Event — Lecture Series

'Shared Heritage': Postcolonial Heritage and Civil Society in Taiwan

02 - 04 November 2015

Three days (2 - 4 November) of presentations and workshops by researchers from Taiwan and India. A collaborative project between the IIAS and the Institute of Historical Resources Management, Taiwan; with the support of the Leiden Taiwanese Student Association.

2 - 4 November 2015

Lecture Series in Leiden, The Netherlands. A collaborative project between IIAS and the Institute of Historical Resources Management, Taiwan; with the support of the Leiden Taiwanese Student Association.

No longer representing the material imprints of foreignness and discrimination, Japanese colonial sites in Taiwan have become new sites of locality in shaping the country. At the same time, the memory of Japanese sites opens up many fields of contestation for civil society. The heritage-making process involves multiple levels of negotiation and reinterpretation by grassroots groups, and shows various initiatives in negotiating a better humanistic future for the relevant communities.

Through representative cases of the conservation movement involving former Japanese sites, this programme shows the active civil society participating in the heritage making process in Taiwan and tells how Japanese sites have been opened up for discussions on issues of social justice, human rights and post-disaster sustainability. In this sense, ‘shared heritage’ is about sharing power and strategies. It crosses social classes and geographical boundaries.

The programme will be accompanied by a photo exhibition at IIAS.

Four representative cases will be discussed:

Labour memory and industrial heritage: the labour union, NGO’s and the conservation of the site of the Taipei Beer Brewery;
Urban planning and heritage movement: the case of Dadaocheng Special Historical District in Taipei City;
Searching for a sustainable future for post-disaster communities: the Cooperative Building Projects in cooperation with a indigenous and local communities;
Industrial landscape, community life and potential world heritage site: the Jinguashi mining district.

All activities take place at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Rapenburg 59, Leiden.

For further information, please contact Ms Heleen van der Minne.

Please register for Monday, Tuesday and/or Wednesday, by contacting Ms Heleen van der Minne. Abstracts and further information will be provided upon registration.

Monday, 2 November

14:15 - 14:25
Welcome address, Dr Willem Vogelsang, deputy director IIAS

14:25 - 15.00
HUANG, Yi-Jie (Assistant Professor, Leiden University College The Hague): The Historical Context of Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwan

15.00 - 15:30
Min-Chin CHIANG (Assistant Professor, Taipei National University of the Arts): Japanese Colonial Heritage in Taiwan: An Introduction

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee/tea

16:00 - 16:30
Alice Ru-Hwa CHIU (Secretary General, Institute of Historical Resources Management, Heritage Conservation Movement in Taiwan): Urban Planning and Heritage Movement: the case of the Dadaocheng Special Historical District in Taipei City

16:30 - 17:00
Monique CHEN (Deputy Director, Sustainable Travel International (STI) Taiwan Office; Director, Taiwan Sustainable Travel): The Preservation of Industrial Landscape Heritage Embedded in the Community: the case of Jinguashi

17:00 - 18:00
Drinks

Tuesday, 3 November

17:00 - 17:20
Welcome address by Dr Philippe Peycam, director IIAS

17:20 - 17:30
The Spotlight Programme: Words of welcome, H.E. Mr Tom Chou, Representative, Taipei Representative Office, The Hague.

17:30 - 17:45
Introduction to the ‘Shared Heritage’ programme and exhibition (Alice Chiu and Min-Chin Chiang)

17:45 - 18:30
Film and Lecture: Ying-Chun HSIEH (Architect, Atelier-3): Searching for a Sustainable Future for Post-Disaster Recovery and Cultural Restoration

18:30 - 20:00
Buffet / Reception

Wednesday, 4 November

14:15 - 14:45
Dr Surajit Sarkar (IIAS fellow; Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University, Delhi, India): “Living with contested heritage – rethinking methodology and practice”

14:45 - 15:15
Mei-I JIANG (Researcher, Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government): Contesting Living Industrial Heritage: the case of Taipei Brewery

15:15 - 15:45
Coffee/tea

15:45 - 17:15
Workshop: the Taipei Beer Brewery
The approach of ‘world cafe’ will be adopted to access the issue of ‘living industrial heritage’ in the conservation process of the Taipei Beer Brewery. The participants will be allocated into several groups/tables of various stances in order to explore potential strategies on further defining the role of the Taipei Beer Brewery in urban development.