Conference Programme- 10th Annual Conference

Location:Buisson

Registration

Location:Conference Room at Buisson

Welcome Remarks

Location:Conference Room

Keynote Speech by Professor T. J. Cheng, College of William and Mary.
Offshore democracies an ideational challenge to China

Location:Meeting room 2 at Buisson

1.     Yoann Goudin, Ph.D. student,Inalco, France
Legitimate languages and multilingualism in Taiwanese society: Which language skills are required for Taiwanese studies?

2.     Gérald Crampon, MA student, Institute of East Asia, France
A brief survey of Taiwan’s recent foreign policy on maritime issues

3.     Chiu Hsiao-­Chiao, MPhil. Student, LSE
An anthropological study of memory and the multiplicity of identity in the post-­militarised Kinmen

4.     Liao Yi­fen, MA student, Utrecht University
Public participation, social and economic sustainability: A comparative case­-study of community­-based natural resource management in Taiwan

5.     Muhammad Nurjihadi, MA student, Bogor Agricultural University
Future Taiwan­-ASEAN relationship, blessing or disaster: theoretical analysis

Location:Meeting room 3 at Buisson

2.     Ikegami Masako, Professor, University of Stockholm
Dilemma of Taiwan in the Senkaku/Diaoyutai conundrum–scrutinising the double-­edged Cairo Declaration

3.     Jon Sullivan, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham
Wither Taiwan’s identity

4.     Ketty Chen, Visiting scholar, Institute of Advanced Studies, National Taiwan University
Regional security and peace in the Taiwan Strait: The direction of Taiwan’s foreign policy in the changing balance of power

Coffee Break

Location:Conference room at Buisson

1.     Shih Fang­-long, Co-­director, Taiwan Research Programme, LSE
Imagining an alternative future for Taiwan: Via comparison with Ireland

2.     Stuart Thomson, Research Associate, Taiwan Research Programme, LSE
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3.     Rev. John McNEIL Scott, Senior Chaplain, University of London
Forty shades of green or fifty shades of grey: Presbyterian Christianity and issues of identity in Taiwan and Ireland

Location:Meeting room 2 at Buisson

1.     Yvonne Chang Sung-sheng, Professor, UT Austin
Critical approaches to ‘Taiwanese vernacular script movement’ in the Sinosphere: A theoretical contemplation

2.     Táňa DLUHOŠOVÁ, Lecturer, Masaryk University
Europeans in Taiwan: 17th century in the post­war literary writings

3.     LIN Tzu-­yu, Ph.D. student, University of Edinburgh
A second translation in Taiwanese Diasporic literature: Re-­reading Weng Nao

Location:Meeting room 3 at Buisson

1.     Isabelle Cheng, Lecturer, Portsmouth University
Which team do you support? The in-­between identity of immigrant women in Taiwan

2.     Joy Lin Chun­yu, Ph.D. student, Lancaster University
An examination of Taiwanese government funded literacy programme for marriage immigrants from Southeast Asian countries and China

3.     Lara MOMESSO, Ph.D. student, SOAS/ERCCT
From being someone to be becoming no­one: the lived experiences of ‘exceptional’ Chinese spouses

Location: Conference room at Buisson

General Assembly

Dinner offered by the Taipei Representative Office

Location:Conference room at Buisson

Keynote Speech by Dr. E. ZEITOUN, Researcher and vice­-Director, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LANGUAGE CHANGE AMONG THE FORMOSAN LANGUAGES AN EXAMPLIFICATION WITH SAISIYAT

Location: Meeting room 2 at Buisson

1.     Fabienne Jagou, Associate Professor, École Française d’Extrême-­Orient
The Dalai Lama in Taiwan: Tibetan religious leader, begging monk or political strategist?

2.     Andre LALIBERTÉ, Professor, University of Ottawa
Taiwan’s ‘Buddhism for this world’ at a crossroad

3.     Burhan CIKILI, MA student, National Taiwan University
Hizmet movement on intercultural interfaith dialogue in Taiwan

Location: Meeting room 3 at Buisson

1.     Lin Peiyin, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
Voice from the margin: gender and ethnicity in the works of Rimuy Aki

2.     Federica Passi, Lecturer, Ca’ Foscari University
The role and importance of Aborigines in the creation of a Taiwanese literature

3.     Gwennaël Gaffric, Ph.D. student, University of Lyon
Do waves have memories? Environmental issues in Syaman Rapongan’s writing

Coffee Break

Location: Conference room at Buisson

1.     Dennis v. Hickey, Distinguished Professor, Missouri State University
The East China Sea peace initiative policies, problems and prospects

2.     Reinhard BIEDERMANN, Assistant Professor, Tamkang University
Taiwan’s participation in transnational governance mechanisms

3.     Malte Philipp KAEDING, Lecturer, University of Surrey
A Hongkongisation of Taiwan? Taiwanese perceptions of Hong Kong’s development, economic integration and United Front work

Location: Meeting room 2 at Buisson

1.     Corrado NERI, Associate Professor, Lyon 3 University
Negotiating neighbourhood: immigration and foreign labour in recent Taiwanese cinema

2.     Jens SEJRUP, Ph.D., University of Copenhagen
Instrumentalized history and the motif of repetition in news coverage of Japan­-Taiwan relations

3.     Stefano CENTINI, Ph.D. student, INALCO, France
Representations, confrontations and cooperation in film and television co­-production between Taiwan and China

Location: Meeting room 3 at Buisson

1.     LIN Wen­-cheng, Professor and Dean, National Sun Yat-­sen University
Hu Jintao’s conflict management of the Sino-American relation: The Taiwan case

2.     LIN Chiung­chu, Associate Professor, Soochow University
National identity and attitudes towards China: A generational perspective

3.     CHOU Muyi, Ph.D. student, Humboldt U. Berlin
China’s authoritarian diffusion effects on Taiwan

Lunch on site

Location:Conference Room

Keynote Speech by A. C. HSIAU, Researcher and vice­-Director, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
A TALE OF THE 70S THE GENERATIONAL ORIGIN OF CONTEMPORARY TAIWANESE POLITICS AND CULTURE

Location: Meeting room 2 at Buisson

1.     Jens DAMM, Assistant Professor, Chang Jung Christian University
Cross­-Strait cyberspace and its influence on the establishment of a public sphere in China

2.     TSAI Pei & CHANG Ming­jay, Assistant professor, Shih­shin University
The challenge of globalization of Taiwan Indigenous TV: A comparative study among TITV and Māori Television

3.     AMAE Yoshihisa, Assistant Professor, Chang Jung Christian University
Building communities through pilgrimage to sacred sites of war memory in Taiwan

4.     Astrid LIPINSKY, Post­doc Assistant, Wien Universität
Taiwan at the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the Women’s movement

Location: Meeting room 3 at Buisson

1.     Carsten STORM, Professor, Erlangen-­Nürnberg Universtität
The texture of youth, locality and globality in Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day

2.     Ann HEYLEN, Associate Prof., National Taiwan Normal University
Appropriating Taiwan manga culture through manga Taiwanshi and forms of political satire

3.     SUNG Sang­-Yeon, Lecturer, Wien Universität
Constructing national image through popular music

4.     LIU Chu­-ying, PhD student, University of Southampton
The Image of the Female Singer­- The Structural Characteristics of Female Stardom in the Taiwanese Mandopop Music Video

Location:Conference room at Buisson

Documentary screening with author Véronique ARNAUD, Senior Researcher, Centre Asie du Sud-­Est – CNRS
Botel Tobago, The Isle of Men, [1971] 2011

Informal dinner

Location: Class room F101 at Descartes

1.     LIN Yuju, Researcher, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Trade, local affairs, and Formation of Taiwanese merchant communities in mid­-18th century

2.     Niki ALSFORD, Research Assistant and PhD student, SOAS
A fanzailou by the River Tamsui

Location: Class room F1 at Descartes

1.     Simona GRANO, Research Associate, University of Zürich
Perception of risk towards nuclear in Taiwan and Hong Kong

2.     Alice DESNOS, PhD student, University of Provence
The role of industrial heritage in identity issues: the touristification of sugar mills in Taiwan

Location: Class room F101 at Descartes

1.     Thomas B. GOLD, Professor, University of California – Berkeley
The field of power in martial law Taiwan and South Korea

2.     Dafydd FELL, Reader, SOAS
Third parties in Taiwanese party politics (2005 – 2012): The fall and mini revival

3.     Mark WEATHERALL, PhD student, National Taiwan University
The institutionalization of Taiwan’s party system in regional perspective

4.     Agata FIJAŁKOWSKA, PhD student, National Chengchi University
Strawberries are getting wild: New wave of student movement on Taiwan and its relation with mainland China and HK

Location: Class room F1 at Descartes

1.     Peter C. Y. CHOW, Professor, City University of New York
Taiwan’s industrial policies and the drive for globalization

2.     Charles CHEN I-­Hsin, Researcher, SOAS
Escaping from the China Swirl? The prospective of cross-­strait relations under increasing economic interdependence

3.     Qin TANG, Ph.D. student, Ruhr-­University Bochum
Convergence through regulations? Institutional reform in China and Taiwan for a sustainable Cross-­Strait economic growth under the WTO

4.     Myron CHIU Jenping, PostDoc Research Fellow, SOAS
Special treatment? The effectiveness of Chinese preferential policy on Taiwanese investment in China since the late 1980s

Location: Class room F101 at Descartes

1.     KINOSHITA Naoko, Professor, Kumamoto University
Relationship between Taiwan, the Ryukus and Fujian during the 10th – 15/16th centuries as seen from trade porcelain

2.     Stéphane CORCUFF, Associate Professor, Lyon Institute of Political Studies and Institute of East Asia
The fall of Zheng Taiwan and the geopolitics of the Formosa Strait in the late Seventeenth century: A commentary n Zheng Ke-­shuang’s 1683 petition to Kangxi

3.     Bogdan ZEMANEK, Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University
“Fine modern guns, which fired six rounds.” Failed modernization of Taiwanese 19th century coastal defence

4.     Dean KARALEKAS, Ph.D. student, National Chengchi University
Mapping Taiwan’s complexity in the world

Location:F101 at Descartes

YSA Announcement & Closing Session

Lunch

Boat tour and visit of the old city