May, 29

Mapping the Terrain of Taiwan Studies
Agenda
The Third Annual
North America Taiwan Studies Conference (1997)

Time	May, 29 Thursday	May, 30 Friday		May, 31 Saturday		June, 1 Sunday
8:30 am		Opening		Ethnic Identity & Politics	Religion & Folklore	Economy & Society	Language & Culture
9:00 9:50		Keynote speakers: Mr. Huang, Huang Hsiung Prof. Thomas Gold Prof. Lowell Dittmer
		Break
10:00		Welfare State & State/Society Relations

11:30-45				Break		Break
12:30				Power & Collective Memory	International Relations	Mapping the Terrain of Taiwan Studies & Concluding Remarks
	Check In & Register	Lunch
1:10 pm				Lunch		Lunck
2:10 - 3:40		Regime Types & State	Education	Aborigines & Politics of Deconstruction	Cinema	Safe Trip
		Break		Break
3:55 - 6:15		Democrat- ization & Central/Local Relations	Literature	Nationalism	Environmental Policy & Politics
		Dinner		Dinner
7:30	Reception	Business Meeting: Annual meeting & election of 1998 board members		Business Meeting: Future of conference & Taiwan studies

NOTE:

Among 48 papers to be presented this year, 45 papers are written in English and 3 papers are written in Chinese.
The conference fully respects the presentors' language preferences for presenting their papers. Presentors may choose among English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese for the most effective communication of their papers.