North American Taiwan Studies Association

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The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit academic organization established in 1994. It is operated by overseas Taiwanese students, North American doctoral students, and recent graduates who are interested in Taiwan studies. [1] The NATSA annual conferences are the largest academic events on Taiwan Studies in North America. The NATSA conferences not only provide scholars and students of Taiwan Studies a regular forum to meet and exchange intellectual ideas, but also allow researchers on East Asia and beyond to receive dynamic feedback and broaden their academic horizons.

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Early history

When NATSA was founded, it was known as the North American Taiwan Studies Conference and was located on the web at www.natsc.org until August 2006 when it switched to its current address. [2]

Conferences

YearLocationConference Theme [3] President(s)
1994Yale UniversityInaugural North American Taiwan Studies Conference
1995Yale UniversityHistory and Nationalism Chia-lung Lin 林佳龍 [4]
1996Michigan State UniversityThe Politics of Ethnicity and IdentityJih-wen Lin 林繼文 [5]
1997University of California, BerkeleyMapping the Terrain of Taiwan StudiesChung-Hsien Huang 黃崇憲 [6]
1998University of Texas, AustinPutting Taiwan in Global PerspectiveMei-Lin Pan 潘美玲 [7]
1999University of Wisconsin, MadisonRe-Imagining Political Community: Taiwan Facing the New MillenniumWei-der Shu 許維德 [8]
2000Harvard UniversityTaiwan 2000: Envisioning a Pluralistic FutureTze-Luen Lin 林子倫 [9]
2001Washington University, SeattleSeeking Taiwanese Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Reflection and DialogueChien-Juh Gu 辜千祝 [10]
2002University of ChicagoPower, Knowledge Production, and Agency: Towards a Critical Taiwan StudiesHsiu-hua Shen 沈秀華 [11]
2003Rutgers UniversityChanges, Continuity and Contestations in the Taiwanese SocietyJeffrey Hou 侯志仁 [12]
2004University of Hawai'i, ManoaTaiwan Studies in Comparative PerspectivesJeffrey Hou 侯志仁
2005University of Colorado, BoulderDifference, Democracy, Justice: Toward an Inclusive Taiwanese SocietyChun-Chi Wang 王君琦 [13]
2006University of California, Santa CruzCrossing the Borders, Fostering the Future: Taiwan Studies in the IntersectionsFrank Cheng-Shan Liu 劉正山 [14]
2007University of Wisconsin, MadisonTaiwan in the Nexus of EmpiresHuey-Tyng Gau 高慧婷
2008Washington University, SeattleTranslating the Political, Re-visioning the Social: What's the Next Turn for Taiwan?Cheng-Yi Huang 黃丞儀 [15]
2009University of Texas, AustinLocating Taiwan: Space, Culture and SocietyHsun-Hui Tseng 曾薰慧 [16]
2010University of California, BerkeleyChina Effect: Securing Taiwan in an Age of Conflicts and CooperationYi-tze Lee 李宜澤 [17]
2011University of PittsburghThe Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global ContextHsin-Yang Wu 吳欣陽
2012Indiana University, BloomingtonTaiwan: Gateway, Node, Liminal SpaceChris Chih-Ming Liang 梁志鳴
2013University of California, Santa BarbaraTaiwan in TheoryLaura Jo-Han Wen 溫若含 [18]
2014University of Wisconsin, MadisonThe Zeitgeists of Taiwan: Looking Back, Moving Forward [19] Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang 楊孟軒 [20]
2015Harvard University, BostonMotions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-) Connecting Taiwan to the World [21] Feng-En Tu 涂豐恩
2016University of TorontoTaiwan Studies in Trans* Perspectives: Transdisciplinary, Transnational, and TransculturalChing-Fang Hsu 許菁芳
2017Stanford UniversityRE: Taiwan as Practice, Method, and TheoryChi-ting Peng 彭琪庭

Hsin-hung Yeh 葉信鴻

2018University of Texas, AustinBeyond an Island: Taiwan in Comparative PerspectiveShu-Wen Tang 湯舒雯
2019University of Washington, SeattleDestabilizing Empires from the Margin: Taiwan Studies in ReflectionEric Siu-kei Cheng 鄭肇祺
2020+1[ clarification needed ]University of California, Irvine (online)Keywording TaiwanTa-Yang Hsieh 謝大洋
2022George Washington University (D.C.)Taiwan Studies in ApplicationJhuCin Rita Jhang 張竹芩 [22]
2023University of California, IrvineResistance and Resilience: Repositioning TaiwanChee-Hann Wu 吳稚涵
2024CUNY John Jay College of Criminal JusticeTaiwan Studies Matters: Worlding the Contested FrontierYung-Ying Chang 張詠瑛

NATSA-initiated projects

NATSA Professional Development Webinar Series

The NATSA professional development webinars started in August, 2017. The objectives of the series are:

So far, topics of the NATSA professional developmental webinar series included:
DateTopicGuest speaker
2017/8/12Life after PhD— Navigating Assistant ProfessorshipChia-chen Yang (University of Memphis)

I-chun Catherine Chang (Macalester College)

2017/10/1Fieldnotes from Academic Job MarketsJohn Chung-en Liu (Occidental College)
2017/11/4Connecting Science to Taiwan: Learning, Organization, and ActionTing-chun Kuo (University of British Columbia)

Yen-yung Chang (Caltech)

2018/1/14Conferences: Participant Observation from an AnthropologistDerek Sheridan (Brandeis University)
2018/2/24Introduction of Instructional TechnologyElu Tu (Southern Connecticut State University)
2018/3/30Taiwanese Studies in Europe: Research, Academia, and Job Market Ming-yeh Rawnsley (SOAS) 
Adina Zemanek (Jagiellonian University)
2018/4/8Job Application and Experience in Asia-Pacific AcademiaHarry Wu (Hong Kong University)
2018/12/9Getting Familiar with Quantitative Research(er)Cheng-Tong Wang (Evaluation and Research Department of a national NGO) 
Chengshi Shiu (UCLA School of Nursing)

NATSA Podcast

NATSA Podcast

2019-2021 Season 1: Chats with Scholars

2021-2022 Season 2: 研究生轉運站

Taiwan Studies Syllabus Project

Taiwan Syllabus Project

Experts in Taiwan Studies crowd-sourcing project

Experts in Taiwan Studies

Taiwan Studies Workshop Fund

Taiwan Studies Fund

The Future of Taiwan Studies in a Post COVID world

Future of Taiwan Studies Post COVID

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  2. ↑ "North American Taiwan Studies". August 3, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-08-03.
  3. ↑ Dates, locations, and titles of NATSA's annual conferences found via mining of pages prior to https://web.archive.org/web/20060803202034/http://natsc.org/ and pages more recent than https://web.archive.org/web/20080417213543/http://www.na-tsa.org/new. Many of these can also be verified with web searches for the titles that pull up contemporaneous listserv discussions or calls for papers on other academic sites (for example, http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=153234).
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