June27, Friday

12:30-13:20

Check-in (Room 212)

13:20-13:30

Break

13:30-15:00

Panel I: Marginal Identities, Citizenship and Subjectivity (M1)

Chair:Prof. Robert Anderson (UW, Seattle)
Discussants:Prof. Robert Anderson, Prof. David Blundell (National Chengchi University) & Chia-ming Chen (University of Chicago)

Location: Room: 213

Panel II: Implementing Sovereignty through Community and Identity Building (M3)

Chair: Prof. Jeff Hou (UW, Seattle)
Discussant: Prof. Jeff Hou & Hsun-hui Tseng (UW, Seattle)

Location: Room 217

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-17:00

Panel III:From History to Literature: Characters and Narratives (B2)

Chair: Pei-lin Liang (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

Discussants: Pei-lin Liang & Chia-ying Shih (UW, Seattle)

Location: Room 213

Panel IV: Moving Beyond Partisan Democracy? Power Transitions and Political Paradox in Taiwan’s Democratization (A2)

Chair:Ching-Chang Chen
(University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Discussants: Prof. Chang-ling Huang(National Taiwan University), Chia-Ming Chen (University of Chicago) &  Pei-chun Han (Waseda University)

Location: Room 217

19:00-21:00

Dinner reception (Opening Remarks and Welcome from the 2008 Committee)

Location: The University of Washington (Faculty) Club

We will meet in the front of Law School (William H. Gates Hall) at 6:30 pm and walk together to the University Club.

June28, Saturday

08:30-10:00

Panel V: En/Gendering Law and Policy (M2)

Chair: Hsiao-wei Kuan (S. J. D., University of Pennsylvania)
Discussants: Prof. William Lavely (UW, Seattle) & Prof. Jenny Hsin-Chun Tsai (UW, Seattle)

Location: Room 117

Panel VI: “Conserving” Indigenous Ecology and Traditional Knowledge (B3)

Chair: Hsun-hui Tseng (UW, Seattle)
Discussants: Prof. Stevan Harrell & Yi-tze Lee (University of Pittsburgh)

Location: Room 119

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Keynote Speech

Rethinking Power in Postcolonial Globalization

Speaker: Professor Pheng Cheah (Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)

Interlocutor: Professor Rwei-ren Wu (Academia Sinica)

Location: Room 133

12:00-14:00

Lunch & 2008 Committee report and the election for the 2009 Committee*(12:30-13:30)

14:00-15:30

Panel VII: The Politics of Border Crossing in the Transnational Context (C2)

Chair: Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen (Stanford University)

Discussants:Hsun-hui Tseng (UW, Seattle), Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen & Prof. Ching-wen Hsu (National Tsing Hua University)

Location: 117

Panel VIII:Globalization of Science and Technology (C5)

Chair: Yu-I Hsieh (Rutgers University)
 Discussant: Kuei-hsian Liao (UW, Seattle) & Andrew Libby (Graduate Center/CUNY)

Location: Room 119

15:30-16:00

Break & Poster Presentation Session (Corridor)

16:00-17:30

Panel IX:  Writing the Nation, Challenging the History (M5)

Chair: Prof. Wu Rwei-ren (Academia Sinica)

Discussants: Wei-chi Chen (NYU) & Prof. Wu Rwei-ren (Academia Sinica)

Location: Room 117

Panel X: Embodying “Globalization”? A Tangle of the Local and the Global (C4)

Chair: Ching-yu Chang (University of Florida)
Discussants: Prof. David Blundell (National Chengchi University), Prof. Jeff Hou (UW, Seattle) & Pei-chun Han (Waseda University)

Location: Room 119

17:30-

Dinner and Committee Business Meeting

June29, Sunday

08:30-10:00

Panel XI: Economy of Identity in Contemporary Arena (B4)

Chair: Yu-I Hsieh (Rutgers University)
Discussants:Prof. Jeffery Martin (Chang Jung Christian University)

Location: Room 117

Pane XII: Taiwan’s Feminism: Theory, Institution and Practice (M6)

Chair: Prof. Chang-ling Huang
Discussant: Prof. Chang-ling Huang & Dr. Hsiao-wei Kuan (University of Pennsylvania)

Location: Room 119

10:00-10:30

Break & Poster Presentation Session (Corridor)

10:30-12:00

Panel XIII: Transfiguration of Taiwan’s Democratization: Stateness, Peoplehood and Imagi(e)-Nation (A3)

Chair: Prof. Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussant:Prof. Pheng Cheah, Prof. Dongsheng Zang (UW Law School) & Dongtao Qi (Stanford University)

Location: Room 117

Panel XIV: Building the Nation: Projects in the Academy and Policy Making (C1)

Chair: Prof. Stevan Harrell (UW, Seattle)

Discussants: Prof. Stevan Harrell &  Wei-chi Chen (NYU)

Location: Room 119

12:00-14:00

Lunch (Room 116) & Network Session: Environmental Activism (Room 118)

Host: Professor Jeff Hou (Department of Landscape Architecture, UW, Seattle)

14:00-15:30

Roundtable: Empowerment and Frustration of Social Movements in Taiwan

Discussion: Prof. Rwei-ren Wu (Academia Sinica), Prof. Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University), Prof. Jeff Hou (UW, Seattle), Prof. Po-fen Tai (Fu jen Catholic University), and etc. (Discussion in Chinese)

Moderator: Cheng-Yi Huang (President 2008, NATSA)

Location: Room 119

15:40-16:30

Check out (Main Lobby) and farewell * travel grant checks available