2017 SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Speakers & Performers: Ado Kaliting Pacidal, Hsieh Ming-Yu, Tobie Openshaw, Valerie Soe, Chi Ta-Wei, Chang Tieh-chih, Meredith Schweig, Lin Chen-yu, Hsieh Chinlin
Date: 3 July 2017Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 7 July 2017Time: 9:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: KLT, DLT, G3, SWLT
Type of Event: Summer School
10th SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School
SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies
倫敦亞非學院臺灣研究中心
3 July to 7 July 2017
Key themes:
- Taiwan indigenous media
- Taiwanese (Taiyu 台語) music
- The rap scene in Taiwan
- Music of Jay Chou (周杰倫) and Mayday (五月天)
- Taiwan's gay past in song and film
- Documenting Taiwanese society and politics
- Taiwan and Hong Kong media
- Post martial-law in Taiwan
- Research Training Seminars in Taiwan Studies
- The making of documentary Love Boat: Taiwan
Speakers:
- Ado Kaliting Pacidal
- Hsieh Ming-Yu 謝銘祐
- Tobie Openshaw
- Valerie Soe (San Francisco State University)
- Chi Ta-Wei (National Chengchi University)
- Chang Tieh-chih 張鐵志
- Meredith Schweig (Emory University)
- Lin Chen-yu (University of Liverpool)
- Hsieh Chinlin
Programme
Day 1: Monday, 3 July, 2017
Venues: KLT and DLT in College Building, SOAS Russell Square Campus
| Time | Topic | Speaker/Performer (s) |
|---|---|---|
| 0900-1000 | Registration: KLT | |
| 1000-1200 | Welcome remarks: KLT | |
| Film and Homosexuality under Martial Law Taiwan： KLT | Chi Ta-wei 紀大偉 | |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch | |
| 1300-1500 | Hsieh Ming-Yu (1): Tracing the Journey of Hoklo (Taiyu) Songs 台語歌在台灣的足跡: KLT | Hsieh Ming-Yu 謝銘祐 |
| 1500-1530 | Break - KLT | |
| 1530-1730 | Meredith Schweig (1): Polyphonic Adventures in the History of Taiwan Rap: Xiha, Raoshe, Liām-kua -KLT | Meredith Schweig |
| 1730-1800 | Break - KLT | |
| 1900-2100 | Concert by Ado - DLT | Ado Kaliting Pacidal 林阿洛 |
| 2100-2200 | Wine Reception - DLT | |
Day 2: Tuesday, 4 July 2017
Venues: KLT, College Building, SOAS Russell Square Campus
| Time | Topic | Speaker/Performer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1000-1200 | Popular Music and the Sense of ‘Place’ in Taipei and Liverpool: Cases on Mayday, Jay Chou, and the Beatles | Lin Chen-yu |
| 1300-1500 | Hsieh Ming-Yu (2): My Hoklo (Taiyu) Song Compositions我的台語歌創作 | Hsieh Ming-Yu 謝銘祐 |
| 1500-1530 | Break | |
| 1530-1730 | Ado Kaliting Pacidal (1): Ado's Musical Journey | Ado Kaliting Pacidal林阿洛 |
| 1730-1900 | Break | |
| 1900-2200 | Concert by Hsieh Ming-Yu | Hsieh Ming-Yu 謝銘祐 |
Day 3: Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Venue: DLT, College Building, SOAS Russell Square Campus
| Time | Topic | Speaker/Performer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1000-1200 | Meredith Schweig (2): Scholars, Generals, and Other Outsiders: Masculinity Politics in the Taiwan Rap Scene | Meredith Schweig |
| 1200-1300 | Break | |
| 1300-1500 | Ado Kaliting Pacidal (2): The Development of Taiwanese Indigenous Media | Ado Kaliting Pacidal林阿洛 |
| 1500-1530 | Break | |
| 1530-1730 | Talk to Taiwan: The Changing Media Environment in Taiwan | Chang Tieh-chih 張鐵志 |
| 1730-1800 | Break | |
| 1800-2000 | Panel Discussion: Perspectives on 30 Years since the Lifting of Martial Law in Taiwan | Chang Bi-yu, Chang Tieh-chih, Charles Chen, Dafydd Fell, Ian Inkster, Lin Chen-yu and Stuart Thompson |
Day 4: Thursday, 6 July 2017
Venues: DLT and TBC, College Building, SOAS Russell Square Campus
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| PG Research Training Seminar | ||
|---|---|---|
| Panel 1 (Social Sciences): DLT | ||
| Time | Presenter/Topic | |
| 1000-1130 | Huang Ching-yu 黃競妤 (SOAS): The impact of electoral systems on female representation in parliament | |
| Lin Yung 林咏 (SOAS): How have social movements in Taiwan in the past ten years impacted on its diplomacy in East Asia? | ||
| Mark Hoskin (SOAS): Complicity of Britain, the USA, and the USSR: Japanese Colonisation of Taiwan and Hostilities against China | ||
| Panel 2 (Humanities): SWLT |
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| 1000-1130 | Matt Taylor (SOAS): Taiwan’s popular music | |
| Lee Meng-chian李孟謙 (Leeds): Staging Cultural Identity: The Intercultural Adaptation of the Western Canon in Taiwanese Theatre | ||
| Oisin Maguire (SOAS): Role of coffeeshops in Taiwanese social movements. | ||
| 1130-1200 | Break: DLT | |
| Panel 1 (Social Sciences): DLT | ||
| 1200-1300 | Chang, Jung-Chun (SOAS): Exploring Taiwan’s major political parties’ and general people’s national identities | |
| Tang Tanzhe (King’s College London): Identify potential supporters from opposition party: The case of presidential election in Taiwan | ||
| Panel 2 (Humanities): SWLT | ||
| 1200-1300 | Chen Yiju 陳怡儒 (SOAS): From Specialty Food to Food Festival: A Case of Meinong White Jade Radish Festival in Taiwan | |
| Yang Hsuan 楊璿 (SOAS): Assimilation and competition between the ethnical groups in Taiwan through the lens of home cooking | ||
| 1300-1400 | Light Lunch: DLT | |
| 1400-1530 | Chou Han-hua (SOAS): The Crisis of Neoliberal Transition in Taiwan | |
| Leon Kunz (SOAS): Comparing how activists in Taiwan and Hong Kong conceive and practice democracy. | ||
| Huang Jiun (RCA) Film screening: Chapter 2: The Versions of Us / Chapter 2: From Me, to Us | ||
| Break | ||
| Film Screening | ||
| 1800-2000 |
Ms Hsieh Chinlin 謝慶齡: Film Screening of Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (光陰的故事-台灣新電影) with Director's Q&A |
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Day 5: Friday, 7 July 2017
Venues: G3, College Building and SWLT, in Senate House
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 1300-1500 | Tobie Openshaw (1): The Power of Saying “Sorry” – One year after the apology to Taiwan’s indigenous peoples | Tobie Openshaw |
| 1500-1530 | Break | |
| 1530-1730 | Tobie Openshaw (2): Sunflowers in the Streets: A personal journey documenting a movement | Tobie Openshaw |
| 1730-1800 | Break | |
| 1800-2000 | Global Politics on an Intimate Scale: Creating the Love Boat: Taiwan documentary: SWLT | Valerie Soe |
Registration:
Please complete the registration form here.
Organiser: Centre of Taiwan Studies
Contact email: hn15@soas.ac.uk