UW TSP faculty member, Dr. Yen-Chu Weng, has been named a 2022-2023 Global Engagement Fellow by the UW Office of Global Affairs. Dr. Weng’s work as a Global Engagement Fellow will explore pedagogical methods for engaging the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in UW coursework. By developing lesson plans which incorporate UN Sustainable Development Goals,

Happy Pride Month! We are thrilled to invite you to a special in-person screening of Director C.B. Yi’s MONEYBOYS (2021) at SIFF UPTOWN CINEMA on Wednesday, June 29, at 7 pm. To celebrate Pride Month, Director Yi will join us in person for a post-screening Q&A! See event details below and on the SIFF website!

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program will host the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies from June 27 to 29, 2022. All three days of the conference will be livestreamed on our Facebook and YouTube pages. To join us online, please register at the WCTS website. Registration to view the livestream is free and

This Saturday, May 28, from 6:00pm to 7:15pm in Kane Hall 130, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies will host a discussion addressing the evolving relationship between Taiwan and the Baltic States. Diplomatic relations between the Baltic countries and the Republic of China (Taiwan) began in the 1920s, and were revived in the

UW Taiwan Studies Program Assistant Professor James Lin was quoted in the media below about Sunday’s attack on a Taiwanese American church in southern California. Associated Press: “Explainer: What’s behind difficult Taiwan-China relations?” (May 18, 2022) Al Jazeera: “Taiwan stunned after deadly shooting at Taiwanese-American church” (May 18, 2022)

Taiwan Studies Professor, James Lin, was quoted in a recent New York Times obituary for Taiwanese intellectual and politician, Peng Ming-min, titled Peng Ming-min, Fighter for Democracy in Taiwan, Dies at 98.

Professor David Bachman was quoted in an article in the Portuguese language titled, “How Taiwan’s sanctions against Russia help explain the global struggle for hegemony,” published April 7, 2022, in Brazil’s Brasil de Fato (BdF), a national news website and a radio agency. During the interview, he discussed why Taiwan was complying with sanctions although the nation

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is right around the corner! Please join us in celebrating film productions from and about Taiwan at SIFF from April 14 to April 24, in-person and/or online! See below for an exciting lineup of both feature-length and short films that feature filmmakers and actors from Taiwan.  COUPON CODES: UWTAIWAN2022: $3.00 off

We are thrilled to co-present the North American Premiere of No Man is an Island, a feature-length documentary film made by Taiwanese American filmmaker Jay Chern, at the 2022 Seattle Asian American Film Festival from March 3 to March 13, 2022! The online screening is accompanied by a Q&A with Director Jay Chern, moderated by Ellen

We are pleased to announce that the Taiwan Film Series: Political Violence, Historical Trauma, co-organized with the University of Cambridge, will take place online between March 7-19, 2022. The film series will feature two documentaries, one feature-length film, and one short that revolve around the theme of violence, trauma, and memories: Taiwan Black Movies [台灣黑電影], Absent Without Leave [不即不離], Super Citizen Ko [超級大國民], and Letter #69 [第六十九信].