An online roundtable discussion with leading scholars about the outcome of Taiwan’s 2024 presidential and legislative elections and their broader impacts: How should we understand the results? How have the elections reflected and shaped the island’s political landscape? How will they affect East Asian regional security and cross-strait relations? Will it lead to new crises or new opportunities for Taiwan?
Date: Jan. 25th
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm EST
Venue: Zoom
Co-Moderators: Sara Friedman (IU Bloomington) and Gardner Bovingdon (IU Bloomington)
Panelists:
Panelist One: Shelley Rigger (Davidson College)
Professor Rigger is the Brown Professor of Asian Studies, whose research and writing focuses on Taiwanese politics and on the relationships among the United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan.
Panelist Two: Yen-Ti Su (Academia Sinica)
Yen-Ti Su is a Research Professor at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae and Academia Sinica Co-director
Panelist Three: Wei-Ting Yen (Franklin and Marshall College)
Dr. Wei-Ting Yen is an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Franklin and Marshall College and the Mellon High Impact Emerging Scholar from 2019 to 2021. Dr. Yen is also a Public Intellectual Program fellow at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and Associate Editor for Asian Politics & Policy. Dr. Yen is a political economist focusing on governance and welfare state development in Asia. Her current research looks at the political impacts of economic insecurity on welfare state development. She also has several projects examining the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic from a comparative perspective. Dr. Yen holds her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University.
This event is sponsored by IU Taiwan Studies Initiative, East Asian Studies Center, the Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies at Indiana University, and TECO Chicago.
