Current Taiwan Studies Programme Events

 All Seminars are held at 5.00 pm in The Fellow’s Dining Room, (unless otherwise stated) in the Hilda Besse Building at St Antony’s College

Week 3 - 7th May 2012

Professor Steve Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College, and Associate of the Fairbank Center, Harvard University, convenor of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University

Election Results in Taiwan: What's Next for the US-China-Taiwan Tangle?

Week 6  - 31st May

Professor Shelly Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College, North Carolina

Why Taiwan Matters

Professor Rigger has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai (2006). Rigger is the author of two books on Taiwan’s domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001). In 2011 she published Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse, a book for general readers. She has published articles on Taiwan’s domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her monograph, “Taiwan’s Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and ‘Taiwan Nationalism’” was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006. Currently she is working on a study of Taiwan’s contributions to the PRC’s economic take-off.