Conference Programme- 11th Annual Conference

Location: Room 1.21

Taiwan Studies Publication and East Asian Studies Poster Exhibition

Location: Room 1.21

Registration and Membership

Location: Room 1.23

Opening Session

Location: Room 1.23

Keynote Speech by Prof. Mau-kuei Chang, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica,
The content and discontent of integration with China: The political and economic dynamics in Taiwan

Location: Room 1.21

Break

Location: Room 1.23

1.     Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Governing diversity in the age of migration: challenges and policy responses in Singapore

2.     Shelley Rigger, Political Science Department, Davidson College
Challenges of Democracy After Democratization in Taiwan and South Korea

3.     Don-yun Chen, Department of Public Administration, National Chengchi University
The Efficient Secret of Elected and Non-elected Officers in Democratic Governance: An Agency Theory Perspective.

4.     Kar Yen Leong, Research Fellow, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
Between a rock and a hard place: democratic consolidation and identity formation in modern Taiwan

Location: Room 1.23

Discussant: Jens Damm

1.     Wen-cheng Lin
DPP’s China policy: how to balance ideal with reality?

2.     Saša Istenic
Media coverage of the Senkaku/Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands Disputes and Taiwan’s image in Slovenia

3.     Misato Matsuoka (& Michal Thim)
Taiwan-Japan relations as a complementary counter-balance to cross-strait relations: The case of Diaoyutai/Senkaku dispute

Location: Guildhall

Reception hosted by Lord Mayor of Portsmouth

Transport to HMS Warrior

Location: HMS Warrior

Conference Dinner hosted by Taipei Representative Office in the UK

Location: Room 2.07

Discussant: Wen-cheng Lin

1.     Shiau-chi Shen
The impact of a rising China on Taiwan’s national identity

2.     Jasper Green
Agency and the state: Taiwan’s state apparatus and cross-strait economic integration

3.     Chuanzhe Shao
Issues of power and culture in a mixed marriage between Chinese and Taiwanese: Managing the interaction in daily life

Location: Room 2.16

Discussant: Astrid Lipinsky

1.     Bi-yu Chang
Building 20th century modernity in ‘Sanminzhuyi Model Province’: Spatiality in the construction of Chunghsing New Village

2.     Barbora Platzerova
Conflict of laws between Mainland and Taiwan: ‘mixed’ marriages

3.     Jau-hwa Chen & Fang-ching Leung (& Yu-chih Kao)
Due process and human rights discourses in Free China: An intercultural philosophical inquiry

Location: Room 2.07

Discussant: Ming-Yeh Rawnsley

1.     Bogdan Zemanek
We are democrats. Stability of themes in Taipei Times editorials during presidential campaigns 2000-2012

2.     Vladimir Stolojan
Lost in transition: democratic Taiwan and its former self

3.     Jens Sejrup
Reliving the past: the narrative themes of repetition and continuity in Japan-Taiwan news coverage

4.     Feng-yi Chu
Benevolent self vs. malign other: two moral dualistic narratives of Taiwanese people’s Chinese identity

Location: Room 2.16

Discussant: Fu-san Huang (TBC)

1.     Denisa Hilbertova
The So-called republic: Czechoslovak Communist propaganda concerning Taiwan

2.     Ann Heylen
Travel and mobility in 17th century Taiwan

3.     Lisa Bauer
Minimal art or Chinese traditional painting? Taiwan’s art historical selfnarration mirrored in the reading of Richard Lin’s oeuvre

4.     Henning Klöter
A forgotten essay about the Taiwanese language by a Taiwanese scholar at a Japanese university during his stay in Beijing: Guo Mingkun and his article “Holo oe” (1935)

Location:Room 1.21

Break

Location:Room 1.23

Keynote Speech by Prof. Fu-san Huang, Research Fellow (ret.), Institute of History, Academia Sinica
Is Taiwanese history disruptive?

Location:Room 1.21

Buffet Lunch

Location: Room 2.07

Discussant: Jens Damm

1.     Naiteh Wu
China framing Taiwan’s electoral competition?

2.     Dafydd Fell(&Yen-weng Peng)
The re-emergence of Taiwan’s Green Party since 2010

3.     Malte Kaeding
當選 everywhere – the diffusion of Taiwan’s electioneering and its impact on democratisation in the Greater China region

Location: Room 2.16

Discussant: Pei-yin Lin

1.     Carsten Storm
Visions of Japan: an entangled self in the work of Hou Hsiao-hsian and Edward Yang

2.     Ti-han Chang
The role of the ecological other in contesting postcolonial identity politics: an analysis on Wu Ming-yi’s literary criticism, essays and fictional writings

3.     Federica Passi
Genres negotiated and translated: a new look into the historiography of Taiwanese literature

4.     Julia Schulz
English insertions in Taiwan Mandarin

Location: Room 2.07

Discussant: Gary Rawnsley

1.     Kristina Karvelyte
Taipei’s city diplomacy in action: towards cultural and creative capital?

2.     Colin Alexander
More sub-state than nation-state: the contemporary public diplomacy of Taiwan and Scotland in comparison

3.     Shu-shiun Ku
Culture, economy and policy: the emergence of cultural and creative industries in Taiwan

4.     Pei-yin Lin
Beyond national boundaries: Teresa Teng (1953-1995) and her sonorous flow in an East Asian context

Location: Room 2.16

Discussant: Don-yun Chen

1.     Tzu-hsiu Kuo
Governance without democracy: how does it work?

2.     Kailing Luo
Governmental board: puppet master or puppet?

3.     Muyi Chou
Environmental governance in Taiwan from the perspective of NGO: a case study on the legislation of Wetlands Conservation Act

4.     Ek-hong Ljavakaw Sia
When weak communities meet strong NGOs: collaborative governances in the post-disaster reconstruction

Location:Room 1.21

Break

Location:Room 1.23

EATS General Assembly (incl. Board member election, voting for EATS 2015 host)

Location: Room 2.05

Discussant: Ann Heylen

1.     Amira Signorini
Syaman rapongan: strategies of indigeneity within cultural and linguistic interference: case study of the novel ‘Tiankong de yanjing’ (the Eyes of the Sky)

2.     Daniel Davies
How has aboriginal identity been used in issues of national politics in Taiwan post democratisation?

3.     Kai Yue Theodore Charm
The transformation of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) legislative candidate selection system after 2008

4.     Magdaléna Masláková
The conflict of identities? The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and its fight for national Taiwanese identity

Location:Room 1.21

Closing Session: Young Scholar Award and Library Grant Award Announcement