Academia Sinica will hold a thematic conference on Taiwan studies on April 26 to 28, 2012 in the Humanities and Social Sciences Building. The conference, entitled “The 1st World Congress of Taiwan Studies” (WCTS), will be the largest Taiwan studies conference ever held anywhere in the world.

　　Around 170 of the world’s top international and domestic Taiwan studies’ scholars have been invited to attend the Congress, including noted scholars from the Taiwan Studies Associations of Japan, Europe, and North America, and two well-known Taiwan Studies Research Centers — Center for Taiwan Studies School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK, and the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Sessions will include topics in literature, art, history, religion, economics, sociology, politics, law, archeology, environmental change, linguistics and aboriginal studies.

　　The Congress has been jointly organized by 11 Institutes and Centers from the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of Academia Sinica and will comprise two keynote speeches and 26 sessions in which 102 papers will be presented. The official languages of the Congress are English and Chinese. All papers will be written and presented in English or Chinese.

        For more information, and the detailed conference schedule please visit:

http://wcts.sinica.edu.tw/02_01_ch.php

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Event: The 1st World Congress of Taiwan Studies

Date: April 26, 2012 – April 28, 2012

Venue: 3rd Floor Conference Rooms, & IOS Conference Room 802: 8th floor, South Building of HSSB, Building for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica

Sponsored by: Academia Sinica

Organized by: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica

Co-Organized by: (In alphabetical order)
Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica
Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica