André Laliberté

Professor of Political Studies, University of Ottawa

Regional Focus: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Date of Presentation: Session 5, March 5th 2021

Biography:

André Laliberté is Professor of comparative politics at the School of Political Studies and co-director of the Research Chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada, as well as associate researcher at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions et Laïcités in Paris and research fellow at the Center on Religions and Chinese Societies, at Purdue University. He is the author of more than 50 articles and book chapters, of which a majority are about religion in China and Taiwan, in relation to state regulation, philanthropy, development, political change, cross-strait relations, and the geopolitics of Buddhism. He has co-edited “Buddhism in China after Mao” with Ji Zhe and Gareth Fisher and “The Study of Religion in China” with Stefania Travagnin. In 2019, he was senior research fellow for the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities" in Leipzig, which allowed him to complete a manuscript for a monograph on Buddhist philanthropy and social services of Chinese societies. He is also finishing the co-editing of a book on The Secular State in Asia. His current research interests looks into the incorporation of religious actors in East Asian welfare regimes of Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan.