Conference: The 13th EATS Annual Conference

30/03/2016 Tana Dluhosova Events, News

The 13th EATS Conference will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, 30 March–1 April 2016. The main theme of the conference is Powerful and Powerless.

 

Power relationships, broadly understood, pervade society on many levels and in many guises. They may be explicit or implicit, acknowledged or hidden, based on outright coercion or, instead, on more subtle forms of coaxing, manipulation, and indoctrination. They can involve individuals as well as collectives. In different contexts such as faith, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation, they can render people susceptible to the effects of power in different ways.

We invite participants to engage with the phenomenon of power in their respective area of research, be it social sciences or in the humanities, and to focus on the relationship between those who wield power on the one hand and those who are affected by the decisions of the powerful on the other. By investigating the strategies, conventions, and tensions underlying the interactions between the two sides, we hope the papers of this conference will offer novel insights into such issues as persistence and change in power relationships over time; the shifting positions and multiple roles individuals as well as groups can assume in different contexts and vis-à-vis different counterparts; the significance of symbolic representations of power; historical, moral, religious, and political justifications of inequality; strategies employed in contesting existing power relationships; formal and informal structures established with the purpose to create, enforce or perpetuate hierarchical relationships; the scope of individual and collective agency in the face of the limiting effects of power. In this way, we hope to expand our knowledge of powerful and powerless in Taiwan and to enrich the discipline of Taiwan Studies.

Program available at EATS website

 

  • or Conference photos, please follow this  link.
  • For a short report on the 13th EATS Annual Conference in Prague published in Merit Times (20 April 2016, in Chinese), please follow this  link.
  • For a short report on the 13th EATS Annual Conference in Prague published in China Policy Institute Blog, University of Nottingham (6 May 2016, in English), please follow this link.
  • For a Macroview TV interview about MA panels at the 13th EATS Annual Conference in Prague (in Mandarin), please follow this link.
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