Monday, November 14, 2016
10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Joukowsky Forum
Email: Caroline_Frank@brown.edu to RSVP
This symposium turns to Taiwan as a case for understanding the political, social, and cultural dynamics of the Transpacific as a historical space. For most of its modern history since 1600, Taiwan has been a transoceanic crossroads for people and commodities, and most importantly, it has been a proving ground for ideas—of political identity, of technological innovation, of social movements, and cultural hybridity. This event intends to generate a discussion built upon Taiwan’s deep-rooted historical engagements in both Eastern and Western colonial and imperial strategies and subjectivities to not only reconceptualize new Pacific histories but to assert a transpacific method, contained within the case of Taiwan.
10:00-12:30 Taiwan and the Pacific
Moderator: Evelyn Hu-DeHart (History and American Studies, Brown)
“Does the Pacific Include Taiwan: Others have Preceded Us”
Matt Matsuda, (History, Rutgers University)
"An Island and Five Empires: Taiwan and the Pacific World during the Pre-modern Period.”
Tonio Andrade, (History, Emory University)
Commentators: Ambassador Charles Freeman (Watson Institute); Robert Lee (American Studies, Brown)
1:45-4:00PM Global Indigeneity
Moderator: Caroline Frank (American Studies, Brown)
“Island Encounter: Taiwan and the America”
Iping Liang, (American Literature, National Taiwan Normal University)
“Returning to the Source: Transpacific Representations of Indigenity”
Yuan Chao Tung, (Anthropology, National Taiwan University)
Commentators: Emma Teng (History, MIT); Marielena Huambachano (Ethnic Studies, Brown)
Email: Caroline_Frank@brown.edu to RSVP