Jens Damm and Yoshi Amae present papers at EATS 2013

Jens Damm and Yoshihisa Amae attended the 10th Annual Conference of EATS in Lyon, May 2-4, 2013. 

Amae, Yoshihisa

"Building Communitas Through Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites of War Memory in Taiwan"

Damm, Jens

"Taiwan Cross-Strait Cyberpsace and Its Influence on the Establishment of a Public Sphere in China"

Society and Culture in Taiwan: Transforming Taiwan: Social, political and cultural aspects

長榮大學台灣研究所 - Dr. Jens Damm 達嚴思 and Dr. Astrid Lipinsky

GTS011 碩士班台研所1A班： 台灣社會與文化專題
Society and Culture in Taiwan: Transforming Taiwan: Social, political and cultural aspects

Date	Title	Lecturer
08 March 2013 10.00-12.00 former Confu­cius Institute („Vorgelege“)	Transforming Taiwan. Introduction to the seminar	Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna
08 March 2013 16.00–18.00 SIN 2	The Multiculturalization of Taiwan: The construction of the 'four main ethnic groups'	Jens Damm, Changjung Christian University, Tainan
13 March 2013	Popular Culture in Taiwan per Video	Yin C. Chuang, National Taiwan Normal University (to be confirmed)
10 April 2013	Food culture in Taiwan per Video	Atun Chuang, Changjung Christian University (to be confirmed)
24 April 2013 18.30 SIN 1	30 Years of Free Organizing with State Support: Taiwan's women's movement	Astrid Lipinsky, Universität Wien
08 May 2013	The imagery of 17 Century Taiwan	Ann Heylen, National Taiwan Normal University
15 May 2013	Ethnic re-classification in Taiwan	Michael Rudolph, University of Southern Denmark
22 May 13	The Evolution of High-tech Industrial Park in Taiwan and China	Liang-Kung YEN, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

We welcome students to enroll in this course co-taught by the Department of Sinology Vienna and the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, CJCU, Tainan, or to join the lectures.

For more information, please contact  Jens Damm (達嚴思) jensdamm@mail.cjcu.edu.tw

Lecture by Táňa Dluhošová

Ms. Táňa Dluhošová, Lecturer at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, will give a lecture on "How to Reconstruct a Literary Field: The Case of Early Post-War Literature in Taiwan."
Chang Jung Christian University, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies.
December 11, 2012. 1：20 pm -3：10 pm
Room: 1619-2.

Social movements, rights discourses and citizenship National Chengchi University, November 6-7, 2012.

Dr. Jens Damm and visiting scholar Dr. Taru Salmenkari, both affiliated to the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies of Chang Jung Christian University, participated on the conference "Social movements, rights discourses and citizenship: Social and political developments in Taiwan in a regional perspective." The conference was held at the National Chengchi University on November 6-7, 2012.

Jens Damm presented his paper “The Impact of the Taiwanese LGBTQ Movement in Mainland China.” He dealt with the question how cross-Strait cyberspace may offer LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered people, queer = in Chinese: tongzhi 同志, and lala 拉拉, a specific female expression) communities a space for the exchange of concepts and ideologies. In addition, he dealt with newly established workshops of the “Lala Chinese Alliance” (拉拉華人聯盟), the most important trans-regional LGBTQ organization. The results of his research shows that although the mainland Chinese LGBTQ communities online are localized to a certain extent and influenced by socio-cultural specifics, cross-border and cross-Strait communities of sexual minority groups do exist, and, Taiwan as well as Hong Kong, as the most liberal of all Chinese-speaking “entities,” has heavily influenced the discourse and social practices of LGBTQ on the Mainland during the “internationalization” process of the Chinese LGBTQ movement which started after 2005. In the discussion the issues were raised if one should speak of a Taiwanese impact or if it makes more sense to speak of an international impact brought to China via activists having been educated in the West, and also to which extent the cyberspace plays really such an important role as postulated in much of the research literature.

Taru Salmenkari presented a paper “Building Taiwanese identities from below: the role of NGOs and social movements.” She argued that, while the modernist project typically created a single national identity, typical for our contemporary era is that the production of identities is a more dispersed, personal and multivocal process. As the national identity itself is highly politicized and contested in Taiwan, there is a tendency to seek meaningful Taiwanese identities in one’s own community and through one’s personal contacts and experiences instead of nationalistic party-led definitions based on a sovereign nation (whichever it is). Taiwanese NGOs and social movements participate this process to create Taiwaneseness in the grassroots. The presentation led to discussion about how the emergence of more multivocal and personally experienced histories has led to changed perceptions of justice and nationalist countermovements.

As the conference was organized bilaterally with the University of Vienna, it provided also an opportunity to discuss cooperation with Austrian scholars specializing in Taiwanese studies.

Further cooperation for next term is envisoned in cooperation with Dr. Astrid Lipinsky.

Jens Damm is currently in Europe teaching two courses on:
a."The Chinese Language Cyberspace: Civic Engagement and National Endeavors in a Cross-Strait Comparison" (Masaryk University, Czech Republic, supported by the Annual Prize of the French-Taiwanese Cultural Foundation of the French Académie des sciences morales et
politiques as a recognition of efforts for a better understanding of  Taiwan in Central and Eastern Europe given to  Mgr. Táňa Dluhošová (Nov 12-16, 2012)
((https://is.muni.cz/elearning/warp.pl?furl=/el/1421/podzim2012/KSCB032/index.qwarp;so=nx;qurl=/el/1421/podzim2012/KSCB032/index.qwarp;prejit=).
b. "Multiculturalism in Asia" at the L’Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO)(Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (http://iao.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article350) from Nov. 19 to Dec.
8, 2012. At the IAO, Jens Damm  also collaborates with Prof. Stéphane Corcuff on a project related to "historical compared geopolitics of the Taiwan Strait," "Formosa Geopolitica."

Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna, will present a lecture on "Between local, international and the government: How Taiwan’s women’s movement positions itself" ( 臺灣婦女運動如何自我定位：本土化、國際化、與政府導向?) on September 26, 14.20-15.10 at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, CJCU. The lecture will be bilingual - Mandarin and English. Please feel free to join.

International Faculty Symposium Chang Jung Christian University

International Faculty Symposium
Chang Jung Christian University

Friday, May 25, 2012
Time:  Noon – 2 p.m.
Academic Building 2, 5th Floor
Room 20523

13:10 – 13:40   Dr. Jens Damm, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies
                       "Driving Factors in the Multiculturalization of Taiwan's Ethnic Groups"

13:40- 14:00    Discussion