Panel I: Commodity and Social Capital in the Era of Globalization

• Consumption in Taiwan and the Quadrilateral Relationships with Three Superpowers (Sumei Wang, Lancaster University)
• “Made in Japan”: Examining the Symbolic Meaning of Japan in Contemporary Taiwan from Cultural Consumption Perspective—An Examination on Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle (Ching-Yu Chang, University of Florida)
• Taiwanese “Empire” Overseas, the Structural Integration of Taiwanese People in China (Ping Lin, Oxford University)

Panel II: Visual Representation and Historical Memory

• Unconcealed Memory of Imperialism: The Hauntology around Traumatic Events and the Ethics of Aesthetic in Family Photographs (Hsiu-Hui Kuan, National Chiao Tung University)
• Symbolic Interpretations of the Republic of Taiwan’s Yellow Tiger Flag - History is Asking Questions (Jerome Keating, Independent Scholar)
• The Silent Rhythms: Trans-visualization of Taiwan in Millennium Mambo, Café Lumière and Three Times (Mei-Jung Li, National Chiao Tung University)

 Panel III: Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations

• How Taiwanese Electorates Choose their Presidents: Candidate-Driven or Partisan-Driven? (Nien-Hsia Liu, University of Essex)
• Banking Transformations in Taiwan: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics (Doris Hsiao-Chi Chuang, University of Brighton)
• The “Two-State” Theory: Perceptions and Policy Change (Neng-Shan Lin, Keele University)

Panel IV: Migration, State, and Identity

• (Trangdai Tranguyen, Stanford University)
• Desperate Housewives—Taiwanese Women in China (Ping Lin, Oxford University)
• Cross-Border Identity and Multiculturalism in East Asia—An Empirical Study on Taiwanese Diaspora in Contemporary Japan (Pei-Chun Han, Waseda University)

 Panel V: Unraveling the Nexus of Empire: Nation States, History and Law in Taiwan

• Rethinking Economic Development through New Economic Sociology’s Lens: network, cultural influence, and identity in the case of Taiwanese enterprises in China (Hsu-Chi Lee, New School for Social Research)
• Taiwan as the Nexus of China-Japan Relations (Brett McCormick, Otterbein College)
• Imagining the New Legal Empire: The Politics of Transplantation of US anti-DV Legislations (Yun-Ru Chen, Harvard Law School)

Panel VI: Gender Studies

• 籠罩「他」和「我」的時間與脈絡:《天河撩亂》中的欲望主體和文本再現 (Edwin Szeto, The Ohio State University)
• Women's Empowerment on the Internet? (Chih-Ping Chen, Yuan Ze University & Chih-Hsien Chen, National Kaohsiung University)

 Panel VII: Reflection and Critique on Taiwan as an Information Society