Encina Hall Lobby (1F) | Available to browse throughout the conference We are pleased to present a carefully curated book display sponsored by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in partnership with TaiwaneseAmerican.org. The exhibition showcases the vibrant world of Taiwan literature and Studies through a diverse collection that includes the National Museum of Taiwan Literature's latest publications spanning poetry, fiction, film, and music, alongside internationally acclaimed Taiwanese literature in translation and award-winning Taiwanese American literary voices. In alignment with this year's conference themes and panels, the exhibition presents collections on Indigenous and environmental literature, Southeast Asian migrant worker literature, studies on queer movements and care work, histories of Taiwan's democratic and technological innovation, and insights into contemporary diplomacy and geopolitics. Visitors will also discover cutting-edge research monographs by our conference participants and field-defining scholars who engaged in Taiwan Studies. This exhibition serves both established researchers and those newly interested in Taiwan's rich literary and cultural landscape.

Three Decades of Taiwan Studies BCC Main Hall (1F) | Monday, June 30, 17:00 - 18:30 The historical place of Taiwan Studies has been extremely contested and is constantly evolving. During the Cold War era, Taiwan was seen as an alternative way to access traditional Chinese culture when continental China was not open to foreign research–a claim which was often bolstered by the Kuomingtang’s taking on the mantle of “preserver of Traditional Chinese Culture" and calling Taiwan "Free China." However, as time has marched forward, Taiwan Studies has continued to bloom and establish space for itself outside of the lens of Sinophone studies exclusively. As more and more universities recognize the need to distinguish Taiwan Studies from China Studies, there are many factors that impact the establishment of these programs. This panel aims to bring together directors and faculty of Taiwan Studies programs nationwide to discuss the current climate for Taiwan Studies, as well as create community and share resources. Speakers Howard Chiang, UCSB Ruo-Fan Liu, Stanford University Richard J. Haddock, the George Washington University Ellen Chang, the University of Washington

Otherwise Relations between Southeast Asia and Taiwan BCC Main Hall (1F) | Tuesday, July 1, 9:00 - 10:30 The historical and ongoing entanglement between Taiwan and Southeast Asia invites us to think from a place of relation, rather than separation or comparison. Grounded in this context, this event creates space for diverse perspectives and emphasizes Taiwan's interconnectedness with Southeast Asia. From various forms of migration to labor, gender, race and ethnicity, refugee rights, and Indigenous solidarity, this gathering brings together voices from multiple disciplines and community organizing to engage with these layered experiences and open up new ways of imagining shared futures across the regions. A historical lens—tracing ties such as Taiwanese migration to the Nanyang during the Japanese colonial period—further deepens the conversation. While engaging with the topics above, we invite everyone to join the conversation, to make space for decolonial and liberatory possibilities, and to position Taiwan otherwise. Speakers Shu-min Chung, Academia Sinica Phung. N. Su, UCSB Yi-Chia Yu, Taiwan Association for Human Rights Yi-Yu Lai, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Contesting Settler Colonialism William J. Perry Conference Room (2F) | Tuesday, July 1, 11:00 - 12:15 Indigenous perspectives, since the very beginning of Taiwan's integration into modern statehood, have consistently questioned both the role of the state and the settler colonial systems brought to the islands. This unruly voice has never ceased to propose challenges, urging the Taiwanese society to confront its historical and ongoing injustices, ultimately leading to a collective endeavour that recognize Indigenous cosmologies, environmental knowledge, artistic creativity, and pursuit of community-building. This panel explores the inherent dissonances in the knowledge we have taken for granted in understanding Taiwan, examining the contested nature of settler colonialism and Indigenous agency through how Indigenous and non-Indigenous creators, activists, knowledge makers confront and negotiate with settler colonialism, its epistemic limitations, and the material inequalities it has created. Speakers Yu Liang/Levee Palrai, Cornell University Savungaz Valincinan, Taiwan Indigenous Youth Public Participation Association Salone Ishahavut, National Central University Yi Chien Ho, University of Victoria

Stanford East Asia Library Tour East Asia Library | Tuesday, July 1, 12:50 - 13:20 Stanford's East Asia Library holds an extensive collection of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language materials, with over 780,000 print volumes. This tour will focus on collections related to Taiwan. The tour will take place on Tuesday, July 1st, during the lunch period from 12:50 pm-1:20 pm. We will meet at Encina Hall Front Lawn at 12:40 pm and walk over to the EAL library together. Tour Leader Regan Murphy Kao, Stanford East Asia Library

More-Than-Hooman Listening William J. Perry Conference Room (2F) | Tuesday, July 1, 13:30-15:00 Within academia, our bodily senses and emotions have often been disregarded in the pursuit of objective knowledge building. However, the recent affective turn in social studies and the humanities has disrupted this thinking, resisting binaries of thought and feelings, and embracing the view that our feelings carry social meaning, significance, and knowledge. In addition to this affective turn, Indigenous scholars, sovereignties, and communities have always theorized how our felt senses are intertwined through land-based epistemology and relations through felt theory and felt knowledge. In this workshop, we will engage all participants in an art-based activity to listen and engage in our surroundings with an attentiveness to more-than-human perspectives. In Sound Studies, affect has played a large role in academic discussions and encouraged a shift in perception from visual-centric to audio and listening practices. While we will create art collectively in the same space, this workshop emphasizes your own reflexivity, and participants will engage in topics and lived experiences of their own choosing. Workshop Facilitators Yang Hsun Hou, University of Washington Yu-Hsuan Liao, Duke University

Conversation with Activists and Organizers: Building Cross-Movement Solidarity William J. Perry Conference Room (2F) | Tuesday, July 1, 15:30-16:50 Within the U.S. context, Taiwan Studies is rooted in a promise of real-world transformation. In this spirit, many scholars in Taiwan studies– including but not limited to past and present NATSA staff– have straddled the worlds of knowledge and praxis. We invite organizers from Taiwan and the Bay Area to reflect on Taiwan Studies to activism and social change within and beyond Taiwan. While activism and praxis take many forms and shapes, this event creates space to collaboratively explore the possibilities and limitations of cross-movement solidarity, and to find strength and grounding in collectives and communities. This event bridges lived experiences, community-based organizing, collaborative knowledge making together through connecting struggles, while working against homogeneity. Speakers Ah-lîng, Taiwanese American organizer Yichia Yu, Taiwan Association for Human Rights Danubak Matalaq, Taiwan Indigenous Teachers Association Aurora Chang, New Bloom

Otherwise Literature: Against the Mainstream BCC Main Hall (1F) | Tuesday, July 1, 18:00-20:00 this session will be recorded In collaboration with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (國立臺灣文學館), we are currently planning a literary dialogue centered on resisting the mainstream perspective. The event will explore Taiwanese Indigenous literature, White Terror literature, Taiwanese American literature, and environmental literature, examining how marginalized communities navigate their identities and limited platforms. The goal is to understand how literature and storytelling, as empathetic forms of expression, can help bridge these gaps. Through writing and translation, how do we create these bridges? How can the power of language move people, and how might we advocate for the stories we want to be heard and the concepts we want to be understood? Speakers Lya Shaffer, Environmental Justice Advocate and Translator of《流氓王信福》(No Justice for Hooligans) by 張娟芬 (Chuan-fen Chang) Shawna Yang Ryan, Author of Green Island and Water Ghosts Yungta Chien, Journalist and Author of《移工築起的地下社會－跨國勞動在臺灣》(Underground Lives: The Untold Stories of Migrant Workers in Taiwan) Nikal Kabala'an Margaret Yun-Pu Tu, Recipient of the Taiwan Indigenous Literature Award for〈擁抱〉,〈Nga'ay ho我是舞賽，那個直播主！〉, and〈珈琲〉

AI, Misinformation, and Global Security: Navigating Innovation, Geopolitics, and Economic Resilience William J. Perry Conference Room (2F) | Wednesday, July 2, 9:00-10:30 This event explores the intricate relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and misinformation, focusing on how AI contributes to creating and disseminating false information. In addition, it examines the broader implications of AI in the context of industries and their critical roles in the global landscape. While Taiwan has seen significant advancements in hardware development, the discussion will address the country's potential challenges in AI software innovation. Speakers will be encouraged to delve into topics such as the interplay between technology and geopolitics, the economic and industrial supply chains within the framework of democratic resilience, and the importance of securing supply chains in a geopolitically volatile world. We aim to provide thought-provoking insights and actionable recommendations for navigating the intersection of AI, security, and economic growth. Speakers Mei-Chun Lee, Academia Sinica Thung-Hong Lin, Academia Sinica Yuan Hsiao, Yale University Herbert Chang, Dartmouth College

Toward Otherwise Futures in Asia: Conversations among Tibet, Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan William J. Perry Conference Room (2F) | Wednesday, July 2, 11:00-12:20 This panel brings together emerging scholars whose work is deeply rooted in the intersecting yet distinct cultural and political landscapes of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and China. In an era marked by intensifying state surveillance, forced exile, and cultural dislocation, how do communities within these islands and lands envision their intertwined yet distinct political futures? When both nationalism and elitist leftism have fallen short of addressing systemic injustices and advancing decolonial aspirations, what unique insights can we draw from these contested and vibrant spaces of activism and knowledge production to reimagine sovereignty, interdependency, and political collectivities? This panel provides multiple vantage points to rethink Taiwan's relations with its diverse neighbors and offers a potential connective tissue that allows alliances beyond dominant colonial and Cold War paradigmatic divides. Drawing from different historical trajectories while together facing totalitarian encroachment, this conversation reflects critically on the entangled legacies of empire and resistance across these regions, while illuminating alternative imaginations of the futures of Asia. Speakers Samuel Chan, Harvard University Yu Liang/Leeve Palrai, Cornell University Simon Sihang Luo, Stanford University Tenzing Wangdak, UC Irvine

Alis 的心願 (Alis’s Dreams) BCC Main Hall (1F) | Wednesday, July 2, 12:20-13:30 We are pleased to present a special film screening in collaboration with our "Contesting Settler Colonialism" roundtable, featuring director Salone Ishahavut's award-winning documentary Alis's Dreams. About the Director Salone Ishahavut is a documentary filmmaker of Taiwanese Bunun descent. She is also an assistant professor of interdisciplinary Program of Liberal Arts at National Central University. Her film projects have been favored by Golden Harvest Awards, Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, WomenMakeWaves Film Festival. She has also received an Excellent Screenplay award by Taiwan's Bureau of Information. Film Details The film follows Cina Alis—"Cina" refers to mother or female elder in the Bunun language—as she moves through her daily life and journeys along the paths to the house where she was born, the home in her ancestral mountains she hasn't visited in years. Through Alis's story, we witness the history of forced displacement that has shaped many Bunun communities—from Japanese colonial relocations to the continued environmental displacement following Typhoon Morakot in 2009. The film captures community members as they trek back to their ancestral village, step by arduous step, seeking to piece together and mend their ruptured memories.

Tour of Taiwanese Materials at the Hoover Archive Hoover Tower | Wednesday, July 2, 13:30-15:00 This tour of the Stanford Hoover Archive will primarily focus on its rich collection of modern Taiwanese materials, which are an essential resource for those studying Taiwan and Taiwanese America. Led by Amanda Robb (Chinese Language Materials Archivist at Hoover) and Yi-Ting Chung (History PhD Candidate at Stanford), the tour will begin with an introduction to Hoover Archive's history and its connections to Taiwan and China. Participants will then be guided through Hoover's Taiwanese collections, including the Kerr (George H.) papers 1943-1951, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Survey Staff (Yale University) card file, Mah Soo-lay 馬樹禮 papers, Rock J. Shih 石銳 papers, the Taiwanese pictorial collection (1895-1945), and the Tian Chao-ming 田朝明 papers 1981-2001.Due to space limitations (45 participants), those interested in joining the tour are required to register in advance. The registration form will ask about participants' research interests to ensure that the tour is customized to their specific areas of interest. Registered participants, please gather at the front gate of Hoover Tower (by the fountain) at 13:30 on July 2nd. The tower is located right next to Encina Hall. Tour Leaders Amanda Robb, Stanford University Yi-Ting Chung, Stanford University

DC Careers Workshop: Think Tanks, Universities, and Advocacy Goldman Conference Room (4F, East Wing) | Wednesday, July 2, 13:30-15:00 As Taiwan studies students get ready to graduate, some might struggle to see how their research can be applied to careers outside of traditional academic pathways. Hosted by the Global Taiwan Institute, this panel looks at different careers in DC and discusses how research can be used in different ways—from implementing grants and projects, to influencing policymakers and advocating for change. Overall, the panel aims to help researchers who are interested in program development or policy writing learn how to transition into new roles, while also providing more insight on how to navigate the DC policy space. Speakers Adrienne Wu, Global Taiwan Institute Richard Haddock, George Washington University Henry Tsai, Formosan Association for Public Affairs

InQueering into Intersectionality William J. Perry Conference Room (2F) | Wednesday, July 2, 15:30-16:50 Queer communities in Taiwan continue to navigate a landscape marked by both progressive change and persistent structural inequalities. Emergent issues such as marriage equality, reproductive rights, Indigenous queer invisibility, gender equality education, identity certifications change, and forms of discrimination such as transphobia show that queer life in Taiwan cannot be fully understood through a single framing of identity. Intersectionality thus urges us to move beyond treating identity categories, such as gender, sexuality, race, or class, as siloed traits. It highlights how these categories are always shaped through the complex interplay of social, historical, and political forces that influence the multiple, overlapping aspects of an individual's own life. Bringing together insights and experiences from scholars, activists, and educators, this panel aims to go beyond a singular framing of issues impacting Taiwan's queer communities, and examine how these issues are intersected with culture, politics, beliefs, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, and embodiment. With a shared commitment to "inQueering [inquiring] into the intersectionality" of Taiwan's Queer communities, we hope to deepen our understanding of the diverse realities across communities and further facilitate dialogues for reflecting on knowledge production and practices for social justice and solidarity-making in this ever changing socio-political landscape. Speakers Howard Chiang, UCSB Danubak Matalaq, Taiwan Indigenous Teacher Association JhuCin Rita Jhang, CET Academic Programs - Taiwan Yo-Ling Chen, Trans Nonbinary Taiwanese American Activist and Independent Scholar

Academic Compass: Self-Curation and Self-Care Goldman Conference Room (4F, East Wing) | Wednesday, July 2, 15:30-16:50 This interactive event is designed to help attendees explore digital tools such as Zotero/Jurism and Notion to organize research, build mentoring networks online, and maintain well-being through mindful academic practices. Participants will engage with questions of self-curation and the personal archive, as well as resources for building scholarly community and self-defining academic spaces. The session will close with a half-hour guided yoga session by An-Ru Chu to reflect on embodied approaches to self-care and practicing "slow-time." Workshop Facilitators Formosa Deppman, UCLA Shu-An Tsai, Tunghai University An-Ru Chu, UC Irvine