VIENNA CENTER FOR TAIWAN STUDIES
EST. 2009
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Contents1. Founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies ..................................... 32. Taiwan Studies curriculum at the University of Vienna ............................... 33. Taiwan-related Expertise ........................................................................................ 54. Taiwan Teaching ........................................................................................................ 85. Taiwan Film Screenings .......................................................................................... 96. Vienna Taiwan Lectures ........................................................................................107. Workshops .................................................................................................................198. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Conferences ..................................................199. Vienna Taiwan Studies Series ..............................................................................2110. Funding ......................................................................................................................23
Title photo: Workshop with Grace Liao, Shih-Jung Hsu and students, p.19
Founding ceremony of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studiesparticipants (right to left):Prof. Trappl (Director of Confucius Institute University of Vienna)Robin Lu (Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Vienna)Prof. Linhart (Head of Department of East Asian Studies)Prof. Peng (National Chengchi University)Prof. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Department of East Asian Studies / Sinology)Dr. Lipinsky (Department of East Asian Studies / Sinology)
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1. Founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was established with a ceremonial celebration at the Department of East Asian Studies/ Sinology in January 2009 on the invita-tion of Prof. Dr. Susanne Schwiedrzik. The ceremonial address was given by Professor Li-Chung Peng from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Dr. Peng also repre-sented the Taiwan Studies Center at NCCU, a partner institution of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, in congratulating its founding by donating a nameplate with the Center’s name and logo. The talk by Professor Peng, given in Chinese, dealt with the meaning and importance of Taiwan in current East Asian studies. It was translated into German by Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, and a revised German version was published in the journal of Leipzig students of Chinese Studies, Dianmo.
The ceremony and following dinner were attended by Dr. Christoph Baerenreuter, who is responsible for the Taiwan cooperation projects sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, and by Eva-Gabriela Toifl, who was in charge of cooperation with Asia at the University of Vienna in 2009. Their participation underlined the impor-tance that both the University of Vienna and FWF have accorded to this program.
The goal of the cooperation is to establish the on-going presence of Taiwan studies and research at the Department of East Asian Studies. The founding of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was accompanied by the signing of a first, department level, contract of cooperation with National Chengchi University.
2. Taiwan Studies curriculum at the University of ViennaSinology at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, defines its contemporary Chinese studies from a Greater China perspective that includes courses on Hong Kong, Taiwan and the overseas Chinese diaspora. Previously, instruction concerning Taiwan relied on visiting scholars (Dr. Michael Rudolph, University of Southern Denmark) and was therefore offered in the concentrated format of weekend seminars.
From 2008 on, the Sinology curriculum has included a focus on Taiwan in its regular curriculum. From 2013, classes have been offered in English. Participants therefore include English-only participants of the Vienna University Erasmus program, and students of the English language master programs offered by the University of Vienna, for example the „Global History“ program.
From 2013, the Vienna University’s regular courses on Taiwan have been included in the East Asian Economy and Society Master Program: The two-year master’s program East Asian Economy and Society (EcoS) is multidisciplinary, dealing with contempo-rary social, political and economic aspects of the East Asian region as a whole. It is offered at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Vienna, in English.
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Courses on Taiwan are especially welcome to EcoS students because with their focus on society and on social issues, they can research Taiwan as an example within the Asian region. In Sinology, the Taiwanese courses cover all three mandatory parts of the curriculum, namely „Politics and Law“, „History and Society“ and „Literature and Culture“. The Vienna Taiwan Lectures are part of the instruction on Taiwan.
Year Theme of Course
2008 Japanese Colonial Rule in Taiwan as an example of Colonial Regimes (in German)
2009 Taiwan 1895. Geschichtsschreibung im Film
2010 Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taiwans
2012 Taiwans gesellschaftliche Entwicklung im Film
2013 Taiwan in den 1960ern: Bildung und Industrialisierung
2013 Taiwan in den 1960ern: Verlust des internationalen Status und die Folgen
2013 Transforming Taiwan: Social, political and cultural aspects
2014 Internationale Konventionen in der Volksrepublik China und in Taiwan
2015 Taiwan’s Civil Movement(s) Reflected in Documentaries - Rice, Gender and Science Cultures
2015/16 Japanese Rule, colonial and post-colonial developments in Asia
2015/16 Intersectionality Research in Taiwan. A Comparison with the West
Taiwan Studies Events at the University of Vienna
Date Event responsible
19.-20.04.2008
Blockseminar: Taiwans Ureinwohner im Spannungsfeld von Nativismus, Christianisierung und Elitenwettbewerb
Dr. Michael Rudolph, University of Southern Denmark
17.05.2008
Workshop: Post-Porno und Gender im taiwanesischen Kino
Barbara Eder; Felix Wemheuer
28.09.2009
Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Joint Seminar, presentation: What’s legal culture got to do with it – from “pingfan” to “transitional justice“ in Taiwan?
Agnes Schick-Chen
28.-30.05.2010
Workshop „Geschichte und Gesellschaft Taiwans unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ureinwohner“ (Ostasienwissenschaften / Sinologie und Museum für Völkerkunde).
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik und MMag. Sonja Peschek
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3. Outreach: Taiwan-related Expertise and Conference Contributions
As its managing director, Dr. Lipinsky endeavors to promote the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and the Taiwan research at the University of Vienna through her contributions to Taiwan-related conferences internationally. She has given regular presentations at annual meetings of the European Association of Taiwan Studies since 2008, highlighting the research work of the Vienna Center.
Dr. Lipinsky also regularly lectures at various universities in Taiwan. While the Vienna cooperation concentrated first mainly with National Chengchi University (NCCU) and its Taiwan Studies Center, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies has established contacts with Chang Jung Christian University (CJCU), Kaohsiung Medical University and National Kaohsiung University in Southern and from 2013 with National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Northern Taiwan.
Dr. Lipinsky was elected to the Board of the European Association of Taiwan Studies in 2015, and often participates in Taiwan-related teaching at other European univer-sities, especially in Eastern Europe (Prague, Brno, Krakow and Ljubljana).
Date Topic Event / Conference Location
18.-20.04.2008
Taiwan Democratization and the Disappearance of Women
5th Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS)
Prague, Czech Republic
16.-17.07.2008
Post-colonial Legal Education: A non-Asian Foreigner’s Perspective
Symposium on Post-colonial Legal Studies and Legal Education
NCCU, Taipei
03.-08.12.2008
Modernizing the Chinese Family and Gendering Society. The Gender Equality Education Act and its Impact on Women’s Status in Taiwan
10th Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Sociological Association
Hong Kong
15.-18.04.2009
Designing an all-inclusive legal system. The Gender Equity Education Act and its impact on women’s democratic participation in Taiwan
6th Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies
Madrid
28.-30.09.2009
The Taiwanese women’s movement and democratization: Gendering Taiwan by law
Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese Joint Seminar Vienna
10.–13.11.2009
The Taiwanese women’s movement and the transformation of civil society
Conference Innovation and Transformation in Taiwan
Lund University
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Date Topic Event / Conference Location
08.–10.04.2010
The women’s movement and indigenous self-identity in Taiwan: Can global feminism localize?
7th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies
ERCCT, Tübingen, Germany
24.–26.06.2010
Bunt sein, laut sein, viele sein: Taiwans Frauenbewegung und die Aneignung des öffentlichen Raumes
Interdisziplinäres Symposium „Frauenbilder – Frauenkörper. Inszenierungen des Weiblichen in den Gesellschaften Süd- und Ostasiens“
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
06.–11.09.2010
„Women and women’s organisations in Taiwan“ „Taiwanese law in the East-Asian context“
European Graduate Summer School on Taiwan studies
Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
27.–28.09.2010
Gender justice by inclusion. How the women’s movement can provide redress
Bi-Lateral Conference „Justice and Injustice Problems in Transitional Societies: Taiwan and China“
NCCU, Taipei
01.10.2010
Gender justice and the role of the women’s movement. How to inclulde the victims
Lecture, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies CJCU, Tainan
12.–14.05.2011
Localizing gender equality policies in Taiwan: The Taiwan Gender Equality Education Association and the gendering of schools
8th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
28.–30.06.2011
A target group for feminist empowerment?
Conference on Migration to and from Taiwan
SOAS, University of London
01.–03.09.2011
Transnational Brides or Victims of International Trafficking?
The 2011 Kinmen Conference on “Constructing, Governing and Engaging Civil Society in Kinmen”
Kinmen, Taiwan
05.-07.09.2011
Cultural diversity and the Taiwanese women’s movement
7th Taiwanese pop culture conference NTNU, Taipei
06.09.2011
The multiple faces of diversity. Insights from three months research on immigration in Taiwan
Luncheon Talk NCCU, Taipei
16.09.2011
Multiculturalism in children’s books: Taiwanese authors on migrant brides and their families
Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies CJCU, Tainan
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Date Topic Event / Conference Location
30.09–01.10.2011
Creating a diverse society. Taiwanese government immigration policies
Bi-National Conference „Immigration Societies. A comparative perspectiveon Austria and on Taiwan“
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
25.-27.11.2011
Die Kulturelle Renaissance Bewegung in Taiwan. Die Bedeutung von Kultur und Revolution in der Republik China
XXII. Jahrestagung der DVCS, Kontinuität und Umbruch in Chinas Geschichte und Gegenwart
Technical University, Berlin
09.-13.01.2012
The Xinhai Revolution in Taiwan: On the Sustainability of Artificially Institutionalized History
Conference “Reform and Revolution. In Commemoration of the Xinhai Revolution and 100 Years of State Building“
Wien, University of Vienna
16.-18.03.2012
The concept of an East-Asian Rechtskreis: its origin and its future
8th East Asian Conference on Philosophy of Law, East Asian Legal Cultures in the Era of Post-Reception
NCCU, Taipei
09.05.2012
Musterknabe? Taiwan, die UN- Menschenrechtspakte und die Todesstrafe
Ostasienforum, Department of East Asian Studies
University of Vienna
18-21.06.2012
United Nations Conventions in Taiwan: On a Commitment without UN Membership
9th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies
University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg
06-07.11.2012
UN conventions and the internationalization of the feminist movement in Taiwan
International Conference “Social movements, rights discourses and citizenship: Social and political developments in Taiwan in a regional perspective”
NCCU, Taipei
02-04.05.2013
Taiwan at the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the Women’s movement
10th EATS annual conference Lyon
30.09.2013
Localizing gender equality policies in Taiwan
Workshop: Ethnicity and Gender in Taiwan CJCU, Tainan
05.02.2015
Taiwans Frauenbewegung in China: Die Rolle der Kontakte über die Taiwanstraße
Public Lecture, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany
09.02.2015
Unmarried Women, Marriage and Law in China, Taiwan and Asia
ERCCT European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan
Tübingen
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Date Topic Event / Conference Location
04.05.2015
Changes of Families in East Asia: Why Women do not Marry Palacký University
Olomouc, Czech Republic
14.09.2015
Taiwan Studies and Research in Vienna
Lecture, National Kaohsiung University
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
16-20.11.2015
Confucianism in the Asian Family Today TV-series on non-married women: Taiwan
Student Workshop Krakow: Taiwan Popular Culture in a Regional Context
Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland
20.04.2016
Japanese-Taiwanese love stories in Taiwanese Film Lecture, Ljubljana University Ljubljana,
Slovenia
26.04.2016
Japanese-Taiwanese Relations in Taiwanese Cinema: Dreams of a non-Chinese Homeland
Lecture, Palacký UniversityOlomouc, Czech Republic
4. Taiwan Teaching Taiwan guest teachers’ intensive Chinese language seminars
In early 2009, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education began to sponsor professors from partner universities of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies to offer intensive seminars (16 hrs) in the Chinese language to master students of Sinology at the University of Vienna. Thus far, all guest professors have come from different depart-ments of National Chengchi University. The project is hopefully going to continue in the future.
Date Guest professor Course title
2009 Li-Chung Peng Taiwan’s Transformation and Development: A Historical Perspective
2011 Chia-Ning Chu Language and Dialects in Taiwan
2011 Yuang-Kuang Kao Taiwan’s Democratization and Democratic Politics
2012 Carol Yeh-Yun Lin Small and Medium Sized Enterprises andEconomic Development in Taiwan
2013 Liang-Kung Yen Taiwanese Government and Public Policyin a Global Context
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5. Taiwan Film Screenings at the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies
Films are of increasing importance in introducing Taiwan, as well as a significant part of Taiwan research. From its beginnings, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies has collected Taiwanese films and documentaries, and film screenings are a regular part of courses in Taiwan studies. Student papers have analysed films in discussions of social movements, environmental activism and identity issues, as well as the history of Taiwan. Films are also shown during extra-curricular „Taiwan Nights“.
Year Topic Films shown
2008 Famous Taiwan Film directors Hou Hsiao-Hsien, City of SadnessTsai Ming-Liang, The Wayward Cloud
2009 Meilidao. The Beautiful Island
March of Happiness , 1999The Dull-ice Flower, 1989Hill of No Return, 1992Cape No. 7, 2008Island Etude, 2006
2010 Taiwanese History and Histories
In the Name of History – „1895“, 2008Prince of Tears, 2009Voices of Orchid Island, 1993Amis Hip Hop, 1995
2011 Taiwan Film Nights
Three Times, 2005Kung Fu Dunk / Shaolin Basketball Hero, 2008Zoom Hunting, 2010Cannot Live without You, 2009The Shoe Fairy, 2006Chocolate Rap, 2006
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Taiwan’s Filmsof the 1960s and 1980s
Recent Taiwanese Films
Oyster Girl, 1964Beautiful Duckling, 1965Dust in the Wind, 1987Night Market Hero, 2011
2014 TaiwanDocumentaries
Food from the Heavens, 2009Let It Be – The Last Rice Growers, 2005The Rice Bomber, 2014
Bird without Borders, 2009Tomb Raptor, 2009
2015 The Japanese in Taiwanese Film
Formosa Betrayed, 2009Kano, 2014Sayon’s Bell, 1943Duosang – A Borrowed Life, 1994
Rice culture {
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The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies cooperates with the theatre and film studies departments at the University of Vienna, reflecting the growing importance of media, film and TV analysis in the Department of East Asian Studies as a whole. Furthermore, film is now a means of introducing intra-East Asian comparisons, through coopera-tion among colleagues in Japanese and Taiwanese studies.
6. Vienna Taiwan LecturesThrough our experiences over the past four years, we have found that the easiest and most economical way to achieve excellence in teaching, research and international exchange concerning Taiwan is through guest lectures. Such guest lecture programs on Taiwan are featured worldwide, but the lectures are often stand-alone and rarely related to other events around Taiwan. The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies decided from the start to involve the Vienna Taiwan Lectures into University of Vienna Taiwan teaching as a required part of coursework. As Taiwan teaching is usually master degree level, the evening lectures are well suited to master students who often work at least part time. Several students have in fact reported that they selected the Taiwan course because of its evening and weekend schedule.
The Vienna Taiwan Lectures began in winter 2012. During the first term, lectures were partly in German, but this was soon changed to English only, to attract non-Austrian students and include international scholars’ presentations. Although the lecture topics were mixed, they nevertheless addressed themes that the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies is based on and familiar with, including:
• ethnicity and multi-ethnicities• Taiwan history and economics • politics and the Taiwanese elections• gender, women and social movements
From 2012, the Lectures – usually five per term – were combined into a specific term topic. However, as the single term proved to be too short to cover one topic and include a number of known expert speakers, the term topic was enlarged to an annual one in 2014, covering both winter and summer terms. Each new annual topic starts in the winter term (October) and continues through the end of the summer term (June) the following year.
Currently, the necessary external funding needed to invite and host external expert lecturers has been guaranteed through 2017/18.
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Topics of the Vienna Lecture Series
2013 Transforming Taiwan: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects
2013/14 Teaching Taiwan: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects
2014 Teaching Taiwan: Gender and EthnicityTransforming Taiwan: The Impact of Migration and Globalization
2015 Taiwan’s Civil Movement(s): History, Culture and Legacy
2016 Perceiving Taiwan: Literature, Media and Film
2017 Mainstreaming Gender in Taiwan: Issues, Challenges and Achievements
2018 Documenting Taiwan: Identity Issues in Literature and Film
2019 Taiwan and the United Nations: Historical Experience and Current Situation
Lectures are videotaped. Detailed information can be found on the website of Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies. Homepage: tsc.univie.ac.at
The annual programs of the Vienna Taiwan Lectures, including those planned for summer 2016, are featured in the following series of posters, which have been widely distributed.
Lecture by Liang-Kung Yen
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Winter term 2012
Summer term 2013
Dennis Hickey
Taipei, Beijing and the Path to Peace Across the Taiwan Strait
21st November 2012Jana s. RoškeRMou Zongsan und die moderne konfuzianische Bewegung in Taiwan
12th December 2012sigRiD WinkleRTaiwan in internationalen Organisationen:Zukunftsweg oder Sackgasse?
14th January 2013
Taipei, Beijing and the Path to Peace Taipei, Beijing and the Path to Peace
2121stst November 2012 November 2012
Mou Zongsan und die moderne Mou Zongsan und die moderne konfuzianische Bewegung in Taiwankonfuzianische Bewegung in Taiwan
Vienna Taiwan Lecture Seriese
caRol yeH-yun linNational Intellectual Capital of Austria and Its Re-lationship with the Greater China Economies
30th January 2013
Jens Damm
The Multiculturalization of Taiwan
8th March 2013astRiD lipinskyTaiwan‘s women‘s movement
24th April 2013ann HeylenImagery of 17 th Century Formosain Present Day Taiwan
8th May 2013
liang-kung yenThe Evolution of High-tech Industrial Park in Taiwan
22nd May 2013
micHael RuDolpHEthnical growth and ethnical re-classification
15th May 2013
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Time: Wednesday 18:15
Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen
Winter termOctober 2013 – January 2014
Sang-Yeon Sung
Helmut opletal
agneS ScHick-cHen
cHriStian göbel
JenS Damm
Taiwan: Center of East Asian Pop Circle
Taiwan’s political developmentsand the status of its indigenous people
Politics of memoryand the question of ethnicity in Taiwan
Local actions, corruptionand anti-corruption in Taiwan
Taiwan’s Ethnicities: The Perspective from Mainland China
9th October 2013
16th October 2013
20th November 2013
15th January 2014
18th December 2013
Winter termWinter termOctober 2013 – January 2014October 2013 – January 2014
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Time: Wednesday 18:15
Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen
Transforming Taiwan:
Isabelle Cheng
astrId lIpInsky
MarIe seong-hak kIM
Jens daMM
lara MoMesso
Female Migration to Taiwan
“Saigon Kid“ - Youth Books by Taiwanese Authors on New Taiwanese Children
Confucianism that Confounds: ConstitutionalJurisprudence on Filial Piety in Korea
Cross-Strait Social Movements: Impacts andChallenges for Both Sides
A Lesson from Taiwan: Revisiting Migration for Marriage by Looking at the Lived Experiences of Cross-Strait Marriage Migrants
26th March 2014
9th April 2014
7th May 2014
18th June 2014
21st May 2014
Transforming Taiwan:Transforming Taiwan:
Summer term 2014
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Time: Wednesday 18:15
Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen
Isabelle Cheng
Rosa enn
shIh-Jung hsu
MIChael Rudolph
Wan-YIng Yang
Common Interests in a Differentiated Environment: Political Socialisation and Participation of Foreign- Born Citizens in Taiwan
Indigenous Movement and theEnvironment – The Case of Taiwan
Taiwan Rural Front and the LandJustice Movement in Taiwan
Women’s Movement and GenderValue Changes in Taiwan
Taiwan’s Aboriginal Movement
12th Nov. 2014
3rd Dec. 2014
10th Dec. 2014
21st Jan. 2014
14th Jan. 2014
Winter term 2014
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Time: Wednesday 18:15
Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen
Summer term 2015
Taiwan's Civil Movement(s):
Ming-Yeh RawnsleY
siMona gRano
Julia RitiRc
Jens DaMM
henning KlöteR
Democratisation of the Media in Taiwan:Anti-Media Monopoly Movement and Policies
Taiwan’s post-2008 Environmental Activism: Green Rethoric or True Committment?
Taiwan’s Conservative Movement and its Mobiliza-tion Strategies in the Context of Same-sex Marriage Legislation
Negotiating Language from Below:Huang Shihui and Nativist Literature
The Symbiosis of Homophobia and AIDS-phobia during Taiwan’s Societal Transformation in the Early 1980s
Thursday, 19th March 2015 Room: OAW
22nd April 2015
6th May 2015
17th June 2015
20th May 2015
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Time: Wednesday 18:15
Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen
Winter term 2015
SebaStian HSien-Hao Liao
SebaStian HSien-Hao Liao
ann HeyLen
ti-Han CHang
CHriS berry
Romance of the Three Kins:Negotiating the Japanese Imaginaryin Taiwan Cinema
Poetics of Geography:The Post-Chinese Visions in Taiwan Film
Taiwanese identityand the film Formosa Betrayed
The Japan Complex in Taiwanese Cinema
Nature, Ecology and Oceanic Imaginationin Relation to Postcolonial Environmentand Taiwanese Literature
14 Oct. 2015
21 Oct. 2015
11 Nov. 2015
13 Jan. 2016
25 Nov. 2015
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Perceiving Taiwan:
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Lectures are open to the public without charge or prior registration
Time: Wednesday 18:15
Location: SIN 1, at the Department of East Asian Studies/Sinology, Altes AKH, Campus, Spitalgasse 2, yard 2, entrance 2.3 http://campus.univie.ac.at/plan-universitaere-einrichtungen
Summer term 2016
Perceiving Taiwan:
Bruce JacoBs
carsten storm
Denisa HilBertova
sHu-cHun li
sHu-cHun li
Taiwan is Not China: Aborigines, Colonial Rulers and Democratisationin the History of the Beautiful Island
Mapping Imaginary Spaces in Li Yongping’s 李永平 Jiling Chronicles 吉陵春秋
Taiwan in Czechoslovak CommunistPropaganda Caricatures (1948-1989)
Taiwan Literature and Taiwan New Cinema
Autobiographies by Dang-Wai movement WomenWorkshop
13 April 2016
11 May 2016
8 June 2016
Saturday,18 June 201611:00-16:00
15 June 2016
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7. Workshops organized by the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies with guest speakers
In 2014, discussions with potential Vienna Taiwan Lecture presenters resulted in several of them, especially those coming from a distance, offering to give a Wednesday lecture, provide additional input on Thursday or Friday and stay for a Saturday workshop. Because of the scarcity of classrooms, workshops could only be held during the weekend. Unlike weekday programs, the Saturday workshops attract people from outside the university, and have increased interest in Taiwan and the Center’s offerings as a whole.
25.10.14 Workshop „Taiwanese Popular Music: Negotiating, Constructing and Articulating Taiwanese Identity” with Sang-Yeon Sung and Yi-Hsuan Lai
29.11.14 Workshop „Rethinking the Production and Challenges of International Science documentary” with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley
13.12.14 Workshop „Land Grabbing and Forced Evictions in Taiwan” with Shih-Jung Hsu and Grace Liao
13.–14. 02.15
Workshop „EU Application for Chinese Cultural Diplomacy Project”with Jens Damm (Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan)
14.11.15 Saturday Workshop „The Japanese in Taiwanese Film: Kano” with Ann Heylen
28.11.15 Taiwan Film Weekend. Workshop with Chris Berry
8. Bi-Lateral Austrian-Taiwanese ConferencesBack in September 2009, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies organized the first Austrian-Taiwanese conference on the topic of “Democratic Transition, Political Culture and Social Change”. The meeting was part of an Austrian-Taiwanese co- operation that is otherwise available only for Austrian-Japanese bi-lateral events. The conference and others following the same pattern were funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF in cooperation with the Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). The initial conference was part of a project calling for two such meetings, one in each of the countries involved. Thus in September 2010, the Taiwanese counterpart at National Chengchi University hosted “Justice and Injustices in Transitional Societies: Taiwan and China”.
Afterwards, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies organized bi-lateral conferences on an annual basis, involving different faculties at the University of Vienna (Faculty of History, “Equality” conferences 2016 and 2017), and even Johannes Kepler Univer-sity, Linz, another major Austrian university (“Gender and Intersectionality”, 2015 and 2016). For these events, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies took on the core
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organizing, initiating academic cooperation beyond the field of Asian studies.
Date Location Conference Title
September2009 Vienna Democratic Transition, Political Culture and Social
Change in Taiwan
September2010 Taipei Justice and Injustices in Transitional Societies:
Taiwan and China
September –October 2011 Vienna Immigration Societies
November2012 Taipei
Social Movements, Rights Discourses and Citizenship: Social and Political Developments in Taiwan in a Regional Perspective
October2015 Vienna Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria:
Differences and Similarities
February2016 Taipei Equality: Taiwan in Context
Forthcoming
Late 2016 Tainan Intersectionality in Globalizing Societies and Comparative Aspects
April 2017 Vienna Equality: Austria in Context
Bi-Lateral conference: Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria
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9. Vienna Taiwan Studies SeriesThe Vienna Taiwan Studies Series is both an internationally peer-reviewed English language book series and an annual journal. The Series was registered with ISSN and ISBN numbers in 2013. The first volume was published in 2015 and an annual volume is planned for the coming years.
The publications evolved to offer to a wider audience the academic contributions at Austrian-Taiwanese conferences held regularly since 2009. Individual’s publications will also be considered for inclusion in the series.
The field of Taiwan studies has only been established since the 1990s as a distinc-tive academic area of research, and is still being developed and diversified. As the Vienna conference topics document, potential topics of interest are multiplying, and a European-Taiwanese comparative perspective has been newly established in Vienna, offering enough scope for another series.
In addition, the need was felt for a continental European platform for Taiwan studies with a focus on society and popular culture besides the current Routledge Research on Taiwan Series (since 2011) and the Harrassowitz. Studia Formosiana Series (since 2003). Having a local, Vienna-based publisher has proven advantageous – and attractive: the Vienna Taiwan Studies Series offers colorful covers, designed locally, to distinguish itself from Routledge’s standard blue ones.
The Vienna Taiwan Studies Series is also committed to affordable pricing, hoping for distribution beyond libraries and academic institutions.
About the Series Editor
Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, M.A. was a co-founder of the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, in 2009, and has been the Center’s managing director since then. Born in Germany, she has been based at the University of Vienna since 2008.
Dr. Lipinsky studied Chinese at Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. She majored in Sinology, Japanology and Comparative Private Law at Bonn University, Germany, and wrote her MA thesis on the Republican Chinese marriage law reforms of the 1990s in Taiwan. Dr. Lipinsky obtained her Dr. phil at Bonn University.
Dr. Lipinsky worked on the national follow-up to the Fourth Women’s World Con- ference in Beijing 1995 with the leading German women’s organization Deutscher Frauenrat. She later led a UNIFEM project to strengthen the leadership capacities of village women in a ‘poverty county’ of Shandong Province, China, where she lived for over a year.
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Dr. Lipinsky participates widely in international human rights and gender networks. She publishes in German, English and Chinese. Her publications are partly available on her homepage at www.sinojus-feminae.eu, established in 2008.
Dr. Lipinsky is the recipient of several DAAD grants; the Taiwan Fellowship; and the Excellence Grant of National Chengchi University, Taiwan. She recently received a short-term research fellowship from the International Taiwan Studies Center (ITSC), Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University that is planned to enhance cooperation between the Taiwan Centers and is extending the Vienna Taiwan research network and exchanges with Eastern European universities.
Titles in the Series
1 Immigration Societies. Taiwan and Beyond - with a Foreword by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik. Editor: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna
2Social Movements in Taiwan: Historical Roots to Recent Developments (forthcoming 2016) - with a Foreword by Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Editor: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna
3Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria (forthcoming 2016/17)Editors: Jens Damm, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, & Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna
4The Japanese in Taiwanese and Chinese CinemaEditors: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna & Yu-Wen Fu, National Kaohsiung University
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10. Funding for the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and supporting institutions
The Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies was established in 2009 as part of the Department of East Asian Studies, specifi cally at Sinology, and has been active since then, although not yet legally institutionalized. Nevertheless, there has been continuous support for the Center for Taiwan Studies from the Department of East Asian Studies and the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. This has facilitated the Center’s ability to obtain additional funding from outside sources.
Early on, the Education Division of the Vienna Taipei Economic and Cultural Offi ce (TECO) provided small grants to the Department library for books and literature on Taiwan. It also supported Taiwan-related conferences by hosting a dinner bringing together key people and organizations that would be interested in this form of international cooperation. The single-item grants were fi rst combined into a one year funding plan, and most recently into a three year contract. All TECO funding requires matching funds from the University of Vienna. These are covered by offi ce and lecture hall rentals, and the commitment to include regular Taiwan teaching as part of the Sinology curriculum.
In 2014, the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation gave the Vienna Taiwan Lecture Series a support grant for one year. A new application was submitted in 2015, and approved for another two years. The staff and students involved in the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies are very appreciative of the generous support from all supporting institutions.
As interest in the developing international relationships and academic scholarship around Taiwanese studies grows, the Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies and its Lecture Series welcome new partners in their multi-level endeavors. Plans for 2016-2018 include: the publication of annual journals; 2 volumes of papers related to the annual themes of the Lectures; a growing library of video resources from the lectures, as well as many rich and varied connections and relationships that have developed and been enriched by the exchange of guest lecturers.
Organizations or individuals interested in contributing to the continued expansion and success of the program should contact the Center’s managing Director, Dr. Astrid Lipinsky at [email protected].
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