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From time to time, I appear in media or on social media. Here is a list of these appearances.

Media interviews

An interview (in Dutch) from 24 May 2024 on De Ochtend, VRT Radio 1, discussing the reaction of Taiwanese people to China's recent military exercises around the island in response to President Lai Ching Te's assumption to power.

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台灣的文化祖源-小矮人 [Taiwan's Cultural Ancentry: Little Black People] (in Mandarin), a presentation on the existence of little black people, broadcast on 1 July 2023 as part of series 7 episode 1 of Zalan 見識南島, TITV+, the Indigenous television station in Taiwan.

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An interview (in Dutch) from 17 October 2022 on De Ochtend, VRT Radio 1, discussing the Taiwanese reaction to Xi Jin-Ping's speech at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

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南島起源 [Austronesian Origins] (in Mandarin), a presentation on the origin of the Austronesian people broadcast on 12 February 2022 as part of series 2 episode 5 of Zalan 見識南島, TITV+, the Indigenous television station in Taiwan.

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A second interview (in Dutch) from 27 May 2021 on De Ochtend, VRT Radio 1, discussing new outbreaks of the corona virus in Taiwan.

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An interview and accompanying article titled 布農語怎麼翻譯基督教新觀念?──跟著比利時語言學家去田調 (in Mandarin) from 26 June 2020 for the podcast 語言好好玩 (Linguistics is Fun), hosted by the inimitable 許逸如 (Xu Yi-Ru) on Mirror Media.

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Interview (in Dutch) on the corona crisis in Taiwan from 4 April 2020 on De Ochtend, a news program on Radio 1, a Belgian national radio station. There are accompanying news articles here and here.

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Recordings of classes and talks

語言的人文與科學 / The Humanity and Science of Language (Fall 2020)

A series of recordings for the class 語言的人文與科學 The Humanity and Science of Language in Mandarin Chinese, offered in pre-recorded format in the Fall semester of 2020 because of the corona pandemic.

語言的結構1:

語言的結構2:

語意與語用1:

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