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9:00am Panel 05: Bridging Continents: Taiwan’s Evolving Role in European Diplomacy and Policy Location: Room 2.03 Chair: Kristina Kironska
The visit of the German ambassador to Taiwan in 1910: A Digital Exploration of the Historical Process
Yu-Yin Hsu , Kuan-Wei Wu
Taiwan's Role in German Policy Towards the Asia-Pacific Region
Jens Damm
European States and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific: A Digital Humanities Analysis of National Strategies
Stefano Pelaggi
Taiwan’s Outbound Relations – Intensifying Diverse Cooperation Amid International Tensions
Josie-Marie Perkuhn
10:45am Panel 07: The Evolution of Language and Translation in Taiwan Location: Room 2.03 Chair: Corrado Neri
Taiwanese Language Education and Literacy under Taiwan's Language Policy
Lekun Tan
Trajectories of Working with Dutch Formosa Materials
Ann Heylen
Our Memory in Your Language: Translating Indigenous Cultures in Taiwan’s Museums
Yan Ying
Digital Transformation in Translation Services: Taiwanese Language Professionals' Adoption of AI Technologies in the Context of Indo-Pacific Regional Integration
Daphne Qi-rong Chang
Who Is “Seediq Bale”? Representation of Taiwan Indigenous Culture in the Film *Warriors of the Rainbow
Salone Ishahavut
1:00pm Panel 09: To Defend and Protect: Taiwan’s Strategic Role in the Indo-Pacific Location: Room 2.03 Chair: Alfred Gerstl
Every Reproduction of Sovereignty in the Case of Civilian Defense
Yi-Hui Lin
Japan’s Indo-Pacific Grand Strategy and the ‘Taiwan Contingency’
Paul Jobin , Arata Hirai
An Indo-Pacific View of the Cross-Strait Tensions through a Japanese Media Prism
Lutgard Lams
Japan-Taiwan Relations in the 2010s and Beyond. Transformations and Limits of a Forbidden Relationship
Mattia Dello Spedale Venti
2:45pm Panel 11: From Poetry to Politics: Taiwanese Cinema in Historical and Transnational Contexts Location: Room 2.03 Chair: Wafa Ghermani
Singing for Home or Sovereignty? Fei Xiang and the Geopolitical Framing of "Cloud of Hometown"
Chang Liu
Benshengren Abroad: Anxious Fantasies of Overseas Travel in Taiwanese-Language Cinema
Chris Berry
Film in Poetry: Cinematic Techniques in the Poetry of Hung Hung 鴻鴻
Sarka Masarova
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
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
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
3:45pm 2025 YSA Presentation + Closing Location: Room 2.03