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Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections will focus on the challenges and potentialities of Taiwan studies. Sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the workshop will take place on April 7-8th 2017 (Friday-Saturday), at Harvard University.
With the workshop, we seek to provide a new forum in which young scholars from different disciplines can present their ongoing projects, challenge existing frameworks and methodologies, and explore possibilities of interdisciplinary cooperation.
Participants are invited to present concrete case studies from Taiwan which enable them to engage with current theoretical and methodological issues in the humanities and social sciences. They are encouraged to situate Taiwan within diverse cultural and geopolitical networks and historical trajectories. We look forward to innovative theories deriving from transcultural and interdisciplinary dialogue. The keywords of their presentations include:
Resistance politics: journalistic freedom, student activism, media connectivity
History and futurity: localism, modernism, post-colonialism, post-loyalism, sinicization and de-sinicization, East Asia and beyond
Cultural articulation: transculturaion and translation, mediality and visuality, lyricism and affect, Sinophone sphere
The schedule of the workshop appears below.
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections:An International workshop
April 7-8th 2016
Sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang
April 7, Friday
13:30-15:00
Panel One: (Post-)Colonial Identities and Sentimentalities, 1934-1949
Chair: Michelle Yeh
Dingru Huang
Mapping a Strange Home: Weng Nao, the Kōenji Neighborhood of Tokyo, and Taiwanese literature in the 1930s
Chun-yu Lu
Lovable Foe: Sentimentalizing Morality in Wartime Taiwan, 1937-1945
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
Trauma and Diaspora of 1949: History, Memory, and Literature in Taiwan’s Mainlander Studies
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00
Panel Two: Reinvention and Remembrance, 1950s-1970s
Chair: Melissa J. Brown
Yang Fu-min
When “Wen” becomes Knowledge: Bing-ing Hsieh’s How I Write
Cheng-chieh Chang
Remembering the Taiwan’s Activism in 1960s-70s
Lo Yichen
Of the Civil Law Family: The Troubling Concept for Legal Transplantation in Taiwan
April 8, Saturday
10:00-11:30
Panel Three: Politics and its Poetics, 1979-1980s
Chair: Chu Huei-Chu
Kevin Luo
Revisiting Authoritarianism and Democratization in Taiwan: Analyzing Legislative Priorities and Texts, 1979-1987
Chung Chih-wei
“Harbor Songs” between Men: The Perverse Lyricism in 1980s’ Taiwanese Nationalists
Po-hsi Chen
An Isle of Socialism Unwritten: The Pro-Unification Leftist Literary Historiography in Taiwan
11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00
Panel Four: Contesting Voices and Networks, 1990s-2016
Chair: Michael Berry
Kyle Shernuk
Sinophone Tidalectics, or the Transculturation of Identity in the Age of Globalization
Lily Wong
Affective Labor and the Sinophonic Lens in The Fourth Portrait
Dalton Lin
Can-Kicking in International Disputes: Parallel Self-Interest, Behind-the-Scene Diplomacy, and Lessons for Rapprochement Attempts
Jaw-Nian Huang
Between State and Market: Institutional Origins of Media Self-censorship in Taiwan, 1949-2016
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Roundtable
Chair: Mei Chia-ling
by denton.2 at osu.edu on April 6, 2017
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