Please take a look at the latest news in Taiwan Studies:

1) The 2025 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants (TOP Grants) for humanities and social sciences research (see attachments). 

This program aims to cultivate and support talented doctoral candidates and young scholars who are currently studying or working overseas.

        TOP Grants invites doctoral candidates and young scholars in humanities and social sciences to apply. Doctoral students can receive NT$900,000, and young scholars NT$600,000 to support their research. The application period is from April 17th to May 21st, 2025 (tentative). Please visit the official website(https://exp.stpi.narl.org.tw/project/topi/index) for more information.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at topgrants@niar.org.tw.

We look forward to receiving your applications and supporting your academic endeavors.

2) BaoDao (see attachments)

On behalf of the TRAMA Research Group, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the symposium we will be hosting on June 9 in a hybrid format at the Elías Tormo Seminar Room, Faculty of Geography and History, Complutense University of Madrid.

We would be delighted to count on your presence, either in person or online, to enrich the conversation and foster academic exchange. We especially encourage international scholars to join us virtually and to stay tuned for the upcoming Call for Papers, which will be announced shortly.

I have the honor of coordinating this event, which will bring together several international guests to reflect on the current landscape of contemporary art in Taiwan. Please note that the entire symposium will be conducted in English.

We would also be very grateful if you could help circulate this invitation within your departments, faculties, classrooms, or affiliated research groups.

Thank you in advance for your support. We look forward to seeing you (virtually) on June 9!

3) The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen invites applications for the position of Assistant (junior) (W 1, non-tenure track) professor of Modern Taiwan Studies to commence as soon as possible. The selected candidate is expected to carry out teaching and research on modern and contemporary Taiwan, with a particular focus on social science-based approaches. The position will be filled on a salaried base and is initially limited to four years, with the possibility of extension by a further two years after a positive interim evaluation. The position has a teaching load of four hours per week prior to interim evaluation and six hours thereafter. The selected candidate will teach in German or English. The University of Tübingen expects that non-native applicants are willing to learn German during their time of employment. Requirements for appointment are an excellent PhD dissertation in a relevant topic, international publications, evidence of third-party grants (fellowship/scholarship) and teaching expertise. The appointment prerequisites of § 51 LHG apply. In the course of the contract, the W1 professor is expected to attain the research and teaching achievements that will qualify him or her for an appointment as a tenured professor at any university or equivalent institution (Habilitation). Those who have completed a habilitation will be excluded. Detailed information on the criteria underlying the interim and final evaluations may be found in our guidelines for review under the following link: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/12131

The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. Female academics, in particular, are explicitly invited to apply, as are applicants from outside Germany. Applications from equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference. General information on professorships, hiring processes, and the German academic system may be found here: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/213700 

Applications including all required documents (curriculum vitae and outline of academic career, copies of certificates and degrees, publications list, list of teaching experience, overview of established and planned research focus) as well as a selection of relevant publications (monographs authored and up to five articles) should be exclusively submitted via the appointment portal of the University of Tübingen at https://berufungen.uni-tuebingen.de by July 1st , 2025.

Enquiries can be directed to the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker (berufungen@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de).

Best wishes,

EATS Board