Taiwan as Hub of Transculturation: The 10th International Junior Scholars Conference
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Organizers: Ping-hui Liao (UC San Diego) and David Derwei Wang (Harvard University)
Sponsors: TECO, LA, and the Ministry of Education, Taiwan;
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation;
Chuan Lyu Foundation
Taiwan Lecture Series, UCSD
Co-organizer: Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies,
National Chung-hsing University, Taiwan
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Formal paper presentations: August 15-18, 2011
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Conference Venue: Michel de Certeau Room, Literature Building, UC San Diego
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Conference Agenda:
Addressing the paradigm shift beyond the conventional model of area studies, this conference takes Taiwan as a product and site of relations in terms of geography, culture, and politics. As a hub of transculturation, Taiwan acquires its changing identity in history through its geographical location vis-à-vis other societies and continents, oceanic crossings of indigenous and other cultures, and the geopolitical formations of empires and nations. For centuries, the island has been at the crossroads for traders and settlers, colonizers and missionaries, and so forth, enjoying a long history of interaction with other cultures near and far. The conference hopes to explore new avenues for Taiwan studies by using international and comparative approaches, not only to examine Taiwan’s many relationalities, material as well as symbolic, over a long historical and wide geographical span but also to view Taiwan in comparison with other cultures in terms of its relations within the early globalization processes, the crucial China-Japan-U.S. triangle, or situated in relation to Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, or even the seemingly remote European nations.
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Schedule
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August 14
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Arrival
Dinner Reception (6:30pm) at the Sheraton Hotel La Jolla
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August 15 Monday
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Conference starts
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8:30-9:00
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Opening and registration
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9:00-12:00
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Moderator
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Chen-fu Liao (National Chung-hsing University)
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Panelists
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Brian Bernards (USC)
"在台:The Taiwan(ese)ness of Sinophone Malaysian Literature"
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Hiroko Matsuzaki (The University of Tokyo)
“Zheng Qingwen and Colonial Imagination”
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San-hui Hung 洪珊慧 (National Central University)
“Modern and Classical: The Duality in Wang Wen-hsing's Language”
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch at Loft (Price Center)
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1:30-4:30
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Moderator
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Shu-mei Shih (UCLA)
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Panelists
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Craig Smith (UBC)
“Taiwanese Aboriginal Autonomy and Its Place in Taiwan’s National Trauma Narrative”
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Chien-hsin Tsai (U of Texas-Austin)
“Out of Place: Zhong Li-he and His Hakar Stories”
Dominic Yang (UBC)
“Chinese Soldiers Village in Hong Kong”
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4:30-5:00
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Coffee Break
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5:00-6:00
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Keynote Speech (David Wang)
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August 16 Tuesday
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9:00-12:00
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Moderator
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Ping-hui Liao (UCSD)
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Panelists
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Yi-hsuan Tso (National Taiwan Normal University)
“Global Entanglements and Transnational Dialogues: Third Wave American and Taiwanese Feminisms”
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Howard Chiang (Princeton University)
“The Historical and Cultural Parameters of Queer Sinophonicity”
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Le Thu Huong黎秋 (National Chengchi University)
“Taiwan Scholarship as a case of Cultural Diplomacy: Attitude among the Taiwan Scholarship Recipients”
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch Break (Lettau Room)
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1:30-4:30
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Moderator
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Yingjin Zhang (UCSD)
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Panelists
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Brian Hu (UCLA)
“The Cosmopolitan Brand: film policy as cultural work in the international film market”
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Lidia Jordi (National Chengchi University)
“Between Literature and Cinema”
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James Wicks (Point Loma Nazarene University)
“Reflections on the Legacy of the ‘Healthy Realist’ Model”
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5:00-6:00
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Keynote Speech (Shu-mei Shih)
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August 17 Wednesday
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9:00-12:00
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Moderator
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Kuo-wei Chen (National Chung-hsing University)
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Panelists
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Christina Mathison (Ohio State University)
“Transnational Crossroads, the Paintings of Chen Chengbo (1895--1947)”
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Yin Wang (UCSD)
"Eileen Chang and a Transpacific Order of Subalternization"
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Shih-chia Hsu許時嘉 (National Taiwan University)
“Japanese Intellectuals on the Asian Co-prosperity Sphere”
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch (Loft)
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1:30-4:30
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Moderator
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Pheng Cheah (UC Berkeley)
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Panelists
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Jonathan H.X. Lee (San Francisco State University)
“Performing Religious and Ethnic Identities:
Taiwanese American Ritual Innovations”
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Dean Karalekas (National Chengchi University)
“Reliquary Taiwan”
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Ryan Adams (UCSB)
“An Ethics of Falun Gong in Taiwan: Transforming the Self, Tradition, and the World.”
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4:30-5:00
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Coffee Break
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5:00-6:00
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Keynote Speech (Chen-fu Liao)
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August 18 Thursday
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9:00-12:00
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Roundtable Discussion
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12:00
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Lunch at Tochi san, La Jolla
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