Public lecture “Taiwan as Ocean” by Prof. Niki Alsford will take place on December 15 (Monday) at 19:10 in room P200 (Faculty of Arts main building, nam. Jana Palacha).
Who: Niki Alsford
When: Monday, December 15, 19:10-21:00
Where: Faculty of Arts main building, P200
Niki Alsford is Professor of Anthropology and Human Geography, and Director for the Institutes for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP), and the Institute for Area and Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Lancashire. He is a Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. Alsford’s research focuses primarily on Taiwan, Korea, and the Pacific Islands. He is the book series editor for the Taiwan Series at BRILL, the Korean series at Routledge, and a new series on Asia Pacific Cultures, Communities, and Landscapes at Palgrave Macmillan. Alsford is the author of Taiwan Lives: A Socio-Political History, published by the University of Washington Press in 2024.
Lecture is organised by the Department of Sinology’s Global Taiwan Chair.
