【台研中心講座】0608 Ian Rowen「The Sunflower Movement: How a Student-led Occupation Transformed the Nation」

國際台灣學研究中心國際學者講座
International Taiwan Studies Center: Lecture

8 June, 2021     10:20-12:10

The Sunflower Movement: How a Student-led Occupation Transformed the Nation

The Sunflower Movement, the student-led occupation of Taiwan’s parliament in 2014, was the largest protest movement in Taiwan’s history. This eyewitness lecture will take you on a tour of the occupation and discuss its transformative effects, including the transitional justice projects that followed.

This lecture is an online lecture, please enter from the link below:

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Ian Rowen

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Geography and Urban Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Assigned Readings

Rowen, Ian. 2015. “Inside Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement: Twenty-Four Days in a Student-Occupied Parliament, and the Future of the Region.” Journal of Asian Studies 74 (1): 5–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911814002174.

Huang Chong-kai. “Dixson’s Idioms (狄克森片語).” Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror. Ed. Ian Rowen. Cambria Press, 2021.

Recommended Readings

Wu Chin-fa. “Disappearing Manhood (消失的男性).” Transitions in Taiwan: Stories of the White Terror. Ed. Ian Rowen. Cambria Press, 2021.

Rowen, Ian, and Jamie Rowen. 2017. “Taiwan’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 11 (1): 92–112. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijx001.

 

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