ASIAN STUDIES CENTRE EVENTS, TRINITY TERM

Asian Studies Centre, St. Antony's College, and Nissan Institute for Japanese
Studies, University of Oxford
Seminar
 
JAPAN AND FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS IN EAST ASIA AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC
Dr Christopher Dent (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds)
 
Week 2, Friday 4 May, 5.00 to 6.30 p.m.
The Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
All are welcome
 
Convenor: Dr Mark Rebick
Enquiries: e-mail: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or tel: 01865-274559
 
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Taiwan Studies Programme, Asian Studies Centre, St. Antony's College, University
of Oxford
Seminar
 
CHALLENGES TO TAIWAN'S NEW DEMOCRACY AND THE RISE OF A NEW NATIONAL IDENTITY
Professor Michael Hsin-huang Hsiao
(Dr Hsiao is the Executive Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies at
Academia Sinica, Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University, and a
National Policy Advisor to the President of the ROC. He is the author of
numerous books and articles in learned journals)
 
Week 3, Tuesday 8 May, 5.00 to 6.30 p.m.
The Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
All are welcome
 
Convenor: Dr Steve Tsang
Enquiries: e-mail: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or tel: 01865-274559
 
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TAIWAN STUDIES PROGRAMME, ASIAN STUDIES CENTRE
ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE, OXFORD OX2 6JF, UK
TELEPHONE/FAX: (0)1865 274559
e-mail: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
 
Conference, 15 - 16 June 2007
TAIWAN'S SEARCH FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTNERS
 
Organiser: Dr Steve Tsang (Director of the Taiwan Studies Programme, St Antony's
College)
Venue: Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Friday 15 June
 
Session 1
10.00 - 11.15 Taiwan's place in the world: soft power versus realpolitik
Chair: Steve Tsang (St Antony's)
Speaker: Steven Goldstein (Smith College)
Discussant: Michael Kao (Taipei Representative, Brussels)
Session 2
11.45 - 13.00 Democratisation, identity politics and Taiwan's diplomatic grand
strategy
Chair: Gunter Schubert (University of Tübingen)
Speaker: David Huang (Academia Sinica)
Discussant: Chris Hughes (LSE)
Session 3
14.15 - 15.30 Democratic partner or benign protector: Basis of US-Taiwan relations
Chair: Jonathan Eyal (RUSI)
Speaker: Dennis Hickey (Missouri State University)
Discussant: Philip Towle (Cambridge)
Session 4
16.00 - 17.15 Japan: Democratic partnership or colonial legacy?
Chair: Greg Austin (London)
Speaker: Greg W. Noble (Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo)
Discussant: Ian Neary (St Antony's)
Session 5
17.20 - 18.35 ASEAN: The limits of democratic appeal?
Chair: Rosemary Foot (St Antony's)
Speaker: Wen-cheng Lin (Taiwan Foundation for Democracy)
Discussant: Yuen-foong Khong (Nuffield College)
 
Saturday 16 June
 
Session 6
09.45 - 11.00 EU: Does Taiwan fit into a framework of progressive foreign policy?
Chair: William Kirby (Harvard)
Speaker: Masako Ikegami (Sweden)
Discussant: Rod Wye (FCO)
Session 7
11.30 - 12.45 France: liberty, equality and fraternity versus the lure of
business opportunities
Chair: Robert Ash (SOAS)
Speaker: Valerie Niquet (Paris)
Discussant: Eugene Kogan (Sweden)
Session 8
14.00 - 15.15 Retaining the smaller diplomatic allies: soft power versus hard cash
Chair: Bernhard May (German Council on Foreign Relations)
Speaker: Elizabeth Freund Larus (University of Mary Washington)
Discussant: TBC
Session 9
15.35 - 16.50 Beyond the Chen Shui-bian Administration: Long-term prospect for
Taiwanese diplomacy
Chair: Steve Tsang
Speaker: Chu-cheng Ming (National Taiwan University)
Discussant: Edgar Lin (Taipei Representative, London)
 
Enquiries and registration: Jennifer Griffiths, email asian@sant.ox.ac.uk, tel:
01865-274559