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2022

2022 Taiwan Scholarship Programme Briefing

Date: 09 February 2022 (13:30-15:00)
Location:: C11 Monica Partridge Building, Hybrid Mode: Streamed online and speaker on campus, Online registration
Description: The 2022 Taiwan Scholarship Programme briefing event

Book Launch: Women Migrants in Southern China and in Taiwan. Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions

Date: 24 February 2022 (14:30-15:50)
Location:: Online registration
Description: Book Launch: Women Migrants in Southern China and in Taiwan. Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions by Beatrice Zani

Book Launch and Roundtable discussion: Navigating in Stormy Waters

Date: 23 March 2022 (12:00-13:30)
Location:: Online registration
Description: Roundtable discussion: Navigating in Stormy Waters

Roundtable Ukraine and Russia-Taiwan and China

Date: 05 April 2022 (12:00-13:30)
Location:: Online event
Description: Roundtable on Ukraine and Russia--Taiwan and China focusing on the War in Ukraine

Taiwan-Hong Kong (dis)connection: physical and digital social movements in HK and Taiwan

Date: 19 May 2022 (17:30-19:00)
Location:: Online event
Description: Taiwan-Hong Kong (dis)connection: physical and digital social movements in HK and Taiwan

Analyzing Time-Series Cross-Section Data in Social Science Research Workshop

Date: 06 (09:30) - 10 June 2022 (15:00)
Location:: Hybrid Mode: Streamed online and speaker on campus, LG106 Hallward Library, Online registration
Description: Dr Tse-min Lin, Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas Austin for a one-week workshop on Analyzing Time-Series Cross-Section Data in Social Science Research

Taiwan Studies Programme Annual Conference 2022 : Racing to join the club

Date: 17 (09:00) - 18 June 2022 (18:00)
Location:: E07 Monica Partridge Building, Hybrid Event: taking place in person and participation online via MS Teams., Online registration
Description: The Taiwan Studies Program of the University of Nottingham is holding a conference on 17th-18th June 2022 to explore the issues raised by this novel dynamic of contemporaneous applications to join the CPTPP from the UK, China and Taiwan.

National Identity, Cultural Heritage, and Revelation in a Taiwanese New Religion

Date: 22 June 2022 (12:30-15:00)
Location:: C11 Monica Partridge Building, hybrid event - online and in person
Description: Talk by Benjamin Penny on National Identity, Cultural Heritage, and Revelation in a Taiwanese New Religion

2021

2021 Taiwan Fellowship programme applications

Date: 03 February 2021 (13:30-15:00)
Location:: Online
Description: The 2021 Taiwan Fellowship programme has opened for online applications.

China 1949 Year of Revolution Book Launch

Date: 25 February 2021 (13:30-15:00)
Location:: Online registration
Description: Online book launch China 1949 Year of Revolution

Book Launch: A new beginning or more of the same? The European Union and and East Asia after Brexit

Date: 03 March 2021 (13:30-15:00)
Location:: Online registration
Description: Book Launch: A new beginning or more of the same? The European Union and and East Asia after Brexit

Drawing cities across time: The shaping of Nottingham and Taipei

Date: 11 March 2021 (13:30-15:00)
Location:: Online registration
Description: Drawing cities across time: The shaping of Nottingham and Taipei Virtual Art Exhibition by artist Tom Rook

US-Taiwan Relations under Biden

Date: 18 March 2021 (16:00-17:30)
Location:: Online registration
Description: US-Taiwan Relations under Biden by Prof James Lin, University of Washington

At the Critical Moment: The Rhizome and "Democracy to Come"

Date: 23 April 2021 (13:30-15:00)
Location:: Online registration
Description: At the Critical Moment: The Rhizome and "Democracy to Come" by Dr Shih-wei Hsu

Responsible COVID Management in Migrant Populations: Lessons from Singapore

Date: 22 June 2021 (09:00-10:30)
Location:: Online registration
Description: Online discussion , Responsible COVID Management in Migrant Populations: Lessons from Singapore

TSP/TMU Conference Public Policy in A Time of Crisis: Comparing British and Taiwanese government responses to Covid-19

Date: 25 (09:00) - 26 June 2021 (13:00)
Location:: Online registration
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme and the Taipei Medical University jointly host this year's conference on Public Policy in A Time of Crisis: Comparing British and Taiwanese government responses to Covid-19.

When Authors meet Critics: TJD special issue online launch

Date: 20 October 2021 (14:00-15:30)
Location:: Online registration
Description: When writers meet Critics: Taiwan Journal of Democracy special issue online launch

The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China's Economic Rise Book Launch

Date: 28 October 2021 (16:30-18:00)
Location:: Online registration
Description: The University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme presents an online book launch by Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Chinese Studies at Davidson College.

UK relations with China – upholding British interests in the face of the Chinese Communist Party's diplomacy

Date: 04 November 2021 (12:30-15:00)
Location:: E07 Monica Partridge Building, Hybrid Mode: Streamed online and speaker on campus, Online registration
Description: The University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme presents a Public Lecture by Charlie Parton, China Ink.(Online and on campus)UK relations with China – upholding British interests in the face of the Chinese Communist Party's diplomacy

Taiwan's Efforts in Greener politics: Domestic and International Engagements

Date: 11 November 2021 (12:30-15:00)
Location:: C11 Monica Partridge Building, Online registration
Description: This talk includes Dr. Dafydd Fell's book launch on 'Taiwan's Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan' and Prof. Chien-Te Fan's talk on 'Taiwan's External Efforts to Join International Climate Change Organization'

Stigma and Hate in the Time of COVID: Migrant Rights in the Asia-Pacific

Date: 18 November 2021 (12:30-15:00)
Location:: E07 Monica Partridge Building, Hybrid Mode: Streamed online and speaker on campus, Online registration
Description: A talk by Dr. Bonny Ling, Research Fellow with the Institute for Human Rights and Business and Advisory Board Member of Human Rights at Sea, onStigma and Hate in the Time of COVID: Migrant Rights in the Asia-Pacific

2020

TSP Conference 2020

Date: 11 - 12 December 2020
Location:: Online by Invitation
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme Online Annual Conference 11/12 December 2020.

How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy?

Date: 04 November 2020
Location:: Online registration
Description: An online discussion on: How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy ?

Migrant Lives Matter: 'Nine Shots'

Date: 30 October 2020
Location:: Online registration
Description: Online discussion and film Migrant Lives Matter: 'Nine Shots'

Nostalgia Taiwan: Foolish Bride, Naïve bridegroom

Date: 28 October 2020
Location:: Online registration
Description: Online discussion and film entitled: Nostalgia Taiwan: Foolish Bride, Naïve bridegroom

International perspectives: Hong Kong's national security law and implications for Taiwan

Date: 14 October 2020
Location:: Online registration
Description: Online discussion on International perspectives: Hong Kong's national security law and implications for Taiwan

TSP Conference 2020

Date: 25 - 26 June 2020
Location:: Online by Invitation, University Park
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme Online Annual Conference 25/26 June 2020.

Innovation Policies in Mainland China and Taiwan: Challenges of the Digital Economy by Prof Erik Baark

Date: 27 February 2020
Location:: B7 Hemsley, University Park
Description: A Public Lecture by Prof Erik Baark on Innovation Policies in Mainland China and Taiwan: Challenges of the Digital Economy.

2019

Taiwan Scholarship Briefing

Date: 05 February - 30 March 2020
Location:: E07 Teaching and Learning Building, University Park
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme briefing on funding opportunities for both academics and students for 2020.

Talk by Huei-mei Grace Chang on Putting 'people' back into policy:Taiwan's recent work to promote the rights of disadvantaged groups

Date: 26 November 2019
Location:: University of Nottingham Sports and Social Club; Lenton Eaves; University Park
Description: Talk by Huei-mei Grace Chang on Putting 'people' back into policy:Taiwan's recent work to promote the rights of disadvantaged groups.

China's diplomacy: what sort of 'community of shared future for mankind' and what might it mean for Taiwan? by Charlie Parton

Date: 21 November 2019
Location:: B7 Hemsley, University Park
Description: A public lecture by by Charlie Parton on China's diplomacy.

Politics of Temporalities and Taiwan's Pursuit of Transitional Justice in the Context of East Asian History by Dr Anthony Yeh

Date: 11 November 2019
Location:: B7 Hemsley, University Park
Description: A seminar by Dr Anthony Yeh on Politics of Temporalities and Taiwan's Pursuit of Transitional Justice in the Context of East Asian History.

Brexit Conference 2019

Date: 01 - 02 November 2019
Location:: B7 Hemsley, University Park
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme Conference on Europe and East Asia after Brexit: New opportunities or more of the same?

TSP Conference 2019

Date: 27 - 28 June 2019
Location:: E06 and E07, Teaching and Learning Buiilding, University Park
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme Annual Conference 27/28 June 2019.

Archipelagic Justice: Climate, politics and environmental protection in Penghu and the Bahamas by Karen Salt

Date: 13 May 2019
Location:: A19 Trent Building, University Park
Description: A seminar by by Dr Karen Salt on Archipelagic Justice: Climate, politics and environmental protection in Penghu and the Bahamas.

Contemplating Taiwan's strange centre-periphery identity in the Indo-Pacific

Date: 04 April 2019
Location:: B7 Hemsley (Staff Club), University Park
Description: The Taiwan Studies Programme (TSP) is delighted to announce a public lecture by Euan Graham on Contemplating Taiwan's strange centre-periphery identity in the Indo-Pacific.

The Domestic Roots of Cross-Strait Relations: China and Taiwan in the Evolving Asian Context - Professor Joseph Fewsmith (Boston)

Date: 14 March 2019
Location:: A48 Clive Grainger, Universiity Park

China's Evolving Foreign Policy and Implications for Cross-Strait Relations by Prof Rumi Aoyama

Date: 14 February 2019
Location:: B1 Hemsley, University Park
Description: A seminar by by Professor Rumi Aoyama on China's Evolving Foreign Policy and Implications for Cross-Strait Relations.

2018

Writing and Curating Taiwan Art

Date: 12 December 2018
Location:: A19 Trent Building, University Park
Description: A seminar on Writing and Curating Taiwan Art by Dr Sophie McIntyre, Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS University of London.

New Youth Labour Activism in Taiwan after 2014 Sunflower Movement

Date: 26 November 2018
Location:: B7 Hemsley, University Park
Description: A joint TSP/CSSGJ seminar by Dr. Chiu Yu-bin an associate professor at the Department of Social Development at National Pingtung University in Taiwan on New Youth Labour Activism in Taiwan after 2014 Sunflower Movement

Small Talk (日常對話) Film Screening

Date: 19 October 2018
Location:: A41 Sir Clive Granger Building, Small talk Film Screening, Student Journalism Prize, Taiwan Film Festival UK, University Park
Description: Small Talk Film Screening, Panel Discussion and Launch of the Taiwan Film Festival UK Student Journalism Prize organised by Taiwan Studies Programme, the University of Nottingham in collaboration with Centre for Contemporary East Asian Studies, the University of Nottingham and Taiwan Film Festival UK.

A New Era in Democratic Taiwan Book launch

Date: 12 October 2018
Location:: Hemsley B1, University Park
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme book launch

Taiwan and Vatican Relations in Perspective

Date: 10 October 2018
Location:: A21 Trent Building, University Park
Description: A public lecture by by Dr. Chou-seng Tou Former Ambassador to the Holy See, Belgium and Dr Tsung-ming Chen, Research fellow at the Ferdinand Verbiest, K. U. Leuven , Trent Building, University Park

Mapping Taiwan Globally: New Southbound Policy and Moving Forward Roundtable 2018

Date: 28 - 29 June 2018
Location:: Jubilee Campus, Si Yuan Building
Description: TSP roundtable will focus on Mapping Taiwan Globally: New Southbound Policy and Moving Forward.

Roundtable on China's BRI and Taiwan's New Southbound Policy and Pathway to Politics careers talk

Date: 08 May 2018
Location:: Trent A19 University Park
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme roundtable and career talk.

The Taiwan voter: political cleavage and electoral decisions

Date: 04 May 2018
Location:: B7 Hemsley, Universiity Park
Description: A seminar by Professor TY Wang, Illinois State University as part of the Taiwan Studies Programme Seminar Series.

A Lost Generation Revisited - 70 Years after the Chinese Civil War

Date: 03 May 2018
Location:: Keighton Auditorium, University Park
Description: A public lecture by Professor Lung Yingtai ??? Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities, University of Hong Kong now taking place in the Keighton Auditorium on University Park

TSP Public Event: Beyond marriage equality: a conversation with LGBTQ+ activists from Taiwan and Nottingham

Date: 06 February 2018
Location:: Nottingham Comtemporary, Weekday Cross NG1 2GB
Description: Legislator Mei-Nu Yu will take part in a public event engagement with Taiwanese LGBT and local English LGBT groups.

TSP Public Lecture: Taiwan Pride: Our fight for marriage equality

Date: 06 February 2018
Location:: LG101 Senate Chamber, Trent Building, University Park
Description: Legislator Mei-Nu Yu presents the Taiwanese fight for marriage equality in the 2017/2018 Taiwan Studies Programme lecture series.

Taiwan Scholarship Briefing

Date: 06 February 2018
Location:: Hemsley B2, University Park
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme briefing on funding opportunities for both academics and students for 2018/19.

2017

Audiometry and environmental noise control in postwar Taiwan

Date: 15 March 2018
Location:: B2 Hemsley, University Park
Description: A seminar by Dr Jennifer Hsieh, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University as part of the Taiwan Studies Programme Seminar Series.

Regional economic dynamic and security puzzles: challenge of cross-Strait air safety ?

Date: 30 January 2018
Location:: Highfield House A11, University Park
Description: A panel discussion on Regional economic dynamic and security puzzles: challenge of cross-Strait air safety as part of the Taiwan Studies Programme.

The Asian spotlight on the history of The Dutch United East India Company (VOC)

Date: 22 November 2017
Location:: B7 Hemsley, Universiity Park
Description: A lunchtime seminar by Dr Ann Heylen, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) as part of the Taiwan Studies Programme Seminar Series.

Taiwan, China, and the future of US policy in Asia

Date: 09 November 2017
Location:: A40 Sir Clive Granger Building, Please note the change of venue, University Park
Description: Douglas H. Paal, Vice President for Studies, Asia Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, presenting in the 2017/18 series of Taiwan Studies lectures.

Taiwan film screening tour - Taiwan's Lost Commercial Cinema: Recovered and Restored

Date: 20 October 2017
Location:: Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, Screen 3
Description: The University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme in association with King's College London, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, Taiwan Film Institute and the Broadway Cinema is pleased to jointly host a film on 20 October 2017.

The Pattern of Taiwan's Democratisation: 2017 Joint Roundtable Program

Date: 22 - 23 June 2017
Location:: Trent Building, University Park
Description: This roundtable will focus on the pattern of Taiwan's democratisation.

Taiwan Studies Programme Lecture: Facing the Mainland: How Taiwan Asserts Herself in the International Community

Date: 17 May 2017
Location:: B18 Law and Social Sciences Building, University Park
Description: Ambassador Shen, former Representative (Ambassador) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the United States will be presenting on "Facing the Mainland: How Taiwan Asserts Herself in the International Community."

Vienna Taiwan Lecture Series 2017

Date: 26 April 2017
Description: Dr Chun-yi Lee presents in Vienna Taiwan Lecture Series.

TSP/IAPS Documentary Screening and Roundtable Discussion

Date: 27 March 2017
Location:: B2 The Hemsley Building, Uniersity Park Campus
Description: Hebei Taipei, Directed by Nien-Hsiu Li and produced by Chou Chen-ting.

Taiwan Studies Programme seminar by Dr Don Lee

Date: 22 March 2017
Location:: A2 Law and Social Sciences Building, Uniersity Park Campus
Description: The Taiwan Studies Programme (TSP) is delighted a to announce a Seminar by Dr Don Lee, Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International relations, on 22 March in A2, Law and Social Sciences Building.

Taiwan Studies Programme lunchtime seminar by Dr Ann Heylen

Date: 17 February 2017
Location:: B1, Hemsley, Universiity Park
Description: Mobility in 17th century Formosa: Maps and Digital Humanities

TSP/IAPS Documentary Screening and Roundtable Discussion

Date: 09 February 2017
Location:: a41, Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Song of the Reed, produced by the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation and directed by Wu Hsiu-Ching.

Taiwan Studies Programme Lecture: State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle 30 Years On

Date: 08 February 2017
Location:: A2, Law and Social Sciences Building
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme Lecture on State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle 30 Years On by Professor Thomas B Gold.

2016

Taiwan Studies Programme Lecture: 'The third democratic regime change of Taiwan

Date: 14 November 2016
Location:: Law & Social Sciences Building
Description: Taiwan Studies Programme Lecture on The third democratic regime change of Taiwan in 2016: context, significance and assessment by Professor Michael Hsiao