Dr. Margaret Yun-Pu Tu (Nikal Kabala’an) centers her research and teaching around her community, the Indigenous peoples in Taiwan, seeking to answer questions surrounding Indigenous sovereignty as it relates to a global landscape of legal, social and technological change. That effort is now a part of UW curriculum with Tu’s newly developed course, Indigenous Taiwan

New Directions in Taiwan History – Taiwan at the Center and at the Margins February 26-27, 2026 University of Washington, Seattle This two-day workshop will bring together scholars working across the temporal range of Taiwan history to share and discuss works-in-progress and findings from their research projects.  We especially welcome contributions on legal, environmental, Qing,