Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Join us for a talk: Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea

Date: 10 June 2024
Time: 17:00 to 18:30 BST
Location: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford
Speaker: Dr Diren Doğan, Lecturer, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University & Visiting Fellow, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA)

Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis on Taiwan and the South China Sea Speaker: Ms Diren Doğan, Lecturer, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, and Academic Visitor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Dr Beatrice Zani from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) will be giving a talk for the Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar, which will be the last one of Hilary Term 2023/24. Please join us!

Topic: Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labor, Commodity Circulation, and Digitized Economies across Taiwan
Date: Monday 4 March 17:00 to 18:30
Venue: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford

Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labor, Commodity Circulation, and Digitized Economies across Taiwan Taiwanese ports are paradigmatic sites to observe the new shapes of our globalised economic system. If global corporations are mostly pictured as the major actors of the global supply chain, in this talk I look at the invisible actors who daily contribute to its functioning: migrant maritime workers...

Dr Hsin-Chieh Chang on Monday 19 Feb 5pm at Oxford China Centre will talk about the receptivity of different types of migrants in Taiwan, their civic behavior & support for same-sex marriage in a novel perspective.

Receptivity to Different Types of Migrants in Taiwan: Civic Behavior and Support for Same-sex Marriage as Novel Correlates In an era of rising global intra-regional migration, in-depth explorations of attitudes toward immigrants and immigration (ATII) in emerging migrant-hosting societies in Asia are scarce. Using Taiwan as a case of an emerging non-Western, democratic migrant-hosting context with a racially homogeneous...

Join us on Wed 7 Feb 2024 2:30-3:30pm at Oxford University China Centre, University of Oxford for a briefing on scholarships by Taiwan in the UK 駐英國台北代表處 Education Division. Uncover MOE scholarships like &

Briefing on Scholarship Opportunities Offered by ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education Join us on Wednesday, 7 February 2024, from 14:30 to 15:30 for a comprehensive briefing by representatives from the Education Division of the Taipei Representative Office (TRO) on scholarship opportunities provided by ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education. The session will focus on the Huayu Enrichment...

Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme cordially invites you to join our panel discussion on Taiwan's 2024 Elections on Thursday, 25 January 2024, from 17:00 to 18:30 at the Dickson P**n Building, Oxford University China Centre, University of Oxford.

This kind of panel only happens every four years! Don't miss it!

Panellists
Dr Monique Chu, Lecture in Chinese Politics, University of Southampton
Dr Michael Reilly, Senior Fellow, Taiwan Research Hub, University of Nottingham
Dr Jing Bo-jiun, Senior Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford

Free admission; no registration required.

Post-Election Analysis of Taiwan’s 2024 Elections On 13th January 2024, 14 million Taiwanese voters went to the polling stations and elected the new president, vice president, and legislators of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Securing 40% of the votes, William Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidential race against...

We are excited to announce a panel discussion on Taiwan's 2024 elections during Week 8 of Michaelmas 2023. Join us on November 30th from 17:00 to 18:30 at the Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, China Centre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford. We look forward to your participation!
[Panellists]
Dr Jonathan Sullivan, University of Nottingham
Ms Mariah Thornton, LSE
Dr Jing Bo-jiun, University of Oxford
[Moderator]
Professor Todd Hall, University of Oxford

Race for ‘Frozen Garlic’: Assessing Taiwan’s 2024 Elections Dr Jing Bo-jiun, Senior Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford

Join us for a film screening of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep' (九槍) followed by a Q&A session with Director Tsai Tsung-Lung (蔡崇隆).

📅 Date: Monday, 4 December 2023
🕓 Time: 16:00 to 18:00
📍 Venue: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n China Centre Building, University of Oxford

The film won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2022. #金馬59最佳紀錄片

Admission is free! Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to engage with the filmmaker and understand the story of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.' See you there!

[Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar] To See is to Act: What the Death of a Migrant Worker Can Tell Us About Humanity - The Film Screening of 'And Miles to Go Before I Sleep' (九槍) with Director Tsai Tsung-lung Nguyen Quoc Phi was nobody before he died, but now he tells his own story as a young migrant from Nghệ An, Vietnam, to Taiwan in this documentary. Phi was an undocumented migrant worker, or a ‘runaway’, in northern Taiwan before he was shot nine times by the police and left unattended by the p...

Join us for our inaugural Taiwan Studies Seminar of the Michaelmas term 2023. Dr. Chen Pin-chuan (陳斌全), Director of the Cultural Division, Taipei Representative Office in the UK, will present a talk titled 'Post-Taiwan New Cinema Era: The Auteurs and the Industry'.

Date: Monday, 13th November, 17:00-18:30
Venue: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson P**n Building, University of Oxford

[Taiwan Studies Seminar] Post-Taiwan New Cinema Era: The Auteurs and the Industry by Dr Chen Pin-chuan In the realm of global cinema, ‘Taiwan Cinema’ has been a recognisable entity since the 1980s, earning a strong reputation from both cultural and artistic perspectives. However, following the Taiwan New Cinema movement of the 1980s, international discourse on Taiwanese cinema seems to have relat...

Job posting: Senior Research Fellow in Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies invites applications for a Senior Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies Programme with an expected start date from 1 August 2023.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DAK372/senior-research-fellow-in-taiwan-studies?fbclid=IwAR1PTEfY0w7-e_csFz32712xmOM42KV0dFfY28z8q1-_Epsxvzs3fUgy5jM

Senior Research Fellow in Taiwan Studies at University of Oxford The Contemporary China Studies Programme (CCSP) in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), seeks applications for a full time Senior Research Fellow role available from 1st August 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter, until 30th September 2025. The successful candidate will manage th...

Professor Ming-sho Ho is going to give a public lecture on Supporting International Democracy in Taiwan: From the Tiananmen Incident to the Ukraine War. Join us in the Lucina Ho Room at 1pm on 15 June (Thursday)!
Please visit the Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme website for more information:
https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/taiwan-studies-seminar-vi
Additionally, if you’re interested in networking with Oxford-based DPhil researchers or postdoctoral researchers from Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Science, National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan), join us for a series of presentations on Thursday and Friday afternoons: https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/research-networking-event-research-institute-humanities-and-social-science

Research Networking Event with Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Science Ying Chang: Turning point: The transition from Shanghai-Style to Beijing-Style in the development of Peking opera in post-war Taiwan

Come join the Oxford University Taiwanese Student Society and the Oxford Taiwan Studies Group for a networking event! This event will take place in the Language Lab 2 (Dickson P**n Building, Canterbury Road, OX2 6LU) between 15.00 and 17.00 on 5 June. We will be discussing Taiwan-related issues while enjoying delicious bubble tea.
https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/events

ONE WEEK TO GO! Submit your abstracts to the Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference by 30 May!
The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme (https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/) is hosting an international conference on Wednesday 27 September 2023 to be held at St Antony's College. This conference focuses on technology and change broadly conceived. We welcome panels/papers for research at different stages of development. Research adopting an interdisciplinary approach or taking a comparative perspective is particularly welcome. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics include:
· technology, chip wars and international relations
· online and social media debates in or about Taiwan on international events
· digital media and youth culture in Taiwan and East Asia
· migration, care and technology in Taiwan
· digital social movements in and beyond Taiwan
· creative industries in Taiwan and East Asia
· smart cities in and beyond Taiwan
· business and innovation in Taiwan
Keynote speaker:
Dr Lih-yun Lin, Professor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, and Commissioner at the National Communications Commission
Dr Chun-yi Lee, Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, and Director of Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham
Submission:
· Please state your paper title and provide a 300-word abstract in a word document.
· Please state the title of your panel and describe your panel in 300 words. Please also provide a 300-word abstract for each of the papers.
· Please include your/each panel presenter’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation in the word document.
· Please put either ‘PAPER’ or ‘PANEL’ in your email subject line.
· Please submit your paper or panel proposal in English to [email protected].
Key dates:
· Deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals: 30 May 2023
· Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2023
· Conference dates: 27 September 2023
Organisers: The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, and the Taipei Representative Office in the U.K.
Registration and fees: We will announce conference fees soon.

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme is pleased and honoured to welcome Dr Jieh-min Wu, Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, to talk about his book titled Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model. Join us at 1pm on 15 May (Monday)!
Please visit the Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme website for more information: https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/taiwan-studies-seminar-v
Please register here for receiving a meeting link in due course: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-taiwan-studies-seminar-v-tickets-621620602957

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme (https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/) is hosting an international conference on Wednesday 27 September 2023 to be held at St Antony's College. This conference focuses on technology and change broadly conceived. We welcome panels/papers for research at different stages of development. Research adopting an interdisciplinary approach or taking a comparative perspective is particularly welcome. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics include:
- technology, chip wars and international relations
- online and social media debates in or about Taiwan on international events
- digital media and youth culture in Taiwan and East Asia
migration, care and technology in Taiwan
- digital social movements in and beyond Taiwan
- creative industries in Taiwan and East Asia
- smart cities in and beyond Taiwan
- business and innovation in Taiwan

Keynote speaker: Dr Lih-yun Lin, Professor at the Graduate Institute of Journalism, National Taiwan University, and Commissioner at the National Communications Commission

Submission:
- Please state your paper title and provide a 300-word abstract in a word document.
- Please state the title of your panel and describe your panel in 300 words. Please also provide a 300-word abstract for each of the papers.
- Please include your/each panel presenter’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation in the word document.
- Please put either ‘PAPER’ or ‘PANEL’ in your email subject line.
- Please submit your paper or panel proposal in English to [email protected]

Key dates:
Call for Papers: Now open
Deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals: 30 May 2023
Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2023
Conference dates: 27 September 2023

Organisers: The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, the Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, and the Taipei Representative Office in the U.K.

Registration and fees: We will announce conference fees soon.

The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme is pleased and honoured to welcome Dr Ian Rowen, Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University, to talk about his book titled One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism. Join us at 1pm on 6 March (Monday)!
Please visit the Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme website for more information: https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/taiwan-studies-seminar-iv

Please register here for receiving a meeting link in due course: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-taiwan-studies-seminar-iv-tickets-562581946747

Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar IV Join us for Ian Rowen's book talk on One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism

On Thursday (23 February) there will be an information session about a range of scholarship schemes offered by the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan). This session will start at 13.00 in the Ho Tim Room (Dickson P**n Building, Canterbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6LU). More details are here: https://taiwanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/event/taiwan-scholarship-programme-briefing
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Taiwan Scholarship Programme Briefing The Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme is pleased to announce that Andy (Cheu-An) Bi, the Director of Education Division, Taipei Representative Office in the U.K., will speak to us about a range of scholarship schemes offered by the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan). Join us at 13.00 on...