Event Date: November 19, 2025 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: FSS 5028, 120 University Private, University of Ottawa

Presented by CIPS and the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies

Taiwan can serve as a valuable platform for those pursuing China Studies and Asian Studies, as well international relations and global affairs more broadly. Tapping into Taiwan’s expertise can provide insights on the Sinosphere, cross-Strait relations, and regional issues in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

Speaker:

Julia G. Bentley is a former Canadian diplomat whose work has focused chiefly on Asia. She served as a diplomat in China, Taiwan, India and Malaysia, where she was High Commissioner. She served as Director for Northeast Asia, Executive Director for South Asia, and Director General for South Asia. She retired in 2024 and is now affiliated with the Munk School at University of Toronto, the York Centre for Asian Research, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and National Taiwan University’s Centre for China Studies. She has degrees in East Asian Studies from Princeton and University of Toronto, as well as a post graduate diploma in modern Chinese history from Nanjing University. In spring 2025 she was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship to conduct three months of field research there, on which this talk is based. Read the report here.

Moderator:

André Laliberté is a Full Professor at the School of Political Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Research Co-Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa.