The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic organization established in 1994. It is operated by Taiwanese students, North American doctoral students, and recent graduates who are interested in Taiwan studies.Institutesiias.nl The NATSA annual conferences are the largest academic events on Taiwan studies in North America. The conferences provide scholars and Taiwan studies students a regular forum to meet and exchange intellectual ideas, and they also allow for researchers focusing on East Asia and beyond to receive dynamic feedback and broaden their academic horizons.
Early history When NATSA was founded, it was known as the North American Taiwan Studies Conference and was located on the web at www.natsc.org until August 2006 when it switched to its current address.
Conferences Year Location Conference Theme Dates, locations, and titles of NATSA's annual conferences found via mining of pages prior to https://web.archive.org/web/20060803202034/http://natsc.org/ and pages more recent than https://web.archive.org/web/20080417213543/http://www.na-tsa.org/new. Many of these can also be verified with web searches for the titles that pull up contemporaneous listserv discussions or calls for papers on other academic sites (for example, http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=153234).President(s) 1994 Yale University Inaugural North American Taiwan Studies Conference 1995 Yale University History and NationalismChia-lung Lin 林佳龍 1996 Michigan State University The Politics of Ethnicity and IdentityJih-wen Lin 林繼文 1997 University of California, Berkeley Mapping the Terrain of Taiwan StudiesChung-Hsien Huang 黃崇憲 1998 University of Texas, Austin Putting Taiwan in Global PerspectiveMei-Lin Pan 潘美玲 Faculty nctu.edu.tw 1999 University of Wisconsin, Madison Re-Imagining Political Community: Taiwan Facing the New MillenniumWei-der Shu 許維德 2000 Harvard University Taiwan 2000: Envisioning a Pluralistic FutureTze-Luen Lin 林子倫 2001 Washington University, Seattle Seeking Taiwanese Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Reflection and DialogueChien-Juh Gu 辜千祝 2002 University of Chicago Power, Knowledge Production, and Agency: Towards a Critical Taiwan StudiesHsiu-hua Shen 沈秀華 2003 Rutgers University Changes, Continuity and Contestations in the Taiwanese SocietyJeffrey Hou 侯志仁 2004 University of Hawai'i, Manoa Taiwan Studies in Comparative PerspectivesJeffrey Hou 侯志仁 2005 University of Colorado, Boulder Difference, Democracy, Justice: Toward an Inclusive Taiwanese SocietyChun-Chi Wang 王君琦 2006 University of California, Santa Cruz Crossing the Borders, Fostering the Future: Taiwan Studies in the IntersectionsFrank Cheng-Shan Liu 劉正山 2007 University of Wisconsin, Madison Taiwan in the Nexus of EmpiresHuey-Tyng Gau 高慧婷 2008 Washington University, Seattle Translating the Political, Re-visioning the Social: What's the Next Turn for Taiwan?Cheng-Yi Huang 黃丞儀 2009 University of Texas, Austin Locating Taiwan: Space, Culture and SocietyHsun-Hui Tseng 曾薰慧 2010 University of California, Berkeley China Effect: Securing Taiwan in an Age of Conflicts and CooperationYi-tze Lee 李宜澤 2011 University of Pittsburgh The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global ContextHsin-Yang Wu 吳欣陽 2012 Indiana University, Bloomington Taiwan: Gateway, Node, Liminal SpaceChris Chih-Ming Liang 梁志鳴 2013 University of California, Santa Barbara Taiwan in TheoryLaura Jo-Han Wen 溫若含 2014 University of Wisconsin, Madison The Zeitgeists of Taiwan: Looking Back, Moving Forward Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang 楊孟軒 2015 Harvard University, Boston Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-) Connecting Taiwan to the World Feng-En Tu 涂豐恩2016University of TorontoTaiwan Studies in Trans* Perspectives: Transdisciplinary, Transnational, and TransculturalChing-Fang Hsu 許菁芳2017Stanford UniversityRE: Taiwan as Practice, Method, and TheoryChi-ting Peng 彭琪庭
Hsin-hung Yeh 葉信鴻2018University of Texas, AustinBeyond an Island: Taiwan in Comparative PerspectiveShu-Wen Tang 湯舒雯2019University of Washington, SeattleDestabilizing Empires from the Margin: Taiwan Studies in ReflectionEric Siu-kei Cheng 鄭肇祺2020+1(2020 conference was postponed due to COVID)University of California, Irvine (online) Keywording Taiwan Ta-Yang Hsieh 謝大洋2022George Washington University (D.C.)Taiwan Studies in Application JhuCin Rita Jhang 張竹芩 2023University of California, Irvine Resistance and Resilience: Repositioning Taiwan Chee-Hann Wu 吳稚涵2024CUNY John Jay College of Criminal JusticeTaiwan Studies Matters: Worlding the Contested FrontierYung-Ying Chang 張詠瑛2025Stanford UniversityToward and Otherwise in Taiwan and BeyondYi-Ting Chung 鍾宜庭2026Indiana University BloomingtonResonance/Dissonance — Taiwan Studies, Knowledge Production, and Power AsymmetryI-lin Liu 劉以霖
NATSA-initiated projects
NATSA Professional Development Webinar Series The NATSA professional development webinars started in August, 2017. The objectives of the series are:
Enhance members’ professional skills Strengthen professional networks of members in the academia and the industry Promote NATSA to non-members
+So far, topics of the NATSA professional developmental webinar series included:DateTopicGuest speaker2017/8/12Life after PhD— Navigating Assistant Professorship Chia-chen Yang (University of Memphis)
I-chun Catherine Chang (Macalester College)2017/10/1Fieldnotes from Academic Job Markets John Chung-en Liu (Occidental College)2017/11/4Connecting Science to Taiwan: Learning, Organization, and ActionTing-chun Kuo (University of British Columbia)
Yen-yung Chang (Caltech)2018/1/14Conferences: Participant Observation from an Anthropologist Derek Sheridan (Brandeis University)2018/2/24Introduction of Instructional Technology Elu Tu (Southern Connecticut State University)2018/3/30Taiwanese Studies in Europe: Research, Academia, and Job Market Ming-yeh Rawnsley (SOAS)
Adina Zemanek (Jagiellonian University)2018/4/8Job Application and Experience in Asia-Pacific Academia Harry Wu (Hong Kong University)2018/12/9Getting Familiar with Quantitative Research(er) Cheng-Tong Wang (Evaluation and Research Department of a national NGO) Chengshi Shiu (UCLA School of Nursing)
NATSA Podcast
NATSA Podcast
2019-2021 Season 1: Chats with Scholars
2021-2022 Season 2: 研究生轉運站
Taiwan Studies Syllabus Project Taiwan Syllabus Project
Experts in Taiwan Studies crowd-sourcing project Experts in Taiwan Studies
Taiwan Studies Workshop Fund Taiwan Studies Fund
The Future of Taiwan Studies in a Post COVID world Future of Taiwan Studies Post COVID
Ep 1. COVID-19 and Governance Social and Global Solidarity Ep 2. How does the Hong Kong Security Law and "Decoupling from China" Impact Taiwan Ep 3. The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Taiwan's External Relations: Views from Japan Ep 4. From Taiwanese-language Films to the Future of Taiwan Cinema
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