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Tuesday
07
MAY

01:00 PM

Security community vs. Global South—Taiwan’s coloniality

SHIH Chih-yu

The former colonizers had already decided not to resort to waging wars between themselves when engaging in colonial conquest and exploitation. Instead, they crafted and subscribed to rules-based order. However, organizations of former colonies remind Europe of the unrestrained Westphalian states, the Axis states in particular, that existed before WWII. This realization and its concomitant remedy in terms of rules-based order is self-defeating to the extent that they together distract attention away from the double causes of the governmental incapacity in the Global South networking; namely, the legacies of the past colonialism and perpetuation of colonial relations following the nominal decolonization. Consequently, the de facto alliance of colonizers of the Western security community inflicts a kind of epistemicide on the former colonies that is simultaneously the self-epistemicide of Europe that seeks to forget and forgive colonialism.
If time permits, either during the lecture or during our class discussion, I will discuss how Sun Yatsen’s use of East Asia to transcend territorial fixation could have inspired decolonization but its failure to develop in Taiwan during the Cold War attests to the abortion and implausibility of decolonization.

Chih-yu Shih is National Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education and University Chair Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. With his concept of Post-Chineseness and combining the fields of international relations, cultural politics, and intellectual history, Shih boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chineseness in existing scholarship through the revelation of the multiplicity and complexity of the uses of Chineseness by strategically conceived insiders, outsiders, and those in-between. He is the author and editor of many books, including Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self and Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations.

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Institut für Sinologie

010.01.05

Voßstraße 2

69115 Heidelberg

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Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series 2024 ':

This year’s Taiwan Lecture Series is devoted to questioning Sinophone Authenticities from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic In Search for Home—Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the SinophoneWworld, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home—Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist, FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).

Tuesday 07th May 2024, 01:00 PM

Security community vs. Global South—Taiwan’s coloniality

SHIH Chih-yu

Wednesday 08th May 2024, 06:00 PM

An Ontological Security Dilemma—Beijing, Washington Taipei

SHIH Chih-yu

Sunday 12th May 2024, 06:00 PM

Israel in Egypt: Konzert/Projektion/Installation—Heimat? Auf der Suche

Chi-Han FENG & Junge Kantorei

Wednesday 15th May 2024, 06:00 PM

ASEAN, SCO, and Taiwan’s Desecuritization Options

SHIH Chih-yu

Tuesday 21st May 2024, 01:00 PM

Reconstructing Survival Mechanisms—Travel Narrations of Yin Hai-guang and Wu Zhuo-liu during the Martial Law Period

LIN Shu-Hui

Tuesday 28th May 2024, 01:00 PM

Taiwan Perspectives on the United States—Travelogues from the Cultural Cold War

LIN Shu-Hui

Tuesday 04th June 2024, 01:00 PM

Pursuing Happiness: Human Rights and Taiwan’s Contemporary Travel Culture

LIN Shu-Hui

Tuesday 18th June 2024, 01:00 PM

Thinking with/as feminists: an introduction to key terms

Paola ZAMPERINI

Wednesday 19th June 2024, 06:00 PM

Film screening: Woman Demon Human (1987) directed by Huang Shuqin—China's first feminist film?


Tuesday 25th June 2024, 01:00 PM

Studying Feminism in 21st Century Anglophone Academia

Paola ZAMPERINI

Tuesday 25th June 2024, 07:00 PM

Film screening: BIG, including discussion with the filmmaker Wei Te-Sheng


Wednesday 26th June 2024, 06:00 PM

Film screening: The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006) directed by Ann Hui


Tuesday 02nd July 2024, 01:00 PM

Intersectional Blues

Paola ZAMPERINI

Tuesday 09th July 2024, 01:00 PM

The Search for Home in the Feminist Classroom and Beyond

Paola ZAMPERINI

Tuesday 16th July 2024, 01:00 PM

Texts and Contexts of Sinophone Feminisms

Paola ZAMPERINI

Wednesday 17th July 2024, 06:00 PM

Film screening: Untold herstory (2022) directed by Zero Chou, 112min