北美台灣研究學會徵稿：2015年會@哈佛！ - 留學

北美台灣研究學會2015年會正在徵稿中～
歡迎各人文社會科學領域的學者及研究生投稿！

研討會時間：2015年六月12-13日
研討會地點：哈佛大學
研討會主題：
Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-)Connecting Taiwan to the World

投稿摘要或論壇提案截止日：2014年12月31日
有關研討會的次主題與提交準則，請參見以下網址：
http://www.na-tsa.org/new/2015/main-theme
http://www.na-tsa.org/new/2015/submission-rules

CALL FOR PAPERS!

The NATSA 2015 conference, titled “Motions and the Motionless:
(Dis/Re-)Connecting Taiwan to the World,” endeavours to advance global
Taiwan studies by setting Taiwan in motion, both in theory and in practice.
To capture something of the dynamics and energies infused in Taiwanese
society, this conference draws on an expansive concept of motion through
which we hope to attract papers that explore and exploit the term’s
potentials and complexities. Over the past few years, those concerned with
Taiwan have witnessed it in the midst of a series of fervent social upheavals
of various kinds. These are both themselves social movements as well as
responses and reactions to a set of other larger streams of economic,
political, social, and cultural motions. As a set of islands historically
populated by waves of immigrants and impositions of power, however, Taiwan
has long been caught up in and composed of motion. The rich connotations of
the main theme of “motions” will serve as a catalyst propelling us to place
Taiwan in dialogue with the diverse geographical connections and historical
contexts around the island and across the globe.

This conference invites scholarly works informed by the notion of
motion--movement, flows, circulation, acceleration, stoppage, repetition,
mobility, among others. Participants are encouraged to respond to current
theoretical and methodological debates in their own humanities and social
science disciplines that situate Taiwan within various trajectories and
networks of motion and movement. Such papers might seek to understand motion
located, embedded, or moving through a variety of different particular
locales, at a variety of different scales, and from the perspective of a
variety of different social and cultural arenas. Moreover, inquiries into “
motions” suggest a methodological push to understand the links between the
different locales (including those beyond Taiwan), scales, and cultural
arenas where social change and interactions take place. For instance, how
have demographic changes in Taiwan, as manifested in new dating, mate-making,
and reproduction patterns, relate to Taiwan’s changing socioeconomic status?
How do transnational flows of migration, trade, and cross-border investment
affect the circulation of energy and material objects in and out of Taiwan?
How do policies transfer and circulate among governments and countries,
connecting Taiwan to different epistemological flows and techniques of
governing? To what extent can various Taiwanese stakeholders influence
political, social and economic discourses both domestically and
internationally? How might Taiwan’s ties with the Pacific and South East
Asia reconfigure our understanding of the island’s cultural identity and
natural habitat? What different sorts of motions might emerge from a focus on
Taiwan and Taiwanese societies concerning water rather than land?

This conference will serve as a platform to explore all the complex and
interwoven dimensions embedded in the concept of motions and the motionless.
We expect our participants to compare widely and diversely beyond the
territorial boundaries defined by a putative focus on Taiwan per se. Topics
dealing with Taiwan in relation to, or in comparison with, other societies
are especially welcomed. We call for papers from across disciplinary
boundaries in the humanities and social sciences. By holding the conference
in Boston, a historically famed harbour of North America, we expect this
annual meeting at Harvard University to serve as an intellectual hub, through
which an exchange of ideas can be accelerated, scholarly and social
interventions can be re-imagined, and broader understandings of Taiwan can,
once again, be set in motion.

本次會議將邀請北美與東亞多位重量級學者擔任 featured speaker 以及論文
評論人。今年，因地利之便，多位來自哈佛與東岸名校的學者也將參與會議。
北美台灣研究學會也延續與中央研究院社會所及台灣史研究所的合作，持續深
化台灣學界與北美學界的關係。我們非常期待能有更多新秀學者加入本次會議！

更多邀請學者名單將陸續公布，請追蹤我們的網站：http://www.na-tsa.org/new/
如果有問題，歡迎寫信洽詢會議秘書：[email protected]


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