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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Mediated Margins: Articulating Immigrant Experiences in Global Asias
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Tzu-Chi Ou (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Chair: Ting-Fai Yu (he/him/his) – French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
    Paper Presenter: Tzu-Chi Ou (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Qiqi Jin (she/her/hers) – Taiwan National Cheng-chi University
    Paper Presenter: Ting-Fai Yu (he/him/his) – French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Off-modern Topographies: Rural-nuclear Landscapes, Literary Bodyscapes and Counter-linguistic Sites Toward a Remapping of East Asian Modernity
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Serena Di Maria – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Chair: Ya-hsun Chan (she/her/hers) – Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Paper Presenter: Serena Di Maria – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Paper Presenter: I-Ying Wei (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Masato Kurosawa – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Tatsuya Kageki – Meisei University
    Paper Presenter: Akemi YAMAUCHI – Miyagi University of Education
    Discussant: Yi-Ting Chang (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Producing and Exporting Gender Narratives: Chinese Games, Platforms, Reality TV and Films
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yimeng Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Bingchun Meng (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Yimeng Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Tingting Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    Co-Author: Yalan Huang (she/her/hers) – Jinan University
    Paper Presenter: Ran Xi (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Mengyun He (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Simon Wu (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Bingchun Meng (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reimagining Indigeneity: Indigenous Alternatives and Nonhuman Companions on the Tibetan Plateau
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Junhan Hu (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Mark Henderson (he/him/his) – Mills College at Northeastern University
    Paper Presenter: Junhan Hu (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Drolma Gadou (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado, Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Dan WU (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Guangye Qi (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Empathy, Technology, and the Affordances of Crowdfunding: Supporting Migrant Worker Advocacy in Taiwan
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Tzu-Chi Ou (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Excavating the Palimpsest: Rethinking Postcolonial Space Through a Gendered Lens in Li Ang and Yang Shuangzi's Literary Topographies of Taiwan
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Serena Di Maria – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Seeing Like a 'Child of Heaven': Alienation and Cultural Survival in the Yugur Pastoral Community of Northwest China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Psychological Challenges Faced by Hong Kong Immigrants in Taiwan: Navigating a Strained Mainstream Support System
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Qiqi Jin (she/her/hers) – Taiwan National Cheng-chi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Sites of Hidden Transcripts: Taiwanese-language Films and Cultural Resistance in Rural Cinemas During Taiwan's White Terror Period
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: I-Ying Wei (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Toward an Indigenous Mimetic Conservation: Emerging Attentiveness and Multispecies Relations Around Invasive Pika, Upland Buzzard, and Tibetan Herders in the Ganjia Grassland
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Junhan Hu (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Collison of Capitalist Value Regimes and Indigenous Practices: Through the Lens of Yak Wool Commodity Chain
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Drolma Gadou (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado, Boulder
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Queer Diaspora in Transition: LGBTQ+ Hong Kong Migrants in Canada and Taiwan post-2019
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Ting-Fai Yu (he/him/his) – French Centre for Research on Contemporary China
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Violence, Dissociation and the Margins of the Subject in Postwar Okinawa: Mapping the Perpetrator's Body and Environment in Matayoshi Eiki's Fiction
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Masato Kurosawa – University of Tokyo
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Geographical Abstraction in Caterpillar Fungus Commodification: Interactions Between Urban Markets and Rural Frontier Tibet
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Dan WU (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Tolstoyan Ideal Applied to the Topography of Japanese Rural Villages: Yarita Ken'ichi's Anarcho-physiocracy
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Tatsuya Kageki – Meisei University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) “Connecting Objects” of the Sino-Tibetan Cultural Zone: The Inter-ethnic Commercial Network in the Huarui Tibetan Area During the Republican Period
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Guangye Qi (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) 'Marginal Topography' in Postwar Japan: Rikisaburo Terashita and the Mutsu-ogawara Development Plan in tōhoku
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Akemi YAMAUCHI – Miyagi University of Education
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Modernity, Marginality, and Mobility in a Demographically Changing Asia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Melanie P. Tolentino (she/her/hers) – Central Luzon State University
    Chair: Melanie P. Tolentino (she/her/hers) – Central Luzon State University
    Discussant: Yoshihide Obayashi (he/him/his) – Hokkaido University
    Discussant: Kailash Timilsina (he/him/his) – Gandaki University
    Discussant: Jay Santos (he/him/his) – Central Luzon State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Outside/in: Reframing Asia Through Decentralized Curatorial Practices
    Location: Kapilvastu (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Ellen Larson (they/them/theirs) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Ellen Larson (they/them/theirs) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Min-hyung Kang (she/her/hers) – Barim Gwangju
    Discussant: Abby Chen (she/her/hers) – Asian Art Museum
    Discussant: Cheng Xu (she/her/hers) – Asian Art Museum
    Discussant: Naz Cuguoglu (she/her/hers) – Asian Art Museum
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) New Men of China: Gender Representations in Chinese Reality TV
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yimeng Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Playing out the Performance and Performativity: Mapping Three Forms of Gender Swapping in Queer/feminist China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tingting Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    Co-author: Yalan Huang (she/her/hers) – Jinan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) The Algorithmic Reconfiguration of Community: Affect and Aspirations on Rednote
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ran Xi (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Precarious Sexualised Labour of Female Rural Live Streamers and Its Intimate Consequences
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mengyun He (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) Picturing Gendered Silhouettes: Eroticism in Chinese and Latin American Queer Cinema
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Simon Wu (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Faith in Flux: Religion and Identity Politics in Asian Local and Migrant Communities
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Minhang Du – Peking University
    Organizer: Eugene Yuan (She/They) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Chair: Yuqing Du – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Minhang Du – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Zixuan Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Yuqing Du – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Ye Yuan – Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Paris Sciences et Lettres
    Paper Presenter: Ruo Lin – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Jingyang Zhao (she/her/hers) – Southwest University of Political Science and Law
    Discussant: Yuerong Wen (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Fandom, Media, and Popular Cultures in Global Asias II: Gender, Belonging, and Urban Spaces
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Michelle H. S. Ho (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Sneha Annavarapu (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Michelle H. S. Ho (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Michelle H. S. Ho (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-Author: Sneha Annavarapu (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Mayadevi Murthy (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Nemo Martin (they/them/theirs) – Kanazawa University
    Paper Presenter: Maggie Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Food (Im-)Mobilities and Multiple Global-asian Futures
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Chair: Sau-Wah Mak (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Paper Presenter: Shuk-Ying Lo (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Sau-Wah Mak (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Paper Presenter: Emiko Takei (she/her/hers) – Osaka Gakuin University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) More Than Healthy: Cultural Imagination and the Rise of Reconstituted Milk in Hong Kong, 1950s-1960s
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shuk-Ying Lo (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) What's Love Got to Do with It? Buses, Fandom, and Social Media in Singapore
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Michelle H. S. Ho (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Sneha Annavarapu (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Ye City Buddha Statue in Fragments: The Buddhist Persecution Movement in Sixth-century China in the Perspective of Stylistic Studies of Iconography
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Minhang Du – Peking University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Gendered Mobilities and Labour: Mapping Social Reproduction in the Thai-myanmar Borderlands
    Location: Princess (Dusit)
    Speaker: Khin Thazin (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) "Pheminist!": Feminism as Identity, Analytic, and Discoursal Marker Within ITV Twitter
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mayadevi Murthy (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Sustaining Identity: The Nutritional Myths and Cultural Significance of Rice in Macao During World War II
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) The Influence of Japan's Unique Anti-semitism During the World War II
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zixuan Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Newkama to Newcomer: The Changing Face of Transness in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nemo Martin (they/them/theirs) – Kanazawa University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Platformization of Agricultural Heritage, Young Peasants and Marketing of Global-asian Identities
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sau-Wah Mak (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Politics of Belonging: Assemblages of Faith and Nationalism in 1950s Northern Vietnamese Catholic Refugees
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yuqing Du – ShanghaiTech University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Regeneration of Buddhist Space: The Case Study of 'Fo Guang Shan Paris' Since the 2010s
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ye Yuan – Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Paris Sciences et Lettres
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Development and Localization of Dairy Products in Modern Myanmar
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Emiko Takei (she/her/hers) – Osaka Gakuin University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Loss of Enchantment: Pseudo-fandom and Narcissistic Algorithm in 2024 Hong Kong
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Maggie Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Gods and Ancestors: Lineage Practice of Overseas Chinese Across Historical Space
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ruo Lin – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Memory, Movement, Montage: Engaging with the Pluralities of Migrant Narratives
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Rituparna Rana (she/her/hers) – Memory Movement Montage, USA
    Chair: Nida Sajid (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Discussant: Muhammad Numan (he/him/his) – School of Liberal Arts, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
    Discussant: Pawan Sharma (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Discussant: Shashwati Talukdar (she/her/hers) – Four Nine and a Half Pictures
    Discussant: Diditi Mitra (she/her/hers) – Brookdale Community College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    "Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity, and Labor in East Asian Socio-political Landscapes"
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Kazue Harada (she/her/hers) – Miami University, Ohio
    Chair: Kazue Harada (she/her/hers) – Miami University, Ohio
    Paper Presenter: Fang-Yu Li – New College of Florida
    Paper Presenter: Naaborle Sackeyfio (she/her/hers) – Miami University, Ohio
    Paper Presenter: Kazue Harada (she/her/hers) – Miami University, Ohio
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Dancing "Global Asia" and Inter-asian Cultural Exchanges in the Cold War
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Soo Ryon Yoon (she/her/hers) – Sungkonghoe University
    Chair: Soo Ryon Yoon (she/her/hers) – Sungkonghoe University
    Paper Presenter: Soo Ryon Yoon (she/her/hers) – Sungkonghoe University
    Paper Presenter: Darlene Machell M. Espena – Singapore Management University
    Paper Presenter: Beiyu Zhang – Jinan University
    Discussant: Yu Tao (he/him/his) – University of Western Australia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Inter-asian Mambo Between Korea and the Sinosphere in the Cold War
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Soo Ryon Yoon (she/her/hers) – Sungkonghoe University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Migrant Workers and Social Im/mobility in Chinese Science Fiction
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Fang-Yu Li – New College of Florida
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) African Labor, Identity and Inclusion in Japan: Place-making, Mobilities and Its Discontents
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Naaborle Sackeyfio (she/her/hers) – Miami University, Ohio
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Corporeal Diplomacy: Cambodia's Celestial Dancers in the West, 1953-1970
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Darlene Machell M. Espena – Singapore Management University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Performing Bilateral Arts Diplomacy in the Mao-sukarno Era: Cultural Missions Between China and Indonesia (1954-1965)
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Beiyu Zhang – Jinan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Tao Jing-sun: Mobility, Memory, and Moral Consciousness in Modern Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kazue Harada (she/her/hers) – Miami University, Ohio
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Agrarian Dynamics, Gender and Agroecology Movements in Rural Japan and Nepal
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Takeshi Ito – Sophia University
    Chair: Ramesh Sunam (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Takeshi Ito – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Dinesh Joshi – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Ramesh Sunam (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Lina Baniya – Tribhuvan University
    Discussant: Fraser Sugden – University of Birmingham
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Culture in Travel: Reframing of Asian Mobilities Through Daily Life
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Xinwei Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Helsinki
    Chair: lu zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Nottingham
    Paper Presenter: Yifei Luo (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Ye Tian (he/him/his) – University of Durham
    Paper Presenter: lu zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Nottingham
    Paper Presenter: Xinwei Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Helsinki
    Discussant: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Indigenous Communities and Eurocentric Conservation Models: Reflections from the Eastern Himalayas
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Deki Yangzom (she/her/hers) – Royal Thimphu College
    Chair: Pasang Y. Sherpa (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Noihrit Gogoi (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Deki Yangzom (she/her/hers) – Royal Thimphu College
    Paper Presenter: Raysha Alvir (she/her/hers) – Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway
    Discussant: Pasang Y. Sherpa (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Becoming Tableware: The Influence of Chinese Porcelain on the Meal System and Daily Life of Europeans
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yifei Luo (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Normal University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Japan's Local Turn to Sustainable Agriculture: Can Agroecology Be a Solution for Social-ecological Challenges?
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Takeshi Ito – Sophia University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Land, State, and Conservation: The Case of the Mising Community in Dibru-saikhowa National Park
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Noihrit Gogoi (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Emotion Memory as Source Text: Theorising the Travelling and Growth of Diasporic Xiangsheng Under the Lens of Experiential Translation
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ye Tian (he/him/his) – University of Durham
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) More-than-human Ecologies: Deities, Conservation, and Climate Discourses in Bhutan's Kumbu Valley
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Deki Yangzom (she/her/hers) – Royal Thimphu College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Rural Depopulation and the Agrarian Crisis in Japan: What Role Can Foreign Workers Play in Sustaining Japanese Agriculture?
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Dinesh Joshi – University of Tokyo
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) "Mr F. T. Cheng Hosted Us at China Restaurant."
    culinary Memories in the Travel Writings of Chinese Artistic Diaspora in 1930s London
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: lu zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Nottingham
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) State-led Conservation and Indigenous Perspectives: Reflections on Idu-mishmi Ecology in Arunachal Pradesh
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Raysha Alvir (she/her/hers) – Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Social Dynamics of Youth Entrepreneurship in Agrarian Rural South: Insights from Nepal
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ramesh Sunam (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Beyond 'Feminization of Agriculture': Young Women's Agrarian Struggles in Rural Nepal
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lina Baniya – Tribhuvan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Bubble Tea as Cultural Bridge: From Vietnam to Europe and the Fluidity of Identity in Migration
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xinwei Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Helsinki
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Evaluating India’s Response Post-liberalization
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Shweta Sinha Deshpande (she/her/hers) – Symbiosis International University
    Chair: Shweta Sinha Deshpande (she/her/hers) – Symbiosis International University
    Discussant: Shweta Sinha Deshpande (she/her/hers) – Symbiosis International University
    Discussant: Neeta Inamdar (she/her/hers) – Symbiosis International (Deemed University)
    Discussant: S. Irudaya Rajan (he/him/his) – IIMAD
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    BRICS as a Strategic Platform? Reconfiguring Global Order Beyond Established Institutions
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Adrian Brona (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University
    Chair: Adrian Brona (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Łukasz Fyderek (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Agnieszka Kuszewska-Bohnert (she/her/hers) – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Michał Lubina – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Karolina Wanda Olszowska – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Adrian Brona (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Evolving Narratives of Japanese Sex Work: Memories, Aging Workers, and Female-to-female Services
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Marta Fanasca – University of Bologna
    Chair: Anna Specchio – University of Turin
    Paper Presenter: Marta Fanasca – University of Bologna
    Paper Presenter: Yoko Kumada – Professional Institute of International Fashion
    Paper Presenter: Ayaka Yoshimizu – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Michela Riminucci (she/her/hers) – Kobe University
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Infrastructural Lives on the Margins: Negotiating Modernities in the Asian Uplands
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Sarah Turner (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Chair: Sarah Turner (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Jean Michaud (he/him/his) – Laval University
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Turner (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Karine Gagne (she/her/hers) – University of Guelph
    Discussant: Sango Mahanty (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Margins as Method: Situated Knowledge, Subversive Invisibility, and Resilience in Asia
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Qihui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Jinan (Guangzhou)
    Organizer: Senter Bi (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Qihui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Jinan (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Qihui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Jinan (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Senter Bi (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Qifan Hao (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Krystie Ng – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Jocelyn Ford (she/her/hers) – Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (Zhuhai)
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Empowerment Beyond Transaction: Exploring Rezu fūzoku in Japan's Female Sexual Economy
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Marta Fanasca – University of Bologna
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Multiple ontologies of Snow Leopard in contemporary Tibetan cinema
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Qihui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Jinan (Guangzhou)
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Personalistic, Harmonious and Non-transparent: The Emerging Style of International Politics of BRICS
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Łukasz Fyderek (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) "We Can't Bring Any Machinery In!" Pitfalls of Upland Infrastructure Betterment in Northern Thailand
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jean Michaud (he/him/his) – Laval University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) A Study on Some Japanese Sex Workers' Second Lives and Second Career Alternatives
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yoko Kumada – Professional Institute of International Fashion
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Emptiness and Exclusion: Dansaekhwa as an Aesthetic Resistance of Socio-political Marginalization in South Korean Art
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Senter Bi (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Resilience in Reinforcement: Hmong Culture Meets Concrete in Upland Northern Vietnam
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sarah Turner (she/her/hers) – McGill University
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  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Role of BRICS in India's International Strategy
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Agnieszka Kuszewska-Bohnert (she/her/hers) – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) BRICS in Russian Foreign Policy: In Search for Prestige and Opportunities
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Michał Lubina – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Fires, Syphilis, and Mass Deaths of Rashamen in Yokohama, 1859-1871: Performance Ethnography of a Memorial-in-becoming
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ayaka Yoshimizu – University of British Columbia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Fragile Wilderness: Snow Leopards, Strategic Infrastructure and Border Contention in the Indian Himalayas
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Karine Gagne (she/her/hers) – University of Guelph
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Heterogeneous Entanglement: A Study of Econarratology in Southeast Asian Anthropocene Images
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Qifan Hao (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Alternative to Hydroelectricity: A Study of Lightup Borneo’s Approach to Environmental Sustainability in Sabah
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Krystie Ng – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Between East and West: Turkey's Goals for Joining BRICS
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Karolina Wanda Olszowska – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Leveraging Privileged "Otherness": Reflections on Four Decades of Challenging "Invisibility" of Marginalized Groups as a U.s.-born Media Worker and Media Educator in East Asia
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jocelyn Ford (she/her/hers) – Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (Zhuhai)
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Quest for Global Influence? BRICS in China's International Strategy
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Adrian Brona (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Sunday, Jun 1st
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Asian Studies Journal Editors' Roundtable
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Robert Oppenheim (he/him/his) – Modern Asian Studies
    Chair: Pratyoush Onta (he/him/his) – Martin Chautari
    Discussant: Robert Oppenheim (he/him/his) – Modern Asian Studies
    Discussant: Maitrii Aung Thwin (he/him/his) – Asia Research Institute
    Discussant: Jieyu Liu (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Discussant: Priya Chacko (she/her/hers) – South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Intimate and Cosmopolitan: Asian Diplomatic Correspondences and Their Global Entanglements, C. 1650-1950
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Chair: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Co-Author: Tirmizy Abdullah (he/him/his) – Mindanao State University
    Paper Presenter: Norifumi Daito – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Annabel T. Gallop – British Library
    Paper Presenter: Midori Kawashima (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Discussant: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines Diliman
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    "Marginalized Abroad: Students, Writers, and Sex Workers Across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Margaret Kuo (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    Organizer: Amalia Dragani – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    Chair: Elizabeth VanderVen (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Margaret Kuo (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    Paper Presenter: Amalia Dragani – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    Paper Presenter: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    Paper Presenter: Quang Van (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Discussant: Janet Theiss (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Asia Through Performance: Negotiating Cultural Mobility and Modernity
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: I-Wen Chang – Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
    Chair: Casey Avaunt – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Casey Avaunt – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: I-Wen Chang – Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
    Paper Presenter: Sang Woo Ha – Universiti Malaya
    Paper Presenter: Wei-Ying Hsu – National Chin-Yi University of Technology
    Discussant: Sang Woo Ha – Universiti Malaya
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Authority and Autonomy: Diplomatic Letters (Surat Jawi) from the Sultanates of Sulu and Mindanao, C. 1800-1900
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Co-author: Tirmizy Abdullah (he/him/his) – Mindanao State University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) "Chinese Women and Prostitution: gender, Race, and Law Across the Cantonese Pacific in the Late Nineteenth Century"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Margaret Kuo (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) From Chinatown to the Museum: Lion Dance Performance and the Politics of Cultural Visibility
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Casey Avaunt – Hamilton College
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) "Afro-asian Student Mobilities and Circulation: Marginal Saharan Students' S Life Experiences and Mixed Marriages in Chinese Universities"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Amalia Dragani – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Letters from the Persian Gulf to Dutch Batavia
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Norifumi Daito – University of Tokyo
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Reclaiming the Body, Rewriting Modernity: taiwanese Dance Through Ritual and Intercultural Dialogue
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: I-Wen Chang – Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Chinese Female Students in the United States: Educational Diplomacy between Allies, 1937-1948
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Cultural Mobility from K-pop to M-pop and Its Limitation
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sang Woo Ha – Universiti Malaya
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Neither Too High nor Too Low: The Position of the Seal on Malay Diplomatic Letters
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Annabel T. Gallop – British Library
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) "A Taste of Home Abroad: Nguyễn Tuân's Reflections on Food, Landscape, and the Human Experience"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Quang Van (he/him/his) – Yale University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Global Influences, Local Innovation: Writing the History of Taiwanese Dance in a Transnational Context
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Wei-Ying Hsu – National Chin-Yi University of Technology
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Letters from the Maranao People of Mindanao to U.S. Officials, 1902–1930s
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Midori Kawashima (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Agrarian Perspectives on Asian City Futures
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Sangeeta Banerji – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Tang Min – Tongji University
    Paper Presenter: Lou Jing – Central Academy of Fine Arts
    Paper Presenter: Zehra Hashmi (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Sweta Xess – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Crowley – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Discussant: Sangeeta Banerji – New York University Shanghai
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Documenting Crises and Disasters: A Transdisciplinarity Tryout for Liberal Arts Communication
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sakura Kudo – National Museum of Ethnology
    Chair: Sakura Kudo – National Museum of Ethnology
    Paper Presenter: Sachi Komai – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Paper Presenter: Akiko Yokoyama – National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
    Paper Presenter: Shoko Kawata – National Institute of Japanese Literature
    Paper Presenter: Kenichi Sawazaki (he/him/his) – Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
    Discussant: Go Ohba (he/him/his) – National Institutes for the Humanities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Killing, Internment and Forced Marches Revisited: New Perspectives on Military and Civilian Prisoners in the Pacific War
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Chair: Nissim Otmazgin (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Paul Taucher (he/him/his) – Murdoch University
    Paper Presenter: Sandra Wilson – Morduch University
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Kovner – Columbia University
    Discussant: Nissim Otmazgin (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Performativities and Alternative Modernities: Case Studies of Religious Practices in East and Southeast Asia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    Chair: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    Paper Presenter: Ryohei Takamura (he/him/his) – Akita University
    Paper Presenter: Chawarote Valyamedhi – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    Paper Presenter: Atsuko Fukuura (she/her/hers) – Shiga University
    Discussant: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) A License to Kill? The Principle of Punishment, Chinese Pows and the Roots of the Nanjing Massacre
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Confucianism and Shamanism on the Epitaphs of Missing in Jeju Island, South Korea
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ryohei Takamura (he/him/his) – Akita University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Narrated Narrators: Reframing Crime in Kirino Natsuo’s Real World
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sachi Komai – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Reimagining 'Urban Village' from Asia: Global Interaction and Entangled Trajectories
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tang Min – Tongji University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Beyond Documentation: A Community-driven Approach to Endangered Language Preservation in Okinoerabu
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Akiko Yokoyama – National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Death Marches, Massacres and Mass Deaths in the Asia-pacific War
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Paul Taucher (he/him/his) – Murdoch University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Phra and the People: Performativity of Buddha Images in Laak Phra Communal Cultural Practice in Southern Thailand
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chawarote Valyamedhi – National Chengchi University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Real Urban Villages: The Positioning, Mis-position, and Re-positioning of Spaces of Faith in Urban Renewal
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Lou Jing – Central Academy of Fine Arts
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Biometric Frontiers: Making Kinship in Urban Pakistan
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zehra Hashmi (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Magic and Mobility: Case Study of Northern Thai Ritualism and Its Dissemination
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) THE JAPANESE MASSACRE OF Pows ON WAKE ISLAND IN 1943
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sandra Wilson – Morduch University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Waka Literature in a Society in Crisis
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shoko Kawata – National Institute of Japanese Literature
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) A Practical Study on the Use of Visual Arts in Decision-making During Disasters for Sustainable Futures
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kenichi Sawazaki (he/him/his) – Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) "Properties of Shit": Subaltern Struggles for Property and Dignity in a Majoritarian North India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sweta Xess – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Provoking Social Space: Stories About Rediscovering Ourselves
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Atsuko Fukuura (she/her/hers) – Shiga University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Captivity of Yoneoka Futoru at Tule Lake
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sarah Kovner – Columbia University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) The Emperor of Development: Re-ruralization in Small Town India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Thomas Crowley – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Asian Digital Nomads in the Post-pandemic Era: Navigating Identity, Gender, Home and Spatial Practices
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yuchen Song (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Organizer: Yinshuang Dong – Nanjing University
    Chair: Xin Yu – Shenzhen University
    Discussant: Xin Yu – Shenzhen University
    Paper Presenter: Yuchen Song (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Qinghan Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Yang (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Yinshuang Dong – Nanjing University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Landscapes of Contemporary Resistance and Marginalized Tradition: Reframed Localities, Mediated Heritages, and Organized Dissent in China and India
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries Through the Lens of Auto-biographical Narratives, Memoirs and Travelogues
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Barnali Chanda (she/her/hers) – Adamas University
    Chair: Avijit Banerjee (he/him/his) – Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal
    Paper Presenter: Barnali Chanda (she/her/hers) – Adamas University
    Paper Presenter: Swati Moitra (she/her/hers) – Gurudas College, University of Calcutta
    Paper Presenter: Arpita Bose (she/her/hers) – Hooghly Mohsin College
    Paper Presenter: Jinyun Li – Fuzhou University
    Paper Presenter: Juanjuan Wu (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Crafting an Aspirational Digital Nomad Identity: Identity Building, Psychological Satisfaction, and Consumerism
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuchen Song (she/her/hers) – Monash University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Travel as a Means of Cultural Reunion: post-1962 Indi and China Through the Lens of Travelogues
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Barnali Chanda (she/her/hers) – Adamas University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Of History and Hope: Bengali Women's Political Activism and Autobiographical Writing in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Swati Moitra (she/her/hers) – Gurudas College, University of Calcutta
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Rebuilding Rhythms and Gender Power of the Post-pandemic Scenario: The Movement of Asian Female Digital Nomads in Bali's Workplaces
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Qinghan Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Freedom and Imagined Spaces: Aesthetic Practices and Cultural Landscapes of Digital Nomads in the Post-pandemic Era
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yifan Yang (she/her/hers) – Monash University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Journey for New Home : A Study on the Burma Returnee Bengali and the Chinese Indian
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Arpita Bose (she/her/hers) – Hooghly Mohsin College
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) A Study of the Fuzhou-london Tea Transportation Race in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jinyun Li – Fuzhou University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) 'The Global Sense of Home' in the Post-pandemic Era: An Examination of the Re-nomadizing Motivations of Chinese Digital Nomads
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yinshuang Dong – Nanjing University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Reworlding China from the Below: Affective Mobilities in British Women's Travel Narrative on China
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Juanjuan Wu (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED - Photography's Asian Archives: Transforming Memory and Community from the Margins
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Global South Asians Against Global Empire Before 1947
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Complex Mobilities Within and from Asia: Shifting Flows, Drivers, and Experiences
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ashika Niraula (she/her/hers) – Toronto Metropolitan University
    Chair: Ashika Niraula (she/her/hers) – Toronto Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Sagar Raj Sharma – Kathmandu University
    Paper Presenter: Pratiti Roy (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
    Paper Presenter: Richa Shivakoti (she/her/hers) – Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
    Co-Author: Deepa Nagari
    Co-Author: Chandana Sharma (she/her/hers) – MEMO- Kathmandu University
    Discussant: Usha George
    Paper Presenter: Pushpa Acharya – Kwantlen Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Huang – Edith Cowan University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Contesting Authority: Protest, Media, and Digital Activism in Contemporary Asia
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Chair: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Kenneth Ka Lok Chan – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Discussant: Kenneth Ka Lok Chan – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Lu Wei Rose Luqiu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Contesting Revolution: Media and Solidarity in the Socialist World
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Yaowen Dong (he/him/his) – University of Memphis
    Chair: Yinyin Xue (she/her/hers) – Rhodes College
    Paper Presenter: Yucong Hao (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Lin Du (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Nan Hu (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Yaowen Dong (he/him/his) – University of Memphis
    Discussant: Yifan Zhang (he/him/his) – Jilin University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Food, Community, Kinship: Culinary Intimacies in Global Asias
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Anita Mannur (she/her/hers) – American University
    Chair: Fan Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Paper Presenter: Anita Mannur (she/her/hers) – American University
    Paper Presenter: Krishnendu Ray (he/him/his) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez (he/him/his) – Southwestern University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Mules, Peacocks, Sheep, and Tigers: Indigenous Knowledge, Diplomatic Engagement, and Ecological Shifts in a Changing Asian Borderland, 1890s-1990s
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Organizer: Yu Yan (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Chair: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Yan (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Paper Presenter: Gyatso Marnyi (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Xuexin Cai (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Discussant: Yucheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Tradition and Transition: Ideological and Cultural Mobilities Shaping Modernities Across Asia and Beyond
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Zhe Hou (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
    Chair: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Zhe Hou (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Shuyang Zhao (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yang Luo (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship Part 2: Perspectives on Environmental Justice
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    Organizer: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Chair: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Amalie Goul Dueholm – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Khathaleeya Liamdee (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Adaptation Amidst Precarity: Nepali Migrant Workers in India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Paper Presenter: Sagar Raj Sharma – Kathmandu University
    Co-Author: Chandana Sharma (she/her/hers) – MEMO- Kathmandu University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Anti-pollution Protests in the Vietnamese Media: A Form of Contentious Authoritarianism?
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Filming Xingxiang: Sino-soviet Documentary Negotiation and the Creation of the Socialist Sensorium in the 1950s
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yucong Hao (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) From Pandan Donuts to Masala Chai Ice Cream: Infusing Asian Tastes into the Ethno-culinary Imaginary
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anita Mannur (she/her/hers) – American University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Indigenous Knowledge in Motion: The Shaanxi Mules, the Militarization of the Sufis, and the Panthay Exploration of Northern Burma
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Piety and Neglect: An Exploration of Ethics in Indonesia's Waste Alms Movement
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Revolutionizing Education: Labor, Ideology, and Modernization in Maoist China
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Zhe Hou (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Culinary Capital and Cultural Imperialism: Asian Nationalisms in the Aftertaste of Empire
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Krishnendu Ray (he/him/his) – New York University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Eva Sandberg Siao: Photographs of the Reconstruction of Tiananmen Square in 1959
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Lin Du (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Expansion of Book Production and Social Transition Caused by the Buddhist Scriptures' Efficacious Stories in Medieval China
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shuyang Zhao (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) From Buddhism to Revolution: The Golden Peacock and Sino-burmese Ties During the Cold War
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yu Yan (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Protests During the Pandemic in Asia: State vs. Society in Response to a Global Crisis
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kenneth Ka Lok Chan – Hong Kong Baptist University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Improving Tibetan Sheep to Counter Imperialism: The Rise and Fall of Wool Trade in Southwest China, 1890–1950
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Gyatso Marnyi (he/him/his) – Yale University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Jia Zhifang and the Ways of Teaching Soviet Literature in 1950s Chinese Universities
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Nan Hu (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Rohingya Refugees in India: Analysing the Lack and Necessity of Refugee Policies in India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Paper Presenter: Pratiti Roy (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Asiatic Mode of Production and Mexico's post-1968 Cultural Movement
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Transnational Protests and Digital Feminism: Exploring the Impact of Diasporic Chinese Feminist Collective Activities on Challenging Censorship
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lu Wei Rose Luqiu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Commenting for Publishing: Zhong Xing's Shijing Theory and Related Commentaries
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yang Luo (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Elephants, Tigers, and Poachers: Towards a Multispecies History of a Sino-southeast Asian Borderland, 1950s-1990s
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xuexin Cai (he/him/his) – Columbia University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Feeding the Dead: On Atang and Pitik in the Philippines
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez (he/him/his) – Southwestern University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Gazing the West Through a Soviet Lens: Reading Ilya Ehrenburg in Socialist China, 1950-1976
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yaowen Dong (he/him/his) – University of Memphis
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Narratives of Environmental Justice and State-making at the Margins in 2020s Indian Cinema
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Amalie Goul Dueholm – Lahore University of Management Sciences
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Nepali Immigrants in Canada: Complex Pathways and Experiences
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Paper Presenter: Richa Shivakoti (she/her/hers) – Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Redefining Belonging: Migration, Identity, and Resilience in Himalayan Diaspora Literature
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Pushpa Acharya – Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Intergenerational Negotiations in Chinese Immigrant Families: The Role of Welfare Policies Across Borders
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yu Huang – Edith Cowan University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Landscaping Health Security Along the Thai-myanmar Border: The Question of Citizenship and Rights to Health Care in the Time of Humanitarian Crisis
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Khathaleeya Liamdee (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Margins and Centres: The Pluralities and Paradoxes Within the Environmental Modernities in Interasia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yufang Gao (he/him/his) – Yale InterAsia Initiative
    Chair: Yu Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Puget Sound
    Discussant: Yufang Gao (he/him/his) – Yale InterAsia Initiative
    Discussant: Shivangi Pareek (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Discussant: Lav Kanoi (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Discussant: Rundong Ning (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Politics of Memory in Asia and Beyond: Empowerment, Healing, Flipping the Script
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Kevin Laddapong (any pronouns) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    Chair: Somrak Chaisingkananont (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
    Co-Author: Somrak Chaisingkananont (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Laddapong (any pronouns) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    Paper Presenter: Pimnara Chanorn – Mahidol University
    Co-Author: Pimnara Chanorn – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Sirima Thongsawang – Chulalongkorn University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Whiteness Studies as Decolonization and Healing
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Kevin Laddapong (any pronouns) – Indiana University-Bloomington
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Negotiating Memory and Modernity: The Case of Samsen, Bangkok
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Pimnara Chanorn – Mahidol University
    Co-Author: Somrak Chaisingkananont (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
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  • Monday, Jun 2nd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Sociopolitical Construction of the Wiset Chai Chan Historical Park Royalty Monument: A Case Study of Implications for an Aging Society and Community Development in Angthong Province, Thailand
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sirima Thongsawang – Chulalongkorn University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Exploring the (in)Flexibility of East Asian Masculinities: Marginality, Border Crossings, and the Mobility of Power
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jinbo Yuan (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    Chair: Ran Ma – Nagoya University
    Discussant: Tingting Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Tracy Lee (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    Paper Presenter: Jinbo Yuan (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Hao Wen (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Weiying Yu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    New Ways of Knowing and New Boundaries of Knowledge Production Between Nepal and China
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Chair: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Jiayue Xu (she/her/hers) – Sciences-Po Paris
    Paper Presenter: Niraj Lawoju (he/him/his) – Sichuan University
    Co-Author: Amish Mulmi (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    Paper Presenter: Raunab Singh Khatri (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Co-Author: Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Shubhanga Pandey (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Reconsidering Trans-Himalayan Complexity: Modernity, Diplomacy and Knowledge Production between Nepal and China (1930-1940)
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Amish Mulmi (he/him/his) – Delhi University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Making of Mirror: Cultural Production and Idol Industry in Hong Kong
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tracy Lee (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) When Eunuchs Are Portrayed as the Best Lovers: The Ideal East Asian Masculinity Is the Castrated One?
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jinbo Yuan (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Men Moving (with) the City: Configuring the Cosmopolitan Chinese Masculinity of Xiu Jian in Global City Tokyo
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hao Wen (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Nepal-chin Matree Sangh-a Pioneer People-level Initiative: Contribution for Nepal-china Diplomatic Relation
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Niraj Lawoju (he/him/his) – Sichuan University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) In the Pursuit of Profit and Eecognition: Of Nepali Entrepreneurs in China
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Raunab Singh Khatri (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Co-author: Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari (she/her/hers) – Peking University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Other Possibilities of Infrastructure in China and Beyond: Counter- masculinity, Counter-aesthetics, and Visual Speculation
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Weiying Yu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) The Empirical State? Geographical, Ethnographic and Statistical Knowledge of China in 19th-century Nepal
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shubhanga Pandey (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Cosmos, City and the World: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Classical and Modern Contexts
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Chair: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Zheng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Laurel Kendall (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University
    Organizer: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Global Chinas, Local Adaptations: Historical Strategies for Cultural Appropriation and Navigation in Sino-west Cultural Interchange
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jianye He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Weihong Du (she/her/hers) – Knox College
    Paper Presenter: Jianye He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Weihong Du (she/her/hers) – Knox College
    Paper Presenter: Giusi Tamburello (she/her/hers) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
    Discussant: Giusi Tamburello (she/her/hers) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
    Paper Presenter: Salvatore Giuffrè (he/him/his) – King's College London
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship Part 1: Perspectives on Cultural Identities
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    Organizer: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Discussant: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Kazuyo Futaesaku (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: John Iremil Teodoro – De La Salle University
    Paper Presenter: Lermie Shayne S. Garcia (she/her/hers) – Ateneo De Manila University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) A Transnational Community for Social Education and Mobilization: The Role of the San Francisco Chinatown YMCA in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jianye He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) From Periphery to the Center: Reimagining the Sacred Geography in the Liao Dynasty
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Urbanising Marginality and the Failure of Modernity Project
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Ethnic and Cultural Reconstruction in Local Society: The Case of Belitung Island in Indonesia
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Kazuyo Futaesaku (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Intercultural Linchpins: Mimetic Authenticity and Foreign Perception in Sino-western Constructions of Peking Opera in the 1930s
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Weihong Du (she/her/hers) – Knox College
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) From Canton to the World: The Journey of Chinese Medicinal Plants
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Transcultural Dimension of the "Palazzina Cinese" in Palermo, Italy
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Giusi Tamburello (she/her/hers) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Writing from the Center, Writing from the Island: The Politics of National Literature and National Language in the Philippines
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: John Iremil Teodoro – De La Salle University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) “Feeling Seen”: The impact of “tangible leadership” on marginalized localities in the Philippines and Indonesia
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Lermie Shayne S. Garcia (she/her/hers) – Ateneo De Manila University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Greek Prose, Chinese Philosophy: An Intertextual and Transcultural Analysis of Kazantzakis's Writings
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Salvatore Giuffrè (he/him/his) – King's College London
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Hispanic Genealogy of Imagining Asia: The Distinction Between Civilization and Barbarism in Juan Cobo's Testimony of the True Religion
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Shifting Capitals and Migrating Powers: Excavating the Ancient Kingdom of Chu Between Legend and History
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yifan Zheng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Chinese Global Orders?
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Discussant: Adhira Mangalagiri (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Discussant: Tansen Sen (he/him/his) – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Tansen Sen (he/him/his) – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Selina Ho – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Shigeto Sonoda, University of Tokyo (he/him/his) – Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
    Organizer: Adhira Mangalagiri (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Discussant: Sarvani Gooptu, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India (she/her/hers) – Netaji Institute For Asian Studies
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing Journal Publishing in ‘asia’
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Edward Boyle (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Organizer: Matthew D. McMullen (he/him/his) – Nanzan University
    Chair: Matthew D. McMullen (he/him/his) – Nanzan University
    Discussant: Edward Boyle (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Discussant: Ellen Van Goethem (she/her/hers) – Kyushu University
    Discussant: Sebastian Maslow (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Discussant: Tristan Grunow (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    A Transboundary History of Medicine: The Pluralism of Asian’s Local Medical Practices and Scientific Discourses Beyond Geographic Boundaries
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Waika Kot – University of California, Davis
    Paper Presenter: Sijie Ren – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Tianji Lu (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Immersive Asia: Soundwalk and Noisescape of Asian Cities, Part 2
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Iris Haukamp (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Organizer: Miaotong Yuan (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    Chair: Miaotong Yuan (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    Discussant: Iris Haukamp (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: L. Nicole Vaughan (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Pratiti Ketoki (they/them/theirs) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Paper Presenter: Yang Ding (she/her/hers) – China Women's University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Madness at the Crossroads of Medicine and Religion at Boudhanath, Kathmandu
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Waika Kot – University of California, Davis
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Race, Space, and the Regulation of Noise Nuisance in Colonial Hong Kong, from Hawker Cries to Noisy Trades (1865–1910)
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: L. Nicole Vaughan (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Needle and Revolution: Acupuncture Anaesthesia and Politics During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sijie Ren – University of Bristol
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Listening on the Move: The Sunday Suspense and Associations with Urban Sound
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pratiti Ketoki (they/them/theirs) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Scientific Biomedicine Knowledge and Urbanization of Modern Shanghai: The Politics of Water Infrastructure Through the Establishment of the Yangshupu Waterworks in 1883
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Edinburgh
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Memory and Resonance - The Sound Writing of 1980s Chinese Cinema: A Case Study of Zhang Nuanxin's Trilogy
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yang Ding (she/her/hers) – China Women's University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Yellow Skin, Yellow Mask: The Fluid Identity of Wei Yuk and His Struggles in the 1894 Hong Kong Plague
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tianji Lu (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Capital, Migration, and (Re)Territorialization: Reconfiguring Borders Across East and Southeast Asia
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Ben Fan (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Chair: Hsiu-hua Shen (she/her/hers) – Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Paper Presenter: Ben Fan (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Hsiu-hua Shen (she/her/hers) – Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Discussant: Kisho Tsuchiya – Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Miriam Jaehn – Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Yunxi Wu (she/her/hers) – Kagawa University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities and Barriers in Contraflow Cultures and Media in the Post-pandemic Era
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Chair: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Ying-kit Chan (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Anubha Sarkar (she/her/hers) – City University of London
    Paper Presenter: Xinyue Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Fan Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Yijia Zhang (she/her/hers) – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Jessie Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Sydney
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  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities of Buddhist Place and Practice in Premodern Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Organizer: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Chair: Sanjukta Datta (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Paper Presenter: Mingzhou Chi – Beijing Science and Technology University
    Paper Presenter: Yan LIU, Associate Professor, Kunming University of Science and Technology
    Discussant: Sanjukta Datta (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Asian Migration: Space-making, Situated Modernities, and Social Mobilities
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sophie D. Loy-Wilson (she/her/hers) – The University of Sydney
    Chair: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Sophie D. Loy-Wilson (she/her/hers) – The University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Yu Tao (he/him/his) – University of Western Australia
    Paper Presenter: Charlotte Setijadi (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Fei sheng, Prof (he/him/his) – Sun Yat-sen University in City of Guangzhou,China.
    Discussant: Kesang Youdon (she/her/hers) – Himachal Pradesh University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Gendered Futures on Digital Platforms and Through Transnational Mobility
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Howard Chiang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Katrien Jacobs (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Jasmine Zhu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Francisca Yuenki Lai – National Tsing Hua University
    Paper Presenter: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    War and Its Afterlife: Narratives of Identity and Cultural Memory in Global Asia
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Jin Feng (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Chair: Jing Jiang (she/her/hers) – Reed College
    Discussant: Jing Jiang (she/her/hers) – Reed College
    Paper Presenter: Jin Feng (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Paper Presenter: Jie Zhang (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Affordable Deepfake Russian Wives Amongst Chinese Digital Influencers
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Katrien Jacobs (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Cultural Policies as Endorsements and Hindrances: The Different Paths of Korean and Chinese Online Television Distribution Overseas
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anubha Sarkar (she/her/hers) – City University of London
    Co-author: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Histories of Sacred Space on the Margins: The Three Pagodas of Dali, Yunnan
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Territorialization of Transnational Enterprises: Land Control and Network Expansion by Small-scale Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ben Fan (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Chin Siblings During China's War of Resistance (1936-1944)
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jin Feng (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Life of Daisy Kwok: Chinese Australian Return Migration to Shanghai 1909-1998
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sophie D. Loy-Wilson (she/her/hers) – The University of Sydney
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Between Pillars and Pagodas: Imagining the Afterlife in Tombs in China, 300-600 CE
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Chinese Maritime Incursions into Kinmen's Waters: Territorial Claims, (Re)Bordering, and Regional Instability
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hsiu-hua Shen (she/her/hers) – Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Lion Dance, Space-making, and Global Identities: Reframing Asian Migration in Western Australia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Tao (he/him/his) – University of Western Australia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Relevance of Post-pandemic Herbal Medicine to Contemporary Social Development
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xinyue Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) To Distant Shores: The Un-becoming in Eileen Chang's “flowers Adrift, Blossoms Afloat”
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jie Zhang (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) 'You Are so Pretty That You Don't Look Chinese': Cruel Optimism in Overseas Young Chinese Female Influencers' Construction of Transnational Femininity
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yuan Jasmine Zhu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Making Money, and Merit? The Business of 'Helping' Rohingya Refugees Across Borders
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Miriam Jaehn – Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Middle-aged Matters: Transnational Care Among Hong Kong Women Immigrants in the UK
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Francisca Yuenki Lai – National Tsing Hua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Khadira Wedges and Buddhist Architectural Lore: Re‑examining Materials of Making Vajrakīla in India, 6–8th Century CE
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Mingzhou Chi – Beijing Science and Technology University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) They Call Us 'Indon': Class Dynamics Among Indonesian Migrants in Malaysia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Charlotte Setijadi (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Across the "Forbidden Land" to the White: Chinese Migration and the Early Development of Tropical Queensland
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Fei sheng, Prof (he/him/his) – Sun Yat-sen University in City of Guangzhou,China.
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Hybrid Territorial Identities and the Blurring of Boundaries in Vietnam's Oolong Tea Industry
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yunxi Wu (she/her/hers) – Kagawa University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Living in and Outside of Hong Kong: The Transnational Mobility of Queer Women Immigrants
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Cultural Trans-asianism: Representations and Geopolitics of Cultural Soft Power Across South and East Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Chair: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Ahanthem Romita Devi – Manipur University
    Discussant: Ambika Basu – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Prachi Aggarwal – Delhi University
    Discussant: Vinay Kumar (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    On the Movement of Identity in a Global Asia: A Cross-media, Decolonial Panel
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (she/her/hers) – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    Chair: Fareed Ben-Youssef (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (she/her/hers) – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    Paper Presenter: Fareed Ben-Youssef (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    Paper Presenter: Roslynn Ang (she/her/hers) – NA
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Development in Asia, Part II: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Knowledge
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Jacob Rinck (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Chair: Jacob Rinck (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Paper Presenter: Shangrila Joshi – The Evergreen State College
    Paper Presenter: Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Discussant: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Climate Change, the Politics of Knowledge and Indigenous Research
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Identity Construction Through Imagined Migration: Translating Sinophone Literature from Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (she/her/hers) – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) "Like Charlie Chan but Real!": Mobility, Mimicry, and Alienation in the Good Asian
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Fareed Ben-Youssef (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Machchhindranath Jatra: A Newa Guthi-based Tradition That Commemorates Climate Resilience
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shangrila Joshi – The Evergreen State College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Sacred and the "Dammed": The Narmada River as a Semiotic Landscape
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) "We Are All Indigenous": Emancipatory Discourse Moving from North to North
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Roslynn Ang (she/her/hers) – NA
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Tuesday, Jun 3rd
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dibyesh Anand (he/him/his) – University of Westminster
    Discussant: Swati Chawla (she/her/hers) – O. P. Jindal Global University
    Discussant: Sayantani Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Chair: Dibyesh Anand (he/him/his) – University of Westminster
    Discussant: Nitasha Kaul (she/her/hers) – University of Westminster
    Discussant: Kaustabh Deka (he/him/his) – Dibrugarh University
    Discussant: Tenzin Desal (he/him/his) – Tibet Policy Institute
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Carriers of Belief: The Mobilities of Objects in Mahāyāna Buddhism in the Himalayan Region
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Chi-Lynn Lin (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Wenhua Luo (he/him/his) – Palace Museum, Beijing
    Paper Presenter: Chi-Lynn Lin (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: James Gentry (he/him/his) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Todd T. Lewis (he/him/his) – College Of The Holy Cross
    Discussant: Wenhua Luo (he/him/his) – Palace Museum, Beijing
    Paper Presenter: Yuting Zhang (she/her/hers) – the Palace Museum, Beijing
    Paper Presenter: Christian Luczanits (he/him/his) – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Immersive Asia: Soundwalk and Noisescape of Asian Cities, Part 1
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Iris Haukamp (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Organizer: Miaotong Yuan (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    Chair: Iris Haukamp (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: Benjamin Harris (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Manlin Wang (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    Paper Presenter: Zhengming Wang (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    Paper Presenter: Masayuki Iwase (he/him/his) – Formerly University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Miaotong Yuan (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Cloud-like Offerings: The Mobilities of Canopies in Eighteenth-century Tibet
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Chi-Lynn Lin (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Sound Marks the Spot: An Ethnography of Migrant Sonic Place-making in Urban Singapore
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Benjamin Harris (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Harmonizing Melodies and Noise: The Soundscape of Silver-haired Music Communities in Beijing
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Manlin Wang (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
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  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) The Circulation of the Flag in the Likeness of Vaiśravaṇa at Jang: Contentions over Portable Sacra in Seventeenth-century Tibet
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: James Gentry (he/him/his) – Stanford University
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  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) The Refuge of Newar Buddhist Amulets: Dharma as Power in Buddhist Tradition
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Todd T. Lewis (he/him/his) – College Of The Holy Cross
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) The Stadium as a Wok: An Analytical Study on the Soundscape of Asian Football Fans in Live Matches
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zhengming Wang (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) From Tholing Monastery to the Yuhua Ge: The Sanctification and Historical Construction of the Golden Temple
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuting Zhang (she/her/hers) – the Palace Museum, Beijing
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Listening To, Re-sounding, and Mapping the Affects of Minor Sounds and Major Noises in a Japanese City Through Sound Art
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Masayuki Iwase (he/him/his) – Formerly University of British Columbia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) Reframing Early Buddhist Art in Mustang, Nepal, Through the Lens of Book Illuminations
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Christian Luczanits (he/him/his) – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:30 AM NPT
    (Post)colonizing the Body: Transnational Embodiments of Governance, Space, and Belonging in East and Southeast Asia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Francis Newman (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Organizer: Adrien Gau (they/them/theirs) – University of Pennsylvania
    Chair: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Discussant: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Francis Newman (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Adrien Gau (they/them/theirs) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Nur Adilla (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Koyna Tomar, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:30 AM NPT
    (1) Dispelling Zhangqi: Dangerous Environments, Perilous Diseases, and Colonizer Bodies in Qing Taiwan
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Francis Newman (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:30 AM NPT
    (3) Geo-bodies and Transgender Bodies: Plastic Surgery in Contemporary Taiwan
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Adrien Gau (they/them/theirs) – University of Pennsylvania
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    8:30 AM - 10:30 AM NPT
    (4) Unequal Citizenship: Biopower and the Gendered Control of Women's Bodies in Malaysia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nur Adilla (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Bridging Migration in Asia: Transnational Perspectives on Asian Migrant Workers in Japan
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Yu Saito (she/her/hers) – Kobe Gakuin University
    Chair: Yu Saito (she/her/hers) – Kobe Gakuin University
    Paper Presenter: Shyam Kumar Karki (he/him/his) – Societas Research Institute, Hashimoto Foundation
    Paper Presenter: Waode Hanifah Istiqomah (she/her/hers) – Societas Research Institute, Hashimoto Foundation
    Paper Presenter: Jaessadakorn Kalapong (he/him/his) – Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
    Paper Presenter: Meng Cong Luan (she/her/hers) – Kobe University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Saito (she/her/hers) – Kobe Gakuin University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Encountering Modernity in the Eastern Himalayas
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jigme Yeshe Lama (he/him/his) – University of Calcutta
    Chair: Jigme Yeshe Lama (he/him/his) – University of Calcutta
    Paper Presenter: Jigme Yeshe Lama (he/him/his) – University of Calcutta
    Paper Presenter: Tenzing Wangdak – University of California, Irvine
    Discussant: Tenzing Wangdak – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Dickey Lama (she/her/hers) – Women's College, Calcutta; University of Calcutta
    Discussant: Dickey Lama (she/her/hers) – Women's College, Calcutta; University of Calcutta
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Global Ceramics: Interregional Trade and Cultural Interchange in the Early Modern Era
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Chuiki Maggie Wan (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Judy Law (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Paper Presenter: Guanyu Wang (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Guanyu Wang (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Judy Law (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Paper Presenter: Chuiki Maggie Wan (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Chuiki Maggie Wan (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Kunpeng Xiang, N/A (he/him/his) – Palace Museum, Beijing
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Mediating Spaces On/of Screen (Part 1): Spatiality, Aesthetics and Performance in Cinemas of Asia
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Pritha Chakrabarti (she/they) – Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University
    Chair: Meheli Sen (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Meheli Sen (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Baidurya Chakrabarti (he/they) – RV University, Bengaluru, India
    Paper Presenter: Suddhadeep Mukherjee (he/him/his) – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Rudrani Gangopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Negotiating the Locality and Subjectivity: On the Ethnic Chinese Under Imperial Order and Global Discourse
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yue Duo (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Organizer: Xin Su (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Chunmei Du (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Yue Qi (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Yue Duo (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Xin Su (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Queer Lives on Asian-pacific Margins
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: James Cummings (he/him/his) – University of York
    Chair: James Cummings (he/him/his) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: James Cummings (he/him/his) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: Jonalou Labor (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Co-Author: Jonalou Labor (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Co-Author: John Mervin Embate (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines
    Paper Presenter: Yujie Xu (she/her/hers) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: Jozon A. Lorenzana (they/them/theirs) – Ateneo De Manila University
    Discussant: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Dragon and Kraak: The Interactions Between the Imperial Ming and the World
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Guanyu Wang (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Queer Presence/absence on the Periphery: Insights from Hainan
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: James Cummings (he/him/his) – University of York
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Religion in the Margins of the Himalayas – Modernity and Syncretism in the Darjeeling Hills
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jigme Yeshe Lama (he/him/his) – University of Calcutta
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Current Status and Challenges of the Specified Skilled Worker System and the Acceptance of Nepalese Workers
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shyam Kumar Karki (he/him/his) – Societas Research Institute, Hashimoto Foundation
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Wells, Wombs, and Tombs: Trauma and Gendered Imaginaries in Asian Horror
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Meheli Sen (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) From Trainees to Workers:
    navigating Indonesian Labor Migration to Japan Under the SSW Program
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Waode Hanifah Istiqomah (she/her/hers) – Societas Research Institute, Hashimoto Foundation
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Navigating the Oceanic Crossroads: Zhangzhou Porcelain Trade in Indonesia During the Early Seventeenth Century
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Judy Law (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) On the Rooftop: Notes on a Shifting Filmic Space
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Baidurya Chakrabarti (he/they) – RV University, Bengaluru, India
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Situating Queerness in Filipino Experience: The Bakla, the Parlor, and the Paglaladlad
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jonalou Labor (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Co-author: John Mervin Embate (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) To Be And/or Not to Be (?): The Curious Case of Kyiduks in Darjeeling
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tenzing Wangdak – University of California, Irvine
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) A Comparative Study of Fabulous Animal Motifs on Blue-and-white Ceramics of Safavid Iran and Ming China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chuiki Maggie Wan (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Ghoonghat Ki Aad Se…: Veiled Unverifiables and Slipping Signifiers in Bombay and Pakistani Cinema
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Suddhadeep Mukherjee (he/him/his) – Rutgers University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Hometown: Colonial Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Consular Jurisdiction in Late Qing Dynasty
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yue Duo (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Social Media Practices of Lesbian Women in Rural and Small-Town Jiangsu, China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yujie Xu (she/her/hers) – University of York
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Curious Case of Baba Harbhajan Singh: Territory and Symbols in the India China Borderlands
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dickey Lama (she/her/hers) – Women's College, Calcutta; University of Calcutta
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Influence of Sociocultural Dynamics in Thailand on the Migration of Young Workers to Japan Under the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP)
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jaessadakorn Kalapong (he/him/his) – Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Queer Productions from the Periphery: Parodying Class and Sexuality Among Rural Queer Filipino Youtube Bloggers
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jozon A. Lorenzana (they/them/theirs) – Ateneo De Manila University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Reconstructing Teo-swa Identities: Qiaopi and Its Changed Meanings in Contemporary Chinese Literature
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xin Su (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Disappearing Act: Women in Bombay Cinema
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rudrani Gangopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Formation of Ethnic Enclaves by New Chinese Immigrants in Japan:
    the Interaction with Ethnic Networks
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Meng Cong Luan (she/her/hers) – Kobe University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Western Technology and Porcelain "Medicinal Dew" Utensils of the Qing Dynasty Palace
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kunpeng Xiang, N/A (he/him/his) – Palace Museum, Beijing
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Examination of the Factors Involved in the Mobility and Settlement of Filipino Professionals and Skilled Workers: Insights from Japan
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yu Saito (she/her/hers) – Kobe Gakuin University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Asian Monarchies in the Modern World
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Kathryn Wellen (she/her/hers) – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    Chair: Kazuhiro Takii (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Paper Presenter: Kathryn Wellen (she/her/hers) – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    Paper Presenter: Astrid Norén-Nilsson – Lund University
    Paper Presenter: Kazuhiro Takii (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    In Search for Asian Identities: Globalized Perspectives on East Asian Art and Architecture
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Gloria Yu Yang – Kyushu University
    Paper Presenter: Lianming Wang – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Gloria Yu Yang – Kyushu University
    Paper Presenter: Eriko Tomizawa-Kay (she/her/hers) – University of East Anglia
    Chair: Gloria Yu Yang – Kyushu University
    Discussant: Lorenzo Amato, Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Lives Mobilized by Land and Water: Reconfiguring the Local and Beyond in East and Southeast Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Sue Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Chair: Realisa D. Masardi (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    Paper Presenter: Hazman Baharom (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Sue Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoxi Zhao (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yichi Zhou – Xiamen University
    Discussant: Realisa D. Masardi (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Queer Asia: Inter-regional Circulation and Inter-referencing of Boys Love Narratives
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Amporn Jirattikorn (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Chair: Amporn Jirattikorn (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Mingi Jang (she/her/hers) – Kyungnam University
    Paper Presenter: Masao Imamura (he/him/his) – Yamagata University
    Paper Presenter: Ying-kit Chan (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Amporn Jirattikorn (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Thomas Baudinette (he/him/his) – Macquarie University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reigning by Proclamation: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and the Discourse of Titah
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Kathryn Wellen (she/her/hers) – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Representation of Fictional Sexualities in the Omega-verse Worldview and Its Characteristics: Dual Gender Oppression and the Visibility of Subcultures
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mingi Jang (she/her/hers) – Kyungnam University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Water as Metaphor: Comparing the Metaphysical Poetics of Hamzah Fansuri and Matsuo Basho
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hazman Baharom (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Boys Love as a Genre of Unpolitical Fantasy
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Masao Imamura (he/him/his) – Yamagata University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Opium,violence,and Insanity in the Borderland of Mountains and Creeks in Southwest China, 1880 to 1940
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sue Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Reframing Peacocks in Qing Imperial Gardens: Utopian Enclaves and Territorial Aesthetics
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Lianming Wang – City University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reimagining Colonial Peripheries: A Japanese Tearoom Clad in Chinese Tiles
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Gloria Yu Yang – Kyushu University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Social Changes in the Hai River from 1860 to 1902: A Study Centered on Tianjin
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Xiaoxi Zhao (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Y Phenomenon: Dystopia, Utopia, and Heterotopia in Thai Boys Love Media
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ying-kit Chan (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Alternative Civility and Audience Reception of Thai Boys' Love Series in Japan and China
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Amporn Jirattikorn (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Divergent Trajectories: The Thai and Cambodian Monarchies in Comparison
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Paper Presenter: Astrid Norén-Nilsson – Lund University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Reconstruction of the Port City Texture: Centered on Malacca in the Seventeenth Century
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yichi Zhou – Xiamen University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Transcultural Dialogues: From Bohemian Okinawan Artist Haebaru Chōkō (1903-1961) in East Asia to Yuken Teruya (b.1973) in Global Mobility
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Eriko Tomizawa-Kay (she/her/hers) – University of East Anglia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Globalising Asians and Mobility: Marginality and Identity Formation of Asian Migrants
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jerónimo Delgado Caicedo (he/him/his) – Universidad Externado de Colombia
    Chair: Furrukh Khan (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Jerónimo Delgado Caicedo (he/him/his) – Universidad Externado de Colombia
    Paper Presenter: Realisa D. Masardi (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    Paper Presenter: Furrukh Khan (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Negotiating Marginalized Identities: Cultural Memory, Media Narratives, and Resilience in South and East Asia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Pratikshya Mishra (she/her/hers) – Christ University, Bangalore
    Chair: Edwin Michielsen (_) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Pratikshya Mishra (she/her/hers) – Christ University, Bangalore
    Paper Presenter: Ting-Yu Chou (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona
    Paper Presenter: Sonalika Chaturvedi (she/her/hers) – Galgotias University, India
    Paper Presenter: Edwin Michielsen (_) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Politics of Recognition and Boundary in Trans-asian Film Cultures
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Zhen Zhang (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Chair: Zhen Zhang (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Discussant: Zhen Zhang (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Yinjie Wang (she/her/hers) – China Fine Arts Academy
    Paper Presenter: Shi-yan Chao (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Navnidhi Sharma (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Kaushik Bhaumik (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Migration and Urban Infrastructures in Global Asia
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Xinyu Guan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Chair: Xinyu Guan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Xinyu Guan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Jing Hao Liong – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Elisa Tamburo – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Yvonne Khor (she/her/hers) – China Foreign Affairs University
    Paper Presenter: Teraya Paramehta (she/her/hers) – Universitas Indonesia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reimagining the Multiplicity of Border Studies in China and the East Asian Region
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Waifung Tam (he/him/his) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Laikwan Pang (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Waifung Tam (he/him/his) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Laikwan Pang (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Kwai-Cheung Lo (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Hung-chiung Li, N/A (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Re-peripheralization of Buraku as Discriminated Minority: the Dynamics of Outcast Status, Migration, Gendered Subalternity
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: tsutomu Tomotsune (he/him/his) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Chair: Wesley Iwao Ueunten (he/him/his) – San Francisco State University
    Paper Presenter: tsutomu Tomotsune (he/him/his) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: John Porter (he/him/his) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: Kiyonobu Hirooka (he/him/his) – Osaka Metropolitan University
    Discussant: Shahana Bhattacharya (she/her/hers) – Kirori Mal College (University of Delhi)
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Rituals and Myth: Identity Formation of the Ethnic Minorities in China and Southeast Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: sinae Hyun – Sogang University
    Chair: Tatsuki Kataoka – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Jianxiong Ma (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Tatsuki Kataoka – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Rooted in Place: Exploring the Cultural Significance of Plants and Food in Asian Communities
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yoshimi Osawa (she/her/hers) – Aoyama Gakuin University
    Chair: Yoshimi Osawa (she/her/hers) – Aoyama Gakuin University
    Paper Presenter: Yoshimi Osawa (she/her/hers) – Aoyama Gakuin University
    Paper Presenter: Yi-tze Lee – National Dong Hwa University
    Paper Presenter: Sakura Kudo – National Museum of Ethnology
    Paper Presenter: Greg de St. Maurice – Keio University
    Discussant: Greg de St. Maurice – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: Putthida Kijdumnern (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Technologies of Desire: Queer Intimacy, Digital Architectures, and Fan Practices in and Beyond East Asia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Norah Chungyan Chow (she/ta) – University of Kentucky
    Chair: Charlie Yi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    Discussant: Charlie Yi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    Paper Presenter: Ziwei Tiffany Tang (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Kaiwen Zheng (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Yongkun Vicky Wu (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    Paper Presenter: Norah Chungyan Chow (she/ta) – University of Kentucky
    Paper Presenter: Xinyue Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Women on the Margins: Negotiating Sex, Marriage, and Work Across Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Lijun Zhang – Cornell University
    Organizer: Lois (Lu) Hao (she/her/hers) – Agnes Scott College
    Chair: Jolan YI (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Lichun Huang – Academia Sinica
    Discussant: Lichun Huang – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Lijun Zhang – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Lois (Lu) Hao (she/her/hers) – Agnes Scott College
    Paper Presenter: Rachel Hui-chi Hsu (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Discussant: Rachel Hui-chi Hsu (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Asian Migrants In/through Colombia: An Analysis of Identity Change During the Migration Journey
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jerónimo Delgado Caicedo (he/him/his) – Universidad Externado de Colombia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Citizenship as Smallholder-landlordship: State-constructed Housing, Migrant Rentals and Everyday Extraction in Singapore
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Xinyu Guan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Colliding Conceptions of Borders: Ming Imperial Gates, Reincarnated Territorial Gods, and Anglo-chinese Geopolitics on the Borderlands of Yunnan and Burma
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jianxiong Ma (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Emotional Capitalism and Gendered Consumption: Consumption of Man Pop Idols by Chinese Women Fans
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ziwei Tiffany Tang (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Gendered Subalternity in Suiheisha and Buraku Womens' Narratives
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: tsutomu Tomotsune (he/him/his) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Remapping the Borders of Airpocalypse and Contemporary Art in China Since the 2000s
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Waifung Tam (he/him/his) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Selection, Marriage, and Court Services of Female Imperial Booi Banners in the Qing Dynasty
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lichun Huang – Academia Sinica
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Taste of "Place": Karen Liquor Production and Its Cultural Context in Northern Thailand
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yoshimi Osawa (she/her/hers) – Aoyama Gakuin University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Tribal Identity in Transit: Constructing the 'Adivasi' in Popular Media
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pratikshya Mishra (she/her/hers) – Christ University, Bangalore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Unrecognizable Life-image—on Pema Tseden's Theatre of the World
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yinjie Wang (she/her/hers) – China Fine Arts Academy
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) A Multiculture State? Myth or Otherwise: The Representation of Neglected
    language Communities in Taiwanese Public Domains
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ting-Yu Chou (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cantophone: Border and Movement
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Laikwan Pang (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Commercialize K-pop in Chinese Fandom: A Digital Ethnography on Spontaneous Group Buying Pattern of Idol's Mini Cards
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kaiwen Zheng (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cultural Gatherer in Action: Plants Gathering as the Taste of Place of Indigenous Amis Females in Taiwan
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yi-tze Lee – National Dong Hwa University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Litigious Women, Fluid Subjects: Prosecuting Bigamy in British Malaya, 1890s-1930s
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lijun Zhang – Cornell University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Outcast Status Groups and the Dismantling of the Early Modern Status Order
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: John Porter (he/him/his) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Southeast Asian Indie Filmmaking and the Politics of Boundary
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shi-yan Chao (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) "They Love to Reject Our Documents": Everyday Encounters Between Recruitment Agents and the Malaysian Immigration Department
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jing Hao Liong – Duke University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Under the Shadows of Other Asians' Image: Racial Passing/ Identity Hopping of Afghan Refugees in Indonesia Cities
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Realisa D. Masardi (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Alienation and Belonging: Uncertainty and Creation of Global Asias
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Furrukh Khan (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Beyond Nation: Ethnic Chinese and Obscured Labor in Bombay Cinema
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Navnidhi Sharma (she/her/hers) – New York University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Contested Sovereignty: Builders, Planners, Dwellers and the Making of Nairobi
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Elisa Tamburo – Harvard University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Decolonizing Greater Bay Area Borderscape: (Im)mobility of the "Vietnamese Boat People" and the "Chinese White Dolphin"
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kwai-Cheung Lo (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Ecological Displacement and Cultural Memory in Amitav Ghosh's the Hungry Tide and Gun Island: Narratives of Mobility and Resistance
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sonalika Chaturvedi (she/her/hers) – Galgotias University, India
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Immigration from Buraku Communities to Hawaii and Norther America
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Kiyonobu Hirooka (he/him/his) – Osaka Metropolitan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) "Nora Returning Home"---modern Chinese Women and Their Choices on Career and Marriage in the Republican Era
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lois (Lu) Hao (she/her/hers) – Agnes Scott College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Resurrection of the Last King of Sipsong Panna, a Manufacturing of Tai Infrapolitics in Southern Yunnan
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Shaping Fans’ Bodily Horizon Through Affective Contact: K-pop Skinship and Reflexive Literature on Deokjil
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yongkun Vicky Wu (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Transitional Placeness: Practice of Nettle in Nepal
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sakura Kudo – National Museum of Ethnology
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Asian Cinema Between the Global South and the Global North- a Brief History of the Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema, Delhi, India, 1988-2012
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Kaushik Bhaumik (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) From Critical Border to Polarized Border
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hung-chiung Li, N/A (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Jesus for the Stateless: Christmas Celebration of the Lahu Immigrants in Northern Thailand
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tatsuki Kataoka – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Living at Work: Migrant Worker Dormitories in Malaysia
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yvonne Khor (she/her/hers) – China Foreign Affairs University
    Co-author: Katharine Jones – Coventry University
    Co-author: Anita Ghimire – Institute for Social and Environmental Research
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Place Branding and Seri in 21st Century Japan
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Greg de St. Maurice – Keio University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Proletarian Literature, Indigeneity, and the (Im)Mobility of Labor in Imperial Japan
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Edwin Michielsen (_) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) "Seeing" Through Transmedia Fantasy: Chinese Nisu Fans’ Sensibility Threshold of Queer Desire
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Norah Chungyan Chow (she/ta) – University of Kentucky
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) What Women Want: Feminist Rectification of New Sexual Morality in Republican China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rachel Hui-chi Hsu (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Chinese Cosplay Commission and Its Discontent: Sexual Capital in Negotiating Virtual Intimacy Beyond Transactions
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xinyue Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Constructing Cultural Meaning and Sense of Place Through Herbal Rice Among the Siamese in Kelantan, Northeastern Malaysia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Putthida Kijdumnern (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Narrow Road to Atlas: The Case of Canggu, Bali
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Teraya Paramehta (she/her/hers) – Universitas Indonesia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Global Queer Asias: New Directions
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Howard Chiang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Chair: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Discussant: Aniruddha Dutta (they/them/theirs) – University of Iowa
    Discussant: Howard Chiang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Shana Ye – University of Toronto
    Discussant: James Welker (he/him/his) – Kanagawa University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Talking About the Para-academic: Global Asia(s) Through Space-making and Decolonial Feminist Praxis
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Pratiti Ketoki (they/them/theirs) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Organizer: Anushmita Mohanty – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Pratiti Ketoki (they/them/theirs) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Discussant: Pratiti Ketoki (they/them/theirs) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Discussant: Anushmita Mohanty – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Discussant: Aratrika Sengupta (they/he) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Unsettling Asia: Frameworks for Thinking Alongside, Across, and Beyond
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Chair: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: rupak shrestha (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Anushay Malik (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Tansen Sen (he/him/his) – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Yi Gu – University of Toronto
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Digitization and Marketization of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Danqi Lu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Tracy Lee (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    Discussant: Zhiyi Yang – University of Frankfurt
    Paper Presenter: Geng Song (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Tiara Wilson (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Danqi Lu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Paudel Pukar – Beijing Normal University
    Co-Author: Yihang Yan (he/him/his) – Beijing Normal University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Eddies and Circulations, New Formations the Confound the Cultural Center
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Ken Ueno – UC Berkeley
    Chair: Ken Ueno – UC Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Ken Ueno – UC Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Jocelyn Clark – Pai Chai University
    Paper Presenter: Michael Hurt – Korea National University of the Arts
    Paper Presenter: Shzr Ee Tan – University of London, Royal Holloway
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Development in Asia, Part I: Evolving Landscapes
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Organizer: Jacob Rinck (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Paper Presenter: Dinesh Paudel
    Paper Presenter: Jacob Rinck (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Rajni Gamage – National University of Singapore
    Co-Author: Harindra Dassanayake – Centre for Progressive Politics and Policy.
    Discussant: Priya Chacko (she/her/hers) – South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
    Paper Presenter: Zezhou Yang, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Thinking Along with Moving: The Sociopolitical, Affective, and Resistant Dimensions of Mobility Within and Beyond Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Charlie Yi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    Chair: Xiaojia Hou (she/her/hers) – San Jose State University
    Paper Presenter: Charlie Yi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    Paper Presenter: Xiaojia Hou (she/her/hers) – San Jose State University
    Paper Presenter: Lia Butanda (she/her/hers) – University of the Incarnate Word
    Paper Presenter: Lopita Nath (she/her/hers) – University of the Incarnate Word
    Paper Presenter: Mao Lin (he/him/his) – Georgia Southern University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Time and Borders in Flux: Rethinking Temporality Beyond China
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Zheng Ying (she/her/hers) – Utrecht University
    Organizer: Yan Yan (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Chair: Zheng Ying (she/her/hers) – Utrecht University
    Paper Presenter: Zheng Ying (she/her/hers) – Utrecht University
    Paper Presenter: Yan Yan (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Discussant: Yan Yan (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Xinwei Xu (she/her/hers) – Edith Cowan University
    Paper Presenter: Yi Meng (she/her/hers) – The University of Cologne
    Paper Presenter: Xiao Liu (she/her/hers) – New York University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Who Is an Artisan? a Question of Margins and Modernity
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Hanna H. Kim (she/her/hers) – Adelphi University
    Chair: Laurel Kendall (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Laurel Kendall (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University
    Co-Author: Huy Van Nguyen (he/him/his) – Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
    Co-Author: Hien Thi Nguyen (she/her/hers) – School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University in Hanoi
    Paper Presenter: Minny Lee (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Neel Kamal Chapagain (he/him/his) – Ahmedabad University
    Paper Presenter: Hanna H. Kim (she/her/hers) – Adelphi University
    Paper Presenter: Ming Xue (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) (Dis)appearance of History in Chinese Digital Entertainment
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Geng Song (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Exemplary Artisan/people's Artisan and the Meaning of Craft in Contemporary Vietnam
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Laurel Kendall (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University
    Co-author: Huy Van Nguyen (he/him/his) – Vietnam Museum of Ethnology
    Co-author: Hien Thi Nguyen (she/her/hers) – School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts, Vietnam National University in Hanoi
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Feitian in Thick Time: Imaging the Alternative Time and Agency of Chinese Women
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Zheng Ying (she/her/hers) – Utrecht University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Food, Music, and Cosmotechnics in Cultural Evolution
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Paper Presenter: Ken Ueno – UC Berkeley
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Prohibitive Hope: Affective Energies Driving Bangkok as a Global IVF Industrial Powerhouse
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Charlie Yi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Aesthetic Flowing Between Islands: Migrating Loom, Traded Cotton, Mountain of Dye
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yan Yan (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Decolonizing Development: Infrastructure Conjuncture, Polyalignment and Emerging New Developmental Shifts in Nepal
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Dinesh Paudel
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Korean Buddhist Temple Food: Tensions Between Knowledge Preservation and Spiritual Practice
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Minny Lee (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Moving with the River: The Yellow River, People, and Local Governance in Weishan Lake (1850s-2000s)
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Xiaojia Hou (she/her/hers) – San Jose State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Seizing the Seeds of Tradition: Emerging Efforts to Copyright Korea's Orally Transmitted Art Forms
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Paper Presenter: Jocelyn Clark – Pai Chai University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) When Outlaws Speak: Articulations of Chineseness in Sinophone Rap Music Videos
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tiara Wilson (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) China's Security Interventions in 'Gray Special Economic Zones' in Southeast Asia Borderlands
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Selina Ho – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Empowerment as a Key Component to Facilitate Successful Resettlement of Afghan Refugee Girls in the United States
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Lia Butanda (she/her/hers) – University of the Incarnate Word
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Living Heritage of Kathmandu Valley: Prospects of Re-centering Artisans Between the Two UNESCO Cultural Conventions
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Neel Kamal Chapagain (he/him/his) – Ahmedabad University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Modeling Hallyu: A Standing Wave Theory of Memetic Spread
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Paper Presenter: Michael Hurt – Korea National University of the Arts
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Unfold the Earliest Dated Printed Book: Making Abstract Moving Images Based on Non-linear Temporality
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xinwei Xu (she/her/hers) – Edith Cowan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Cultural Memory, Queer Modernity, and Affective Economy in the Yueju Opera New Dragon Gate Inn
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Danqi Lu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) If the Shoe Fits: Entanglements of Being an Artisan in Gujarat and Uttarakhand, India
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hanna H. Kim (she/her/hers) – Adelphi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Kitchen Soundscapes in Singapore: Acoustic Regimes of Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Paper Presenter: Shzr Ee Tan – University of London, Royal Holloway
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Resilient Journeys: Challenges and Triumphs in the Making of the Bhutanese Refugee Diaspora in America
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Lopita Nath (she/her/hers) – University of the Incarnate Word
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Tragedy Saves the Romance of Development: World Bank Stories of Migration and Growth in Nepal
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Jacob Rinck (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Transnational Bodies: The Female Form in the Intersection of Modernity and Consumerism
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yi Meng (she/her/hers) – The University of Cologne
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Between Two Guinness World Records: How Do Tibetan Thangka Painters Understand the Notion of Artisan and Artist in a Rapidly Commercializing Society?
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ming Xue (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Bodies in Transit: Choreographing Labor Mobility and Border Imagination in Guangzhou
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xiao Liu (she/her/hers) – New York University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Crisis and Reforms: Emerging Trends in Sri Lanka's Politics of Development
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Rajni Gamage – National University of Singapore
    Co-Author: Harindra Dassanayake – Centre for Progressive Politics and Policy.
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Local Narratives and Global Influences in Nepali Video Game
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Paudel Pukar – Beijing Normal University
    Co-Author: Yihang Yan (he/him/his) – Beijing Normal University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • Wednesday, Jun 4th
    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Tourism, Modernity, and China's Soft Power: A Case Study of Wuzhen in the Early 21st Century
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Mao Lin (he/him/his) – Georgia Southern University
    InterareaBorderCrossing