Remembering and Repurposing the Japanese Colonial Legacy in Taiwan
Key information
- Date
- Time
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4:45 pm to 6:00 am
- Venue
- Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London
- Room
- BGLT
About this event
This lecture will reflect on the 50 years of Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan (1895-1945).
An inquiry into the legacy of the Japanese colonialism in Taiwan as part of Taiwan Studies is still relevant today, as this is the period when many of the questions on the nature of Taiwaneness and Taiwan identity were first articulated and are still being asked by international scholars today. This period announced the transition of the island Taiwan – Formosa as it was known then- from a full-fledged Chinese province of the Qing-Manchu empire to a Japanese colony, as a result of the Sino-Japanese War.
It will approach the theme from three angles; from an historical perspective, from the view of its legacy today against the background of domestic politics and transformation into a democracy, and from an in-depth focus on several research themes that concern the study of East Asia in global scholarship. What connections and patterns with earlier scholarly work can be drawn, how influential or representative is a younger generation of researchers involved in generating multidisciplinary research, and how does the application of multimedia and digital infrastructure assist in repurposing significant resources related to the study of Japanese colonial period that trend in the broader context of (re)remembering, and forgetting history?
Speaker's Biography
Prof. Ann Heylen
Ann Heylen is Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature and the Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center, National Taiwan Normal University.
After completing her PhD in Chinese Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Catholic University Leuven (K.U. Leuven) in 2001, I became an associate researcher of Japanese Studies, K.U. Leuven (2002-2008) and obtained a post-doctoral research grant at Taiwan Research Unit, Ruhr University Bochum (2003-2004). In 2008 I took up a faculty position at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei and was appointed Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, which in 2011 expanded into the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature.
In 2009, she became the Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center (ITSC), affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts, NTNU. Ann is also a Research Associate of the ERCCT, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen.
About 2023 SOAS Taiwan Studies Summer School
The Centre of Taiwan Studies (CTS) at the SOAS, University of London is excited to present a 2.5-day Summer School programme filled with engaging talks, seminars, and roundtables, taking place right after the EATS annual conference from the afternoon of June 28th to June 30th, 2023.
In our commitment to promoting the study of Taiwan, we are pleased to offer free and open-to-public attendance for the Summer School. We highly encourage individuals from all walks of life who are interested in Taiwanese culture and Taiwan studies attend our course.
