Planning Committee

President	Chih-Ming Liang 梁志鳴	University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
Secretary	Chao-Tien Chang 張兆恬	University of Pennsylvania Law School
Administrative Coordinator	Laura Jo-Han Wen 溫若含	Department of East Asian Languages & Literature, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Administrative Commissioner	Aristotle M. Bulaclac 卜拉克	Department and Institute of Public Administration, Chung Hua University
Administrative Commissioner	Ching-Yu Louisa Chang 張慶玉	University of Florida
Administrative Commissioner	Yating Chuang 莊雅婷	Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Administrative Commissioner	Bo-Shone Fu 傅柏翔	University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
Administrative Commissioner	ChungHsin Ho 何中馨	Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Administrative Commissioner	Yang-Yi Kuo 郭揚義 [bio]	Department of Anthropology, University College of London
Administrative Commissioner	Chih-Yuan Lin 林志遠	Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research
Administrative Commissioner	John Chung-En Liu 劉仲恩	Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Administrative Commissioner	Eileen Tsai 蔡艾玲	University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
Administrative Commissioner	Hsin-Yang Wu 吳欣陽 [bio]	University of Washington School of Law
Treasury	Kai-Li Chiu 邱凱莉	Religion and Society Department, Princeton Theological Seminary
Local Manager	Wan-Tsui Chiang 江浣翠	Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Local Commissioner	Jui-Chien Cheng 鄭瑞健	Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Program Committee Coordinator	Chi-Ting Peng 彭琪庭 [bio]	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Program Commissioner	Dale Albanese 紀博善	Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University
Program Commissioner	Chih-hao Harry Chang 張之豪	PhD student in Asia-Pacific Regional Studies, National Chengchi University
Program Commissioner	Chien-Yuan Chen 陳建源 [bio]	Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Program Commissioner	Emilia Chi-Jung Cheng 鄭季蓉	University of Sussex
Program Commissioner	Kai-Li Chiu 邱凱莉	Religion and Society Department, Princeton Theological Seminary
Program Commissioner	Christy Delair 狄凱絲	Department of Anthropology, Brown University
Program Commissioner	Caterina Fugazzola	Asia Pacific Studies Program, University of San Francisco
Program Commissioner	Szu-Yun Hsu 徐詩雲	Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Program Commissioner	Christine Hung 洪毓婷 [bio]	Cinema Studies, University of Western Sydney
Program Commissioner	Hsin-Yi Kao 高心怡	Department of Leadership and Counselor Education, University of Mississippi
Program Commissioner	Wei-Ting Kuo 郭威廷 [bio]	Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Program Commissioner	Yang-Yi Kuo 郭揚義 [bio]	Department of Anthropology, University College of London
Program Commissioner	Ching-Fu Lin 林勤富	Harvard University Law School
Program Commissioner	Yen-Chi Liu 劉晏齊 [bio]	University of California at Berkeley School of Law
Program Commissioner	Dan McMackin 丹梓謙	Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University
Program Commissioner	Derek Sheridan 謝力登 [bio]	Department of Anthropology, Brown University
Program Commissioner	Kwan Fan Su 蘇冠帆	University of Sussex
Program Commissioner	Wan-Jui Wang 王萬睿 [bio]	Film Studies, Univ. of Exeter
Documentary Staff	Cheng-Yo Lin 林政佑	Department of Law, National Taiwan University

Webmaster	Hsu, Danny

Yang-Yi Kuo
Yang-Yi Kuo is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University College London (UCL). He was an exhibit designer at National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan. He received his M.Arch. in Architectural Design from Tunghai University and B.Sc. in Zoology from National Taiwan University. He is currently doing his fieldwork in Northern Taiwan and working on his dissertation on the role material culture plays in the diaspora's everyday life. He is also interested in the embodied experiences of cities and poetic representations of museums.

Hsin-Yang Wu
Hsin-Yang, Wu is a PhD Candidate of the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle. He rceived an LL.B. and an LL.M. from the National Taiwan University and an Asian & Comparative Law LL.M. from the UW School of Law. He worked in the Arbitration Association of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and engaged in several government research projects on the Japanese Colonial Court decisions, the Compulsory Automobile Liability Insurance Law, the Administrative Act, and the Fair Trade Law. He was sponsored by the Taiwanese government to further his research at Asian Law Center of the UW School of Law. His dissertation will be on official language legislation in modern states. His research will extend to human rights, especially language rights and equal protection of minorities, indigenous peoples, and immigrants. He enjoys singing while driving alone but refuses to sing in public. He likes to watch baseball games and play video games, but he never identifies himself as an otaku.

Peng, Chi-Ting
Chi Ting Peng is from Taiwan. She is a Ph.D. student in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received her M.A. and B.A. from the department of History in National Taiwan Normal University. Her academic interests include Taiwan history after 1949, Modern China, Chinese immigration and diaspora, and economic history of East Asia.

Chen, Chien-Yuan
Chien-Yuan Chen is currently a visiting researcher in Department of Sociology at Peking University and Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in Department of Anthropology at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is working on his fieldwork focusing on East Asian tourism and mutual imagination(s) behind these activities. He also focuses on anthropology of food and cuisine and Japanese popular culture in general.

Hung, Christine
Christine Hung is from Taipei, Taiwan. She obtained the Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature (major: English) from National Chung-Cheng University. She was lead actress and publicity manager for the annual graduate performance in her department at university and served as English tutor in a private institution in Taiwan. Prior to coming to Sydney 7 years ago, she did part-time interpreting for IDP. After finishing an MA in Theatre Studies and a second MA in Chinese Studies with a thesis on Hou Hsiao-hsien at UNSW, she is currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema Studies in UWS. She served as a research assistant and tutor in Film History at UNSW and is also a guest lecturer in Asian Cinema at UWS. Currently, she is teaching children mandarin at ACCS in Sydney as well as writing her PhD thesis on Hou Hsiao-hsien's women-centered cinematic texts, which engages with culture, gender, and political history.

Guo, Wei-Ting
Wei-Ting Guo is a Ph.D. student in Asian Studies at University of British Columbia. He received his LL.B and M.L. from College of Law, National Taiwan University, and his LL.M. from Gould School of Law, University of Southern California. His main interest lies in legal transitions in Taiwan during the Qing, Japanese, and Nationalist periods, as well as correlation among legal practices, popular religion, and other intellectual traditions in late imperial China. His dissertation will examine violent culture in Qing-ruled Taiwan with a focus on its interaction with memory, identity, ideology, and legal sensibility.

Liu, Yen-Chi
Yen-Chi Liu is a JSD student in Law at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include child welfare and behaviors of welfare agency.

Derek Sheridan
Derek Sheridan received an M.A. in Social Science and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. He is currently living and working in Taiwan while he applies to Ph.D. programs. His research interests involve the social and cultural history of the American diplomatic/military presence in Taiwan during the Cold War, the politics of memory and political performance.

Wang, Wan-Jui
Wan-Jui Wang (王萬睿) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Film Studies at University of Exeter. He received his B.A. degree in Chinese Literature (Creative Writing Section) from Chinese Culture University. He got his first master degree in Taiwanese Literature at National Cheng Kung University and second master in Critical Media and Cultural Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His academic interests include in Taiwanese literature, Taiwan cinema, transnational Chinese cinemas and postcolonial studies. He is currently working on his dissertation titled "Crossing Borders in Taiwan Cinema: Ethnicity, Nationhood and Identity". You are welcome to contact him at: wanjui1230@gmail.com.