For Indigenous People and In Indigenous Language: IPCF in Taiwan

Published in IPCF Bimonthly Vol 19 (December, 2017): 30-32.

What is IPCF?

Fourth editorial for IPCF Bimonthly （原視界雙月刊）Vol. 19 (December, 2017): 3.

Culture, Language, Media: The Case of IPCF in Taiwan

Presentation at 2017 International Austronesian Conference (National Central Library, Taipei) on Nov. 13, 2017:

The Exodus of Formosan Languages: A Historical Perspective

Published in National New Books Monthly No. 225《全國新書資訊月刊 第225期》Taipei: National Central Library (September 2017): 4-9. 

My Type of Heteroglossia

Third editorial for IPCF Bimonthly（原視界雙月刊）Vol. 18 October 2017:3.

Trickster Travels: The Search for Leo Africanus (2006)

"A masterpiece of the historian's craft." -Stephen Greenblatt

Leo Africanus was born Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmed al-Wazzan to a Muslim family in present-day Granada Spain about 1486-1488. Perhaps before the year of great expulsion of 1492, his family had moved across the Gibraltar and settled in present-day Fez Morocco. 

There al-Hasan al-Wazzan grew up and became a qadi (judge of Islamic laws). He had keen ears for Arabic poetry and traveled widely as informant, soldier, emissary and diplomat of the Sultan of Fez. 

In 1518, on his way returning from Cairo Egypt to Fez, he was captured by Christian pirates and took to Rome Italy as a present to Pope Leo X. There he became the godson of Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo, baptized on January 6th 1520 and was given a new name of "Joannes Leo de Medici". 

He never used the family name of Pope Leo X, de Medici. For Christians in Rome, he was Joannes Leo from Africa; for himself, he retained the Arabic name after conversion, Yuhanna al-Asad--Yuhanna the Lion.

A Case of Writing Back: "The Alian Movement" of IPCF

Second editorial for IPCF Bimonthly（原視界雙月刊）Volume 17 August 2017: 4-5.

Paiwan in Public (No. 2)

This is my own movement.

Date: 29th July 2017
Venue: Yunlin Taiwan
Occasion: The 8th Indigenous Science Award

Pinaqaljayan aravac tjanumun a masantalj. Ti Yedda a ku ngadan a lja Palemeq. Nacemavulid ta sengesengan tucu itua 原住民族文化事業基金會. Sa maljiyan tu maleva aken tua tiaken sinkauljan ta tja sengesengan tucu, daihiu tua tja kisasusuan i 原文會. 

(English: Good afternoon, distinguished guests. I am Yedda Palemeq, CEO of Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Foundation. I am very happy to be here on behalf of my organization IPCF.)

Paiwan in Public (No. 1)

This is my own movement.

Date: July 25th 2017
Venue: Taipei Taiwan 
Occassion: "Address at The Fourth Indigenous Documentary Festival"（第四屆部落電影院入選發布會致詞）



Pisangas, masalu aravac na kitateveljan aken taicu a patjausangas a kipaljayang, masalu ta nakipucug mun a masantalj a kitateveljan. 

(English: First of all, I am very honored to attend this event.)

Inauguration of Indigenous Radio Alian 96.3 / Alian 96.3原住民族廣播電台開播

A story about IPCF and me in The Journalist No. 1586 (2017), pp. 14-15. 《新新聞》2017年第1586號14-15頁

The Best Times: Grandma's Song

First editorial for IPCF Bimonthly（原視界雙月刊）Volume 16 (June 2017): 3.

Language helps uncover true beauty of indigenous culture, says expert

Taranaki Daily News June 27 2017, New Plymouth New Zealand

The Travels of Ibn Battutah (2003)

In his Great Voyages Lecture "Traveler's Tips from the 14th Century: The Detours of Ibn Battutah" (December 4th, 2013), Professor Paul Cobb offers his audience these five tips to travel: Keep an Open Mind, Go to School, Bring Snacks, Plan on Changing Plans and Make Friends. 

Despite of their ordinariness, we must also do these tips justice by recognizing their source of inspiration, that is Ibn Battutah (1304~1368 or 1369), a medieval traveler from the 14th century and a voice from the less-known Arabic world, to compared with his Venetian contemporary, Marco Polo (1254~1324). 

1688: A Global History (2001)

Professor John E. Wills, recently deceased in January 2017 at the age of 80, is a wonderful writer and a great source of early modern world history. 

Like the Canadian historian Timothy Brook (1951-), they go far and wide, portraying for readers a world from bygone days, yet filled with so much life and even more vivid details. Under their pen, the world of the 17th century is as lively as the one we are living in now. 

The year of 1688 is Wills's focal point. He travels back and forth in time, journeying from continent to continent, from port cities to courts, from trade to religion, from material goods to metaphysical letters to bring us how the world looked like around that particular year...

The Renaissance of Formosan Languages

Presentation at National Dong Haw University (Hualien, Taiwan) on 7th March 2017.

Punctuation and Writing Format of Aboriginal Written Languages

Published in Aboriginal Educational World 73 (March, 2017): 66-69.