2024 JOINT EAST ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE INFORMATION DATE AND TIME: 26 June 2024 - 28 June 2024 - 9.00am - 5.30pm BST LOCATION: Harrington Social Space at University of Central Lancashire Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HE UK For more information and proposal submissions please follow the link 2024 Joint East Asian Studies Conference - UCLan ...
[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...
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,...