Professor Dafydd Fell from SOAS shares fascinating stories and experiences from the years that he spent investigating, documenting and photographing Taiwan's sugar railways! From waiting for hours in a remote location to get a shot of a particular locomotive, to being invited on-board a sugar train for an unforgettable journey, listen in to hear what it was like as a British rail enthusiast with a foldable bike in Taiwan in the 1990's.

Professor James Lin from the University of Washington shares the backstory to his latest book and demonstrates how Taiwan's early development missions impacted Taiwan's own population in ways that echo through to the present.

Looking at how syntax is useful for comparing and contrasting languages and finding some interesting common ground as well as unusual differences between seemingly similar languages, with a focus on Taiwanese.

Professor Shih Shu-mei from UCLA talks post-colonial studies, comparative literature, settler colonialism and the importance of Indigenous knowledge.

Prof. Ed Vickers has been following the ways in which Taiwan, China and Japan all remember Zheng Cheng-gong in different ways and for different reasons. He discusses how this history remains relevant to the present day in more ways than one!

Climate change is often discussed as a global environmental crisis, whose effects can only be mitigated through global action. While there is indeed global responsibility in this area, what about the political factors that cause some communities to be more at risk? Prof. Mucahid Bayrak from the department of Geography at National Taiwan Normal University talks about the ways in which Indigenous communities are often more susceptible to risks associated with climate change, but commonly due to political factors.

Professor Scott Simon introduces the inspiration behind his book 'Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa,' while also discussing his latest research and its relevance to the field of Taiwan studies and beyond.