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The Taiwan Studies Center in Bratislava invites you to the Workshop Challenging legacies in Taiwan, Comenius University in Bratislava, Tuesday, January 7th, 2025, 9.30-5 p.m. Room: N316, Main building of  Comenius University, Šafárikovo nám. 6, 841 99 Bratislava 1

Organiser: Doc. Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher, Department of East Asian Studies, Comenius University, Sascha.klotzbucheruniba.sk

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Speakers
Dr. Jens Damm, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen
Prof. Fen-Fang Tsai 蔡芬芳, Department of Hakka Languages and Social Sciences, National Central University
Prof. Ann Heylen, Department of Taiwan Culture, National Taiwan Normal University
Prof. Yu-An Hsu 徐育安, College of Law, National Taipei University
Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, Vienna Taiwan Studies Center/Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
Prof. Nai-Yi Sun 孫迺翊,  College of Law, National Taiwan University

Program
9.30-9.45
Introduction
Sascha Klotzbücher, Department of East Asian Studies, Comenius University

Welcome Note
Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof. Dr.

Panel 1: Historical challenges
Chair: Mgr. Gabriela Pleschová, MSc. PhD., Faculty of Arts, Comenius University

9.45-10.30
Ann Heylen, Department of Taiwan Culture, National Taiwan Normal University
The European Heritage in Formosa Across Centuries

10.30-10.50
Coffee break

10.50-11.35
Prof. Yu-An Hsu 徐育安, College of Law, National Taipei University
Death penalty in Taiwan

11.35-12.20
Dr. Astrid Lipinsky, Vienna Taiwan Studies Center/Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
From Traditional Obedience to Female Presidency: Gender Equality in Taiwan.

12.20-14.00
Lunch in the canteen of the Faculty of Arts, Gondova, Ground Floor


Panel 2: Challenging legacies  
Chair: Igor Hron, PhD, Faculty of Law, Comenius University

14-14.45
Prof. Nai-Yi Sun 孫迺翊,  College of Law, National Taiwan University
Democratic rolling back? The challenge of the constitutional court from the Parliament in Taiwan

14.45-15.20
Coffee break

15.20-16.05
Dr. Jens Damm, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen
Making sense of Taiwan: EU Perspectives in Contention

16.05-16.50
Prof. Fen-Fang Tsai 蔡芬芳, Department of Hakka Languages and Social Sciences, National Central University
Bringing ethnicity and religion in: Rethinking cross-border marriages between Taiwan and Indonesian Hakka

16.50
Closure
Informal coming together

Date: 30.10.2024

Presenter: Dr. Ute Wallenböck,  

Contact: uwallenbuni-bonn.de 

Affiliation: Department of Tibetan and Mongolian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany

Food plays a significant role in both identity formation and social life. For diasporic communities in particular, it carries not only memories and traditions but also their culinary practices. The preparation, serving, and consumption of ‘traditional’ foods become a vital means of preserving cultural identity in a foreign setting. Drawing on findings from my ethnographic fieldwork in Taiwan in early 2024, I examine the complex relationship between food, identity, and representation within the Tibetan diasporic community in Taiwan. I focus on how culinary practices, especially in the context of ethnic businesses, play a key role in preserving cultural heritage and negotiating identity, with an emphasis on Tibetan restaurants in Taiwan.

Bio of presenter: Ute Wallenböck is a research associate at the Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies at the University of Bonn. She has an academic background in Sinology and Tibetology, holding a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Vienna. Following her doctoral studies, she contributed to the Sinophone Borderlands project at Palacký University Olomouc and later worked in the Department of Chinese Studies at Masaryk University in Brno. Her research centers on the Sinophone and Tibetophone borderlands, along with the Tibetan diaspora in Asia and Europe, exploring topis of identity, memory, cultural encounters, and the significance of food in the context of cultural transmission.