Taiwan On-Air 空中直播台灣 Podcast Film Chat with Maja Korbecka - "Queer and Sci-fi and the Family" A new episode of Taiwan On-Air 空中直播台灣 has been released! For this installment, we had the pleasure of hosting Maja Korbecka, a PhD candidate at Freie Universitat Berlin. We chatted about five...
[CALL FOR CHAPTERS] Refugees in East Asia: Taiwan and Japan in comparison According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), since 2011 there has been a steep increase of refugees around the world due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violation or events seriously disturbing...
[CALL FOR CHAPTERS] Taiwan as Ocean As the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive and welcoming. - Epeli Hua‘ofa, ‘The Ocean in Us’ About the Call: Literary critic, Chiu-Keui-fen, identifies...
Taiwan On-Air 空中直播台灣 Podcast Book chat with Teri Silvio - "Puppets, Gods and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan." A new episode of Taiwan on Air is now available on Spotify and Anchor.fm. Could you please advertise it? I already sent this to be advertised...
Making Heritage with Bark Cloth Workshop 22 June 2022 As part of the A Level conference on 22nd June, How ‘Humanities Can Save the World’, the Centre of Austronesian Studies will be holding a workshop to bring textile production back to Preston! Join our workshop to learn how to...
[CALL FOR CHAPTERS] Seeking the Kokota'ay: An Ethnography of the Elusive Little Men of Taiwan The oral traditions of several of Taiwan’s indigenous groups include legends that tell of a population of short-statured humans that predate their ancestors’ arrival on the island, who taught the Austronesian-language speakers agriculture,...
NorITS Taiwan On-Air podcast: 'Oceanic Writing with Ecowriter Liao Hung-chi' A new episode of Taiwan On-Air 空中直播台灣 has been released! In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the ecowriter, Liao Hung-chi about his oceanic and cetacean writings. The interview covers the writer's...
NorITS Taiwan On-Air podcast: 'Whale Island with Director Huan Chia-chun' A new episode of Taiwan On-Air 空中直播台灣 has been released! In this episode, our host, Ti-han Chang, conducted an interview chat with the film director, Huang Chia-chu about his making of the eco-film, Whale Island (2018). The...
2022 Taiwan Festival - Strand II The Northern Institute for Taiwan Studies (NorITS) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has launched the second Strand in our 2022 Taiwan Festival. The NorITS 2022 Taiwan Festival - Strand II is free to attend and open to all. Join...
NorITS Taiwan On-Air podcast: 'Woman Migrant in Southern China and Taiwan' A new episode of Taiwan On-Air 空中直播台灣 has been released! In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Beatrice Zani, author of the book Women Migrant in Southern China and Taiwan. Mobilities, Digital Economies and...