2020-01-012024-05-16https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/666916: 9). In other words, the concept of ‘return’ describes the reconstruction or recovery of both physical and psychological contacts, including human beings, cultures and identities that has been decontextualized. The possibility of such reconnection, James Clifford believes, is an alternative way of postmodernity, considering culture as a changing process. To date, Taiwan society has gone through introspection process of the development of modernity. After the rapid economic boom in the late 1950s, the overwhelming social/cultural movements before and after the ended of the martial laws in 1980s, and, under the special frame of the Strait, the dullness of economic and idleness of politics in 2000s, various campaigns on ‘self-positioning’ has been carried out through community building and local culture development, with the effects of international political-economic flows and post-modern debates. Under this trend, ‘Returning to hometown’ has undoubtedly become the expectation (and pressure) from the society/media to young people, and has been incorporated into policies and lessons as a ‘significant study’. For the indigenous groups in Taiwan, the participation of youths in culture-revive initiatives have always played an important role. Facing the disadvantages of economic structure and cultural complexities on the island, as well as the critical reflection of the colonial process with the local conservative political structure, these multiple situations let the issue of ‘return’ be claimed with high tension. Affected by the colonial process, globalization experiences, capitalist transformation and technological development, new faces of indigenous societies and cultures emerged. Among this, understanding of cultures gradually becomes a process intertwined and represented with daily life and personal experiences. As a research center in university, in 2020, we use ‘return’ as the topic of the year, with academic research, application and practice, and community connection as three work goals. The specific approach is to address the key issues currently facing by indigenous groups, such as identity politics, returns, environmental governance, cultural properties etc., by planning diverse activities, enabling different subjects to establish dialogues and promote a multi-cultural environment. Since 2019, the center has cooperated with the Indigenous Student Resource Center to lead cross-ethnics and cross-generation interactions on campus and communities. This cooperation will continue in the coming year in planning series of lectures, workshops, fieldworks, and craft courses. Two of these projects are entering the second phase: ‘The Life History Writing of Youths’, focusing on the reconciliation of painful experiences through writing; ‘The Cross-field Research of Austronesian Cultures’, planning international academic exchange events in each half of the year.復返和解文化復振社群連結南島研究returnreconciliationcultural revivalcommunity connectionAustronesian studies