Full Title: The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies
Short Title: WCTS-5

Date: 21-May-2025 - 23-May-2025
Location: Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Contact Person: Tiffany Liu
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://wctsv.project.sinica.edu.tw/english/english_index.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies aims to explore the changes in Taiwan within and without. We sincerely invite presenters to study the evolving relationships between Taiwan and the world from the past to the present and the future.

2nd Call for Papers:

The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies (WCTS-5) will be held at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, May 21-23, 2025. The general theme of the WCTS-5 is Taiwan in a Changing World: Past, Present, and Future, focusing on the relevance of Taiwan Studies to Humanities and Social Sciences.

Thirty-one panels are planned for (in-person) paper presentations and we expect WCTS-5 to provide an intellectual platform for scholars around the world interested and/or involved in Taiwan Studies. We kindly encourage participants from various research fields (including history, philology, archaeology, ethnology, economics, literature, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, law, political sciences, and social sciences) to submit empirical and/or theoretical studies to this Congress.

Papers on Linguistics are solicited in either English or Mandarin Chinese for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) on any research aspect of Formosan languages.

A panel will be organized on voice and related topics but panels on other topics related to Formosan languages are also invited.

The submission deadline is September 30, 2024.

Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author. Abstracts should be single-spaced, in 12-point fonts, and limited to two A4 (or US Letter) pages with 1-inch or 2.5-cm margins, as follows: on the first page should appear the abstract (of no more than 750 words) and on the second page, relevant data, figures, and references. Authors’ names should not appear on the abstract itself, but the abstract should include a title.

Participants interested in organizing a panel should submit a general abstract, indicating the title of the proposed panel, the expected participants, and the title of each presentation. Authors interested in submitting an abstract to the panel on voice and related topics should contact directly Elizabeth Zeitoun ([email protected]).

Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: September 30, 2024
Acceptance notification: October 31, 2024
Final paper due: April 15, 2025

Online Abstract Submission
Abstract should only be submitted online at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeMuFJVCjIakK3mSRc0gNLbtCD4eNSMwidJAGAhjzly0xujQ/viewform

For further inquiries on questions related to “Research on Formosan languages”, please contact Tiffany Liu at [email protected]. For more general inquiries, please contact the secretariat of the 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies at [email protected].

WTCS-5 Organizing Committee for the Linguistics Research Field
Edith Aldridge (Research Fellow)
Henry Y. Chang (Research Fellow)
Sihwei Chen (Assistant Research Fellow)
Hui-chuan J. Huang (Research Fellow)
Stacy F. Teng (Research Fellow)
Elizabeth Zeitoun (Research Fellow) – Coordinator for the Linguistics Research Field