Conference Programme- 1st Annual Conference

PANEL 2: TAIWAN'S 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

• Fiorella Allio (Institute for Research on South East Asia, Marseille)
• Micro-level analysis in the research on electoral culture and representations and national level election. The March 2004 Presidential Election.
• Joseph Lee (University of London)
• After the Defensive Referendum, What's Next?
• Liu Ming-feng (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
• The Referendum and Taiwan's Democratisation
• Christian Schafferer (University of Linz)
• Newspaper and Television Advertising in the 2004 Taiwan Presidential Election.

PANEL 3: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE KMT AND DPP ERAS (1)

• Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
• Party Platform Change: Comparing the KMT and DPP eras
• Christian Goebel (Duisburg-Essen)
• Combating Corruption under Chen Shui-bian
• Gunter Schubert (University of Tuebingen)
• Closing the gap? - Taiwan's political parties and national identity after the 2004 presidential elections

PANEL 4: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE KMT AND DPP ERAS (2)

• Chang Bi-yu (LSE)
• Narrating Taiwan: Taiwanese Cultural Policy Since 2000
• Flemming Christiansen (Leeds)
• Constitutional Change and Taiwan's Democratisation
• Huang Yiling (University Paris 1, Sorbonne-Pantheon)
• Education Reform: Change and Continuity Since the Change in Ruling Parties

PANEL 5: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL ECONOMY

• Robert Ash (SOAS)
• Economic Policy in the KMT and DPP eras
• Christopher Dent (Leeds)
• Taiwan and the New Regional Political Economy of Asia
• Chen I-ru (SOAS)
• Defending State Autonomy in the Age of Financial Globalisation The case study of financial liberalisation in Taiwan's stock market

PANEL 6: CULTURE AND SOCIETY

• Lim Song Hwee (Leeds)
• "Cool Kids": How to be Queer in Taiwan
• Christine Kaemmer (Tuebingen)
• Continuity and Change of Values- An Analysis of Literary Textbooks of Taiwanese Junior High Schools
• Satoshi Ota (SOAS)
• Japanese Youth Culture in Taiwan
• Stefania Travagnin (SOAS)
• Master Yinshun and Buddhist Nuns for the human Realm Theory and practice of Renjian Fojiao in Contemporary Taiwan

PANEL 7: LANGUAGE AND HISTORY

• Ann Heylen (Ruhr University)
• Loading the Matrix: Taiwanese in Historical Perspective
• Henning Kloter (Ruhr University)
• Written Taiwanese: A Complementary Approach
• Tzeng Shih-jung (Oxford)
• Identity and War: the Taiwanese National Consciousness under War Mobilization and Kominka Movement
• Carsten Storm (Dresden University of Technology)
• Historicity and Identity in Li Qiao's Wintery Nights

PANEL 8: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN TAIWAN

• Stephane Corcuff (La Rochelle)
• Is there a Frontier between China and Taiwan? (abstract)
• Mark Harrison (Westminster)
• Where is Taiwanese Identity?
• Perry Johansen (Stockholm)
• Film and politics in Taiwan: The March of Happiness and the Presidential Election 2000
• Carol Rennie (Edinburgh)
• National Identity in the Work of Overseas women writers from Taiwan

PANEL 9: CROSS STRAIT RELATIONS

• Kallio Jyrki and Mikael Mattlin (University of Helsinki)
• Thinking Outside the One China Box: How to Undo the Gordian Knot in the Cross Strait Impasse
• Masako Ikegami (CPAS Stockholm)
• Three Agendas for the Future Course of the China Taiwan Relationship.
• Yasuhiro Matsuda (The National Institute for Defence Studies, Japan Defence Agency)
• Taiwan's Presidential Election in 2004: Its impact on the PRC-Taiwan Relations
• Uwe Wunderlich (Reading)
• Globalisation and Identity Building: A Social Constructivist Approach to Sino Taiwanese Relations

PANEL 10: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• David Fouquet (Asian-Europe Project, Brussels)
• European-Asian Space Collaboration and its Strategic Implications
• Michael Hoare (Independent Scholar)
• A Short History of British Government Taiwan Relations (abstract)
• Joji Kijima (SOAS)
• Taiwan's Break with Japan: 1972 Revisited
• Lin Taiho (University of Muenster)
• U.S. nuclear strategy, Missile Defence and the Taiwan Strait