USAWA AI: Rethinking Knowledge, Evidence, and Authority in Historical Learning This paper presents USAWA AI, a dialogue-based educational tool that reframes AI not as a source of answers, but as an object of enquiry.
Wu-wei: Finding ease in a world that constantly pushes Siddhant Pawar explains how the philosophical concept of wu-wei can help us navigate busy modern urban life - even the frustration of missing a London bus.
Gym boss and the evolution of political communication in Taiwan Dr Jonathan Sullivan gives a talk on influencer politics in Taiwan, examining what it reveals about political communication, media power, and cross-Strait discourse.
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.