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A Living Museum: Regenerate the Past and Present Meaning of WWII History
The “Sixth Fuel Factory Cultural Park” stands as one of the few remaining WWII relics well-preserved in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is slated for transformation into a Cultural Park and is expected to be fully accessible to the public by 2026 under the auspices of the...
ACADEMY IN EXILE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (DEADLINE 15 April 2024)
ACADEMY IN EXILE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS DEADLINE 15 April 2024 TWELVE RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPSIN GERMANY Academy in Exile invites scholars at risk to apply for 24-month fellowships at TU Dortmund University in Dortmund and the Institute for Advanced Study in the...
CFP (18th MAR.): Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants
Ninth Annual Research & Orientation Workshop Calcutta Research Group (CRG) is pleased to announce the Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants (2024) to be organized in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg...
CFP: The 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSH 2024)
CALL FOR PAPERS Date: July 26th - 27th, 2024Conference Venue: Ton Duc Thang UniversityAddress: 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamEmail: issh2024@tdtu.edu.vn The 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social...
30 Minute Methods TDTU, VSA (Sth) and TARN 2023-2024
The 30-minute Methods seminar series invites noted scholars to present their insights on new and pressing sociological approaches. In 2023-2024, the series is a collaboration between the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Ton Duc Thang University (TDTU), the...
Field notes of the port trip in Taiwan
Reported by Aubrey Fanani, Chang Wen-Chi, Jonathan Parhusip, and Qi Li Following the 2023 ACS Institute “De-colonization in the 21st Century”, the International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS) organized a four-day excursion to southern Taiwan to investigate the...
PRESENTING XR: REENACTING REALITY, RECONNECTING SOCIETY
Reported by Aubrey Kandelila Fanani, MA Student, IACS-NYCUIntroductionXR (extended reality), a term to refer to Virtual reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), has attracted artists to engage with it, not only game developers but also filmmakers,...
DOCUMENTA 15: A DISAGREEMENT
Reported by Aubrey Kandelila Fanani, MA Student, IACS-NYCUIntroductionBeginning in 1955, Documenta, which took place in Kassel, Germany, became one of the most prestigious contemporary art exhibitions. The last Documenta 15 started on June 18 and ended on September...
Rethink Hygiene and Environmental Problems (Via Our Shit)
Speaker: Dr. Daren Shi-chi Leung (Research Assistant Professor at Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.) Date: August 12, 2023 Location: ACS Institute, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University,...
Roundtable: Decolonizing Multi-species Entanglements in Taiwan
Author: GUO,QING-ROU，Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, NYCUIntroductionThe roundtable talking about multi-species studies and the multi-species relationships in indigenous communities in Taiwan. All of speakers have worked with multi-species...
Policy Ghosts and Decolonisation in the 21st Century (keynote)
Author: GUO,QING-ROU，Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, NYCUIntroductionTess Lea is an anthropologist who specializes in the analysis of indigenous navigation, settler colonial policies and military position extraction. Her most recent book is called...
Survivance and settler-colonialism in Palestine beyond national independence
KWOK Man Yee, Sophie, Master’s student of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Program, National Tsing Hua UniversityIn this talk, Salih brings together a number of strands of her recent work on the reflection upon decolonial politics. Under the framework of decolonizing,...