Will Tiao will be speaking at Yale University Friday, March 27th at 4pm. For more information, contact Will Hwang at william.hwang@yale.edu.

Will is also going to be at the 2009 ITASA West Coast Conference at the University of Southern California on Friday, April 3rd, where he will make a presentation on FORMOSA BETRAYED! For more info, visit usc.itasa.org.

Jon Lee (myself) will be doing the same thing at the 2009 ITASA Midwest Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I encourage any of our fans from the midwest area, like Chicago or St. Louis, to make the trek to central Illinois! The date for this event is Saturday, April 18th, and you can find out more at uiuc.itasa.org.

Thanks friends, I hope to meet some of you there!

Sincerely,
Jon Lee

There will be a talk at the Weatherhead East Asian Insititue, part of the Taiwan Brown Bag Lecture Series for Spring 2009. The topic will be “Identities at Stake in Taiwan” by the National Heritage Conservation in Taiwan and Construction of Identities. The speaker will be Fiorella Allio, visiting professor at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, Research, French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS).

Free event, no reservations required, Columbia University, Line 1, Station 116, SIPA Building.. Weatherhead East Asian Institute, room 918 IAB.

Passport 2 Taiwan is looking for volunteers again.