Panel 4a: Political Activism

Venue A

Chair: Bonny Ling, Human Rights at Sea

Leon Kunz, SOAS

Staging Civil Disobedience in the Sunflower and Umbrella Movement

Magdaléna Rychetská, Masaryk University

We Are Not the Same: Imagining Taiwan as an Independent Country by the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan

Haruna Tamoto, Hokkaido University

Politicization and Reinvention of Indigenous Textiles among the Seediq in Taiwan

Stefano Pelaggi, Sapienza University

50 Years of Taiwanese projection in Italy: informal diplomacy through lobbying activities

Panel 4b: Urban Space and Heritage Making

Venue B

Chair: Beatrice Zani, University of Tubingen

Liza Wing Man Kam, Georg August University of Goettingen

Improvising in Colonial Spaces: Vibrant Re-appropriations of Shinto Shrines in Taiwan

Olivia Dung, Leiden University       

‘Remaking a Society through Unmaking Materials’: the Tzu-chi Recycling Movement in Taiwan

Guo-ting Lin, University of Westminster     

Rethinking the Identity of the Self-presentation of Taiwanese Indigenous Musicians on Social Media in Contemporary Society

Tu-Chung Liu, University College London 

Finding a story land, discovering ourselves: the transition of cultural heritage preservation in and for Taiwan

Panel 4c: Gender

Venue C

Chair: Jens Damm, University of Tubingen

Yahia Zhengtang Ma, The University of Melbourne           

Gay Jouissance: Queering the Representation of Male Same-Sex Desire in 1990s Taiwan Literature

Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienn           

Nurses-medical women in 1960s taiyupian and realist film: Med-modernity as common ground?

Ann Heylen, National Taiwan Normal University

Narrating Taiwan in late 19th century historical documents

Táňa Dluhošová, Oriental Institution

Society in Transition: Re-classification of Taiwanese Elite Families and the Importance of Less-known Families

Laura Pflug, Ruhr University Bochum

Taiwan-West German Nuclear Relations in the Cold War Era

Isabelle Cheng, University of Portsmouth   

Speaking on Behalf of the State: Women Propaganda Broadcasters in the Cold War

Panel 6b: Migration and Diaspora 

Venue B

Chair: Chun-yi Lee, University of Nottingham

Linh Le, Lutgard Lams, KU Leuven   

The untold half of the story: Vietnamese female migrants in Taiwan on their media representation in Vietnam and Taiwan

Szu-nuo Chou, University of Ottawa

Re-narrating Women’s Words: Mainlander Women’s Life Stories and Diasporic Identity in the Post-War Society of Taiwan

Beatrice Zani, Triangle UMR 5206  

Imagination, Projection and Capacity to Aspire: Drawing and re-drawing social and emotional imaginaries of Taiwan along mobility paths

Panel 6c: Politics of Identity

Venue C

Chair: Jens Damm, University of Tubingen

Christopher James Green, Shih Chien University

Global and Cultural Identity and their effects on Taiwanese National Identity: A Structural Equation Model

Jinpeng Ma, University of Nottingham

The Triangular Relationship Between China, the US and Taiwan: Strategies of Intergovernmental Organizations-Since 1949

Ssu-Han Yu, London School of Economics and Political Science

Mediating democracy: An intergenerational analysis

Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A Taiwanese Soft Power? Taiwanese Soft Power in Regional Perspective