Conference Agenda

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

Julie Chen

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

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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