Administrators at University of Ottawa Visited NDHU in Talks for Future Inter-collegiate Collaboration

With the hope of promoting actual collaboration with aborigines abroad on academic research, NDHU’s Center of International Indigenous Affairs (CIIA), managing to take advantage of its uniqueness and its mission, signed a memorandum on off-site courses, which are meant to allow visiting students opportunities to appreciate local Taiwanese culture through interaction with Taiwanese students, lectures…

Geothermal Energy seminar focused on New Zealand’s experience, Taiwan’s potential, Indigenous perspectives.

About this Event Tuesday 25 June 2019 (0830h – 1230h) Hilton Taipei Sinban Hotel (meeting room ‘Auspicious A’) No.88 Minquan Road, Banqiao District, New Taipei City Free admission by registration (register before 20 June) The ‘Think Geothermal’ Seminar on 25 June 2019 will be a unique opportunity to hear from four New Zealand geothermal industry…

Taiwan – Aotearoa New Zealand Connection and Partnership

The Center for International Indigenous Affairs (CIIA) of National Dong Hwa University (NDHU) received the guests from Aotearoa New Zealand on April 20 to 22: Hon. Te Ururoa Flavell, the Chief Executive Officer of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa; Eddie Walker, the liaison to the Taiwan-Aotearoa Connection; and Basil Tapuke, the General Manager Trusts for Te…

Understand the Past, March toward the Future: Truth and Reconciliation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Taiwan

A courtesy call on the NDHU President Han-Chieh Chao by the Indigenous Transitional Justice Committee, the NCTR and the CTOT. From left to right: Masegeseg Z. Gadu(Subcommitte convener on languages of the Indigenous Transitional Justice Committee), Pasuya ‘e Poiconʉ, Michael McCulloch(CTOT Director of General Relations), Ry Moran, Han-Chieh Chao, Jordan Reeves, Bavaragh Dagalomai(Subcommitte convener on…

2019 World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium

‘We gather as Indigenous Peoples of our respective nations recognising and reaffirming the educational rights of all Indigenous Peoples’. National Dong Hwa University welcomes delegates from different counties / nations to Taiwan in July / August 2019 to partake in the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) Forum. In pursuit of the vision of WINHEC, we…

Nordic Scholars Visited NDHU for Future Collaboration

The Center for International Indigenous Affairs(CIIA)at National Dong Hwa University(NDHU)recently hosted a number of visiting scholars from Northern Europe. Visiting scholars included Dr Pigga Keskitalo, Associate Professor of the Department of Teacher Education at Sámi University in Norway; Prof Reetta Toivanen, Professor of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science at University of Helsinki in Finland,…

Indigenous Legal Rights and the Southbound Connection

CIIA Director Dr. Jolan Hsieh (Bavaragh Dagalomai, 謝若蘭), was invited as a speaker to the Borneo Rainforest Law Conference earlier this month. The conference was a phenomenal success with over 350 participants, all agreeing that the conference theme of Indigenous Rights is timely and important for both the region and around the world. The conference…

National Dong Hwa University Spares No Effort to Promote Taiwan’s Global Visibility

In late October 2017, Bavaragh Dagalomai (Jolan Hsieh), a professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures who doubles as the Director of Center for International Indigenous Affairs, National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), led the students from NDHU’s College of Indigenous Studies to pay an educational visit to New Zealand for its Māori education.…

NDHU Doctoral Student Presented at the International Conference

The biennial International Indigenous Research Conference (IIRC) and Ka Haka 2018 was held by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre for Research Excellence (NPM / NZMCRE), in mid-November. Indigenous researchers from all parts of the world attended and shared their fruitful research and knowledge. Dr. Jolan Hsieh (Bavaragh Dagalomai / 謝若蘭), the…