Taiwan’s Opportunities and Challenges During the Pandemic: Domestic Politics, Foreign Relations, and Global Health Strategies

Date: Tuesday 25 May 2021
Time: 10-12 am Helsinki Time (9-11 am Copenhagen Time; 8-10 am London Time)

Programme

10:00-10:10 Opening

Tiina Airaksinen (Deputy Director of Department of Cultures and University Lecturer in Asian Studies, University of Helsinki)

Julie Yu-Wen Chen (Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Helsinki)

10:10-11:00 Presentations

All Eyes on Taiwan: How a Successful Pandemic Response Elevated Taiwan’s Global Profile
Jonathan Sullivan (Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham)

Reappraising Taiwan's Role through the History of WHO
Harry Yi-Jui Wu (Director & Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, University of Hong Kong)

11:00-11:15 Commentaries and questions from discussants

Niklas Swanström (Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden)
Dusica Ristivojević (Kone Foundation Bold Initiative Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki)

11:15-11:30 Responses from speakers
11:30-12:00 Q & A for general audience

Dr. Jonathan Sullivan is a China and Taiwan specialist, and Associate Professor, in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. He is former Director of the China Policy Institute and current head of China Programs at the University of Nottingham's Asia Research Institute. He has published extensively on China, Taiwan and cross-Strait relations.

Dr. Harry Yi-Jui Wu MD.DPhilI is a historian of medicine teaching at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. His research mainly focuses on the transnational histories of mental health. His first book, Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization, was published by MIT Press in 2021. In 2020, he was elected Early Career Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Humanities. From 2021, he will be Associate Professor at Cross-College Elite Program of National Cheng-Kung University.

Dr. Niklas Swanström is Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, and one of its co-founders. He is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and ISPI Senior Associate Research Fellow. His main areas of expertise are conflict prevention, conflict management and regional cooperation; Chinese foreign policy and security in Northeast Asia.

Dusica Ristivojević is Kone Foundation Bold Initiatives Senior Researcher at the University of Helsinki. Dušica works in the areas of interdisciplinary Chinese studies, media studies, and international relations. She was a Chevening Fellow at the University of Oxford, MOFA Taiwan Fellow at the National Taiwan Normal University, and has served as a consultant for a number of organizations in East Asia.

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