Every 2nd Monday of the month from 5pm to 8pm, from 13 November 2017 to 25 June 2018.

Room 1, EHESS, 105 Bd Raspail

This seminar will chart the different stages of an identity affirmation process expressed in Taiwan by what we might call “Formosan tropism”. Indeed, we will try to identify the historical and cultural framework within which an increasingly assertive insular identity, with regards to China, was developed and promoted. While observing these mutations of identity, in light of the debates that continue to accompany them, we will also chart the foundations of memory by exploring memory spaces in Taiwan itself. We will focus just as closely on places linked to the Republic of China, and thus related to the trajectory of the Chinese mainland, as to those places specific to Taiwan’s own historical and cultural experience. Our studies will deal with concrete, material and geographically located objects, but also with more abstract and diffuse incarnations of memory, such as political symbols, the terms and names for public and private spaces, figures from local and national history, the formulation of narratives, etc.