Program

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Program Details

Friday November 8, 2019

Arrival and Check in
Radisson Plaza Hotel
100 W Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
(269)343-3333
 
Welcome Dinner (Informal) 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Burdick’s Bar & Grill
First floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269)343-0032
 

 *All panels will take place in the Stone Theatre (B1), Radisson Plaza Hotel.

 

Saturday November 9, 2019

Breakfast: 6:30 – 8:00 am (charge to your room)
The Morning Dish
Second floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269) 226-3155
 
Opening Ceremony: 8:30 – 9:00 am
  • Dr. Paulo Zagalo-Melo, Associate Provost, Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Western Michigan University
  • Mr. Eric Huang, Director General, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Chicago
Panel I (9:00 ­– 10:20 am): Cross-Strait Relations and the Taiwan Relations Act
Chair: Vincent Wang, Adelphi University
        Koji Kagotani, Osaka University of Economics
        Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica 
        Zhiqun Zhu, Bucknell University
        Kathleen E. Powers, Dartmouth College
        Dalton Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
 
Discussant: Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas
 
Coffee Break10:20 ­– 10:40 am
 
Panel II (10:40 am – noon): Elections and Public Opinions in Taiwan
Chair: John Clark, Western Michigan University
        Lu-huei Chen, National Chengchi University 
        Hsin-Hsin Pan, National Taiwan University
        Koji Kagotani, Osaka University of Economics
  •  “Taiwanese People’s Favorability for the Chinese Communist Party from 2017 till this January”
        Shi-huei Yang, Columbia University
 
Discussant: Eric Chang, Michigan State University
 
Lunch: noon – 1:15 pm
 
Panel III (1:30 – 2:50 pm): Prospects for Democracy in Greater China
Chair: Jim Butterfield, Western Michigan University
        John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, University of South Carolina
        T.Y. Wang, Illinois State University
        Su-feng Cheng, National Chengchi University
        Ching-hsin Yu, National Chengchi University
        Victoria Hui, University of Notre Dame
 
Discussant:  Tun-jen Cheng, College of William and Mary
 
Panel IV (3:00 – 4:20 pm): Political Economy of Taiwan and China
Chair: Wei-chiao Huang, Western Michigan University
        Alex Tan, University of Canterbury
        Karl Ho, University of Texas at Dallas
        Cal Clark, Auburn University
        Jessica C. Liao, North Carolina State University
        Daniel O’Neill, University of the Pacific
        Dennis L. C. Weng, Sam Houston State University
        Ching-Hsing Wang, National Cheng Kung University
        Tsong-Jyi Lin, Tamkang University
 
Discussant: Dalton Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
 
Roundtable (4:30 – 5:50 pm): Forty Years of the Taiwan Relations Act and Hong Kong
Chair: Tse-min Lin, University of Texas at Austin
Panelists:
  • Wei-chin Lee, Wake Forest University
  • Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas
  • Vincent Wang, Adelphi University
  • Michael Davis, Columbia University & Wilson Center
 
Dinner6:30 – 8:30 pm
Zazios
First Floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269)384-2650
 

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Breakfast: 6:30 – 8:00 am (charge to your room)
The Morning Dish
Second floor of Radisson Plaza Hotel
(269) 226-3155
 
Panel V (8:30 – 9:30 am): US-Taiwan Relations
Chair: Yuan-kang Wang, Western Michigan University
  • “Is the Enemy’s Enemy My Friend? American Public Support for Taiwan under the Context of the Sino-US Trade War”
        Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
        Charles K.S. Wu, Purdue University
        Dean Chen, Ramapo College of New Jersey
        Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
 
Discussant: Jessica Liao, North Carolina State University
 
Coffee Break: 9:30 ­– 9:50 am
 
Panel VI (9:50 – 11:30 am): Young Scholars Panel
Chair: Eric Chang, Michigan State University
        Yu-Ceng Liao, University of Houston
        Chun-Ying Wu, University of Texas at Austin
        Shu-An Tsai, SUNY Buffalo
        Yuan Yuan Hsu, University of Missouri-Columbia
 
Discussants: Dennis L. C. Weng, Sam Houston State University
                        Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St. Thomas
 
Lunch: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
 

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