BLOOMINGTON, IN – Taking place on Friday, October 18, at the Global and International Studies Building, UNC-Chapel Hill professor Dr. Michelle King visited Indiana University, sponsored by the Taiwan Studies Initiative, to present a talk on her new book Chop Fry Watch Learn: Thinking Through Chinese Cookbooks and Cuisine with Fu Pei-Mei. The Taiwan Studies… Read more »
Taiwan Studies
A successful Graduate Workshop!
On October 5, 2024, the IU Taiwan Studies Initiative hosted its first Midwest Taiwan Studies Graduate Workshop, a one-day, in-person event that invited graduate and undergraduate students from IU, the Midwest, and beyond to present their research on Taiwan. This year’s workshop was titled “Exploring Taiwan: From Historical Roots to Contemporary Issues,” and aimed to… Read more »
EASC Spring Wrap-up
EASC finished the 23-24 school year strong after an academic year full of events and colloquium. We were delighted to welcome four Colloquium speakers over the Spring semester’s theme of Art and Performance, including Dr. Hippocrates Cheng, Dr. Judith Zeitlin, Dr. Meimei Zhang, and filmmaker Christine Choy. Choy’s Colloquium talk was followed by a screening… Read more »
Taiwan Studies Initiative
On January 25, 2024 IU kicked off its new Taiwan Studies Initiative with an online roundtable addressing the results of Taiwan’s recent presidential and legislative elections. The roundtable featured
Rethinking Technologies, the Environment, and Human-Nonhuman Relationships
Taiwan has become a vibrant site for research on the changing relationships among humans, the natural world, and our built environment, an urgent topic in our current moment of climate change, pandemics, and rapid technological impact on the human condition. On October 20, 2023, the East Asian Studies Center held an IU-NTU workshop on …. Read more »