This blog will help facilitate a greater interaction between the ITASA 2007 East Coast Conference Planning Board and the greater community. If you have any questions feel free to post or email one of us.
The ITASA 2008 Conference website is finally up. If you enjoyed the 2007 Conference at Harvard, or missed out on it, make sure you check out this year’s conference. It is being hosted by University of Pennsylvania and their site is: http://www.itasa.org/2008/east/
Just writing this post to let all of you know that programming has finalized the program schedule for the conference, and the order and times of each workshop/cultural exploration/panel will be as shown on the website. If there are any concerns, feel free to contact me or anyone in the programming team. =) Happy New Year!
We’re happy to say that most of our speakers are now confirmed! We’re still waiting for some exciting Taiwan scholars and Taiwanese/Taiwanese-American individuals to get back to us, but you can check out the confirmed speakers and their tentative topics here:
Keynotes:
William Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History and Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
Randall G. Schriver, Armitage International, LLC. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Political
• Color Wars: Contemporary Taiwanese Politics
Professor Steven Goldstein, Smith College and the Taiwan Workshop at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
• Spreading the Word: Christian Developments on Taiwan
Professor James R. Rohrer, University of Nebraska–Kearney
• Cross-Straits Security Concerns
John Tkacik, Jr., Heritage Foundation
• Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: A New Look at Cross Straits Issues
Professor Emma Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Identity Politics in Taiwan
Professor Stephane Corcuffe, Universit´e de La Rochelle
Business/Technology:
• Pirates!: Taiwanese Intellectual Property Rights
Professor Andrew Torrance, University of Kansas
Dr. Y. Rocky Tsao, Fish & Richardson, P.C.
• Shamans, Herbalists, and Doctors: An Informal Look at Taiwanese Health Care
Professor Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University
• (Technological Panel; Title TBD)
Dr. Shih-Chin Wu, The Boeing Company
Dr. Kun-Lung Wu, IBM–T.J. Watson Research Center
Dr. Henry Chang, IBM–T.J. Watson Research Center
Dr. Chun-Tao Li, IBM–T.J. Watson Research Center
• Inaugurate, Initiate, Innovate: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs in America
Dr. Alice Hsin, Integral Communications, Inc., President and Founder
LINX Communications, Inc., CEO and President
Social
• Beautiful Minds: Taiwanese Americans in Taiwan
Dr. Maw-Kuen Wu, Director of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Former Vice-Chairman of the National Science Council of Taiwan
