北美台灣研究學會2015年會正在徵稿中～ 歡迎各人文社會科學領域的學者及研究生投稿！ 研討會時間：2015年六月12-13日 研討會地點：哈佛大學 研討會主題： Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-)Connecting Taiwan to the World 投稿摘要或論壇提案截止日：2014年12月31日 有關研討會的次主題與提交準則，請參見以下網址： 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. 本次會議將邀請北美與東亞多位重量級學者擔任 featured speaker 以及論文 評論人。今年，因地利之便，多位來自哈佛與東岸名校的學者也將參與會議。 北美台灣研究學會也延續與中央研究院社會所及台灣史研究所的合作，持續深 化台灣學界與北美學界的關係。我們非常期待能有更多新秀學者加入本次會議！ 更多邀請學者名單將陸續公布，請追蹤我們的網站：http://www.na-tsa.org/new/ 如果有問題，歡迎寫信洽詢會議秘書：[email protected] 期待在波士頓與各位見面！ --

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