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SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School 2025
Key information
- Date
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- Time
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9:00 am
- Venue
- Multiple, please see schedule below
About this event
The Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS is pleased to present the 2025 Taiwan Studies Summer School — a 6-day programme of talks, film screenings, academic seminars and student research presentations.
The programme begins with special event series and film screening on 27 June, and continues with full-day sessions from 30 June to 4 July 2025. Designed to foster in-depth discussion and academic exchange, the summer school is open to students, researchers, and members of the public with an interest in Taiwan’s politics, society, and culture.
Day 1 - 27 June
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10am - 12pm | Film Screening - Unknown | SALT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) | |
| 1pm - 2:30pm | Towards A Democratic and Just Energy Transition: A New Wave of Environmental Activism in Taiwan | Dr. Chiu Hua-Mei | SALT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 3pm - 4:30pm | The Role of Trade Unions in Just Transition: A Case Study on the Development of Electric Motorbikes in Taiwan | Dr. Chiu Yu-Bin | SALT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 6pm - 9pm | Film Screening - XiXi, My Homework, Hard Good Life | SALT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
Day 2 - 30 June
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:30pm - 3pm | Registration | S118, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) | |
| 3pm - 3:30pm | Opening Remark | Dafydd Fell Bi-Yu Chang | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 3:30pm - 5pm | More Parties, More Problems: Making Taiwan Studies Succeed in Political Science | Dr. Lev Nachman | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 7pm - 8:30pm | Navigating Politics Across Borders: Southeast Asian Migrant Workers’ Activism and Aspiration in Taiwan | Dr. Ratih Kabinawa | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
Day 3 - 1 July
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30am - 11am | Abortion Disputes and Gender Politics | Dr. Cheng Ling- Fang | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 11:20am - 12:50pm | Rediscovering and Rewriting Film History: Archival Interventions at the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute | Dr. Wang Chun-Chi | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 2pm - 3:30pm | From the Margins to the Margins: 30 Years of Women Make Waves and the Regional Feminist Imagination in Taiwan | Fan Ching | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 4pm - 5:30pm | Voting at a Distance: Indonesian Migrant Workers Overseas Voting in Taiwan | Dr. Ratih Kabinawa | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 6:30pm – 8pm | Roundtable: Doing PhD on Taiwan Across Academia | Dr. Lev Nachman, Dr. Ratih Kabinawa, Yueh-Chou Ho, Chengyu Yang | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
Day 4 - 2 July
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10am - 11:30am | Have you heard the People sing? A comparison of two recall movements, 2021 & 2025 | Dr. Cheng Ling- Fang | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
| 12:30pm - 5:30pm | Taiwan Studies Student Symposium | R301/RB01, SOAS Main Building | |
| 6pm - 8pm | Shall We Have a Feminist Tour in Taiwan? Her Footprints Tour: Tracing and Mapping Feminist Heritage and Women’s Landmarks in Taiwan | Fan Ching | SWLT, Senate House (Paul Webley Wing) |
Day 5 - 3 July
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30am - 12pm | Film Screening of Super Citizen Ko | BGLT, Brunei Gallery | |
| 1pm - 2:30pm | Book Talk: Contested Taiwan Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation | Dr. Lev Nachman | BGLT, Brunei Gallery |
| 3pm - 5:30pm | Film Screening of The Women of Wrath | Dr. Andy Birtwistle | BGLT, Brunei Gallery |
| 7pm - 9pm | Screening + Q&A: Silenced Sunrise: Taiwan’s Music vs. the China Factor with producer Chen-Yu Lin | Dr. Chen-Yu Lin | BGLT, Brunei Gallery |
Day 6 - 4 July
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Venue |
| 9:30am - 11pm | A Cinema of Care: An Exploration of Hsu Hui-Ju’s Work | Dr. Wang Chun-Chi | BGLT, Brunei Gallery |
| 11:20am - 1:30pm | Film Screening of Girls’ School | BGLT, Brunei Gallery | |
| 2:30pm - 4pm | Roundtable: Women in the Taiwanese Cinema | Dr. Wang Chun-Chi Dr. Cheng Ling-Fang Fan Ching Dr. Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley | BGLT, Brunei Gallery |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Wine reception | BG01, Brunei Gallery |
Speakers
- Dr Chen-Yu Lin (Cardiff University)
- Professor Ling-fang Cheng (Former Director of the Institute of Gender Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University)
- Dr Lev Nachman (National Taiwan University)
- Dr Chun-Chi Wang (Taipei National University of the Arts)
- Ms Ching Fan (Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan)
- Dr Ratih Kabinawa (University of Western Australia)
- Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (SOAS, Centre of Taiwan Studies)
- Yueh-Chou Ho (SOAS, University of London)
- Chengyu Yang (University of Bristol)
Contact
For questions regarding the Summer School, please email jz11@soas.ac.uk.
(Photo by Chengyu Yang)
