北美台湾研究学会2015年会正在徵稿中～ 欢迎各人文社会科学领域的学者及研究生投稿！ 研讨会时间：2015年六月12-13日 研讨会地点：哈佛大学 研讨会主题： Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-)Connecting Taiwan to the World 投稿摘要或论坛提案截止日：2014年12月31日 有关研讨会的次主题与提交准则，请参见以下网址： http://www.na-tsa.org/new/2015/main-theme http://www.na-tsa.org/new/2015/submission-rules CALL FOR PAPERS! The NATSA 2015 conference, titled “Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-)Connecting Taiwan to the World,” endeavours to advance global Taiwan studies by setting Taiwan in motion, both in theory and in practice. To capture something of the dynamics and energies infused in Taiwanese society, this conference draws on an expansive concept of motion through which we hope to attract papers that explore and exploit the term’s potentials and complexities. Over the past few years, those concerned with Taiwan have witnessed it in the midst of a series of fervent social upheavals of various kinds. These are both themselves social movements as well as responses and reactions to a set of other larger streams of economic, political, social, and cultural motions. As a set of islands historically populated by waves of immigrants and impositions of power, however, Taiwan has long been caught up in and composed of motion. The rich connotations of the main theme of “motions” will serve as a catalyst propelling us to place Taiwan in dialogue with the diverse geographical connections and historical contexts around the island and across the globe. This conference invites scholarly works informed by the notion of motion--movement, flows, circulation, acceleration, stoppage, repetition, mobility, among others. Participants are encouraged to respond to current theoretical and methodological debates in their own humanities and social science disciplines that situate Taiwan within various trajectories and networks of motion and movement. Such papers might seek to understand motion located, embedded, or moving through a variety of different particular locales, at a variety of different scales, and from the perspective of a variety of different social and cultural arenas. Moreover, inquiries into “ motions” suggest a methodological push to understand the links between the different locales (including those beyond Taiwan), scales, and cultural arenas where social change and interactions take place. For instance, how have demographic changes in Taiwan, as manifested in new dating, mate-making, and reproduction patterns, relate to Taiwan’s changing socioeconomic status? How do transnational flows of migration, trade, and cross-border investment affect the circulation of energy and material objects in and out of Taiwan? How do policies transfer and circulate among governments and countries, connecting Taiwan to different epistemological flows and techniques of governing? To what extent can various Taiwanese stakeholders influence political, social and economic discourses both domestically and internationally? How might Taiwan’s ties with the Pacific and South East Asia reconfigure our understanding of the island’s cultural identity and natural habitat? What different sorts of motions might emerge from a focus on Taiwan and Taiwanese societies concerning water rather than land? This conference will serve as a platform to explore all the complex and interwoven dimensions embedded in the concept of motions and the motionless. We expect our participants to compare widely and diversely beyond the territorial boundaries defined by a putative focus on Taiwan per se. Topics dealing with Taiwan in relation to, or in comparison with, other societies are especially welcomed. We call for papers from across disciplinary boundaries in the humanities and social sciences. By holding the conference in Boston, a historically famed harbour of North America, we expect this annual meeting at Harvard University to serve as an intellectual hub, through which an exchange of ideas can be accelerated, scholarly and social interventions can be re-imagined, and broader understandings of Taiwan can, once again, be set in motion. 本次会议将邀请北美与东亚多位重量级学者担任 featured speaker 以及论文 评论人。今年，因地利之便，多位来自哈佛与东岸名校的学者也将参与会议。 北美台湾研究学会也延续与中央研究院社会所及台湾史研究所的合作，持续深 化台湾学界与北美学界的关系。我们非常期待能有更多新秀学者加入本次会议！ 更多邀请学者名单将陆续公布，请追踪我们的网站：http://www.na-tsa.org/new/ 如果有问题，欢迎写信洽询会议秘书：[email protected] 期待在波士顿与各位见面！ --

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