Seminar “Taiwan Studies and Poland: Law, Education, Security”

The seminar is organized as part of the #TaiwanStudiesAtUW project and will be devoted to presentations of research conducted by three speakers.

Weronika Jakubczak (The Main School of Fire Service), in cooperation with the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw, will present the results of her research entitled Strategic Assumptions of the People’s Republic of China Shaping Economic Security and Cybersecurity of Third States in the Era of Hybrid Conflicts, analyzing the impact of the PRC’s strategic assumptions on the economic security and cybersecurity of other states.

Yinn-Ching LU (Law Faculty, Emory University), in the paper “Justices Matter: A Theory of Judicial Resilience,” based on quantitative analysis and case studies of Poland, Georgia, and Taiwan, will demonstrate that a diversified composition of supreme courts strengthens their resilience, and that multi-actor appointment mechanisms foster such diversity, although even the best-designed procedures do not guarantee full independence in the face of strong political pressure.

Wei-Ting LI (Department of Education, National Sun Yat-sen University) will present a reflection on the relationship between science as a method of inquiry and nature as the order of the world, showing—through an experiment simulating the research process—that knowledge requires constant revision and that scientific classifications are not free from cultural contexts and values.

The event requires prior registration.

We encourage you to participate!