Panel I. 全球化的挑戰

Challenges of Globalization

Presider: 陳東升 (Chen, Dung-Sheng), National Taiwan University, Prof. of Sociology

Discussant: 林佳龍 (Lin, Chia-lung), Yale University, Political Science

• National Imaginations in Global Era: A Preliminary Examination of the Globalization Thesis in Comtemporary Taiwan 汪宏倫 (Wang, Horng-Luen), University of Chicago, Sociology
• Explaining Economic Organizations in Global Capitalism: The Case of Taiwan-based Production Networks in the Apparel and Computer Industries, by 潘美玲 (Pan, Mei-Lin), Duke University, Sociology

Panel II. 族群與國家認同

Ethnicity and National Identity

Presider: 周克勤 (Christian Jochim), San Jose State University, Prof. of Comparative Religious Studies

Discussant: 汪宏倫 (Wang, Horng-Luen), University of Chicago, Sociology

• Generations of Taiwanese: Putting Taiwan in Global Perspective, by Robert M. Marsh, Brown University, Prof. of Sociology
• Taiwan's Mainlanders Facing the National Identity Transition: Is There a Community of View ?, by Stephane Corcuff, Paris Political Science Inst., Political Science
• Taiwan Baseball and a Globalized Taiwan Identity, by Andrew Morris, UCSD, History

Panel III. 文化生產與制度

Cultural Production and Institutions

Presider: 應鳳凰(Ying, Feng-Huang), UT-Austin, Asian Studies

Discussant: 張誦聖 (Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang), UT-Austin, Prof. of Asian Studies

• Confucianism and Christianity: Cultural-Religious Thoughts in Chang Hsiao-feng's Essays, by 何杏楓(Carole Hoyan Hang Fung), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese Language and Literature
• The Role of the National Taiwan Normal University in the Development of Chinese Painting in Taiwan from 1945 to the 1960s, by 林素幸(Lin, Su-hsing), The Ohio State University, History of Art

Democratic Transition and Party Politics

Presider: 賴怡忠 (Lai, I-Chung), Cornell University, Experimental Partial Physics

Discussant: 林澤民 (Lin, Tse-min), UT-Austin, Prof. of Government

• Equity and Crafting Democracy in Taiwan, by Joseph Wong, UW-Madison, Political Science
• The State, the Opposition Forces, and the Transformation of Identity Politics in Post-War Taiwan: From Chinese Nationalism, Taiwan Native Identity to Taiwan Nationalism, by 張恆豪 (Chang, Heng-hao), University of Hawaii at Manoa, Sociology
• National Identity Issues in Taiwan’s Electoral Politics, by 林聰吉 (Lin, Tsong-Jyi), Purdue University, Political Science
• Structuring Taiwan's New Democracy: Founding Elections and Party Realignment by 林佳龍 (Lin, Chia-lung), Yale University, Political Science

Panel V. 外交政策與台灣中國關係

Foreign Policy and Taiwan-China Relations

Presider: 蔡緯(George W. Tsai), National Chengchi University, Research Fellow of Inst. of International Relations

Discussant: 陳文彥 (Chen, Wen-Yen), University of District of Columbia, Washington D.C., Prof. of Psychology; the president of Formosa Association for Public Affairs

• The Three Taiwan Strait Missile Crises: Implications for U.S. Policy by 王元綱 (Wang, Yuan-kang) University of Chicago, Political Science
• The Taiwan Relations Act: U.S. Legislative History and the Taiwan Strait Missile Crisis, by 林國維(Kok-ui K. Lim), DPP mission, Legal Counsel Government Affairs

Panel VI. 歷史與集體記憶

History and Collective Memories

Presider: Robert Marsh, Brown University, Prof. of Sociology

Discussant: 駱明正 (Lo, Ming-Cheng), UC-Davis, Prof. of Sociology

• Enduring Memories of False Formosa: An Assessment of Psalmanazar‘s Fraudulent Description of Formosa of 1704, by John Shufelt, Tunghai University, Foreign Languages and Literature
• Vignettes from a Soft War: The Theater of 2-28, by Robert Edmondson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Anthropology
• The Non-Obliteration of Taiwanese Women‘s Names,

Pharmacology, and Stephen O. Murray, El Instituto Obregon, Sociology

PanelVII. 社會運動

Social Movements

Presider: 張信堂(Dr. Peter Chang), Chairperson of WUFI, USA-headquarter

Discussant: 張信堂 & 許維德 (Shu, Wei-der), Syracuse University, Sociology

• Who Joined the Clandestine Political Organizations and Why -- Some Preliminary Evidences from the Overseas Taiwan Independence Movement, by 許維德 (Shu, Wei-der), Syracuse University, Sociology
• Clientelism and Political Collective Action of Capitalists in Taiwan: The Case of Banking Policy Transformation in 1989, by 李宗榮(Lee, Zong-Rong), University of Chicago, Sociology
• The Operation of Independent Unions in Taiwan: A Case Study in a Monopoly Enterprise, by 郭慧英 (Kuo, Huei-Ying), SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology
• Taiwanese Buddhists' Environmental Discourse: The Huan-Bao Phenomenon of Tzu-Chi Charity Foundation, by 林益仁 (Oliver Yih-Ren Lin), University College London, UK, Geography

Panel VIII. 公共政策與平等

Public Policies and Equality

Presider: 羅正方(Lo, Cheng-Fun), UT-Austin

Discussant: 林子倫 (Lin, Tze-Luen), University of Delaware, Urban Affairs & Public Policy

• Body of Common Fate: Policy and Politics of Community-making in Taiwan, by侯志仁 (Jeffrey Hou), UC-Berkeley, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
• Feminist Urban Research and Taiwan‘s Housing Studies, by陳怡伶(Chen, Yi-ling), Rutgers University, Urban Planning & Policy Development
• The Regulation and Compensation on Transferring Irrigation Water for Alternative, by 闕雅文(Chiueh, Ya-wen), National Taiwan University, Economics

Panel IX. 國家與經濟發展

The State and Economic Development

Presider: 謝斐宇(Michelle Fei-yi Hsieh), McGill University, Canada, Sociology

Discussant: 陳東升(Chen, Dung-Sheng), National Taiwan University, Prof. of Sociology

• Population Growth, Industrial Structure, and Economic Development: Taiwan, 1950 - 1995, by 劉立偉(Liu, Li-Wei), Cornell University, City & Regional Planning
• The Waning of a Hard Work Ethic: Moral Discourse in Taiwan‘s Recent Economic Restructuring , by 李安如(Lee, Anru), CUNY, Anthropology
• Eco-Regimes: Environmentalism and the State in Taiwan, by 林子倫(Lin, Tze-Luen), University of Delaware, Urban Affairs and Public Policy
• Unequal Alliance, Asymmetrical Interdependence: A Path Dependency Analysis of State-Business Relations in Taiwan’s Industrial Transformation, by 黃崇憲 (Huang, Chung-hsien), UW-Madison, Sociology

Panel X. 身體的社會建構

Social Construction of the Body

Presider: 李安如(Lee, Anru), CUNY, Anthropology

Discussant: 李文淑 (Lee, Wen-Shu), San Jose State University, Prof. of Comm. Studies

• The Concept of Slenderness Imposed upon Women in Taiwan, From 1987 to the Present: A Transnational Approach, by Yu-ling Lin, UW-Madison, Comm. Arts
• Beauty and Knowledge -- The Body Images of Female Taiwanese Doctoral Students, by 辜千祝(Gu, Chien-Juh), Michigan State University, Sociology
• The Dark Side of the Moon: A Preliminary Study of 'Modernized Homosexuality', by Yi-chun Wang, University of Essex, England, Sociology

Panel XI. 社會網絡與經濟

Social Networks and the Economy

Presider: 賴振昌(Lai, Chen-Chang), visiting scholar at Harvard University, Accounting

Discussant:張維安 (Chang, Wei-an), National Tsing-Hua University, Prof. of Inst. of Sociology & Anthropology

• Disciplinary Capitalism: "Networking" Power and Emotional Labor in Direct Selling by 藍佩嘉 (Lan, Pei-Chia), Northwestern University, Sociology
• Networking: The Dynamic of Economic Activities in Taiwan, by王志卿 (Wang, Chih-ching), University of Washington, Sociology

Panel XII. 語言與社會形構

Language and Social Formation

Presider: 洪基隆(Keelung Hong), UCSF & California Pacific Medical Center, Pharmacology

Discussant: 蕭欣義(Harry Hsiao), Victoria University, Canada, Prof. of History

• On the Gender-marked Pronoun "Lang" in Taiwanese, by 趙芳藝 (Chao, Fang-yi), The Ohio State University, Chinese Linguistics
• The Influence of Hanji on Taiwanese People's Linguistic Perception, by 蔣為文(Wivun T. Chiung), UT-Arlington, Linguistics

Reflections on Taiwan Studies: Global vs. Local

Presider: John Shufelt, Tunghai University, Foreign Languages & Literature

Panelists:陳東升(Chen, Dung-sheng), 林佳龍(Lin, Chia-lung), 黃崇憲(Huang, Chung-hsien)

• Disputes of Social Science Indigenization: Cultural Comparison, Floating Cultural Boundary and Social Formation, by 張維安 (Chang, Wei-An), National Tsing-hua University, Prof. of Inst. of Sociology & Anthropology & 楊凱成(Yang, Kae-Cherng), Bielefeld University, Germany, Sociology