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
See the call for papers here.
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Colloques, Journées d'études
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