Call for Papers: Annual Con­fer­ences of the Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion of Taiwan Stud­ies

Six Annual Con­fer­ences have already taken place – in 2004 (London, UK), 2005 (Bochum, Ger­many), 2006 (Paris, France), 2007 (Stock­holm, Sweden), 2008 (Prague, Czech Repub­lic), 2009 (Madrid Spain) and 2010 (Tübingen, Ger­many). In 2011, the annual con­fer­ence will take place in Ljubljana.

For the pro­grams and papers of the last con­fer­ences, please click on the links on the left side.
Call For Papers: Eighth Annual Conference on 12-14 May 2011 at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion of Taiwan Stud­ies (EATS) will hold its eighth Annual Con­fer­ence on 12-14 May 2011 at the Uni­ver­sity of Ljubl­jana, Slove­nia. The con­fer­ence is co-​organized by the Uni­ver­sity of Ljubl­jana and the Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion of Taiwan Stud­ies (EATS).

The EATS board par­tic­u­larly wel­comes abstracts on the fol­low­ing themes:

* A Hun­dred Years of R.O.C. His­tory: Com­par­a­tive ROC his­tory from the two sides of the straits
* The Sub­jec­tiv­ity of Taiwan: How Taiwan became a geopo­lit­i­cal object in the 17th and a geopo­lit­i­cal sub­ject in the 20th centuries
* Taiwan’s Democ­ra­ti­za­tion and Cross-​Strait Rela­tions: Devel­op­ment of Taiwan’s democ­racy after 2008 and its rela­tion to
cross-​strait ties.
* Gov­er­nance and Civil Soci­ety in Taiwan: How state actors nego­ti­ate rela­tions with local com­mu­ni­ties and civil society.
* ECFA and Eco­nomic Issues: Grow­ing closer rela­tions between the two sides and their interpretations
* Elec­toral and Party Pol­i­tics: Post-2008 elec­tions and continuities/changes in Taiwan politics
* Doc­u­men­tary Films and Cinema Stud­ies: Themes and tech­niques used by doc­u­men­tary filmmakers, including mar­ginal
social/ethnic groups
* Soci­ety, Envi­ron­ment, Indus­trial and Nat­ural Risks: Man­age­ment of risks in a post- or hyper-​industrial soci­ety with regard to health, envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, crisis pre­ven­tion, dis­as­ter man­age­ment, etc.
* Rewrit­ing Tai­wanese Lit­er­a­ture: Reex­am­i­na­tion of mod­ernism, nativism, real­ism, post-​modernism etc.
* Tai­wanese Reli­gious Beliefs and Prac­tices in a Global Era: A focus on how Tai­wanese reli­gions are glob­al­iz­ing while prac­tices at home undergo innovations
* Youth Cul­ture: Cos­play, online gaming, mobile phone culture… Taiwan’s youth is chang­ing bound­aries of leisure and cul­ture, which needs a com­par­a­tive approach
* MA Panel

A Hun­dred Years of R.O.C. History:

In view of the cen­ten­nial anniver­sary of the Repub­lic of China (R.O.C), this his­tor­i­cal panel invites con­tri­bu­tions that allow for a
com­par­a­tive per­spec­tive on the his­tory of the R.O.C. The pur­pose of this panel is to bring together papers that dis­cuss aspects of the R.O.C. his­tory from the two sides of the Strait: Taiwan and China between 1911 and 1949. At the same time, crit­i­cal reflec­tions on 100 years R.O.C his­tory in global per­spec­tive are also welcome.

The Sub­jec­tiv­ity of Taiwan:

Taiwan was ignored by most coun­tries of the world as late as the early 17th cen­tury before becom­ing a geopo­lit­i­cal object in the 17th cen­tury and a geopo­lit­i­cal sub­ject in the 20th. How has Taiwan been con­structed as a geopo­lit­i­cal entity in China, in the region, in the world, since the key moments of the 17th, 19th, 20th and 21st cen­turies? Is the Taiwan ques­tion still rel­e­vant to the world today in the con­text of the emer­gence of China as a global coun­try that uses soft power to avoid rais­ing anx­i­eties about this new emerg­ing role? Has Taiwan a space at all for exis­tence, not only as an econ­omy, but also a geo/political entity in the world?

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