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 Remapping Taiwan: Histories and Cultures in the Context of GlobalizationThe Fifth Annual Conference on the History and Cultures of Taiwan at the University of California, Los Angeles, October 13-15, 2000 The "Remapping Taiwan" conference aims to promote research on Taiwan's history and culture in relation to the political, economic, and cultural changes brought about by globalization. How do global processes affect Taiwan's culture in terms of its production and circulation? How do global processes release or repress multiple, diverse, and alternative memories and cultures? What voices and identities emerge or become suppressed? What cultural forms become sanctioned or marginalized? How do various cultural forms confront and negotiate the sea change of globalization in a volatile political environment of emergent democracy and diplomatic isolation? Exploring an exciting array of dimensions of Taiwan culture and society, such as religion, film, music, built environment, ethnography, and literature, and dealing with such timely issues as decolonization, identity, ethnicity, sexuality, and consumption in their transnational mediations, the conference offers new and critical insights on contemporary Taiwan society. Cross-generational scholars and students of Taiwan will be gathered at UCLA for three days of in-depth dialogues and exchanges. The general audience is also welcome. The conference is free and open to the public. Supported by funds from: Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange; Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles; Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, UCLA Conference Schedule October 13, Friday 8:30 am - 9:45 am Registration 9:45 am - 10:00 am Opening Remarks 10:00 am - 11:50 am Panel I. Cultural Consumption in the Global Era Ping-hui Liao (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan) Joseph Wicentowski (Harvard University) Narrating the Native: Mapping the Tea Art Houses of Taipei Ming-chun Ku (New School for Social Research) Yu-fen Ko (Shih-hsin University, Taiwan) Hello Kitty and Identity Politics in Taiwan Moderator: Douglas Kellner (University of California, Los Angeles) 11:50 am - 1:10 pm Lunch Break 1:10 pm - 2:40 pm Panel II. Public Space in a Globalized City (Kerckhoff Hall, State Room) Ruei-suei Sun (University of California, Los Angeles) Joseph Allen (University of Minnesota) Traces of Ethnic Tension in the Taipei Public Space: Taipei New Park Kelly Chien-hui Kuo (University of Nottingham, UK) An-other Nihilism: An Euphoria of Transcultural Hybridity Moderator: Daphne Lei (Stanford University) 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Break 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Panel III. Memory, Decolonization, & Everyday Life Marshall Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Superior) Fractals of Domination: Neoliberal Globalization of Taiwan Memories Gang Xu (Bard College) Grace Yueh-Ying Chen (University of Georgia) Social Change and Collective Memory: Taiwan's Two Pasts Moderator: Yue Meng (University of California, Irvine) 4:30 pm - 4:40 pm Break 4:40 pm - 5:50 pm Panel IV. Religion, Ethnicity, & Modernity Murray Rubinstein (Baruch College, City University of New York) Charting Responses to Modernity in Taiwan's Religious Communities Kun-hui Ku (King’s College, Cambridge) Christianity from the Prism of the Paiwan Moderator: David Schaberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
October 14, Saturday 9:00 am - 10:30 am Panel V. Marking the Space of Cultural Hybridity in Taiwan’s Cinema Yomi Braester (University of Washington) Shards of Memory: "Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?" and the Demolished Spaces of Taiwan Urban Cinema [Braester, "The Dream of Flying: Taipei and Beijing Cinematic Poetics of Demolition." Paper published in Tamkang Review (Summer 2000)] Yingjin Zhang (Indiana University) Cinematic Remapping of Taipei: Cultural Hybridization, Heterotopias, and Postmodernity Moderator: Nick Browne (University of California, Los Angeles) 10:30 am- 10:40 am Break 10:40 am - 12:10 pm Panel VI. Power, Politics, & Historical Memory Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (University of Texas, Austin) Competing Legitimacy Principles: On Mainstream Literary Production in Contemporary Taiwan Letty Chen (Washington University) History under Siege: Anxiety of Global Culturation Ming-Bao Yue (University of Hawaii, Manoa) "There's No Place Like Home": The Trans/National Making of Chinese Subjects through Taiwan Films of the 1960s and 1970s Moderator: Yenna Wu (University of California, Riverside) 12:10 pm - 1:10 pm Lunch Break 1:10 pm - 3:00 pm Panel VII. The Play of Identity and Performance (Faculty Center, Sequoia Room) Yi-Chun Tricia Lin (Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York) Snaps of a Childhood Revisited: Music and Taiwanese Identity Chun-bin Chen (University of Chicago) Alice Chu (University of Texas, Austin) Andrew Morris (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) Ninja Catchers & Chivalrous Eagles: Taiwan Baseball & a Globalized Taiwan Identity Moderator: Nancy Guy (University of California, San Diego) 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm Break 3:20 pm - 4:30 pm Panel VIII. Spaces of Transnationality John E. Wills (University of Southern California) More Luzon Than Hainan: Taiwan before Qing Rule Pei-chia Lan (University of California, Berkeley) Moderator: Ted Huters (University of California, Los Angeles) 4:30 pm - 4:40 pm Break 4:40 pm - 6:10 pm Panel IX. The Geography of Sexual Identity Liang-ya Liou (National Taiwan University) Antonia Chao (Tunghai University, Taiwan) Banjia/Moving House: A Materialist Analysis of Taiwan¹s Lesbian Identity Formation from the 1950s to the 1970s Ta-wei Chi (University of California, Los Angeles) Castro Street in Taiwan: Imagining Queer Communities on the Internet Moderator: Mirana May Szeto (University of California, Los Angeles) October 15, Sunday 9:00 am - 10:50 am Panel X. Rooting and Globalism (Faculty Center, Sequoia Room) Hsin-yi Lu (University of Washington, Seattle) Crafting Locality in the Global Village: Local Cultural Workers in a Taiwanese Region Scott Wilson (Stanford University) The Invisible Ones: The Production & Flow of Cultural Meaning Among the Hakka of Taipei Jeffrey Hou (University of California, Berkeley) Cultural Production of Environmental Activism: Two Cases in Southern Taiwan Allen Chun (Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica) The Great Illusion: The Long History of Multiculturalism in an Era of Invented Indigenization Moderator: Mayfair Yang (University of California, Santa Barbara / Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) 10:30 am - 10:50 am Break 10:50 am - 12:40 pm Panel XI. Fighting Genders Nicholas A. Kaldis (University of Minnesota) Monogamorphous Desires, Faltering Forms: Culture Content and Style in Chen Kuo-fu’s "Zhenghun Qishi" Yi-ling Chen (Rutgers University) Gender Roles or Gender Relations: Reexamining Taiwan's Housing Studies Anru Lee (California State University, Sacramento) Women of the Sisters’ Hall: Gender and the Making of Personhood in Taiwan's Yiguan dao (The Unity Way) Moderator: Letty Chen (Washington University)
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