List of Invited Scholar

Professor Stéphane Corcuff
Associate Professor of Political Science
Lyon Institute of Political Studies
http://iep.univ-lyon2.fr/personne.php?Rub=274&id_pers=84

Keynote Speech on Securing Taiwan’s Democracy

Keynote Speaker:

Professor Edward Friedman
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://polisci.wisc.edu/people/person.aspx?id=1050

Keynote Discussant:

Professor Joseph Wong
Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
* also Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/DirectoryDetail.aspx?cid=10488

Roundtable on Taiwan Cinema

Chairperson: Professor Kevin Tsai
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Program in Ancient Studies
Indiana University-Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~complit/people/tsai.shtml

Discussant 1: Professor Nicole Huang
Associate Professor
East Asian Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://eall.wisc.edu/?q=node/32

Discussant 2: Professor Guo-Juin Hong
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Duke Univiersity
http://asianmideast.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FAMES&Uil=gjhong

Discussant 3: Professor Sylvia Lin
Associate Professor, literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Notre Dame
http://eastasian.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/lin-sylvia/

Anthropology Roundtable

Discussant 1: Professor Scott Simon
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Ottawa
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/soc/eng/profdetails.asp?ID=300

Discussant 2: Professor Sara Friedman
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University-Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthro/people/faculty/friedman.html

Roundtable on Taiwan as Method

Discussant 1: Professor Leo Ching
Associate Professor and
Chair Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Duke University
http://asianmideast.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FAMES&Uil=lching

Discussant 2: Professor Kuo Ch’ing Tu
Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara  
http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/faculty/tu.htm

Discussant 3: Professor Bert Scruggs*
Assistant Professor
East Asian Languages & Literature School of Humanities
University of California, Irvine
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5582
* participating by teleconference or Skype

Roundtable on Is Taiwan Studies Dead?

Chair-person: Dr. Broaded, C Montgomery (sociology of education)
Director of International Program
Center for Global Education
Butler University
http://www.butler.edu/about/directory/?a=viewprofile&u=mbroaded

Discussant 1: Professor Murray Rubinstein*
Department of History
Baruch College
City University of New York
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/mrubenstein.htm
* Delivered the keynote speech titled, Is Taiwan Studies Dead? The Death and Transfiguration of a Sub-field, (see attached "4909 short edition")for the 6th European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) annual conference.

Discussant 2: Dr. Jonathan Sullivan*
RCUK Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Politics and International Relations
University of Nottingham
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/staff/jonathan.sullivan
* The author of the journal article, Is Taiwan Studies in Decline?, published in the China Quarterly (volume 2011, page 706-718)

Discussant 3: Professor Shelley Rigger*
Brown Professor and Chair of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Davidson College
http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x12025.xml
* participating by teleconference or Skype