International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) Book Talk Series South Korean Popular Culture in the Global Context: Beyond the Fandom 19 October 2022 (Wed), 2 PM – 4 PM ABLT3, University of Central Lancashire Or, online 19 October 2022 This book aims to provide a venue for redefining popular culture and...
The Place of Exception Vietnamese Refugee Camps in the Taiwan Strait Film Screening and Q&A with Director, Chi-Hsiung Liu. Join us in the Manchester Everyman Cinema on the 22nd October for a film screening of "The Place of Exception: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in the Taiwan Strait" followed by...
NorITS Taiwan On-Air podcast: 'Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-fi with LGBTQ writer Chi Ta-wei' A new episode of Taiwan On-Air 空中直播台灣 has been released! In this episode, we have the pleasure to have Mr Chi Ta-wei, a renowned Taiwanese writer, talk about his acclaimed LGBTQ+ novel,...
PhD Scholarships International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) The International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is offering 3 partial PhD scholarships in research on Korea. We seek highly motivated individuals who have excellent academic grades at Masters’ level and who are committed...
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,...