CALL FOR PAPERS
New Directions in Taiwan History Workshop:
Taiwan at the Center and at the Margins
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 10, 2025
February 26-27, 2026
University of Washington, Seattle
Hosted by the UW Taiwan Studies Program
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, gender, maritime, Indigenous histories.
Participants will be asked to pre-circulate a draft dissertation chapter, journal article, or book manuscript chapter. Senior scholars will comment on pre-circulated writing. All participants will be expected to read and engage in the workshop discussions. Proposed works in progress should not have been published or be under consideration for publication.
Local accommodation (up to three nights), economy class airfare or ground transportation, and meals will be provided for all participants. PhD student participants need to be ABD (advanced to PhD candidacy). Past participants may submit proposals for new research, but new applicants will be prioritized. We especially welcome proposals from Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and contingent scholars.
This is the second workshop of a three-part series. The first was held at Princeton University last year and the final will be held at UC Berkeley in 2027.
For consideration, send a proposal of 400-500 words describing the overall project and describing the excerpt (dissertation/book chapter or article) to be presented at the workshop, as well as a brief (200 word) biography with contact information. If you are a PhD student, please indicate when you advanced to candidacy and when you expect to complete your dissertation.
The accepted paper of 10,000 words will need to be pre-circulated and submitted by January 15, 2026.
Send proposals to taiwanhistworkshop@gmail.com by October 10, 2025.
Inquiries may be directed to James Lin (jyslin@uw.edu), Janet Chen, (jychen@princeton.edu), and/or Wen-hsin Yeh (sha@berkeley.edu).
See our webpage here: TAIWAN HISTORY WORKSHOP