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Day 1 June 26 (Fri.)
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17:30-18:00Registration
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18:00-19:30
Plenary Session		Welcome Reception
Reclaiming Voices through Film: Indigenous Documentary and Visual Sovereignty in Taiwan
Film Screening: Children in the Heaven (Mayaw Biho dir., 1997) & They Have Walked to Taipei (Salone Ishahvut dir., 2013)

Speaker
Mayaw Biho | Independent Filmmaker
Salone Ishahavut | National Central University
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Day 2 June 27 (Sat.)
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8:00-8:50Registration & Breakfast
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8:50-10:30
Plenary Session		Opening Forum
Rethinking Settler Colonialism Through Ocean-Centred Perspectives

Panelist
Yuan-Yu Kuan | Department of Music, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Wendy Matsumura | Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Futuru C.L. Tsai | National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan
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10:30-10:40Break
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10:40-12:10
Concurrent Sessions		Invited Panel
Taiwan as Theory: Refining and Rethinking the Developmental State

Panelist
James Lin | Department of History, University of Washington
Michelle Fei-yu Hsieh | Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica		Paper Panel 1B
Power Asymmetry as Dissonance in Taiwan’s Global Cold War

Panelist
Julian Tash | University of Pennsylvania | Becoming Overseas Chinese: Taiwanese Nationality and Identity in Postwar Japan (1945-1972)
Lucas Yueh-Kai Huang | National Taiwan University | Family Separation in Geopolitics: Exit-Entry Law and Mainlander Families in Cold-War Taiwan, 1945-1992
Chao-hsin Chang | National Taiwan University | Excluded Yet Integrated: Taiwan and the Global Trade Order in the Cold War, 1950–1971
Hao-Wen Cheng | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Middle Tennessee State University | Useful Pasts, Dangerous Memories: Governing Wartime Memory in Cold War Taiwan		Paper Panel 1C
Indigenous Legal Mobilization

Panelist
Chen, Jing-Jie / Temelalj Kazangiljan | Fu Jen Catholic University | Structural Vulnerability and the Judicial "Duty of Care" for Indigenous Defendants in Taiwan
Ljavaus Kazangiljan (Wunsyuan Guo) | University of Arizona Law | How Indigenous Are You? The Savage Anxiety in Taiwan’s Indigenous Status Law
Chia Chiang Chuang | University of Arizona Law | Call Me by My/Our Names:Taiwan Indigensous Peoples' Legal Mobilization on Self-Identification Movement		Paper Panel 1D
Music and Social Movements

Panelist
An-Ni Wei | Indiana University | Cyberspace, Threads, and AI Music: Music’s Role in Taiwan’s 2024 Blue Bird Movement
Sheng-Hsuan Darren Chuang | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | “Island’s Sunrise” Reawakens: Protest Music as Crafting Taiwan—or Cracking Taiwan
Paola Carollo | Laval University | Crafting Resonance: Creativity, Remembrance, and the Renegotiation of Dissonance in Taiwan’s Recall Movement
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12:10-12:30Break
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12:30-13:50
Lunch Session		Invited Panel
2026 Outward Workshop: Publishing, Policy, and the Job Market: A Survival Guide for Early-Career Taiwan Studies Scholars

Panelist
James Lin | Department of History, University of Washington
Christine Pan | Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Yi-Yang Cheng | Independent Researcher
GTI Representative | Global Taiwan Institute
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13:50-14:10Break
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14:10-15:40
Concurrent Sessions		Invited Panel
GTI Policy Panel

To be announced		Paper Panel 2B
Taiwan Society under Cold War

Panelist
Pei-Ru Yang | National Chengchi University | Freedom without Risk: Gendered Governance and Women’s Publicness in Cold War Taiwan (1950–1980)
Pei-Shan Hsieh (University of Kansas) and Pei-Ying Chen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) | Revisiting University Reconstruction in Postwar Taiwan (1950s–1960s): Alumni Networks and Intellectual Mobility
Ling-yi Tsai | Vanderbilt University | At the Edge of National Medicine: The Special Examination for Chinese Medicine Doctors in Postwar Taiwan, 1946–50
Olivia Maddox | University of California, San Diego | Redefining the ‘Model Mother’: Family Planning and Maternal Messages in Cold War Taiwan		Panel Panel 2C
Intimacy, Sexuality, and Reproduction

Panelist
Chris Tzu-Hsien Yuan | Tainan National University of the Arts | Vernacular Queer Aesthetics: Genealogies of Female Impersonators and Drag Queens in Southern Taiwan
Ying-Chao Kao | Virginia Commonwealth University | Power Interactions Beyond Asian Conservatization and Tokenization: 
Trialectical Sexual Liquidity Among Conservatism, Liberalism, and Radicalism
Nai-Yu Chien | Texas A&M University | Whose low fertility? Rethinking Taiwan's lowest low regime through indigenous vital statistics
Shiuan Christine Pan | University of California, Davis | Taking a Career Break or Doing Both? Taiwanese Women’s Division of Labor and Fertility Trajectories.		Paper Panel 2D
Marginal Agency in Visual Culture

Panelist
Chisai Fujita | Independent Researcher | The Structural Bias of Art History and the Alternative Infrastructure of the Japanese-Speaking Generation in Taiwan (1964–1974)
Yuan-Hsi Chao | University of Kansas |
The Dilemma of Gazing at the Other: An Alternative Reading of Guan Xiao-Rong’s Lanyu Anti-nuclear Series
Peter Wang | University of Kentucky | Whose History?: Perspectives on Early Photography in Taiwan

Discussant
Yen-Yu Lin | DePauw University
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15:40-16:00Break
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16:00-17:30
Concurrent Sessions		Invited Panel
Writing Taiwan to the World: Language, Power, and Practice

Panelist
Yea-Fen Chen | Indiana University Bloomington
Yi-Yang Cheng | Independent Researcher
Cornelius Kubler | Williams College
Jenna Tang | Writer, Literary Translator		Invited Workshop
FAPA Taiwanese American History Workshop

Facilitator
Anny Hsiao | Formosan Association for Public Affairs		Paper Panel 3C
Archives, Exhibitions, and Knowledge Production

Panelist
Chih-hen Chang | University of California, Los Angeles | Human Rights Literature as a Site of Knowledge and Memory Production: Literary Testimony of Shih Ming-cheng and His Canonization
Mei-Chen Chen | University of California, Los Angeles | Listening to What Was Left Unheard: Taiwanese Field Recordings in the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
Chun Wen Chen | National Taiwan University | Narrative Reconfigurations in the Permanent Exhibitions of the National Museum of Taiwan Literature
Yu-Yang Chen | National Taipei University of Education | Public Humiliation Type Education and the Conditions of Knowing in Taiwan Studies		Paper Panel 3D
Semiconductor Industry

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Ethan Chiu | Yale University | Human Circuits in Cold War Taiwan: The Radio Corporation of America, KMT Martial Law, and the Hidden Labor Behind Global Semiconductor Production
Milan Frantisek | National Chenchi University | Disability Employment Opportunities in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: How does Taiwan´s policy and practice respond to new social challenges under geopolitical pressure
Yu-Xuan Huang | Lund University | Measuring the Security Dilemma: A Quantitative Text Mining Approach to the Economic Securitization of the Semiconductor Supply Chain
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17:30-17:50Group Photo
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17:50-18:30Dinner
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18:30-20:00
Plenary Session		Public Event (Registration Required)
Taiwanese and Taiwanese-Americans in the American Midwest

Panelist
Ho Chie Tsai | Taiwaneseamerican.org
Tim Chng | Taiwanese Association of America-Greater Chicago Chapter, FAPA Maryland Chapter
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Day3 June 28 (Sun.)
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8:30-9:00Registration & Breakfast
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9:00-10:30
Concurrent Sessions		Paper Panel 4A
Marginalized Knowledges and Languages

Panelist
Hoi Yan Yau | National Taiwan Normal University | Institutional Silences: Infrastructures of Knowledge and the Marginalization of the Genealogical Perspective in Taiwanese Anthropology of Chinese Kinship
Li-Yuan Shen | National Taiwan University | Histories Yet to Be Written, Memories in the Making, and Fragmented Documents: An Ethnography of History Making in a Taiwanese Urban Village
Ramapuram Samuel Vijay Sukumar Babu | Goethe University Frankfurt | Reimagining Taiwan Studies and Plains Indigenous Epistemologies: Mapping the Otherwise
Bali Nangavulan (Hao-Cheng Chin) | Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation | Reclaiming the "Good Spirit": The Semantics of Qanitu and Landscape Memory in a Bunun Community
Wan-Chen (Ana) Hsieh | National Taiwan Normal University | Echoing Taiwan Through a Reading of Badai's Sorceress Diguwan		Paper Panel 4B
The Gendered Narrative and Affective Expression

Panelist
Kao-chen Liao | National Dong Hwa University | Aging, Dementia, and Maternal Trauma: Postmemory and Nonlinear Time in Chunying the Little Aunt—The Maze of Memories
Li-Li Lin | The Punctum of Seeing: Image, Memory, and Subject Formation in Taipei Daddy, New York Mommy
Ssu-Chieh Jessica Fan | University of Texas at Austin | Reconfiguring Film Criticism: Filmaholic as an Intermedial Site of Affective Cinephlia
Chien Lo | National Cheng Kung University | Embodied Reading and Sensory Memory in Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄)
Paper Panel 4C
Political Communication

Panelist
Ting-Yu Kuo (Jenny) | New York University | Political Cynicism and Third-Party Support Amongst Young Taiwanese Voters from the 2020 to 2024 Presidential Election
Chia-Yao Chou | National Taiwan University | Mapping Taiwan’s Fact-Checking Landscape in the Battle against Falsehoods during the 2024 Presidential Election
Gonzalez Cerulli, Ludmila Flavia | Georgia State University | Securitizing China-Taiwan Relations in Latin America: Resonance and Dissonance in Argentinian and Paraguayan Media
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10:30-10:50Break
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10:50-12:20
Concurrent Sessions		Invited Panel
Intersectionality, Visibility, and Identity in Taiwanese and Asian American Art

Panelist
Christina Wei-Szu Burke Mathison | Department of History of Art, Ohio State University
Tsungwei Moo | Artist
Kathy Liao | Artist		Invited Panel
Disinformation Studies in Taiwan and the Global Context

Panelist
Benjamin Sando | Global Taiwan Institute
Herbert Chang | Program in Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College
Max Fang | Data and Cyber Programs at the Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
Jelena Vićić | International Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University
Paper Panel 5C
Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Refusal

Panelist
Leah Nugent | University of California, Los Angeles | The Mountain Is in Our Pocket: Nurturing Indigenous Resurgence After the Era of Taiwanese Transitional Justice
Sylvia Ngo | George Washington University | The Promise of Museums: Settler colonialism, refusal, and Indigenous self-determination in Taiwan
Salone Ishahavut | National Central University | Manufacturing Resonance, Silencing Dissonance: The Epistemic Violence of "Tainan 400" and Indigenous Artistic Refusal
Ping Ting | Washington University in St. Louis | Scaling Mountains: Forced Relocation, Mountaineering, and Settler Colonialism in 1930s Taiwan under Japanese Rule
Yi-Ting Lu | National Taiwan University | Transport as a Determinant of Health? Transportation Challenges and Responses in an Indigenous Community in Hualien Through a Right-to-Health Lens		Paper Panel 5D
Migration, Governance, and Exclusion

Panelist
Yen-Ru Chen | National Taiwan University | Intermediaries and Migrant Health: Toward a Socio-Ecological Perspective on Health Intermediarization in Taiwan and Japan
Simran Dali | The George Washington University | Internal Borders: Gendered Precarity and Bureaucratic Violence in the Lives of PRC-Born Spouses in Taiwan
Jackson Wu | University of Connecticut | Conversing Migrant Workers’ Health in Taiwan with Mainstream Theories: Social Integration as Health Protection
Chia-Yuan Huang | Tamkang University | Transnational Imaginaries, Migration Infrastructures, and Intra-Asian Student Mobility: Evidence from New Southbound Policy Students in Taiwan
Cheng-Yun Wang | Soochow University | Digital Intimacy and Sexual Practices among Filipino Domestic Workers in Taiwan
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12:20-14:00Lunch
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14:00-15:30
Concurrent Sessions		Invited Panel
Writing Taiwan Across Languages: A Conversation on Creativity and Translation

Panelist
Charng-ting Chiou | Novelist; “Raining Zebra Finches” (short story), Beastosis
Jenna Tang | Writer; translator of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise
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Geopolitics and Security

Panelist
Amy YiJu Chen | Playing with Fire: the securitization of critical technology in Taiwan’s outward investment screening policymaking
Max Dixon | University of Portsmouth | The other China or an emerging Taiwan? Resonance, dissonance and democratic identity in British-Taiwanese relations, 1996-2021
Emery Yuhang Lai | Waseda University | What do we talk about when we talk about the U.S. ‘Abandonment’ of Taiwan? A Conceptual Analysis
Khyati Singh | Manohar Parrikar Institute For Defence Studies And Analyses | Resonant Silences: Technological Infrastructures, Security Knowledge, and Power Asymmetry in Narratives on Taiwan		Paper Panel 6C
Diaspora and Belonging

Panelist
Hsiao-Chi Chu | Taipei National University of the Arts | Bodies as Living Archives: Embodied Memory and Anti-Communist Heroes of the Korean War in Taiwan
Tsz-Mun Loo | National Chengchi University | Cantonese Communities in Cold War Taiwan: Cultural and Transregional Connections in Kwangtung Culture Quarterly
Shu Yu Kuo | Hitotsubashi University | Another Taiwan in Post-War Japan: The Gaze of Colonial Repatriates in Taiwanese Support and Rescue Movements		Paper Panel 6D
Language and Language Politics

Panelist
Yuan-Jhen Lee | Brown University | Performing the Standard: Script Politics, Creative Labor, and Identity in Taiwanese Theatre
Sng, Phok-jû | National Cheng Kung University | Linguistic Transitional Justice: Reconstructing the Legal Framework Centered on Taigi's "Right to Know" and "Right to Access"
Lîm, Koàn-têng | National Cheng Kung University | Discursive Legitimation of the Colonial Language in Post-Democratization Taiwan
Christopher Norris Silva | University of Pittsburgh | Taiwanese Linguistic Identities, Social Capital, and National "Awakening" in the United States

Chair/discussant
Jennifer M. Wei| Soochow University, Taiwan
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15:30-15:50Break
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15:50-17:20
Plenary Session		Closing Forum
Critical Racial Approaches to Reconceptualizing Taiwan: Rethinking Race and Racism across East Asia and the Pacific

Panelist
Wei-chi Chen | The Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Robert Tierney | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Yuan-Yu Kuan | Department of Music, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Yen-Yu Lin | Sociology and Anthropology, DePauw University
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17:20-17:40
Plenary Session		Closing Remarks and NATSA 2027 Announcement
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17:40-19:00NATSA Banquet
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