North American Taiwan Studies Association

American academic nonprofit organization

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.

## Early history[edit]

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[edit]

Year | Location | Conference Theme [3] | President(s)

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1994 | Yale University | Inaugural North American Taiwan Studies Conference  |
1995 | Yale University | History and Nationalism  | Chia-lung Lin 林佳龍[4]
1996 | Michigan State University | The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity  | Jih-wen Lin 林繼文 [5]
1997 | University of California, Berkeley | Mapping the Terrain of Taiwan Studies  | Chung-Hsien Huang 黃崇憲 [6]
1998 | University of Texas, Austin | Putting Taiwan in Global Perspective  | Mei-Lin Pan 潘美玲 [7]
1999 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Re-Imagining Political Community: Taiwan Facing the New Millennium  | Wei-der Shu 許維德 [8]
2000 | Harvard University | Taiwan 2000: Envisioning a Pluralistic Future  | Tze-Luen Lin 林子倫 [9]
2001 | Washington University, Seattle | Seeking Taiwanese Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Reflection and Dialogue  | Chien-Juh Gu 辜千祝 [10]
2002 | University of Chicago | Power, Knowledge Production, and Agency: Towards a Critical Taiwan Studies  | Hsiu-hua Shen 沈秀華 [11]
2003 | Rutgers University | Changes, Continuity and Contestations in the Taiwanese Society  | Jeffrey Hou 侯志仁 [12]
2004 | University of Hawai'i, Manoa | Taiwan Studies in Comparative Perspectives  | Jeffrey Hou 侯志仁
2005 | University of Colorado, Boulder | Difference, Democracy, Justice: Toward an Inclusive Taiwanese Society  | Chun-Chi Wang 王君琦 [13]
2006 | University of California, Santa Cruz | Crossing the Borders, Fostering the Future: Taiwan Studies in the Intersections  | Frank Cheng-Shan Liu 劉正山 [14]
2007 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Taiwan in the Nexus of Empires  | Huey-Tyng Gau 高慧婷
2008 | Washington University, Seattle | Translating the Political, Re-visioning the Social: What's the Next Turn for Taiwan?  | Cheng-Yi Huang 黃丞儀 [15]
2009 | University of Texas, Austin | Locating Taiwan: Space, Culture and Society  | Hsun-Hui Tseng 曾薰慧 [16]
2010 | University of California, Berkeley | China Effect: Securing Taiwan in an Age of Conflicts and Cooperation  | Yi-tze Lee 李宜澤 [17]
2011 | University of Pittsburgh | The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global Context  | Hsin-Yang Wu 吳欣陽
2012 | Indiana University, Bloomington | Taiwan: Gateway, Node, Liminal Space  | Chris Chih-Ming Liang 梁志鳴
2013 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Taiwan in Theory  | Laura Jo-Han Wen 溫若含 [18]
2014 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | The Zeitgeists of Taiwan: Looking Back, Moving Forward [19] | Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang 楊孟軒 [20]
2015 | Harvard University, Boston | Motions and the Motionless: (Dis/Re-) Connecting Taiwan to the World [21] | Feng-En Tu 涂豐恩
2016  | University of Toronto  | Taiwan Studies in Trans* Perspectives: Transdisciplinary, Transnational, and Transcultural  | Ching-Fang Hsu 許菁芳
2017  | Stanford University  | RE: Taiwan as Practice, Method, and Theory  | Chi-ting Peng 彭琪庭

Hsin-hung Yeh 葉信鴻

2018  | University of Texas, Austin  | Beyond an Island: Taiwan in Comparative Perspective  | Shu-Wen Tang 湯舒雯
2019  | University of Washington, Seattle  | Destabilizing Empires from the Margin: Taiwan Studies in Reflection  | Eric Siu-kei Cheng 鄭肇祺
2020+1[clarification needed] | University of California, Irvine (online)  | Keywording Taiwan  | Ta-Yang Hsieh 謝大洋
2022  | George Washington University (D.C.)  | Taiwan Studies in Application  | JhuCin Rita Jhang 張竹芩 [22]

## NATSA-initiated projects[edit]

### NATSA Professional Development Webinar Series[edit]

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

* Enhance members’ professional skills
* Strengthen professional networks of members in the academia and the industry
* Promote NATSA to non-members

So far, topics of the NATSA professional developmental webinar series included:  Date  | Topic  | Guest speaker

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2017/8/12  | Life after PhD— Navigating Assistant Professorship  | Chia-chen Yang (University of Memphis)

I-chun Catherine Chang (Macalester College)

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

Yen-yung Chang (Caltech)

2018/1/14  | Conferences: Participant Observation from an Anthropologist  | Derek Sheridan (Brandeis University)
2018/2/24  | Introduction of Instructional Technology  | Elu Tu (Southern Connecticut State University)
2018/3/30  | Taiwanese Studies in Europe: Research, Academia, and Job Market  | Ming-yeh Rawnsley (SOAS)

Adina Zemanek (Jagiellonian University)

2018/4/8  | Job Application and Experience in Asia-Pacific Academia  | Harry Wu (Hong Kong University)
2018/12/9  | Getting Familiar with Quantitative Research(er)  | Cheng-Tong Wang (Evaluation and Research Department of a national NGO)

Chengshi Shiu (UCLA School of Nursing)

### NATSA Podcast[edit]

NATSA Podcast

2019-2021 Season 1: Chats with Scholars

2021-2022 Season 2: 研究生轉運站

### Taiwan Studies Syllabus Project[edit]

Taiwan Syllabus Project

### Experts in Taiwan Studies crowd-sourcing project[edit]

Experts in Taiwan Studies

### Taiwan Studies Workshop Fund[edit]

Taiwan Studies Fund

### The Future of Taiwan Studies in a Post COVID world[edit]

Future of Taiwan Studies Post COVID

* Ep 1. COVID-19 and Governance Social and Global Solidarity
* Ep 2. How does the Hong Kong Security Law and "Decoupling from China" Impact Taiwan
* Ep 3. The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Taiwan's External Relations: Views from Japan
* Ep 4. From Taiwanese-language Films to the Future of Taiwan Cinema

## References[edit]

1. ^ Institutes iias.nl [dead link]
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).
4. ^ "Publications". ww16.citylove.org.tw. [dead link]
5. ^ "Jih-wen Lin's Homepage". idv.sinica.edu.tw.
6. ^ "東海大學社會學系 The Department of Sociology, Tunghai University".
7. ^ Faculty nctu.edu.tw [dead link]
8. ^ "國立交通大學 客家文化學院 人文社會學系 許維德教授". hs.nctu.edu.tw. Archived from the original on 2014-10-29.
9. ^ "林子倫 « 國立臺灣大學政治學系". politics.ntu.edu.tw.
10. ^ "Chien-Juh Gu | Sociology | Western Michigan University". www.wmich.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-04-19.
11. ^ "沈秀華的個人資料 - 國立清華大學社會學研究所". www.soc.nthu.edu.tw. Archived from the original on 2013-03-18.
12. ^ "jeff hou @ u.washington". faculty.washington.edu.
13. ^ "NDHU - National Dong Hwa University". www.dengl.ndhu.edu.tw.
14. ^ 劉正山 (2007). "Welcome to Frank Liu's Homepage". 政治科學季評. 無 (13). .nsysu.edu.tw. doi:10.6570/PSQBR.2007.13.4. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
15. ^ "Cheng-Yi Huang 黃丞儀". idv.sinica.edu.tw.
16. ^ "Weatherhead East Asian Institute".
17. ^ "NDHU - National Dong Hwa University". www.erc.ndhu.edu.tw.
18. ^ "Asian Studies". Randolph-Macon College. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
19. ^ "East Asia Program | Einaudi Center". einaudi.cornell.edu. 24 August 2023.
20. ^ "UT College of Liberal Arts". liberalarts.utexas.edu.
21. ^ "2015 Main theme | North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA)". www.na-tsa.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-13.
22. ^ "Home". ritajhang.org.