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

TAIPEI TIMES EDITORAL: "Ma should worry about Taiwanese, not Chinese"

A piece by Prof. Chuang Wan-shou appeared in Taipei Times.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2012/02/27/2003526461

While Chuang's points are well-taken, I personally think Zhuyin fuhao (bopomofo) is utterly inept. Hanyu Pinyin, through which many of us foreigners learned Chinese, is one of the best gifts Communist China had offered to this world. The international faculty in GITS is more open-minded, though never too "pro-China," PRC and ROC alike. (Written by Yoshi Amae)

Lecture Announcement

Jens Damm will give a lecture on Cross-Strait Cyber-Communities and the Perceptions of Taiwanese: the Case of Xiamen, Fujian Province at the Asian Studies Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford on 29 February 2012.
http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/asian/images/HT2012ASCSSList.pdf

New Book Release

Jens Damm will present the edited volume "European Perspectives on Taiwan" (with contributions by Jens Damm and Yoshi Amae) at a seminarorganized by the EIAS in Brussels on 27 February 2012.
http://www.eias.org/site.php?id=events2012#20120227

New Research Fellow Prof. Taru Salmenkari

We welcome Dr. Taru Salmenkari, Adjunct Professor, University of Helsinki, who will be residing at the GITS for one year from 1 March 2012 as recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship Program. Dr. Salmenkari will carry on her research on vertical and horizontal civil society relations in Taiwan and other parts of East Asia.