Taiwan: Space and Migration workshop from May 6th to May 10th 2019

Taiwan: Space and Migration workshop, May 6-10 2019, 9 am - 4 pm, Krakow, Oleandry St 2a, room no. 1.02

6.05.2019 (2h) – Serving the Nation by Sacrificing Your Life: Authoritarianism and Chiang Kai-shek's War for the Retaking of China

6.05.2019 (2h) – On a Steep learning Curve in the Immigration Legislation: Taiwan's Proximity to Sovereignty, Selectivity and Benevolence

6.05.2019 (3.5h) – Students’ presentations

 

7.05.2019 (2h) –  A Pro-rural Migration: The Guest for a Better Way of Life in Backcountry?

7.05.2019 (2h) – Grounding 'Dreams' Together: A Post-Developmental Perspective

7.05.2019 (3.5h) – Students’ presentations

 

9.05.2019 (2h) – Heimat and Homesickness: Primary Geography Education in Early Post-war Taiwan

9.05.2019 (2h) – Landscaping the Nation: Spatial Revolution and the Nation-building in Taiwan

9.05.2019 (3.5h) – Students’ presentations

 

10.05.2019 (2h) – Multicultural Taiwan: The Architects of a Nation

10.05.2019 (2h) – The Other Half's Perspective: The Role of Husbands in Marriage Migrants' Experiences

10.05.2019 (3.5h) – Students’ presentations

 

Instructors:

Dr Isabelle Cheng
Isabelle Cheng is a Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies at the School of Area Studies, History, Politics and Literature of the University of Portsmouth. At this post, she teaches State and Society in East Asia and China and East Asian Economies where she aims at assisting students who have limited background in East Asian Studies a regional perspective which enables them to understand the regional dynamics that is a result of colonialism, nationalism, developmentalism and multiculturalism. Cheng's research focuses on migration and the Cold War in East Asia where she uses the experiences of Taiwan as a case study. In the field of migration, her interests are sovereignty, citizenship, everyday multiculturalism, political participation and language. In the field of the Cold War, her interests are Chiang Kai-shek's war plans and its associated militarisation, war heritage and its conservation and diasporic nationalism. She uses gender as the vantage point to conduct research in the two fields. Her research has been supported by Taiwan Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and China and Inner Asian Council. Her latest research focuses on migrant workers' pregnancy, foreign-born-citizens' political participation and Women's Army Corps. She is developing an interdisciplinary research project on women's broadcasting of propaganda during the Cold War. Cheng serves on the Executive Board of the European Association of Taiwan Studies as its Secretary-General, as well as the Advisory Board of the European Research Centre for Contemporary Taiwan at the University of Tubingen. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

Dr Chiung-wen Chang
Chiung-wen Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Taiwan and Regional Studies at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan. Her research interests is geographies of alternative economies. She is particularly concerned with the ways that people situated in marginal areas/status act collectively in response to capitalist hegemony of neo-liberalist economy and how change generates outcomes that have implications for place-making and economic subjectivation. Currently undertaking research in two main fields: (1) youth poverty and (2) pro-rural migration. The first involves initiation of a campus-based credit union movement, and the second draws attention to community practice of solidarity economy. Inspired by some post-developmental discourse, she conduct both fields by employing action-oriented methods.

Dr Bi-yu Chang
Bi-yu Chang is Deputy Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests are in the areas of identity politics, nation-building, cultural politics, and theatre. In recent years the focus of her research has taken a spatial turn, to include place identity, spatial construction, and cartographic representation. Since 2016, she has been researching the politics of Taiwan’s tourism, unpicking the intricate relationship between identity, place, and power. She has twice been awarded with Taiwan Fellowship (2016, 2019) and is now working on a new project on the relationship between textbooks after education reform and Taiwan’s new identity politics. She is co-editor of and contributor to a number of books and has published articles in journals both in Chinese and English. In 2015, her monograph Place, Identity and National Imagination in Postwar Taiwan was published by Routledge. Her most recent publication “Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’” appears in Connecting Taiwan: Participation – Integration – Impacts (Routledge, 2018). Bi-yu is currently co-editing Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context: Being and Becoming with Dr. Pei-yin Lin, and the book is scheduled to be published by Routledge in March 2019.

Dr Lara Momesso
Lara is a lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the School of Languages and Global Studies, University of Central Lancashire. She is a Research Associate of the Centre for Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies and an Associate Fellow at the European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tuebingen. Since 2014, she has been serving on the Executive Board of the European Association of Taiwan Studies. She is an expert on Taiwan and her research interests include marriage migration between China and Taiwan, gender and family formation in contemporary Chinese societies, migrant political participation, migration in the borderlands. Her research on marriage migration has been published by Asia Pacific Migration Journal, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Asiatische Studien, Chinese Journal of Communication and Berliner China-Hefte – Chinese History and Society and included in book chapters such as Immigration Societies – Taiwan and Beyond (LIT) and Migration – Geschlecht – Lebenswege (LIT Verlag), Taiwan Social Movements Under Ma Ying-jeou (Routledge).

For more information please e-mail: ewa.trojnar@uj.edu.pl

 

Published Date: 29.03.2019
Published by: Ewa Trojnar