1) IJTS CfP Topical Section New Perspectives on Maritime Taiwan
In recent years, international maritime history has witnessed a prolific expansion of scholarship. Nevertheless, reputable journals in Taiwan studies or maritime history have yet to produce a collection of research papers showcasing new research into Taiwan’s historical role in the global maritime world. This topical section of the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS, https://brill.com/view/journals/ijts/ijts-overview.xml) aims to fill this scholarly void by presenting some of the latest research about Maritime Taiwan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Taiwan’s economic and geopolitical powers have been increasingly felt in the region and worldwide, a glimpse into their historical and human connections shall be of interest to the global readership of area studies, maritime history, and, specifically, Taiwan studies.
The proposed topical section will be guest edited by a team led by Mr. Rudolph Ng, Lecturer in Global History, University of Portsmouth. It will be dedicated to Dr. Li Peichen of Academia Sinica, who passed away shortly after attending the final conference related to this planned publication. Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a 150-word short author bio to this address for consideration of inclusion in the topical section: portcitiesconference@gmail.com
Deadlines:
By 15th July 2024: Submission of abstract to guest editors
By 15th September 2024: Invitation sent for manuscript submission
By 15th November 2024: Submit full papers online to the IJTS for double-blind peer review
For more details, please see the attached Call for Abstracts. Alternatively, please visit this webpage:
Call for Abstracts- New Perspectives on Maritime Taiwan
Please direct any queries to Mr. Rudolph Ng at portcitiesconference@gmail.com
2) 2024 Writers-in-Residence of Taiwan Literature Base OPEN CALL! (see attachments)
【駐村空間／Residency Venue】
國立臺灣文學館 臺灣文學基地 繆思苑
Muse Garden, Taiwan Literature Base
（獲選駐村者可免費入住臺灣文學基地內獨棟日式屋舍）
(Successful candidates may reside free of charge in Muse Garden, a single Japanese-style dormitory house)
【駐村時間／Residency Year】
2024 年 8 月 1 日 至 2025 年 7 月 31 日 之間
August 1st, 2024 to July 31st, 2025
（由申請者自行規劃 7 日至 30 日之駐村寫作計畫，2025 年 3 月不開放申請）
(Applicants may request a period of residency of between 7 and 30 days. No residencies will be scheduled during March 2025)
【申請截止日／Application Deadline】
2024 年 5 月 15 日
May 15th, 2024
（為免網路壅塞，請及早報名）
(To avoid potential data-transfer delays, please submit the applications as early as possible)
【線上報名／Application Website】
本館藝文活動平台（連結）
Official Online Registration Platform (Click Here)
（敬請下載「2024 臺灣文學基地作家駐村甄選簡章」）
(Please download the “2024 Selection Guidelines for Taiwan Literature Base Writers-in-Residence”)
【聯絡方式／Contact 】
信箱／Email：hsihoarcadia@nmtl.gov.tw
臺灣文學基地官網／Official Website：https://tlb.nmtl.gov.tw/
臺灣文學基地官網／Facebook：https://www.facebook.com/TaiwanLiteratureBase
3) 2024 Spotlight Taiwan Festival
Home X Migrants
Celebrate Taiwan culture!
- Bubble tea
- Traditional Chess Game
- Blog Poster Showcase
- Comic Artist Lecture and Workshop with Lin Li-Chin
- Taiwan Lives Book Launch
- Documentary Screening Mimi’s Utopia
Monday 29 April 2024
11:00 – 15:30
Harrington Social Space & Greenbank Lecture Theatre
UCLan
Visit ISAP UCLan for further information
4) Call for Manuscripts: Port Cities in Global History (Working Title)
The Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures (PCMC) at the University of Portsmouth, and History Department at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) invites manuscripts for consideration in an edited volume which explores the role of port cities in the context of global studies in social and cultural maritime history.
The book has been inspired by the conference ‘Port Cities in Comparative Global History: Potentials and Issues’ held in Hong Kong in June 2023. The edited collection aims to explore emerging scholarship and new, original, research aspects of maritime society and culture within the urban maritime sphere.
We welcome submissions on (but not restricted to) the following topics:
- Modern and early-modern time periods
- Port city culture and the built environment, to include institutions, living patterns or infrastructure
- Multinational maritime histories of work, migration, cultures, public health, and/or diseases
- The impacts of imperial and global factors on port cities, including the integration or acknowledgement of previously overlooked, hidden, underexplored, or ‘challenging’ maritime histories
- The shared histories, cultural exchange, or hybridisation that happens within the port city milieu
- New approaches to colonial and imperial histories within the port city – reimagining and re-telling stories that restore balance and agency in unequal power relationships
- Cross- and trans-disciplinary opportunities for maritime heritage on land (e.g., practice-based museum professionals, academics, practitioners in the sciences, arts and/or digital technologies)
The volume will be published in English (UK). Please submit abstracts of 300 words max and 5 keywords, with the author(s) name, institutional affiliation, contact email, and a short biography of 100 words max to melanie.bassett@port.ac.uk no later than Sunday 8th September 2024 with ‘Port Cities CfM’ in the subject line. Submissions from Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers are encouraged.
The book’s editorial team will advise authors whether they have been accepted by Friday 11th October 2024. Full manuscripts of c. 8000 words (including footnotes) will be expected to be submitted by April 2025. The editors will advise on submission guidelines and the publishing timeline. We intend to submit the full publication manuscript by August 2025. The collaboration between PCMC and HKBU has been facilitated by Lloyd’s Register Foundation who funded the ‘Lloyd’s Register Surveyors in China, 1860 – 1930’ project.