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9:00am Panel 13: From Colonial Encounters to Cold War Alliances: Taiwan’s Historical Trajectories Location: Room 2.03 Chair: Stefano Pelaggi
How Self-determination Travelled to Taiwan: Lin Hsien-t'ang (1881-1956) and the Concept of Zijue
Federico Brusadelli
The Overseas Branches of the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement (1969-1975)
Tommaso Rossetto
When Empires Discover Forest: European Cartography and the Reconceptualization of Natural Resources in the Late Nineteenth Century Taiwan
Chih-hao Chen , Why-fu Fang
Unlikely Ally: Rethinking Taiwan-India Rapprochement in the 1960s
Wen-shuo Liao
Clan Associations and Cold War Politics: Taiwanese-Filipino Chinese Networks and Identity in Post-War Southeast Asia
Kuan-fei Chen
Panel 14: Lim Pen Yuan panel: Maritime Trading and Commodity Frontier: Taiwan’s Business Network in Late 19th and Early 20th Century East Asia Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Huang Fu-San
The Response of Taipei Rice Export Firms under the Impact of the Russo-Japanese War: A Case Study of Chen Yuanshun Firm
Lin Yu-Ju
The Birth of Formosa Tea Industry, 1865-1870
Song-wen Huang
Maximizing Profits: Tax Avoidance Strategies of Taiwanese Han Medicine Merchants (1895–1934)
Xu Hui-Wen
Interwoven Networks: Jinyuanyi Firm's Role in Connecting Local and East Asian Seafood Trade between Tainan and Nagasaki, 1908-1922
Chiang Kuo-Yu
Gold, Silver, and Pepper: Commercial Entanglements at the VOC Trading Post in Taiwan
Chen Jung-Chen
10:30am Coffee Break 6
10:45am Panel 15: Chip Diplomacy and Beyond: Taiwan’s Geopolitical and Economic Maneuvering Location: Room 2.03 Chair: Rosalie Chen
"Taiwan as an Important Player in US-China Tech Competition: How Influential is Chip Diplomacy in Taiwan’s Grand Strategy?"
Winston Lee , Yvette To
Taiwanization in the Semiconductor Industry Under the US-China Conflict
Yumiko Nakahara
Navigating Among (Rising) Middle Powers: Taiwan’s Three-Level Game.
Raian Hossain , Chun-Yi Lee
Behind the Silicon Shield of Sovereignty: Expectations and Hope in the Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry
Hsiao-Chen Lin
Panel 16: Young Scholar Award Panel Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Wafa Ghermani
Empty Stages, Crowded Studios, Networked Bodies:
ADAM’s Regional Perspectives on Contemporary Performance
Freda Fiala
Revisiting the Taiwanese Debate on “Civil Society” (1986-1987) or Outline of an Intellectual History of Taiwan’s Democratization
Chao-Hsuan Peng
Left Out? Centre-left political parties and the role of Taiwan in Australian and British foreign policy
Max Dixon
Beyond the Battlefields: Historical Agency and Military Spirit of Taiwanese Indigenous Soldiers during the Chinese Civil War
Megumi Hagiwara
World Literature and Queer Taiwan: Notes of a Desolate Man in Translation
Sheng Chiang
12:15pm Lunch 2
1:00pm Panel 17 (double panel): MA PANEL: Taiwan’s Cultural and Political Landscape Location: Room 2.03 Chair: Bi-yu Chang
Taiwan’s LGBT Representation in Media and Film as a Soft Power Tool in the Indo-Pacific
Joseph Jordan Black
Constructing One-China: History and its Application in China's Taiwan Policy
Alexandra Laurina Josephine Whitehead
Foreign Policy as Veto Player Theory?: Taiwan Arms Purchases from the US
Lewin Jander
“Do Clothes Matter?”: an Analysis of Tsai Ing-Wen as Taiwan’s First Female President through the Intersection of Fashion and Politics
Carlotta Rose Busetto
A Precursor to Marriage or Just a Bit of Fun? How Women’s Changing Views of Heterosexual Romantic Relationships Are Shaping Taiwan’s Society.
Elspeth Han Ling Lewis
Taiwanese Citizens Trapped in Southeast Asian Scam Centres: How the Government and Civil Society Have Varying Approaches to Helping Taiwanese Victims of Human Trafficking Overseas
Annabel Jane Simpson
Panel 18: Social Change and Policy in Taiwan: Gender, Housing, and Reproductive Rights Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Isabelle Cockel
New Anticipatory Governance of Low Fertility Rates: IVF Subsidy, Pronatalism and Stratified Reproduction in Taiwan
Chia-Ling Wu
Navigating Energy Poverty in Taipei’s Homeless Community: Underclass’ Agency, Infrastructure, and Street-level Bureaucrats
Ke-hsien Huang
Counting on Women’s Courage to Come Forward: How Taiwanese Legislators Frame #MeToo in their Legal Reform against Sexual Violence
Natalie Lau, Shan-Jan Sarah Liu
Research on Housing Policy and Housing Culture Changes under Taiwan’s Special Circumstances.
Chenyu Lien
Queer Pilgrimage: Moving from Urban to Rural in Taiwanese Popular Religion
Jacob Friedemann Tischer
The Diasporic Queer Subject in Hebei Taipei
Tze-lan Sang
3:15pm Coffee Break 7
3:45pm 2025 YSA Presentation + Closing Location: Room 2.03