North American Taiwan Studies Association

The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic organization established in 1994. It is operated by overseas Taiwanese students, North American doctoral students, and recent graduates who are interested in Taiwan studies.[1] The NATSA annual conferences are the largest academic events on Taiwan Studies in North America. The NATSA conferences not only provide scholars and students of Taiwan Studies a regular forum to meet and exchange intellectual ideas, but also allow researchers on East Asia and beyond to receive dynamic feedback and broaden their academic horizons.

Early history

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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.[2]

Conferences

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Year Location Conference Theme [3] President(s)
1994 Yale University Inaugural North American Taiwan Studies Conference
1995 Yale University History and Nationalism Chia-lung Lin 林佳龍[4]
1996 Michigan State University The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity Jih-wen Lin 林繼文 [5]
1997 University of California, Berkeley Mapping the Terrain of Taiwan Studies Chung-Hsien Huang 黃崇憲 [6]
1998 University of Texas, Austin Putting Taiwan in Global Perspective Mei-Lin Pan 潘美玲 [7]
1999 University of Wisconsin, Madison Re-Imagining Political Community: Taiwan Facing the New Millennium Wei-der Shu 許維德 [8]
2000 Harvard University Taiwan 2000: Envisioning a Pluralistic Future Tze-Luen Lin 林子倫 [9]
2001 Washington University, Seattle Seeking Taiwanese Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Reflection and Dialogue Chien-Juh Gu 辜千祝 [10]
2002 University of Chicago Power, Knowledge Production, and Agency: Towards a Critical Taiwan Studies Hsiu-hua Shen 沈秀華 [11]
2003 Rutgers University Changes, Continuity and Contestations in the Taiwanese Society Jeffrey Hou 侯志仁 [12]
2004 University of Hawai'i, Manoa Taiwan Studies in Comparative Perspectives Jeffrey Hou 侯志仁
2005 University of Colorado, Boulder Difference, Democracy, Justice: Toward an Inclusive Taiwanese Society Chun-Chi Wang 王君琦 [13]
2006 University of California, Santa Cruz Crossing the Borders, Fostering the Future: Taiwan Studies in the Intersections Frank Cheng-Shan Liu 劉正山 [14]
2007 University of Wisconsin, Madison Taiwan in the Nexus of Empires Huey-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 [15]
2009 University of Texas, Austin Locating Taiwan: Space, Culture and Society Hsun-Hui Tseng 曾薰慧 [16]
2010 University of California, Berkeley China Effect: Securing Taiwan in an Age of Conflicts and Cooperation Yi-tze Lee 李宜澤 [17]
2011 University of Pittsburgh The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global Context Hsin-Yang Wu 吳欣陽
2012 Indiana University, Bloomington Taiwan: Gateway, Node, Liminal Space Chris Chih-Ming Liang 梁志鳴
2013 University of California, Santa Barbara Taiwan in Theory Laura Jo-Han Wen 溫若含 [18]
2014 University of Wisconsin, Madison The Zeitgeists of Taiwan: Looking Back, Moving Forward [19] Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang 楊孟軒 [20]
2015 Harvard University, Boston Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-) Connecting Taiwan to the World [21] Feng-En Tu 涂豐恩
2016 University of Toronto Taiwan Studies in Trans* Perspectives: Transdisciplinary, Transnational, and Transcultural Ching-Fang Hsu 許菁芳
2017 Stanford University RE: Taiwan as Practice, Method, and Theory Chi-ting Peng 彭琪庭

Hsin-hung Yeh 葉信鴻

2018 University of Texas, Austin Beyond an Island: Taiwan in Comparative Perspective Shu-Wen Tang 湯舒雯
2019 University of Washington, Seattle Destabilizing Empires from the Margin: Taiwan Studies in Reflection Eric Siu-kei Cheng 鄭肇祺
2020+1[clarification needed] University of California, Irvine (online) Keywording Taiwan Ta-Yang Hsieh 謝大洋
2022 George Washington University (D.C.) Taiwan Studies in Application JhuCin Rita Jhang 張竹芩 [22]
2023 University of California, Irvine Resistance and Resilience: Repositioning Taiwan Chee-Hann Wu 吳稚涵
2024 CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice Taiwan Studies Matters: Worlding the Contested Frontier Yung-Ying Chang 張詠瑛

NATSA-initiated projects

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NATSA Professional Development Webinar Series

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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:
Date Topic Guest speaker
2017/8/12 Life after PhD— Navigating Assistant Professorship Chia-chen Yang (University of Memphis)

I-chun Catherine Chang (Macalester College)

2017/10/1 Fieldnotes from Academic Job Markets John Chung-en Liu (Occidental College)
2017/11/4 Connecting Science to Taiwan: Learning, Organization, and Action Ting-chun Kuo (University of British Columbia)

Yen-yung Chang (Caltech)

2018/1/14 Conferences: Participant Observation from an Anthropologist Derek Sheridan (Brandeis University)
2018/2/24 Introduction of Instructional Technology Elu Tu (Southern Connecticut State University)
2018/3/30 Taiwanese Studies in Europe: Research, Academia, and Job Market Ming-yeh Rawnsley (SOAS) 
Adina Zemanek (Jagiellonian University)
2018/4/8 Job Application and Experience in Asia-Pacific Academia Harry Wu (Hong Kong University)
2018/12/9 Getting Familiar with Quantitative Research(er) Cheng-Tong Wang (Evaluation and Research Department of a national NGO) 
Chengshi Shiu (UCLA School of Nursing)

NATSA Podcast

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NATSA Podcast

2019-2021 Season 1: Chats with Scholars

2021-2022 Season 2: 研究生轉運站

Taiwan Studies Syllabus Project

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Taiwan Syllabus Project

Experts in Taiwan Studies crowd-sourcing project

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Experts in Taiwan Studies

Taiwan Studies Workshop Fund

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Taiwan Studies Fund

The Future of Taiwan Studies in a Post COVID world

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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

References

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  1. ^ Institutes iias.nl [dead link]
  2. ^ "North American Taiwan Studies". August 3, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-08-03.
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ "Publications". ww16.citylove.org.tw. [dead link]
  5. ^ "Jih-wen Lin's Homepage". idv.sinica.edu.tw.
  6. ^ "東海大學社會學系 The Department of Sociology, Tunghai University".
  7. ^ Faculty nctu.edu.tw [dead link]
  8. ^ "國立交通大學 客家文化學院 人文社會學系 許維德教授". hs.nctu.edu.tw. Archived from the original on 2014-10-29.
  9. ^ "林子倫 « 國立臺灣大學政治學系". politics.ntu.edu.tw.
  10. ^ "Chien-Juh Gu | Sociology | Western Michigan University". www.wmich.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-04-19.
  11. ^ "沈秀華的個人資料 - 國立清華大學社會學研究所". www.soc.nthu.edu.tw. Archived from the original on 2013-03-18.
  12. ^ "jeff hou @ u.washington". faculty.washington.edu.
  13. ^ "NDHU - National Dong Hwa University". www.dengl.ndhu.edu.tw.
  14. ^ 劉正山 (2007). "Welcome to Frank Liu's Homepage". 政治科學季評. 無 (13). .nsysu.edu.tw. doi:10.6570/PSQBR.2007.13.4. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  15. ^ "Cheng-Yi Huang 黃丞儀". idv.sinica.edu.tw.
  16. ^ "Weatherhead East Asian Institute".
  17. ^ "NDHU - National Dong Hwa University". www.erc.ndhu.edu.tw.
  18. ^ "Asian Studies". Randolph-Macon College. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  19. ^ "East Asia Program | Einaudi Center". einaudi.cornell.edu. 24 August 2023.
  20. ^ "UT College of Liberal Arts". liberalarts.utexas.edu.
  21. ^ "2015 Main theme | North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA)". www.na-tsa.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-13.
  22. ^ "Home". ritajhang.org.
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