Conference on Migration to and from Taiwan
Various Speakers
Date: 29 June 2011Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 30 June 2011Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings
Type of Event: Conference
Co-organized by SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies, National Chunghsing University Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chungcheng University Department of Political Science.
Please register with Hardina Ohlendorf at ho11@soas.ac.uk.
Wednesday 29 June 2011
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9.00-9.15 | Registration and coffee |
| 9.15-9.30 | Welcome and opening remarks Robert Ash (SOAS) and Chiu Kuei-fen (邱貴芬) (Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung-hsing University, Taiwan |
| 9.30-10.30 | Migration and the Cosmopolitanism of the Underprivileged: Two Taiwanese Documentary Films on Migration Chiu Kuei-fen and Tsai Yu-yueh (Institue of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Discussant: Stuart Thompson (LSE and SOAS) |
| 10.30-11.30 | Being Strangers at Home: Mainlander Taiwanese in China Lin Ping (林平) (National Chungcheng University, Politics) Discussant: Julia Strauss (SOAS, Politics) |
| 11.30-11.50 | Coffee Break |
| 11.50-12.50 | Locating Identity Politics: Taiwanese skilled workers in Shanghai Tseng Yen-Fen (曾嬿芬) (National Taiwan University, Sociology) Discussant: Wang Cangbai (Westminster) TBC |
| 12.50-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-15.00 | A Taiwanese in China vs A Chinese Born in Taiwan Lee Chun-yi (Duisburg, Essen) Discussant: Monique Chu TBC |
| 15.00-15.20 | Coffee break |
| 15.20-16.20 | Identity Formation and Identity Change of the Mainland Taishang: observations over time Keng Shu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) & Gunter Schubert (Tubingen) Discussant: Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS) |
| 16.20-17.20 | Becoming Canadian: Taiwanese Canadians who left their hearts in Taiwan Lan-hung Nora Chiang (National Taiwan University, Geography) Discussant: Fiona Adamson (SOAS) |
Thursday 30 June 2011
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9.15-9.30 | Back to the Imagined Homeland? The National Identity of Indonesian Chinese in Taiwan Isabelle Cheng (程念慈) (SOAS) Discussant: Tseng Yen-fen |
| 10.30-11.30 | Claiming Rights across the Strait: movements against discriminative regulations on marriage immigrants from Mainland China to Taiwan Tseng Yu-chin: Essex (Politics) Discussant: Yuan Kai-rong (TBC) |
| 11.30-11.50 | Coffee break |
| 11.50-12.50 | A target group for feminist empowerment? The Taiwanese women’s movement and female migrants. Astrid Lipinsky (Vienna) Discussant: Harriet Evans (TBC) |
| 12.50-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-15.00 | Strategies of Resisting Taiwanese patriarchal normalization by abused Vietnamese female spouses Wang Hong-zen (National Sun Yat Sen University) & Anna Tang Wen-hui (National Sun Yat Sen University) Discussant: Harriet Evans (Westminster) |
| 15.00-16.00 |
