The Center for Asian Studies at USC will host the 2005 Taiwan Issues Conference at the Marriott Hotel in Columbia Sept. 9–11. The theme of the conference is “Re-Framing Taiwan: From Geopolitical to Everyday Frames of the Taiwan Issue.”
The conference, which is free and open to the public, will feature several distinguished scholars, including William Kirby, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard, Tom Gold, professor of sociology at the University of California–Berkeley, Murray Rubenstein, professor of history at the City University of New York, and Hu Xiaobo, professor of political science at Clemson University.
Panel sessions will consider whether the United States should alter its “One China” policy, various international perspectives on the Taiwan issue, the problem of competing Chinese/Taiwan identities, marriage and problems of cross-strait family relations, and the Taiwan issue in historical perspective.
The conference is funded by a grant from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta. A complete program is on the Web at www.cas.sc.edu/aisn/.
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