Date:

Saturday 26 February 2005

Venue:

Room S50, St Clements Building, London School of Economics (LSE)

Organiser:

Professor Stephan Feuchtwang (Chair, London Taiwan Seminar)

Sponsors:

Taipei Educational and Cultural Centre, UK
Chinese Women's Association in the UK

9:30am-10:00am

Registration

10:00am-10:10am

Welcoming Remarks and Introduction
Presenter: Prof Stephan Feuchtwang (Anthropology, LSE)

10:10am-11:00am

Session I: Recalling Terror: Taiwan's 'White Terror' and Germany's 'Third Reich'
Presenter: Stephan Feuchtwang (Anthropology, LSE)
Discussant: Paul-François Tremlett (Study of Religions, SOAS)

11:00am-11:30am

COFFEE

11:30am-12:20pm

Session II: Border-Crossing from Marginal Position in Postcolonial Reminiscence Theatre: Taiwan and the United Kingdom
Presenter: Wan-Jung Wang (Theatre and Drama, Royal Holloway)
Discussant: Bi-Yu Chang (Asia Research Centre, LSE)

12:20pm-1:10pm

Session III: The Echo of Personal Documents in Taiwanese Historiography on the Japanese Colonial Period
Presenter: Ann Heylen (Literature, Ruhr University)
Discussant: Charles Stafford (Anthropology, LSE)

1:10pm-2:10pm

LUNCH

2:10pm-3:00pm

Session IV: Play with Politics: Stamp Collecting in Taiwan and China, 1955-1966
Presenter: Yu-Chin Huang (Art and Archaeology, SOAS)
Discussant: Edward Vickers (Education, Institute of Education)

3:00pm-3:50pm

Session V: Double Lives and Extra Wives: Marital Infidelity in Greater China
Presenter: Carol Rennie (Literature, Edinburgh)
Discussant: TBA

3:50pm-4:20pm

TEA

4:20pm-5:10pm

Session VI: We are all Taiwanese: Inscribing Boundaries in the Production of Knowledge in Taiwan
Presenter: Mark Harrison (Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster)
Discussant: Paul-François Tremlett (Study of Religion, SOAS)

5:10pm-5:25pm

Concluding Remarks: Absorbing Boundaries
Presenter: Stuart Thompson (Asian Anthropology, SOAS)

5:25pm--

Concluding Discussion
Presenter: Stuart Thompson (Asian Anthropology, SOAS)