The East Asia Center will be hosting Rebecca Nedostup, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Brown University, for a Nelson Lecture on Southeast Asia "Displacements and Taiwan’s Geographies."
How does the history of displacement and the field of critical refugee studies enable a more comprehensive understanding of Taiwan? This talk will examine the links among several aspects of the island's modern history that resonate with Southeast Asian experiences and research methodologies: space, place, and belonging; property rights and preservation; and transitional justice. Such an analytical framework may help lift Taiwan's post-World War II story out of the realm of politicized Cold War history and into both a longer-term Taiwanese context and a more capacious set of regional coincidences, correlations, and connections.
The talk will be held in Monroe 124.
