Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Friday, 20/June/2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Registration
1:00pm
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1:20pm
Welcome
Location: Room 2.03
1:20pm
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2:15pm
Keynote: Julie Yu-Wen Chen: To Speak the Unspeakable: Can Taiwan Really Decolonise Its International Relations and Knowledge Production About China?
Location: Room 2.03
 

To Speak the Unspeakable: Can Taiwan Really Decolonise Its International Relations and Knowledge Production About China?

Julie Chen

2:15pm
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2:30pm
Coffee Break 1
2:30pm
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4:00pm
Panel 01: TFD panel: Political, Economic and Security Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific
Location: Room 2.03
Chair: Yeh-chung Lu
 

Silicon Shield or Field? Public Opinion Evidence in Taiwan

Pan Hsin-Hsin, Wu Wen-Chin



Democracy Aid in Crisis, Not Collapse: A First Cut at the Trump-Era Cuts and Their Consequences.

Bann Seng Tan



Democracy, Trade and Security Partners in the Indo-Pacific

Li Chien-pin

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

4:00pm
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4:15pm
Coffee Break 2
4:15pm
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5:45pm
Panel 03: Between Pragmatism and Principles: The Evolving Ties Between Taiwan and CEE Countries
Location: Room 2.03
Chair: David Broul
 

(Un)like-minded partners – trade between Taiwan and Poland during the Cold War

Wei-Yun Lin



Defending Democratic Values amidst External Threats: Taiwan’s Determination and Solution Strategy from a Hungarian Perspective

Bernadett Szél



Raising Political Issues and Setting Media Agenda: a Case of Czech President Zeman's & Senate President Vystrčil's Relationship with China and Taiwan

Renata Westlake



Taiwan and the Czech Republic´s Relationship Through the Lense of Its Soft Power Processes

Klára Schwarzová



Slovakia-Taiwan Relations: Slovakia's Practicality-based Approach as a Model of Engagement with Taiwan

Kristina Kironska

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

6:00pm
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6:50pm
Tour: Olomouc Walking Tour
7:00pm
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10:00pm
Conference Reception
Parkány gardens

Date: Saturday, 21/June/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
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

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

10:30am
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10:45am
Coffee Break 3
10:45am
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12:15pm
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

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

12:15pm
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1:00pm
Lunch 1: Book Launch
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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

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

2:30pm
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2:45pm
Coffee Break 4
2:45pm
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4:35pm
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

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

4:35pm
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4:45pm
Coffee Break 5
4:45pm
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6:00pm
EATS Annual General Meeting (EATS Members only
Location: Room 2.31
6:30pm
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9:30pm
Conference Dinner
Konvikt - Univerzitní 3, 779 00 Olomouc

Date: Sunday, 22/June/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
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
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10:45am
Coffee Break 6
10:45am
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12:15pm
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
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1:00pm
Lunch 2
1:00pm
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3:15pm
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
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3:45pm
Coffee Break 7
3:45pm
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4:15pm
2025 YSA Presentation + Closing
Location: Room 2.03