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Forthcoming Events

Stay tuned for upcoming events and activities hosted by the Center for Taiwan Studies and our community partners.

 

TAIWAN FILM SHOWCASE at 27th Annual SDAFF

Presented by Pacific Arts Movement. Sponsored by the UC San Diego Center for Taiwan Studies, the UC San Diego Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, and the Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles.


The UC San Diego Center for Taiwan Studies is pleased to sponsor the Taiwan Film Showcase at the 27th San Diego Asian Film Festival, presented by Pacific Arts Movement. Now in its 15th year, the showcase is the largest annual spotlight on Taiwanese cinema in North America. This year’s lineup ranges from a newly restored 1960s Taiwanese-language classic to the latest work by internationally celebrated director Tsai Ming-liang.


 Time    November 8–9, 2026
 Venue   AMC UTC 14, 4425 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite H60, San Diego, CA 92122
 Admission   FREE for UC San Diego students, faculty, and staff with a valid UCSD ID. Please show your ID at the AMC box office to receive a free ticket.

Schedule Overview

  • 12:30 p.m., November 8, Sunday / Good Neighbors  (兩相好)
  • 2:30 p.m., November 8, Sunday / Beyond the Smiles: Yani Tseng  (微笑之後：曾雅妮)
  • 5:00 p.m., November 8, Sunday / Arrested Memory  (阿茲海默警探)
  • 7:00 p.m., November 8, Sunday / Will You Still Be My Friend  (日光)
  • 5:30 p.m., November 9, Monday / I Blew Out the Candles Before Making a Wish  (我未許願先吹蠟燭)
  • 8:00 p.m., November 9, Monday / Dust  (微塵)

Getting there

  • Take the UC San Diego Blue Line trolley to UTC Transit Center at the south end of Westfield UTC.
  • If driving, AMC validates parking for extra free hours, so bring your parking ticket to the box office.

 

Additional Screenings

 Time    November 13–14, 2026
 Venue   UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley, 7510 Hazard Center Dr #100, San Diego, CA 92108
 Admission   $15

Schedule Overview

  • 8:55 p.m., November 13, Friday / Will You Still Be My Friend  (日光)
  • 2:40 p.m., November 14, Saturday / Shorts: Taiwan Tales (5 short films from Taiwan)
  • 5:20 p.m., November 14, Saturday / Arrested Memory  (阿茲海默警探)

 

Plese visit the 2026 Taiwan Film Showcase page for tickets and film details, or go to SDAFF 2026 festival website for full event schedule.

 

Bridge Music Series Presents: 
Grammy-nominated Taiwanese pianist Han Chen

 

 

 Time    7 p.m., November 10, 2026
 Venue   UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, 9410 Russell Lane, La Jolla, CA 92093
 Admission  
- General Admission: $20
- UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, and Alumni: $10
- All Students: Free with ID


Han Chen will perform works by Beethoven, Liszt, and Stravinsky, along with the West Coast premiere of A Book of Time I by UC San Diego composer Lei Liang. The piece was inspired by a collaboration between geologist Emily Chin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and composer Lei Liang. Please keep this wording, as Lei asked that it be described this way.

Tickets are available online at music.ucsd.edu/tickets and are delivered electronically, then scanned at the door. For questions, call the Department of Music Box Office at (858) 534-3448 or email boxoffice@music.ucsd.edu.

 

For more information, please visit the following pages:

  

NATSA 32nd Annual Conference
Heteroglossic Taiwan: Dialogues Across Many Voices


The main mission of the North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) is to organize an annual conference in North America in order to facilitate scholarly exchange and publication among researchers and students from different disciplines and area studies who are interested in intellectual dialogues pertaining to Taiwan.


As Taiwan Studies continues to mature from its Cold War era foundation as an alternative Sinology into its own distinct field of study—and as its scholars approach the study of Taiwan from increasingly diverse disciplinary formations, methodological approaches, and theoretical investments—the potential for gaps between methodologies and assumptions increases. This demands some retrospective dialogue to discuss what it means to be a Taiwan Studies scholar. The 2027 NATSA conference theme, “Heteroglossic Taiwan: Dialogues Across Many Voices,” employs heteroglossia as the key concept, aiming to highlight the plural coexistence that already characterizes Taiwan Studies both within and beyond the field.  


The 2027 annual conference of the North American Taiwan Studies Association encourages submissions that engage with this concept of heteroglossia in their own research field.

 

 Important Dates (EST) 

  • Conference Dates: June 11 - June 13, 2027
  • Submission Deadline: December 31, 2026
  • Notification of Acceptance: Mid-March, 2027

 Venue   The University of Texas at Austin

 

For more submission requirements, please visit https://www.na-tsa.org/past-conferences/2027-call-for-proposals