Conference Programme- 16th Annual Conference

Location:
Nottingham Trent University, UK

Registration (Chaucer Staff Development Suite)

Chaucer LT4

• Dr. Colin Alexander, Local Organiser, Nottingham Trent University
• Prof. Cillian Ryan, Pro Vice-Chancellor International, Nottingham Trent University
• Prof Fu-te Liao, President, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

Chaucer LT4

1.     Eric Chen-hua Yu (National Chengchi University)
Political Leadership’s Approval Ratings in Northeast Asian Democracies

2.     Dali L. Yang, Co-author with Lingnan He (University of Chicago)
Political Trust in PRC and Taiwan (tables and figures)

3.     William Case (University of Nottingham Malaysia)
Allure of Authoritarianism’ in Malaysia

4.     Sandeep Shastri (Jain University)
How Do South Asians See Democracy and Authoritarianism

Chaucer LT1

1.     Wan-shin Chen (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle- Paris 3)
Far from the Capital/ the Authority: The Transformations of the Taiwan Cinema Industry and the Reconstruction of the Taiwanese Identity in Contemporary Films According to the Policies of Local Government Grants

2.     Boram Lee (University of Edinburgh)
Reshaping Local Colour Movement in Taiwanese art During the Japanese colonial period

3.     Chen-yu Lin (University of Liverpool)
A Study on Two Approaches of Musical Export and the Conception of ‘Independence’ for Taiwanese Musicians

4.     Maja Korbecka (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Recognizing Taiwan within 10 Years film franchise

Chaucer LT4

1.     Kuan-Wei Chen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
International Human Rights Law, Constitution and Taiwan’s Goal of “A Nation Founded upon the Principles of Human Rights”: Taking How Judicial Power Facing Economic and Social Rights as an Example

2.     Vincenzo Roberto Palmisaro (Rome Tor Vergata University)
Recognition and enforcement of Taiwan Courts’ civil judgments abroad: a practical case.

3.     Yu-hsien Sung (University of South Carolina) and Chin-show Wang (National Cheng Kung University)
Grand Justices and Political Development in Taiwan

Chaucer LT1

1.     Federica Passi (Ca’ Foscari University Venice)
Recognising Taiwan Literature: the struggle of the island in the world literature context

2.     Shu-wei Tu (National Taiwan University)
Postmodern Countercurrent: Late Modernism and Lyric Tradition– Taking Yang Jia-Xian’s “The Civilization of Breathing” as an example

3.     Chih-fan Chen (National Tsing Hua University)
Literature as an Intervention in Future-making: The Native Resurgence and the Epistemology of the Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan

4.     Carsten Storm (Technische Universitaet Dresden)
Extrapolation, Allegory and Recognition: SF and the State of the World

Chaucer LT4

1.     Isabelle Cheng (University of Portsmouth)
Ambassador Citizens: the Role and Criticism of Immigrant Women towards Taiwan’s Foreign Policy

2.     Chia-yuan Huang (University College London)
A Journey to the Subjective Future: The Politics of the Self of Young Taiwanese ‘Non-Elite’ Migrant Workers in Singapore

3.     Beatrice Zani (Lyon 2 University) and Lara Momesso (University of Central Lancashire)
Can the Subaltern Feel? On Recognition, Domination, and Emotions

4.     Huai-jen Wang (National Chengchi University)
1949 Migration and Development of Taiwan Society (1949-1996)

Group photo opportunity (weather permitting)
EATS Annual General Meeting (Chaucer LT1)

Short film screening: ‘The Lighthouse of Wuqiu’ (Chaucer LT4)
Fei-fan Lin, London School of Economics and Political Science, ‘Political Activism in Taiwan: The Sunflower Movement’
Chair: Colin Alexander, Nottingham Trent University

Chaucer LT1

1.     Scott Pacey (University of Nottingham)
Identity and Interfaith Competition: Christianity and Modern Buddhism in Post-war Taiwan

2.     Takako Sasaki (Waseda University)
Characteristics of the Community Participation in Community Development Activities, as the First Step to Investigate the Social Change after the Comprehensive Community Development Policy

3.     Shiho Maehara (Kyushu University)
Conceptualizing identity- the study of National Identity slogans by Lee Teng-hui (1988-2000)

Chaucer LT4

1.     Nancy Guy (University of California, San Diego)
Child prodigies as cultural ambassadors: Western art music and foreign relations in mid-20th century Taiwan

2.     Ann Heylen (National Taiwan Normal University)
Conceptualizing ROC statehood recognition: digital dynamics in 1950s Benelux media narratives

3.     Jessica Marinaccio (Victoria University of Wellington)
Rethinking Diplomacy and its Cultural, Social, and Political Contexts: The Diplomacies of Tuvalu, the Pacific, and Taiwan

4.     Simona Grano (University of Zurich)
Climate change politics: can these raise Taiwan’s recognition?

Chaucer LT4

Chaucer LT4

1.     Fabio Lee (National Tsing Hua University)
From Hokkien to Southeast Asian Hokkien: Case study of the Herzog August Philippine Chinese manuscript

2.     Peter Kang (National Donghwa University)
Rethinking the History of Taiwan in the Southeast Asian Context: the Case of Hokkien immigrants/settlers

3.     Cheng-heng Lu (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
One Family, Five Worlds: the Southern Fujian families’ ethnic identities in East and Southeast Asia

4.     Sam Huang (University of Leeds)
The “Brexit” effect to Britain, Europe and to the outside world: A view from a Taiwanese-British dual national

Chaucer LT1

1.     Niki Alsford (University of Central Lancashire) and Ya-ting Fan (University of Reading)
A House on Dihua Street: Its history and its occupants

2.     Kristina Karvelyte (Ming Chuan University)
Forget-me-not: generating recognition through urban cultural policies in Taiwan

3.     Tsung-lun Wan (University of Edinburgh)
Sociolinguistics of Demilitarization: The Changing Social Meaning of Kinmenese Southern Hokkien

Chaucer LT4

1.     Ching-yu Chen (National Tsing Hua University)
Moral Universals and Nation Building: The Changes of Democratic Discourse in Taiwan History Textbooks after the martial law was lifted

2.     Nai-hui Yu (University of Tokyo)
Taiwan literature during the period of Japanese rule: an anthropological perspective with a focus on Satō Haruo “Nichigetustan ni asobu ki”, “Shokuminchi no tabi”

3.     Astrid Lipinsky (University of Vienna)
Recognising Taiwan: US Literature Reflects on Taiwan’s Unique History

(Newton LT1)

1.     Ti-han Chang (University of Central Lancashire)
Recognizing Colonial Taiwan through a Female Historical Genealogy: Chen Yu-hui’s Haishen Jiazu 海神家族 [Mazu’s Bodyguards]

2.     Weiting Guo (Simon Fraser University)
The Making of a “Heroine”: Huang Bamei and the Politics of Wartime History in Postwar Taiwan, 1945–1982

3.     Hsin-chin Evelyn Hsieh (National Taipei University of Education)
Writing for Recognition: Generational Differences and Transformative Identities in Taiwanese American Literature

4.     Fang-mei Lin (National Taiwan University)
Western Xia Hotel and the Paradox of (not) Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnic Relations, Imagination of the Female Body, and Place-based Exile

(Newton LT3)

1.     Andreas Fulda (University of Nottingham)
Citizen diplomacy across the Taiwan Strait: building positive relations, one handshake at a time?

2.     Ko-hang Liao (University of Cambridge)
Mao and Chiang’s ‘Geming’ (Revolution) for Recognition: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Great Leap Forward and the Project National Glory, 1958-1972

3.     Bonny Ling (University of Zurich)
The Taiwan Strait: Under the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and Its De Facto Status

4.     Tommy Chung Yin Kwan (SOAS, University of London)
Recognising Taiwan in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Taiwan Public Diplomacy

(Newton LT4)

1.     Jade Chang (University of Bristol)
Recognising Taiwan in Sight and Sound: Glocalisation in the Music of Post-TNC Films

2.     Ya-ting Fan (University of Reading)
The Album Commemorating the Redevelopment of Taipei (1915)

3.     Ming-huei Wang (University of Texas)
From Colloquial to Archaic: The Mandarin Baihuawen Tradition in Postwar Taiwan

Newton LT1

1.     Chao-hsuan Chen (National Tsing Hua University)
“Election” as a Consensus: The Changing Connotation of Taiwanese Local Autonomy in Postwar East Asia (1945-1947)

2.     Chih-hen Chang (Utrecht University)
Representing Perpetrators: Exploring History, Complicity, and Trauma in White Terror Literature

3.     Fei-fan Lin (LSE, University of London)
Democracy v. Progressiveness? –Social Movements and the Democratic Progressive Party’s Candidate Selection in Taiwan

4.     Joanna Zylinska (SOAS, University of London)
Chen Shui Bian and the Battle for National Identity – Analysis of Key Speeches from Second Term

Newton LT3

1.     Megan Conville (SOAS, University of London)
Losing Burkina Faso and Gripping eSwatini: A Comparative Study of Taiwan’s Diplomacy in Sub-Saharan Africa

2.     Sam Robbins (SOAS, University of London)
A Taiwanese “Crime Wave?”: An Analysis of Changing Law and Order Discourse in Transitional Taiwan

3.     Karoline Buchner (Freie Universität Berlin)
Between Academization and Informalization – Ways into the Profession of Chinese Medicine in Taiwan

4.     Ya-chen Lee (Leiden University)
United as a New Family: the Multivocal Approach to Repatriation Adopted by National Taiwan University Museum of Anthropology

5.     Chu-chun Hsu (National Taiwan University)
Re-inventing ‘Modern’: The Experimental Acts of Theatre Quarterly 劇場雜誌 in the 1960s

Newton LT4