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On Monday, December 17th, 2018, College of Social Science organized “CSS International Programs IDAS/IMAS/IMES Admission Information Session: Keys to Your Future Success” for introducing prospective students who want to study at NCCU and in Taiwan. The programs are International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IDAS), International Master’s Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IMAS), and International Master’s Program […]

On Tuesday, December 18th, 2018, International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IDAS) with Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT) co-organized a talk in “Canada’s Role in Indo-Pacific”. We were honored from Mr. Michael McCulloch, Director of General Relations of CTOT, and Mr. Huy Nguyen, Deputy Director of General Relation of CTOT giving the talk on […]

On 5th December, 2018, CSS organized a talk by Mr. Gustavo H. Feddersen who is in Taiwan under Taiwan Fellowship Programme. Mr. Feddersen talked about “China’s Political Leadership and Taiwan”, in this talk he tried to compare different approaches for cross-Strait relations in the 21st century between Taiwan and China. Mr. Feddersen talked about the […]

Once again we got an opportunity to have a one-on-one conversation with Dr. Juan Martin Uriburu who graduated from IDAS (2014) and IMCS (presently known as IMAS; 2008). Dr. Uriburu was visiting Taipei as a guest speaker in Chihlee University of Technology speaking on China-Latin American Relations. Dr. Uriburu’s master thesis was about Chinese-Argentine relationship […]

One of the recent lecture hosted by IDAS was on the topic “The Japan-U.S. Security Alliance and the Defense of the ROC (Taiwan). The lecture was by Prof. Kerry Gershaneck who is currently a Taiwan Fellow at Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, College of International Affairs, National Chengchi University. Speaking on U.S policy for […]

How advances in digital and robotic technology are creating a new non-human notion of conflict and how such conflict could be perpetual. Predicting the future (of conflict) might be indeed a thankless task but predicting a future (of conflict) in which humans no have a role at battlefield any more might be even more thankless: […]

The last week of June was also the last week of the semester, and this was not a moment too soon for many of us. There was, however, still time to squeeze in one more lecture series from a top academic – and it was certainly a case of saving the best until last! Despite […]

A highlight for the end of the month of June, the Department of Social Sciences and the International Master’s Program of Asia-Pacific Studies (IMAS) had the honor to welcome Professor M. Shamsul Haque from the political science department of the National University of Singapore. It was the first event of a series of two lectures […]

The era of digital technology has brought a radical change to the work of translators, where the principle of translation shifted from a process of dialectic and cultural exchanges to a mere corresponding of texts. Such radical changes, to most humanitarian researchers, herald a bleak future to humanities in which the huge information flood only […]