Post-election roundtable on Taiwan's 2024 national elections
Key information
- Date
- Time
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3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing, Senate House, SOAS University of London, WC1H 0XG
- Room
- Senate House Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT)
About this event
For the first event of Term 2, the Centre of Taiwan Studies will hold a special post-election roundtable session. Panellists will offer in-depth discussion and analysis of the results and what they spell for Taiwan's domestic politics and external relations.
* All SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies are free and open to all to attend. We suggest you arrive a few minutes early at the venue to secure your seat.
About the speakers
- Professor Dafydd Fell: Professor in Comparative Politics (with special reference to Taiwan) at SOAS; Director of SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies. Over the past decades, Dafydd's main research focus has been on Taiwan’s political parties and electoral politics.
- Dr Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley: Research Associate, SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies; Research Associate at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Rawnsley was Secretary-General, European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS, 2012–2018), and is the founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Taiwan Studies (2018–present). She has published widely in both English and Chinese on Chinese-language cinema and media and democratisation in Taiwan.
- Yu, Wan-Ju (Karen): Supervisor of Social Power Department, 2024 Lai Ching-te Presidential Campaign Office. Yu was the pioneer of fairtrade and the co-founder of the social enterprise Okogreen in Taiwan, and then elected as the legislator-at-large from 2016 to 2020. She also assisted the digital transformation of Taoyuan City while as the Director of Information and Technology Department for Taoyuan City Government. Yu is the alumina of SOAS as well as the visiting scholar of Stanford University and IVLP of The US Department of State.
- Neal E. Robbins: Neal is a journalist and 2022/23 MA Taiwan studies alumni at SOAS. He is a former foreign correspondent in East Asia and Europe and professor of journalism. He's current focus is on writing a mass-market non-fiction book on Taiwan. Reviewers have compared his last book on Venice, Italy, to the classic on the Italian city by James Morris. Recently Robbins has contributed articles to The Guardian and Foreign Policy magazine.
