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The 2002 North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) Conference

Conference Theme:
Power, Knowledge Production, and Agency: Towards a Critical Taiwan Studies

Location: University of Chicago
Time: June 27-30, 2002
Pre-Registration Required: online registration at www.natsc.org by May 20,
2002

For the conference theme statement and other conference information, please visit www.natsc.org, or contact the NATSA committee at contact@natsc.org.

Tentative Conference Program:

I. Thematic/Keynote Panels:
a. Global English? Linguistic Diversity and Empowerment in the Globalization Era
b. Identities, Knowledge/Power Linkage, and the Role of the Intellectual:
Issues, Concerns, and Debates

II. Tentative Panels:
- Constructing/contesting Masculinities
- Negotiating Aboriginal Identities and Power
- Environmental Studies in Taiwan
- Economy, the State, and Globalization
- Democracy, Civil Society, and Election
- Public Health Policy and Medical Sociology
- Transformation of Urban Policy under Globalization
- Memory and Identity Formation in Films
- Negotiations of Identities in Theatrical Spaces
- Media: Sites of Political Competition
- Cultural History and Subject-Positioning of Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan
- History, Literacy, and Historical Personalities
- Lesbians and Gays in Taiwan: An Activist Prospective
- Language and Education
- Identity Politics in Taiwan: Cultural, Ethnic, and National
- Politics, Economics, and the Law
- Zones of Marked Instability: National Boundaries and Global Flows
- Taiwanese/Chinese Diaspora
- Taiwan and the West: Modernity and Knowledge Production
- Democracy, Multiculturalism, and Educational Reform
- Women in Changing: Activism and Agency
- Sociolinguistics: Language Planning, Policy, and Implication

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