International Center for Cultural Studies

Wen-Shu Lai
Researcher

Professor and Chair, Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project IV: The Intersectionality of Cultural Preservation, Sustainable Living and Ecological Conservation

Yuan-Horng Chu
Researcher

Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project I: From Silk Road to Belt and Road

Kwang-Suk Lee
Researcher

Professor, Digital & Cultural Policy Department, Graduate School of Public Policy & Info Tech, Seoul National University of Science & Technology

Participating in Sup-project II: Questioning the Impacts of General-Purpose AI on Human Labor

Ya-Chung Chuang
Researcher

Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project IV: The Multiverse of the HSP: Towards an Urban Ontology

Abhijit Roy
Researcher

Professor and Head, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata

Participating in Sup-project II: Art in Bazaar: DTP Gig Work, Precarity and the Digital Everyday of Kolkata

Francesca TAROCCO
Researcher

Professor and Director of THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE), Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Participating in Sup-project IV:

Yoshihisa Amae
Researcher

Researcher, Center for International Reconciliation Studies, Waseda University, Japan; Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwan Studies, Chang Jung Christian University

Participating in Sup-project I: Memory As Is: Politics of Colonial Memories in Taiwan and South Korea Compared

Chih-Hua Chiang
Researcher

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

Participating in Sup-project IV: Human-environment Interactions in the Neolithic Northern Taiwan

Hsin-I Lin
Researcher

Associate Professor, Department of Arts & Design ,National Tsing Hua University

Participating in Sup-project IV: Process Cinema: Cameraless Moving Image and the Ecological Thought

Wen-Chian Huang
Researcher

Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, Tamkang University

Participating in Sup-project V: Chinese Literature in the Post-Revolutionary Era

Ngoi Guat Peng
Researcher

Associate Professor, Modern Language and Communication, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia

Participating in Sup-project V: The Outside of the Chinese Contemporary: The Malaysian Chinese Third World

LEUNG Yuk-ming Lisa
Researcher

Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

Participating in Sup-project III: Media and Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Discourse, Gender and Cultural Identity, Global–Local Interactions, Cultural Policy and Hong Kong Media History

Hua-Hsuan Chu
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project IV: The Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Early Colonial Taiwan Rice Improvement Projects

Ying-Ching Wu
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project IV: The Evolution of Purse Seine Fishing Methods in Taiwan: Intertwine of Humans, Marine Species, and Multiple Scale Forces

Yu-Wen Song
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese, National Central University

Participating in Sup-project V: The Point Zero of the Chinese Left: An Exploration of the Chen Yingzhen Studies

Chung-Hsien Lee
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

Participating in Sup-project IV: When Climate Change ‘Encounters’ Human Rights and Science: Constructing a New Climate Regime in Court?

Jeffrey Nicolaisen
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Culture, Hsuan Chuang University

Participating in Sup-project IV: Equality of Life: Multi-species Ethnography on the Animal Protection Movement in Taiwan

Xu Lin
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Huaqiao University

Participating in Sup-project V: Pagoda Building Tai Jinnong: Creation and Thought between Literature and History

Sung-Yueh Perng
Researcher

Associate Professor, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project IV: Digital Everyday Life and Governance

Tzu-kai Liu
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnology, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan

Participating in Sup-project II: Digital Networking and Digital Governance in the Process of Labor Migration in China

LAI, Francisca Yuen-Ki
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Center for General Education, National Tsing Hua University

Participating in Sup-project IV: Multispecies Family and Transnational Care

Kuang-Yi Ku
Researcher

Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project IV: Bat Night Market - Interdisciplinary Practice and Research at the Intersection of Art and Science

Guan-Jhang Chen
Researcher

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University

Participating in Sup-project IV: (Re)Assemblages in Flux: Hunters, Aiyu, and Multispecies Relationships

Tobias Linné
Researcher

Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden

Participating in Sup-project IV: “Animal Turn”: Changing Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture

Nguyen Nu Nguyet Anh
Researcher

Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM)

Participating in Sup-project II: Precarity Behind the Wheel: Algorithmic Control and the Everyday Struggles of App-Based Drivers in Ho Chi Minh City

Bonny Ling
Researcher

Executive Director, Work Better Innovations; Research Fellow, Institute for Human Rights and Business(IHRB); Senior Non-Resident Fellow, University of Nottingham Taiwan Studies Programme

Participating in Sup-project III: Challenges for Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan in the Elimination of Forced Labour

Derek Sheridan
Researcher

Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

Participating in Sup-project I: China-Africa Relations and the Moral Politics of Geopolitical Imaginaries

Lou Xiao Ming
Researcher

Associate Research Fellow, Department of Cultural Studies, Shanghai University, China

Participating in Sup-project V: Unlocking the Future: The Imagination of Urban Writing and Culture in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Ya-Wen Yang
Researcher

Assistant Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica

Participating in Sup-project III: Exploitation, Unfree Labor, and Border Control Regime

I-Yi Hsieh
Researcher

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsinghua University

Participating in Sup-project IV: Global Frictions on Wet Market: Aquatic Aesthetics and Biosecurity Infrastructure

Monika Verma
Researcher

MSCA-CZ Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University, Olomouc

Participating in Sup-project II: Cybersecurity and Digital Infrastructure Concerning the Securitization and Exclusion of Rohingya refugees in South Asia: A case study of India
Participating in Sup-project III: The plight of Rohingyas in India: The Hindutva politics and its practices of exclusion

Dolma Tsering
Researcher

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project II: Exploring Digital Authoritarianism and The Chinese Model in Nepal
Participating in Sup-project III: Refugees in Countries without Refugee Laws: Exiled Tibetans in India, Nepal, and Taiwan

Gong Zhai
Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography and Environmental Resources, National Taiwan University

Participating in Sup-project V: 移民研究、台灣研究

Poonam Sharma
Researcher

Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Participating in Sup-project II: How ‘Chip’ Strategy and Technology has transformed ‘Migration & Mobility’ in Asia?
Participating in Sup-project III: Migrant Politics and the ‘ambiguous’ concept of citizenship in post-colonial Asia.

Wen-Chi Chang
Researcher

MA Student, School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project III: On the Legislative Direction of Forced Labor and the Protection of Labor Rights and Interests of Foreign Fishermen in Offshore Fisheries—Centering on the Legislation of Enterprise Supply Chain Management

LEE Wei-I
Researcher

Founder and editor-in-chief of VOP BOOKS

Participating in Sup-project II:

Musquiqui Chihying
Researcher

Taiwanese artist, researcher, and experimental film director

Participating in Sup-project II: Smart Cities and Submarine Communication Cables: Hegemony in the Formation of Afro-Asian Maritime Regions

Lou Mo
Researcher

Canadian-Chinese artist and curator

Participating in Sup-project II: Smart Cities and Submarine Communication Cables: Hegemony in the Formation of Afro-Asian Maritime Regions

WU Ting-Kuan
Researcher

Independent Researcher and Arts & Culture Practitioner, Trans/Voices Project (TVP)

Participating in Sup-project III: Documentary Screenings And Discussion on Papuan Music & Eastern Indonesian Communities Visiting

LAN Yu-Chen
Researcher

Independent Researcher and Arts & Culture Practitioner, Trans/Voices Project (TVP)

Participating in Sup-project III: Documentary Screenings And Discussion on Papuan Music & Eastern Indonesian Communities Visiting

Lungani Hlongwa
Researcher

PhD Candidate, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Participating in Sup-project I: The Digital Silk Road Initiative and the making of a new nomos of the earth: The case of Huawei's Safe City in Johannesburg
Participating in Sup-project II: Southern Africa in China’s Digital Silk Road Initiative: Pursuing agency in a new nomos of the Earth

Li Qi
Researcher

PhD Candidate, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Participating in Sup-project II: Land-taking for technology parks: informality as a question and solution
Participating in Sup-project III: Land-taking for technopoles in Shanghai and Taipei

Rong-Tai Chen
Researcher

PhD Candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Participating in Sup-project IV: Conserving Pigs, Modeling Humans

Katarzyna Szpargała
Researcher

PhD Candidate, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Participating in Sup-project II: Digital Governance, Gender Equality, and Fake News: Dissemination of Gendered Disinformation in Central and Eastern Europe.

Chih-Lan Song/Gina Song Lopez
Researcher

PhD Student, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University

Participating in Sup-project IV: New Social Movements and Sustainable Food Advocacy in the Sinosphere.

Jonathan S. Parhusip
Researcher

PhD Student, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project III: MIGRANT FISHERS AND THE RIGHT TO THE PORT

Qin-Rou Guo
Researcher

PhD Student, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project V: Manchukoku: Colonial Art and East Asian Modernity

Yang Chao
Researcher

PhD Student, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project V: Imagining Home and Nation: Sinophone Visuality and Overseas Chinese Studies

Megha Shrivastava
Researcher

PhD Student, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations (DGIR), Manipal Institute of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (MISHA), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (Institute of Eminence). Manipal, Karnataka, India.

Participating in Sup-project II: Revisiting Strategic Autonomy Debates in Taiwan: How Taiwan Navigates Pressure from US Vis-a-Vis China in a Chip-centered New Cold War?

Aurbey Fanani
Researcher

MA Student, Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (University System of Taiwan), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project III: Women Migrant Workers, Art, and Power to Speak

Muhammad Irfan
Researcher

MA Student, Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (University System of Taiwan), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Participating in Sup-project III: Underground Music as Empowerment of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan

Hanna Hlynenko
Researcher

MA Student, Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (University System of Taiwan), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Participating in Sup-project II: Assemblage of Power: The Belt and Road Initiative and Kazakhstan’s Developmental Discourse