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2:30pm Panel 02: Taiwan’s Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific: Strategies, Alliances, and Soft Power Location: Room 2.18 Chair: David Broul
Does the Indo-Pacific Concept Benefit Taiwan? – Taiwan’s Role in Indo-Pacific Strategies and Policies
Frederic Krumbein
A Win-Win Strategy: Leveraging Taiwan's Science Diplomacy with Indonesia under the New Southbound Policy
Inda Mustika Permata , Bima Jon Nanda
Navigating Aspirations: Intra-Asian Student Mobility in Taiwan's Higher Education
Chia-Yuan Huang
4:15pm Panel 04: From Travelogues to Children’s Books: Taiwan’s Literary Landscape Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Ti-Han Chang
Myanmar-Chinese in Taiwan: From Cultural Outreach to Political Mobilisation
Dori Koppes
“No Discussion, No Democracy”: Literary Practices of Taiwan’s Bluebird Movement
Yu-Hsuan Lin
Addictionocene, Interobjectivity, and the Pharmakon in Tao Lin’s Writing—Perspectives of Taiwanese American Literature
Wei-ting Liou
Reflecting on and Looking forward to the Themes of Children’s Literature of Indo-Pacific Area Published by the Taiwanese Government
Shu-hui Lin
Lin Yi-Han’s Novel as a New Madman’s Diary: Reflections on Female Taiwanese Literature, Gender Roles, and Potential Sisterhoods in Today’s Society
Martina Renata Prosperi
9:00am Panel 06: Archipelagic Connections: Environment, Identity, and Indigenous Narratives in Taiwan Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Isabelle Cockel
Historical Relationality and the Role of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples in Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Scott Eliot Simon
Navigating with “Unclean Things” Archipelagically: Ghosts and Drifted Waste on the Beaches of Kinmen
Chengyu Yang
Migration as a Part of Modernization of Indigenous Communities in Taiwan
Petr Janda
Environmental Constructions Inherited from Textual Landscapes: Revisiting Taiwan Writing in Nieh Hua-ling's Mulberry and Peach
Huizhong Guo
10:45am Panel 08: Navigating Uncertainty: Taiwan’s Resilience Amidst China’s Expanding Influence Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Josie-Marie Perkuhn
Taiwan’s Path to the ICC: the Delegation of ad hoc ICC Jurisdiction, the Strategic Benefits of a Unilateral Declaration for Rules of Engagement (ROE) and Countering Chinese Lawfare
Sasha Bonafede Chhabra , Sze Hong Lam, Kaichieh {KJ} Hsu
What Can Chinese Medicine Tell us About Taiwan? A Reflection From an Anthropological Case Study to Question Its Relationship With The Indo-Pacific And Beyond
Daniele Mario Buonomo
PRC’s Vision of the Global Rule of Law and Its Implications for Taiwan
Martin Lavička
Role of Taiwan in Sustaining Global Supply Chain: The Significance of Malacca Strait
Saroj Kumar Ratha
1:00pm Panel 10: Museums, Music, Memory: Political and Cultural Expressions in Taiwan Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Nancy Guy
Museumifying the Bad Old Days: The Presentation of Dictatorship in Central Eastern Europe and Taiwan: A Reconnaissance
Thomas Baron Gold
Tsai's Days at the Museum: Taiwan, Laos, "Nanyang" & Queer Regionalism
Nicholas Andrew de Villiers
Retelling Traumatic Memories Of Taiwanese Imperial Japan Servicemen In Southeast Asia – A Case Study Of The Taiwanese Ballad 'New Song About The Lost War In The Shōwa Era'
Thomas Eduard Fliss
Parallelism and Paradox: Performance Experiment and Political Metaphor in the Experimental Opera Phaedra
Chenlin Kao
Navigating Censorship Routes: Taiwan’s Music Industry’s Path through Chinese Censorship
Chen-Yu Lin
2:45pm Panel 12: Mobility, Integration, and Exclusion: The Realities of Migrant Communities in Taiwan Location: Room 2.18 Chair: Beatrice Zani
In search of the 'Taiwanese Dream': Aspirations and Challenges Among Skilled Migrants in Taiwan
Yen-Fen Tseng
From Monitored Subjects to Resourceful Citizens? Experiences of Vietnamese Marriage Migrant Women and Their Children in Taiwan
Thi Thu Mai
Immigrant Paradox or Immigrant Disadvantage? Educational Assortative Marriage and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Taiwan
Kuo-Hsien Su
Cultural Nationalism and Vietnamese Working Migration to Taiwan: Principles of Political Exclusion, Social Subjection, and Economic Exploitation
Filip Kraus
The Ongoing Persistence of “Primordial Nationalism” in the Face of Cosmopolitan Futures
Allen Chun
Nikah Siri and temporality: Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Intimacy and Mobility in Taiwan
Isabelle Cockel , Jonathan Parhusip
9:00am 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
10:45am 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
1:00pm 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