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The Taiwan Society for Pacific Studies is holding an International Conference in the Conference Room in the Basement of National Taiwan University's Library on the 5th June 2013 (Wed) from 9am until 5pm. The conference is entitled 'Embrace the Pacific: Exchange in Austronesian Navigation Culture and Art in the Pacific'.

Read more: Conference: Embrace the Pacific June 5th

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The Pacific Ocean is not only a physical space but a mystical one too: its immensity and the experience of its crossing have inspired in-depth spiritual experiences expressed through stories, myths, music and epics; its borders and islands have witnessed the advent and the decline of all the world’s mystical traditions breaking along its shore...

Read more: International Austronesian Conference 2012

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Prof. Osamu Yamaguti (山口修)

Ph.D. in Literature (Osaka University), M.A. (University of Hawaii at Manoa), emeritus professor at Osaka University, currently holds a position of a visiting professor of ethnomusicology at Nanhua University, a world famous ethnomusicologist. He received the 4th Kyoto Music Award (1989), the 10th Koizumi...

Read more: Ethnomusicology Conference - Prof. Yamaguti OSAMU

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  First Lecture: Studying the Oral History of the Pacific War in Micronesia
December 6th, 2011 (Tuesday), 10.00-11.30 am @ NCL   In December, the professor Lin Poyer from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming will be in Taipei giving a series of lectures about Micronesia; the first one will be held on...

Read more: Memories of War in the Pacific: A series of lectures by Prof. Lin Poyer

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This conference – the first one organized by the Taiwan Society for Pacific Studies – aims at identifying the ways of mapping the Pacific in time and space that have been developed by islanders, especially by Austronesian populations. Such "mapping" has taken place through migration routes, tales, songs and genealogies, as well as...

Read more: Mapping and Unmapping the Pacific:island perceptions of an "oceanic continent"

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On the 8th and 9th November 2010, Taipei County Government (Xinbei City), the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and the Taipei Ricci Institute jointly organised an International Summit on Climate Change and Low Carbon Metropolises which took place at the seat of the Taipei County Government in Banqiao City.

Read more: City Halls to Cancún Corridors