Republic of Amnesia: Protest, Memory, and the Sri Lankan State A film on Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya protests, Republic of Amnesia follows young activists and asks what remains after revolt.
Documentary screening and director Q&A: 'A Chip Odyssey' Documentary Screening of 'A Chip Odyssey', followed by a director Q&A, with the documentary tracing Taiwan’s transformation into a global semiconductor leader.
Articulating the sinicisation process in a Taiwan Paiwan Indigenous village: Vusam culture as a resilience pivot Professor Hong-zen Wang gives a talk on Paiwan Indigenous social life, Sinicisation, and the Vusam system as a site of cultural resilience in Taiwan.
Born relay translated? Translating Syaman Rapongan’s 'Mata nu Wawa' Dr Darryl Sterk gives a talk on Syaman Rapongan’s 'Mata nu Wawa', relay translation, and the question of what it means for a literary work to be 'born translated'.
The human in the loop: relay literary translation and minoritised languages in the AI era Dr Darryl Sterk delivers the keynote lecture for this year’s Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School on literary translation, AI, and the future of minoritised languages.
The Art of 'Disturbing the Peace': Spectral Politics and Infrastructural Afterlives in the Taiwan Strait Dr Chris Cristóbal Chan gives a talk on the Beishan Broadcast Wall in Kinmen, exploring sound, spectrality, and the afterlives of Cold War infrastructure in the Taiwan Strait.
Neural Buddhism: Biomedical Interpretations of the Dharma Join us for the Neural Buddhism conference, charting contemporary attitudes to Buddhism and Buddhist meditation viewed through the evolving lenses of the biomedical sciences.
Dancing at the Thresholds: Music, Trance, and Feeling in Algerian Diwan of Sidi Bilal Celebrating the recent release of Dr Tamara Dee Turner's book
Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture 2026 – The UN in Afghanistan: from state building to survival, rethinking the UN’s role Drawing on his experience and engagement in a range of United Nations roles in and on Afghanistan from 2001 to the present day, Mark Bowden will examine how the UN’s role has been shaped—and constrained—by the political settlement forged at the Bonn Conference.