Conference Programme- 4th Annual Conference

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

• Lin Weng-cheng
• Bengt Johansson

PANEL 1: NATIONAL IDENTITY AND NATIONALISM

• Jens Damm (Free University, Berlin, Germany)
• Are Taiwanese "Zhongguoren " or "huaren" - and who are the "Overseas Chinese"?
• Phil Deans (Temple University, Japan)
• Taiwanese Nationalism(s) and the Issue of Japan
• Hwang Yih-jye (University of Wales Aberystwyth, Wales)
• Election Campaign, Commemoration of the 2-28 Incident, and the Formation of Taiwanese National Identity

PANEL 2: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND HISTORY

• Ann Heylen (Ruhr-University-Bochum, Germany)
• What the Comics Say: Language during Japanese Rule in Taiwanese History
• Henning Kloeter (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
• Lien Heng as a linguist: A critical assessment
• Anna Maria Paoluzzi (University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy)
• The Sorcerer and the Scientist: images of Eastern and Western medicine in Taiwan Literature

PANEL 3: DOMESTIC POLITICS

• Joseph Lee (University of Nottingham, UK)
• Democratisation in corporate Taiwan: A case of asymmetric paternalism model - Abstract
• Liu Nien-Hsia (University of Essex, UK)
• Party identification, candidate evaluations, and voting in Taiwan’s Presidential Elections, 1996-2004

PANEL 4: COMMUNITY CONSTRUCTION AND TOURISM

• Chen Jui-Hua (EHESS, France)
• Building A New Society On the Base of Locality - Social Landscapes in the Movement of Community Construction - Abstract |
• Chen Yi-fang (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Producing for orders or tourists? Shifting values of the local craft production, an encounter with tourism

PANEL 5: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

• Chiang Min-chin (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
• The Hallway of Memory—A Case Study on the Diversified Interpretation of Cultural Heritage in Taiwan - Abstract
• André Laliberté (University of Quebec, Canada)
• Philanthropic societies and the development of the welfare state in Taiwan
• Shih Fang-Long (LSE, UK)
• The Red Protest Phenomenon and Democracy in Taiwan

PANEL 6: TRADE FINANCE AND ECONOMICS

• Huang Yu-Wen (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Liberalisation and Regulatory Reform in the Telecommunications Market: The Taiwan Story -
• Chun-Yi Lee (University of Nottingham, UK)
• The Economic Spill-Over Effect: Taiwanese Businessmen as Political Assets of the Chinese Government - Abstract
• Tai Hsiao-Hui (LSE, UK)
• Conflict or Cooperation: the Interactive Nature of Trade Unions and Management in Workplaces in Taiwan

PANEL 7: TAIWAN IN THE WORLD

• V.A.Meliantsev (Moscow State University, Russia)
• Taiwan: assessing national competitiveness in the regional and world economy - Abstract
• Bruno Coppieters (Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium)
• The EU and Cross-Strait Relations: European Policies towards the Greater China Centre and Periphery

PANEL 8: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Josiane Cauquelin (CNRS, France)
• Shamanic Communication in Puyuma Village
• Ewa Chmielowska & Shih Fu-Sheng (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
• Zuoyuezi, Traditional Postpartum Care in Modern Taiwan: A Physical Anthropology Perspective

PANEL 9: 228

• Chang, Lung-chih (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• A Tragic Beginning Remembered: Reflections on the Dual History of the February 28 Incident in Post-Martial Law Taiwan
• Michael Hoare (Independent Scholar, UK)
• A retrospective of the 1997 228 50th Anniversary Congress in Taipei
• Lin Pei-yin (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Memory, History, and Identity: Representations of the February 28th Incident in Taiwanese Literature

PANEL 10: LAW

• Ondrej Kucera (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic)
• Taiwanese Identity as a Motif and Reason of Legal Amendments (1996-2006)
• Tak-Wing Ngo (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
• The Absence of Lustration/Transitional Justice and its Implications for Taiwan’s Democratic Governance

PANEL 11: CULTURE AND AREA STUDIES

• Chang Bi-yu (SOAS, UK)
• The Imagined Geography: The Spatial Construction in Post-war Taiwan (1945-1980) -
• Ying Qian (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Reception of Taiwanese Literature in 1980s Mainland

PANEL 12: TAIWAN’S DIPLOMATIC SPACE

• Mario Esteban (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
• The Democratization of the PRC and Military Conflict in the Taiwan Strait - Abstract
• Jeremy Taylor (University of Sheffield, UK)
• The unexpected embassy: establishing, maintaining and ending Australian diplomatic representation in Taipei, 1966-1972
• Sigrid Winkler (Free University Brussels, Belgium)
• EU-Taiwan Relations in the WTO: The Question of International Status - Abstract

PANEL 13: POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS, POLARIZATION AND NATIONALISM

• Dafydd Fell (SOAS, UK)
• The Polarization of Taiwan’s Party Competition in the DPP Era. -
• Ewa Rzanna (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
• Merits and pitfalls of defensive nationalism
• Jon Sullivan (University of Nottingham, UK)
• Advertising in Taiwanese Presidential elections: Evaluating the hazards of negativity - Abstract

PANEL 14: MA PANEL

• Charles I-Hsin Chen (SOAS, UK)
• Where Is The Credibility From? An Examination On Institutional Environment For Taiwanese Capital In Chinese Pearl River Delta
• Benjamin Hlavaty (SOAS, UK)
• The Tradition of the Traveling Folk Musician as Manifested by Ch’en Ming-chang, and His Continuation of Taiwanization as Perpetuated by the Nativist Literary Movement -
• Iris Tam Tsi (University of Provence Aix-Marseilles, France)
• Links between environmental and democratic rights: an analysis of the discourse on sustainable development in contemporary Taiwan