Date: Friday, December 5th, 2025
日期：2025年12月5日（星期五）
Venue: NTNU CLA Conference Room (B1, Cheng Building)
地點：國立臺灣師範大學文學院會議室（文學院誠大樓B1）
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Note: This workshop will be conducted in English
Contact:
Corrina Gross corrinagross01@gmail.com
李泓瑨 harriet0264@gmail.com
Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (NTNU)
Taiwan’s complex colonial history—from Dutch and Spanish settlements and Ching rule to Japanese colonization and martial law under the Republic of China—has produced layered legacies that continue to shape its cultural and political identities. These historically sedimented “regimes of truth,” to borrow Foucault’s term, generate enduring tensions both within Taiwan—where “Taiwaneseness” is continually negotiated in relation to “Chineseness”—and externally, in Taiwan’s fraught relations with China. Such tensions extend beyond the political arena: the battle for hearts and minds, and for the island’s future, unfolds through everyday acts of cultural production and consumption. In this sense, Taiwan remains engaged in an ongoing cultural war.
This workshop examines how Taiwan’s cultural identities are formed, contested, and weaponized across diverse historical and contemporary contexts:
- Colonial Legacies and Collective Memory : How Taiwan’s colonial past continues to structure cultural memory, identity formation, and social conflict.
- “Taiwaneseness” vs. “Chineseness” : Struggles over national belonging, cultural identity, and political allegiance within Taiwan.
- Literature, Language, and Popular Culture : How novels, poetry, film, music, media, and debates over national language reflect and shape Taiwan’s identity tensions.
- The Silent War on Culture : How China’s cultural strategies—censorship, appropriation, disinformation, and historical erasure—seek to undermine Taiwan’s cultural autonomy and identity.
- Technology, AI, and the Weaponization of Language : How digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and linguistic tools are mobilized in identity struggles—from disinformation campaigns to AI-generated narratives about Taiwan’s cultural legitimacy.
