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

Join the Simpson Center for the Humanities on Thursday, Feb 26, 2026, 4 – 5:30 p.m. at the Communications Building, Room 120, for a special lecture with Professor Heng-hao Chang on Post-Colonial Reflections on International Disability Rights: Adaptation and Localization in Taiwan. Taiwan is a unique site of innovation in disability rights. Despite being barred

On August 1st, 2016, Taiwan’s prior President Tsai issued an official apology to the country’s Indigenous Peoples on behalf of the government, outlining steps to promote legislation and policies, including the formation of the Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee (原住民族歷史正義與轉型正義委員會). President Tsai promised that the government would “push for policies to ensure that

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,

Join us JANUARY 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM in Thomson Hall 317 for a special book talk by Professor Nicholas de Villiers of University of North Florida for his talk ‘Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang’. VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE In his book, de Villiers contends that we need to theorize both queer time