North American Taiwan Studies Association
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The NORTH AMERICAN TAIWAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (NATSA) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit and a U.S.-based academic organization, which was established in 1994 and operated by overseas Taiwanese students, North American Ph.D. students, and recent graduates who are interested in, and committed to, Taiwan Studies.[1] The main mission of NATSA is to organize an annual conference in North America in order to facilitate scholarly exchange and publication among researchers and students from different disciplines and area studies who are interested in intellectual dialogues pertaining to Taiwan.[2] Since its establishment, NATSA has organized 19 annual conferences to support North America-based researchers who study Taiwan. The most recent meeting was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in June 2013 titled “Taiwan in Theory.”[3] The meeting featured 90 conference attendees including more than 40 faculty-level participants from US, Canada, Asia, and Europe and was co-sponsored by the Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica.[4] It was co-sponsored by the
Early History
When NATSA was originally 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.[5]
Conference Locations
The annual conferences are held in different locations every year:
| Year | Location | Conference Theme[6] |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Yale University | Inaugural North American Taiwan Studies Conference |
| 1995 | Yale University | History and Nationalism |
| 1996 | Michigan State University | The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity |
| 1997 | University of California, Berkeley | Mapping the Terrain of Taiwan Studies |
| 1998 | University of Texas, Austin | Putting Taiwan in Global Perspective |
| 1999 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Re-Imagining Political Community: Taiwan Facing the New Millennium |
| 2000 | Harvard University | Taiwan 2000: Envisioning a Pluralistic Future |
| 2001 | Washington University, Seattle | Seeking Taiwanese Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Reflection and Dialogue |
| 2002 | University of Chicago | Power, Knowledge Production, and Agency: Towards a Critical Taiwan Studies |
| 2003 | Rutgers University | Changes, Continuity and Contestations in the Taiwanese Society |
| 2004 | University of Hawai'i, Manoa | Taiwan Studies in Comparative Perspectives |
| 2005 | University of Colorado, Boulder | Difference, Democracy, Justice: Toward an Inclusive Taiwanese Society |
| 2006 | University of California, Santa Cruz | Crossing the Borders, Fostering the Future: Taiwan Studies in the Intersections |
| 2007 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Taiwan in the Nexus of Empires |
| 2008 | Washington University, Seattle | Translating the Political, Re-visioning the Social: What's the Next Turn for Taiwan? |
| 2009 | University of Texas, Austin | Locating Taiwan: Space, Culture and Society |
| 2010 | University of California, Berkeley | China Effect: Securing Taiwan in an Age of Conflicts and Cooperation |
| 2011 | University of Pittsburgh | The Trajectory of Taiwan in a Global Context |
| 2012 | Indiana University, Bloomington | Taiwan: Gateway, Node, Liminal Space |
| 2013 | University of California, Santa Barbara | Taiwan in Theory |
| 2014 | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Presidents of NATSA
The Presidents of NATSA are elected annually by the membership. They have included:
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Chia-lung Lin 林佳龍 [7] |
| 1996 | Jih-wen Lin 林繼文 [8] |
| 1997 | Chung-Hsien Huang 黃崇憲 [9] |
| 1998 | Mei-Lin Pan 潘美玲 [10] |
| 1999 | Wei-der Shu 許維德 [11] |
| 2000 | Tze-Luen Lin 林子倫 [12] |
| 2001 | Chien-Juh Gu 辜千祝 |
| 2002 | Hsiu-hua Shen 沈秀華 |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Hou 侯志仁 [13] |
| 2004 | Same as last year |
| 2005 | Chun-Chi Wang 王君琦 |
| 2006 | Frank Cheng-Shan Liu 劉正山 |
| 2007 | Huey-Tyng Gau 高慧婷 |
| 2008 | Cheng-Yi Huang 黃丞儀 [14] |
| 2009 | Hsun-Hui Tseng 曾薰慧 |
| 2010 | Yi-tze Lee 李宜澤 |
| 2011 | Hsin-Yang Wu 吳欣陽 |
| 2012 | Chris Chih-Ming Liang 梁志鳴 |
| 2013 | Laura Jo-Han Wen 温若含 |
| 2014 | Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang 楊孟軒 |
References
- ^ http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/21/institutes/21PP10.html
- ^ http://www.na-tsa.org/new/about/mission-of-natsa
- ^ http://taiwaneseamerican.org/ta/2013/01/04/call-for-papers-for-north-american-taiwan-studies-association-annual-conference
- ^ http://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu/taiwancenter/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.east.cms_taiwancenter/files/sitefiles/events/NATSA%202013%20booklet_official.pdf
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20060803202034/http://natsc.org/
- ^ Dates, locations, and titles of NATSA's annual conferences found via mining of pages prior to http://web.archive.org/web/20060803202034/http://natsc.org/ and pages more recent than http://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).
- ^ http://www.citylove.org.tw/publications/213-b.html
- ^ http://idv.sinica.edu.tw/ljw/
- ^ http://soc.thu.edu.tw/faculty-Chung-HsienHuang.htm
- ^ http://hs.nctu.edu.tw/Hakka-F-faculty/Faculty_15_MLPan.htm
- ^ http://hs.nctu.edu.tw/Hakka-F-faculty/Faculty_25_WDShu.htm
- ^ http://politics.ntu.edu.tw/?p=278
- ^ http://faculty.washington.edu/jhou/
- ^ http://idv.sinica.edu.tw/chengyi/english/professional.htm