural sceneries in the poetry of Yang Mu and Chen Li, Marie Laureillard (Lumière-Lyon 2 University) | Agent of Unification?: The Political Role of Taiwanese Businessmen in Cross-Strait Integration, Keng Shu (National Chengchi University) & Gunter Schubert (Tübingen University) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 1st Floor – Panel 3: Election Politics | 2nd Floor – Panel 4: Economic Development | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Adapting to the new electoral system: Taiwanese political parties’ legislative candidate selection in 2008 in comparative perspective , Dafydd Fell (SOAS) | From a capital importing to a capital exporting economy: The Development of Taiwanese Foreign Direct Investment since 1990 and its implication , Beatrice Knerr (University of Kassel) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Party Alignment, Social Contact, and Voter Competence in a New Election System: A Case Study of the 2008 Taiwan’s Legislative Election , Yu Ching-hsin, Tsai Chia-hung, Sheng Shin-yuan (National Cheng-chi University) | Beyond multilateral negotiations – A Strategic-choice analysis on Taiwan’s participation in the OECD Shipbuilding Agreement, Wu Po-kuan (European University Institute) |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 1st Floor – Panel 5: History | 2nd Floor – Panel 6: Gender, Equality and Civil society | |
| 13:30-14:00 | The Shaping of Colonial Administrators: A Statistical Analysis of Successful Examination Candidates of Lower Civil Service Examinations in Taiwan under Japanese Rule , Caroline Tsai (Academia Sinica) | Women’s Movement and the Development of Civil Society in Taiwan, Lin Fang-mei (National Taiwan Normal University) |
| 14:00-14:30 | “L’Etranger” since the Civil War: Writing the Civil War Taiwanese – Guomindang Soldiers in the 1990s, Mike Lan (Nanyang University) | The power of contexts: Taiwanese feminists making space in gender equity education, Lee Shu-ching (University of Cambridge) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Traditional Houses on Taiwan, Lucie Olivova (Palacký University) | The Implications of Cross-Strait Relations for Taiwan’s Civil Society, Winnie King (University of Bristol) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 1st Floor – Panel 7: Olympics | 2nd Floor – Panel 8: Justice | |
| 15:30-16:00 | PRC Government Policy Towards Taiwan in the Olympic Year 2008, Ond?ej Ku?era (Palacký University) | Coup d’État justified? The legal constraints on the power of the President under the Constitution of the R.O.C., Joseph Lee (University of Nottingham) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Taiwan and the Anti-Olympic Games Campaign, Chen Yu-wen (University of Konstanz) | Regime Shift and Prosecutorial Reform in Taiwan, Wang Chin-shou (Chengkung University) |
| 16:30-18:00 | EATS General Assembly, Conference Room, 1st floor | |
April 20, 2008 (Sunday)
Karolinum, Ovocny trh 5, Praha 1
| 1st Floor – Panel 9: Language and Identity | 2nd Floor – Panel 10: Diversity in Civic Society | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Sakzaya or Amis? A Hidden ethnic group?, Melissa Lin (Tonghwa University) | A “mosquito hall” in present day Northern Taiwan, or the intricacies of multicultural politics, Anne-Christine Tremon (Ecole des Hautes Edudes en Sciences Sociales) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Language and Politics: Metaphors as Linguistic Strategies in the Issue of National Identity in Taiwan, Lin Cheng-wen, (University of York) | Indigenous Autonomy: Constructing a Place for Ethnic Minorities in Taiwan’s Emerging Civic Society, Scott Simon (Institut d’Asie Orientale de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure) |
| 10:00-10:30 | The Formation of Class-Based Civic Interest Groups in Transnational Taiwan, Scott Sommers (Mingchuan University) | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 1st Floor – Panel 11: Early Postcolonial History and Imaginary | 2nd Floor – Panel 12: Ecology and Environment | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Taiwanese Intellectuals and Taiwanese Literature in post Japanese departure from Taiwan (1945-1955), Sandrine Marchand (University of Artois) | Environment, Feng-shui, and Economic Transformations in a Taiwanese Town, Shih Fang-long (London School of Economics) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Imaging Shenzhou: The Imagery of ‘Home’ and ‘Country’ in Primary Geography Education in Early Post-war Taiwan, Chang Bi-yu (SOAS) | ‘Ecology’ and indigenous political and cultural struggles in Taiwan: a case study of two Atayal villages, Hsiao, Huei-Chung (Lancaster University) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Interrogating Identity and Citizenship in early postcolonial Taiwan, Ann Heylen (National Taiwan Normal University) | From Urban Corridor to Megalopolis: The Taiwanese Metropolization, Nicholas Douay (Université Paris Diderot) |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 1st Floor – Panel 13: Globalising Modernity | 2nd Floor – Panel 14: Taiwan in the World | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Taiwanising the World? Lee Ang and Global Cinema, Carsten Storm (Dresden University of Technology) | Taiwan’s diplomatic recognition in the shadow of China’s growing role in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mario Esteban (Autonomous University of Madrid) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Network & Cooperation in Presenting Taiwan in English With reference to translation of modern Taiwan literature,Cindy Kung (University of Newcastle) | China Rising: Whither Taiwan in Africa?, Crison Chien (London School of Economics) & Daniel Large (School of Oriental and Asian Studies) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Indigenous Culture under Taiwanese Modernity: Cultural Translation in Tien Yaco’s Short Stories, Liou Liang-ya (National Taiwan University) | Russia and Cross-Strait Relations, Hu Shaohua (Wagner College) |
| 15:00-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 1st Floor – Panel 15: MA Panel | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | The Japanese Colonial Contribution to a “Pluralistic National Identification” in Taiwan, Viviane Lugo (University of Lyon) | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Immigrants and the Development of Taiwan’s National Identity: A Case Study of Spouses from Southeast Asia and China, Isabelle Cheng (SOAS) | |
| 17:00-17:30 | A Comparative Study of Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan and Hokkaido, Anne-Gaelle Renaud (University of Lyon) | |
| 17:30-18:00 | Between God’s Miracle and Imperialist’s Propaganda:“A Skin-graft with Love” Revisited, Harry Wu (University of Oxford) | |
| 18:00-18:30 | Closing Session | |