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  • Cancelled
  • From Bonds to Borders: Exploring Taiwan’s Role in Reframing Asia through Finance, Trade, and Diasporic Networks
    Southeast Asia
  • Sunday, June 1, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Dangerous Pleasures: Senses, Emotions, and Bodily Practices in Early Modern Chinese Writings
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Dynamics, Complexities and Agencies: Rethinking the Center-Margin Relations in Ancient China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Leveraging the Margins of the "Middle Kingdom": Frontier China in East Asia’s Hot and Cold Wars
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Mediated Margins: Articulating Immigrant Experiences in Global Asias
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Modernity, Marginality, and Mobility in a Demographically Changing Asia

    Organizer: Melanie P. Tolentino – Central Luzon State University

    Chair: Melanie P. Tolentino – Central Luzon State University

    Discussant: Yoshihide Obayashi – Hokkaido University

    Discussant: Kailash Timilsina – Gandaki University

    Discussant: Jay Santos – Central Luzon State University

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Negotiation, Agency and Hegemonic Discourses in Northeast India
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    New Spaces of Borderlands Studies
    South Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Outside/In: Reframing Asia through Decentralized Curatorial Practices

    Organizer: Ellen Larson – University of Chicago

    Chair: Ellen Larson – University of Chicago

    Discussant: Min-hyung Kang – Barim Gwangju

    Discussant: Abby Chen – Asian Art Museum

    Discussant: Cheng Xu – Asian Art Museum

    Discussant: Naz Cuguoglu – Asian Art Museum

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Producing and Exporting Gender Narratives: Chinese Games, Platforms, Reality TV and Films
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Cultural Boundaries between China and Japan in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reimagining Indigeneity: Indigenous Alternatives and Nonhuman Companions on the Tibetan Plateau
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Security in Asia: Looking in, Looking out
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Wonders of Transformation: Technology and Cultural Imaginations in (Pre)Modern China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    "Zaoren (造人)": Crafting Subjecthood in Premodern China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Cultural Imagination in Motion: Computational Perspectives on Chinese Heritage, Literature, and Iconography
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Democratic Decline and Population Migration: Looking for the Connections
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Digital Humanities Meets Print Culture Studies: New Perspectives on Modern Japan and China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Faith in Flux: Religion and Identity Politics in Asian Local and Migrant Communities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Fandom, Media, and Popular Cultures in Global Asias II: Gender, Belonging, and Urban Spaces
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Food (Im-)Mobilities and Multiple Global-Asian Futures
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Identity Transitions in Life Passages: Translating and Interpreting Rites and Rituals in Sinitic Contexts
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Memory, Movement, Montage: Engaging with the Pluralities of Migrant Narratives

    Organizer: Rituparna Rana – Memory Movement Montage, USA

    Chair: Nida Sajid – University of Minnesota

    Discussant: Muhammad Numan – School of Liberal Arts, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

    Discussant: Pawan Sharma – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Discussant: Shashwati Talukdar – Four Nine and a Half Pictures

    Discussant: Diditi Mitra – Brookdale Community College

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Mobility in South Asian Ports and Port Cities
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Place-Making in Tibetan Buddhist Societies: (Re)Constructions of Sacred Spaces through Pilgrimage, Text and Image
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Rethinking the Political Geography of Nineteenth-Century South Asia
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    The Possibilities and Limits of Agrarian accumulation: Institutions and Climate-Change in Contemporary India
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Transnationalizing Three Body: Negotiating China, Futurity, and Global Media
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Varieties of environmentalism in East Asia (Part II): Environmentalism Revisited
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Affective Echoes: Gender, Resistance, and Identity in Contemporary East Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marginal Spaces in South Asia

    Organizer: Camellia Biswas – Royal Holloway, University of London

    Organizer: Sharada Channarayapatna – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

    Chair: Sharada Channarayapatna – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

    Discussant: Camellia Biswas – Royal Holloway, University of London

    Discussant: Ashra Madhubhashini Wickramathilaka – Earth Lanka

    Discussant: Saurabh Mishra – IIT Gandhinagar

    Discussant: Sameen A. Mohsin Ali – University of Birmingham

    Discussant: Debankita Das – University of Hyderabad

    Discussant: Debasmita Ghosh – IIT Gandhinagar

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    China’s Expanding Influence on Southeast Asia: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Sociopolitical Dynamics
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Community, Space and Everyday Socio-Political Negotiations in India: Historical and Ethnographic Inquiries
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity, and Labor in East Asian Socio-Political Landscapes
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Dancing "Global Asia" and Inter-Asian Cultural Exchanges in the Cold War
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Feminine Metamorphosis: Re-situating Women in the Emerging China from Needlework, Columns, to Inter-species Writing
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    India and the Asian Arc: Enhancing Partnerships in South and Southeast Asia
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Inequality of Aspiration in Contemporary Urban Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women and Mobilities in Modern Japan
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Modernity in the Making: Rethinking and Reframing Gender Dynamics in Contemporary China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Roots, Resistance, and Decoloniality: Political Ecology by, of, and for Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Surprise Circuits: Translating Modern Korea and Beyond the Problem of (In)fidelity
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Varieties of environmentalism in East Asia (Part I): The Asian Anthropocene
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Why Space in Korea, Now? Rethinking Site-Specificity in Contemporary Korea
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Academic Freedom and Knowledge Production in Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Agrarian Dynamics, Gender and Agroecology Movements in Rural Japan and Nepal
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    AI in Action: Enhancing Asian Studies Education Through Practical Applications

    Organizer: Chunmei Du – Lingnan University

    Chair: Chunmei Du – Lingnan University

    Discussant: Yu-Chieh Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Keyao Pan – Florida International University

    Discussant: Rochelle Y.H. Yang – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Connor Au Yeung – Independent Scholar

    Discussant: Youjia Li – Lingnan University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marginal Spaces in South Asia- Part II
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Conciliating Science and Religion: Understanding South Asian Epistemology
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Culture in Travel: Reframing of Asian Mobilities through Daily Life
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Evaluating India’s Response Post-Liberalization

    Organizer: Shweta Sinha Deshpande – Symbiosis International University

    Organizer: Sulakshana Sen – Symbiosis International University

    Chair: Shweta Sinha Deshpande – Symbiosis International University

    Discussant: Shweta Sinha Deshpande – Symbiosis International University

    Discussant: Sulakshana Sen – Symbiosis International University

    Discussant: S. Irudaya Rajan – IIMAD

    Discussant: Neeta Inamdar – Symbiosis International (Deemed University)

    Discussant: Zafar Iqbal – DePaul University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Flowing Boundaries:New Orders on the Yangtze River from Ecological, Economic, and Territorial Perspectives
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Indigenous Communities and Eurocentric Conservation Models: Reflections from the Eastern Himalayas
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Modernization and Urbanization in China: The Changing Faces of Local Life
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    The Vanishing Stories of the Mountain Regions

    Organizer: Nazmeen Rani – Govt degree College Hatoon Ghizer

    Chair: Arif Hussain – Karakorum International University Gilgit

    Discussant: Arif Hussain – Karakorum International University Gilgit

    Discussant: Nazmeen Rani – Govt degree College Hatoon Ghizer

    Discussant: Azra Syed – GGDC Chitral Higher Education Department

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Theater without Borders: Beyond Gender and into Fantasy in Japanese Cross-Dressing Performances

    Organizer: Carmen Tamas – University of Hyogo

    Chair: Carmen Tamas – University of Hyogo

    Discussant: Marco Del Din – Heidelberg University - Ca' Foscari University of Venice

    Discussant: Emerald L. King – University of Tasmania

    Discussant: Stefana Samfira – National University of Theater and Film "I.L. Caragiale"

    Discussant: Afreeda Obreat – Osaka University of Arts

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Transforming Japanese Studies in a Multicultural Era: Opportunities, Obstacles, Outlooks

    Organizer: Yufei Zhou – International Research Center for Japanese Studies

    Organizer: Kazuhiro Takii – Nichibunken

    Chair: Torsten Weber – German Institute for Japanese Studies

    Discussant: Yufei Zhou – International Research Center for Japanese Studies

    Discussant: Kazuhiro Takii – Nichibunken

    Discussant: Zahra Moharramipour – International Research Center for Japanese Studies

    Discussant: Mai Kataoka – International Research Center for Japanese Studies

    Discussant: Nobuko Kayashima – JICA Ogata Research Institute

  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Asian Studies Journal Editors' Roundtable

    Organizer: Robert Oppenheim – Modern Asian Studies

    Chair: Pratyoush Onta – Martin Chautari

    Discussant: Robert Oppenheim – Modern Asian Studies

    Discussant: Maitrii Aung Thwin – Asia Research Institute

    Discussant: Jieyu Liu – SOAS University of London

    Discussant: Priya Chacko – South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Breaking Barriers: Gender and Work Dynamics in China’s Social and Political Arenas
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    BRICS as a Strategic Platform? Reconfiguring Global Order Beyond Established Institutions
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED - Unraveling the Interplay of Feudal Systems, Gender Inequality, Social Progress, and Reproductive Trends in Rural Regions of Pakistan
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Margins as Loci of Knowledge Production: Border Thinking and Local Knowledges in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Climate Change, Urban Political Ecology and Transboundary Environmental Issues in Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Evolving Narratives of Japanese Sex Work: Memories, Aging Workers, and Female-to-Female Services
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Generations and Social Movements in Mainland Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Infrastructural Lives on the Margins: Negotiating Modernities in the Asian Uplands
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Margins as Method: Situated Knowledge, Subversive Invisibility, and Resilience in Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Material Mobilities and Medleys: Reframing Asian Territories Through Cross-Border Dust, Beef, Relics, and Secondhand Clothes
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Negotiating the Local and the Global in Modern China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Shaping Security and Governance in the Indo-Pacific: The Intersection of Geopolitics, Technology, and Democratic Values
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Tibet Between Film and Fiction: In Memory of Pema Tseden
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Voices from the Margins: Knowledge Production, Biopolitics, and Social Progress in Rural Pakistan
    South Asia
  • Monday, June 2, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Anti-Gender Sentiment in China and South Korea
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Border Land Issues: Contextualized Experiences from South and Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Breaking and Bridging: Understanding Sino-Philippines Relations Through Shifting Social Mobilities and Transnational Networks
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Cities of Modern Bengal
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Consumption, Resistance, or Subversion? : Indonesian Women's Use of East Asian Popular Culture
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    From Memorials to Popular Culture: The Processes of Heritage making in China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Intimate and Cosmopolitan: Asian Diplomatic Correspondences and their Global Entanglements, c. 1650-1950
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Listening in the Sub-continent: Sonic Practices and Mobilities of Hindi Cinema
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Locally Made: Reconstructing the Indigenous and Diasporic Knowledge Exchange Networks in Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Marginalized Abroad: Students, Writers, and Sex Workers Across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Asia Through Performance: Negotiating Cultural Mobility and Modernity
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Shifting Spaces: Domesticity, Technology, and Identity in Global Asian Modernities
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    The Work of Heritage: Culture, Conservation, Critique, Life

    Organizer: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Chair: Neel Kamal Chapagain – Ahmedabad University

    Discussant: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Discussant: Monalisa Maharjan – South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University

    Discussant: Austin Simoes-Gomes – University of Toronto

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Transimperial Agents and the Cultural Production of the Global Qing
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Agrarian Perspectives on Asian City Futures
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Artifacts, Diagrams and Texts: Circulation of Cosmological Knowledge at the Margins in Divination Practice in Early China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Climate Governance and Carbon Modernities in Southeast Asia’s Margins
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Conceptualising the Adivasi Mode of Production in South Asia
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Documenting Crises and Disasters: A Transdisciplinarity Tryout for Liberal Arts Communication
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Domesticity as Method: Engaging Materialities and Lived Experiences in Global Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    From Structure to Sensation: Literary Mapping and Infrastructure Transformation in Cold War Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Killing, Internment and Forced Marches Revisited: New Perspectives on Military and Civilian Prisoners in the Pacific War
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Local Expressive Practices in Global Circulation: Documentation, Archiving, Performance, and Sustainability
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Marginality and Violence in Literature: Assessing Role and Impact as Agent of Solution
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Navigating in a Torrent of Time When Promises Are Ceasing: Examining the Emerging Dynamics in the Liminal Stage of Contemporary China’s Future Making
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Negotiating Spaces: A Study of the Periphery, Marginalities, and the In-Between in Malaysia and Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Performativities and Alternative Modernities: Case Studies of Religious Practices In East and Southeast Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Text, Image, Code: How Digital Media Became "Global" in the Sinosphere
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Transcending Margins: (Re)Imagining Women's Identity in South Asian Performative Space(s)
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Asian Digital Nomads in the Post-Pandemic Era: Navigating Identity, Gender, Home and Spatial Practices
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond Audibility: Cultural Soundscapes and Sensory Belonging in Contemporary East Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond the Margins: Reframing Marginality and Identity in Taiwan in the Modern Era
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED - Photography's Asian Archives: Transforming Memory and Community from the Margins
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Contested Urbanism: Making Sense of the Spatial Dynamics of Cities in Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Grain, Tobacco, and Papermaking: State Building and Rural Economy in Wartime China (1927-45)
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Many Cosmopolitanisms: Memory and Modernity in the South Asian Metropolis
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Navigating Desire and Resistance: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Chinese Digital Media
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Navigating Marginalization: Indigenous Responses to Resource Politics, Urban Mobilities, and Transitional Justice in the Context of State Modernization in Taiwan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Open Reflections on the Developments and Challenges of Southeast Asian Studies in South Korea

    Organizer: Ki-Hyun Bae – Sogang University

    Chair: Yoon Hwan Shin – Sogang University

    Discussant: Ki-Hyun Bae – Sogang University

    Discussant: Woonkyung Yeo – Seoul National University

    Discussant: Hyung-Jun Kim – Kangwon National University

    Discussant: Kyunghoon Kim – Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

    Discussant: Eric Tagliacozzo – Cornell University

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Pluralism and Inclusive Service Delivery: Issues and Challenges Faced by the Malaiyaha Community in Sri Lanka

    Organizer: Ravindra C. Palliyaguruge – Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

    Chair: Deepika Singh, She – University of Delhi

    Discussant: Raktim Patar, He – Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Discussant: Phirmi Bodo, She – Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Discussant: Atrayee Saha, She – Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Discussant: Rajendra Sharma – Social Science Baha

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Reflections on the Future of Himalayan Studies - I

    Organizer: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Chair: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Discussant: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Discussant: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Janak Rai – Tribhuvan University, Nepal

    Discussant: Ariana Maki – University of Idaho

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Spatial and Social Mobilities in Early Modern Japan
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    The governance of the forest carbon frontier in Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Global South Asians against Global Empire before 1947
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Complex Mobilities Within and from Asia: Shifting Flows, Drivers, and Experiences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Contesting Authority: Protest, Media, and Digital Activism in Contemporary Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Contesting Revolution: Media and Solidarity in the Socialist World
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Expanding Horizons: Researching Twentieth-Century China from Within and Without

    Organizer: Yajun Mo – Boston College

    Organizer: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University

    Chair: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University

    Discussant: Yajun Mo – Boston College

    Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University

    Discussant: Taomo Zhou – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: Yasser Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    Discussant: Gal Gvili – McGill University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Experimental Life-making in the Margins of East Asian Urbanization
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Food, Community, Kinship: Culinary Intimacies in Global Asias
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Material Matters: The Agency of Objects in Chinese Cinematic Culture
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Media Aesthetics and Transmedia Practices in Chinese Literature and Culture: A Long-Durée and Sinophone Perspective
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Marginality: The Redefinition of Chinese Elite Women in a Globalized World
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Margins and Centres: The Pluralities and Paradoxes within the Environmental Modernities in InterAsia

    Organizer: Yufang Gao – Yale InterAsia Initiative

    Chair: Yu Luo – University of Puget Sound

    Discussant: Yufang Gao – Yale InterAsia Initiative

    Discussant: Shivangi Pareek – Yale University

    Discussant: Lav Kanoi – Yale University

    Discussant: Rundong Ning – University of Hong Kong

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Re-Harkening Her Life Story: Women and Biographical Memory in Early Modern East Asia

    Chair: Maki Nakai – School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University

    Discussant: Jolan YI – National Taiwan University

    Discussant: Bettina Gramlich-Oka – Sophia University

    Discussant: Maki Nakai – School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Tradition and Transition: Ideological and Cultural Mobilities Shaping Modernities across Asia and Beyond
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship Part 2: Perspectives on Environmental Justice
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Voices on the Margins: Contemporary Art and Intersectionality in Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Agency of host countries within China’s BRI
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED - Algorithmic Doubt in Contemporary Chinese Culture
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Contours of Cosmopolitanism: Cityscapes of Belonging and Marginal Modernities in Asia
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Contagious Cartographies: Risk, Agency, and Belonging in Queer Asias
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Engaging Multiculturalism and Pluralism in Island Southeast Asia: Expanding Language and Culture Studies of Indonesia and the Philippines

    Organizer: Juliana Wijaya – University of California, Los Angeles

    Chair: Juliana Wijaya – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Pia Arbodela – University of Hawaii at Manoa

    Discussant: Kimi Yamoto – Osaka University

    Discussant: G. G. Weix – University of Montana

    Discussant: Richard Fox – University of Victoria

  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    From Margins to Center: Rediscovering Peripheral Artifacts in Late Imperial China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Intersections of Identity, Gender, and Representation in Modern South Asia
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    'Meatways' in Asia: Health, Cultural Politics, and Sustainability

    Organizer: Sango Mahanty – Australian National University

    Organizer: Assa Doron – Australian National University

    Chair: Assa Doron – Australian National University

    Discussant: Sango Mahanty – Australian National University

    Discussant: Danny Marks – Dublin City University

    Discussant: Sarah Turner – McGill University

    Discussant: Jin Qian – Wageningen University

  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Modernity, Mobility, and the Notion of Being a Burden to Others: Aging, Death, and End-of-Life Care in Contemporary Japan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    New Perspectives on Culture under Empire in Modern China Japan Relations
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Redefining Manchuria: Intercultural Negotiation and Transnational Knowledge Production of Northeast Asia in the Early Twentieth Century
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Hinduism in the Global Space: Texts, Traditions, and Theopoetics
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Politics of Memory in Asia and Beyond: Empowerment, Healing, Flipping the Script
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Toward Ethical Futures: Reframing the Japanese Repatriation vis-à-vis Atomic-bombings, Ethnic Minorities, and Museums
    Northeast Asia
  • Tuesday, June 3, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    China Infrastructural Inc: Cultural Politics of Modernity in the Making on Margins
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Cross-Border Migration in India and Pakistan: Exploring Contemporary Trends and Challenges
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Empowering Health in the Anthropocene: Decolonizing Medical Practice in Southeast Asia through Re-inventing Traditional Medicines
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Exploring the (in)Flexibility of East Asian Masculinities: Marginality, Border Crossings, and the Mobility of Power
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Mediating Spaces on/of Screen (Part 2): Construction, Circulation and Reception in South Asian Media Ecology
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Monks, Merchant Networks, and Religious Mobility among the Jains
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    New Frontiers of Politics, Economy, and Settlement in Ancient East and Inner Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    New Ways of Knowing and New Boundaries of Knowledge Production between Nepal and China
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Ecological Perspectives for a Global Asia: What do Hindu traditions offer?
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Interspecies Subjectivities in Global Asia: Ethnographic engagements with Human-Elephant Mobility, Temporality, and Intersubjectivity.
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Taste, Tradition, and Transformation: Exploring Food Cultures and Identities in Laos and Thailand
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Things that Connect: New Approaches to Material Culture and Women in Late Imperial China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Chinese Global Orders?

    Discussant: Adhira Mangalagiri – New York University

    Discussant: Tansen Sen – New York University Shanghai

    Chair: Tansen Sen – New York University Shanghai

    Discussant: Selina Ho – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: Shigeto Sonoda, University of Tokyo – Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

    Organizer: Adhira Mangalagiri – New York University

    Discussant: Sarvani Gooptu, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Cosmos, City and the World: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Classical and Modern Contexts
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Emerging Digital Media Landscape and Civic Imagination in Contemporary China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Gendered Transformations in Reproduction and Parenting: Ideological Shifts in Motherhood and Fatherhood in Contemporary China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Global Chinas, Local Adaptations: Historical Strategies for Cultural Appropriation and Navigation in Sino-West Cultural Interchange
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Lighthouses, Labs, and Observatories: Glocalizing Infrastructures and Sciences in Modern China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Of Bazar, Town, and City: Indigenous and Mainstream Imagination in Nepal
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing Death through Silence: Deaths at Wartime, Pandemic Time, and Frozen Time in China and Taiwan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing Journal Publishing in ‘Asia’

    Organizer: Edward Boyle – Nichibunken

    Organizer: Matthew D. McMullen – Nanzan University

    Chair: Matthew D. McMullen – Nanzan University

    Discussant: Edward Boyle – Nichibunken

    Discussant: Ellen Van Goethem – Kyushu University

    Discussant: Sebastian Maslow – University of Tokyo

    Discussant: Tristan Grunow – Nagoya University

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing the 1949 Divide: Was the Mao Era an Anomaly?

    Organizer: Yidi Wu – Elon University

    Chair: Yidi Wu – Elon University

    Discussant: Timothy Weston – University of Colorado, Boulder

    Discussant: Lara Yang – University of Heidelberg

    Discussant: Chang Liu – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Statelessness, Everyday Violence and Camps in Southern Asia: The Rohingya Question
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    The Dynamics of Performance: Understanding Asia through its Rituals
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    The Making of Space: Bodies, Borders, Boundaries
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    The Politics of Development and Alternative Modernities in North-East India
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship Part 1: Perspectives on Cultural Identities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Accumulation, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Margins: Case Studies from India
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Artificial Intelligence: Representations, Practices, and Implications in Asian Popular Culture
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Faith under the Siege of Modernity: The Evolution of State and Popular Religions in Modern China (1750-2023)
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Heritage and Adaptation in Vietnamese Food Culture: Identity, and Influence in a Changing World
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Identity, Resistance, and Maintenance: Navigating Infrastructures in South and Southeast Asia
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Immersive Asia: Soundwalk and Noisescape of Asian Cities, Part 2
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Meaningful Places: Famous Sites in Japanese Cultural Memory
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities in Sinophone Cinema, Performance, and Literature

    Organizer: Tze-lan Sang – Michigan State University

    Chair: Tze-lan Sang – Michigan State University

    Discussant: Alvin K. Wong – Hong Kong University

    Discussant: Miaomiao Qi – City University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Ling Zhang – State University of New York, Purchase College

    Discussant: Jia Tan – Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Hangping Xu – University of California, Santa Barbara

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Organizing Nature: Tracking the Capitalocene in South Asia
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Outside In: When Foreign Became Tradition in East Asian Art
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    What gender means and what gender does in Timor-Leste
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Capital, Migration, and (Re)Territorialization: Reconfiguring Borders Across East and Southeast Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Cultural Trans-Asianism: Representations and Geopolitics of Cultural Soft Power across South and East Asia

    Organizer: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya – University of Delhi

    Chair: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya – University of Delhi

    Discussant: Ahanthem Romita Devi – Manipur University

    Discussant: Ambika Basu – University of Delhi

    Discussant: Prachi Aggarwal – Delhi University

    Discussant: Shyam Kumar Anand – Academy of Korean Studies

    Discussant: Vinay Kumar – Delhi University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Enlarging the Margins: Struggles and Solidarities among the Subjugated in Modern Asia
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Fiscal Decentralization as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development: Comparative Insights from China, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Images Worlding: Trans-Asia Visual Media and Filmed History of the 20th Century
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Knowledge on the Move: Nature, Science, and Memory in Modern East Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities and Barriers in Contraflow Cultures and Media in the Post-Pandemic Era
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities of Buddhist Place and Practice in Premodern Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Moving with the times: Footpaths, Roadways, and Everyday Journeys in the Transnational Himalaya

    Organizer: Amy Johnson – Georgia College & State University

    Chair: Amy Johnson – Georgia College & State University

    Discussant: Bhoomika Joshi – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: Nishtha Tewari – University of Melbourne

    Discussant: Anisa Bhutia – Aarhus University

    Discussant: Logan M. Emlet – Yale University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Racialized and Gendered Bodies in East Asia: Colonization, Biopolitics, and Agency
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reconstructing Identities and Cultural Resistance: Youth Culture in East Asia's Digital Age
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Asian Migration: Space-making, Situated Modernities, and Social Mobilities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Gendered Futures on Digital Platforms and through Transnational Mobility
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Riparian Governmentalities in urbanising South Asia
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Transregional Ecological Concerns, Connections, and Cooperation
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    War and Its Afterlife: Narratives of Identity and Cultural Memory in Global Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Globalisms and Localisms in Asian Hip Hops
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Ethnobotany at the Margin: Traditional Healing, Ecological Resilience, and Indigenous Ecologies
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Exile Landscapes: Tibetan Refugee Experiences, Survival and Community Resilience in South Asia
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Exploring Tourist Urbanization: Colonial Legacies, Social Tensions, and Transformations in South Asian Mountain Landscapes
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas

    Organizer: Dibyesh Anand – University of Westminster

    Chair: Nitasha Kaul – University of Westminster

    Discussant: Swati Chawla – O. P. Jindal Global University

    Discussant: Sayantani Mukherjee – Ashoka University

    Discussant: Sanjukta Datta – Ashoka University

  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    On the Movement of Identity in a Global Asia: A Cross-Media, Decolonial Panel
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Revolutionary Narratives: Gender, Trauma and the Rewriting of Identity in Modern Chinese Female Literature
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Seeing the Silence in Modernity: Reconsidering 'Death' in Contemporary China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Self-Reliance Against Scarcity: Medical and Technological Extraction and Appropriation in Wartime China, 1937-1949
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Sentiment, Trauma, and Fluidity: Marginalized Bodies in Global Asian Cinema
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Thai Buddhist Cosmology and Divination in Contemporary Contexts
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Development in Asia, Part II: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Knowledge
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Villages and Peasants in a Mobile Era: Coping Strategies and Survival Tactics of Individuals
    East and Inner Asia
  • Wednesday, June 4, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    20 Years of Impossible Desires

    Organizer: Anandi Rao – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

    Chair: Mehak Khan – University of Notre Dame

    Discussant: Gayatri Gopinath – New York University

    Discussant: Mehak Khan – University of Notre Dame

    Discussant: Omar Kasmani – Freie Universitat

    Discussant: Akhil Katyal – BITS Law School

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    A Passage to Southwest China: Reconsidering Transregionality from an Asian Borderland
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Art, Archives and Archaeology: New Evidence and Methodology in East Asian Studies
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Carriers of Belief: The Mobilities of Objects in Mahāyāna Buddhism in the Himalayan Region
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Challenges and Persistence of LGBTQ+ people in Korea and Japan: Everyday Life, Pride and Backlashes
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Exposed Bodies: Corporeal Imagination in East Asian Media Against Globalism
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Governance Regimes and Value under Neoliberalism: Interrogating Contemporary Politics of Labor in South Asia
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Immersive Asia: Soundwalk and Noisescape of Asian Cities, Part 1
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Media, Discourse, and Ideological Construction in Contemporary China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    One Road, Many Outcomes: The Impact of the One Belt One Road Initiative on 3 South Asian Countries
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reversing the Gaze: The Marginalized Representations of Otherized Women in Early Modern China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Tracing Links to Ancestral Lands: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Expressions, and Environmental Stewardship in the Philippines
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Transnational Therapeutics: Technologies and Landscape of Healing in the Broad Indo-Malay Networks
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM NPT
    (Post)colonizing the Body: Transnational Embodiments of Governance, Space, and Belonging in East and Southeast Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Bridging Migration in Asia: Transnational Perspectives on Asian Migrant Workers in Japan
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Crossing Gendered Boundaries: Yaoguai (妖怪), Monstrosity, and Identity in East Asian Narratives
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Decolonizing Methodologies and South Asian Experiences
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Encountering Modernity in the Eastern Himalayas
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Global Ceramics: Interregional Trade and Cultural Interchange in the Early Modern Era
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Heritage, Modernization, and the Marginalization of Japan’s Alternative 'Capitals'
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Mediating Spaces on/of Screen (Part 1): Spatiality, Aesthetics and Performance in Cinemas of Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Metaphorical Paradigms in Global Asias: Navigating Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Dimensions
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Negotiating the Locality and Subjectivity: On the Ethnic Chinese Under Imperial Order and Global Discourse
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Queer Lives on Asian-Pacific Margins
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Reimagining Environmental Narratives in Asian Margins: Climate Change, Cultural Heritage, and Local Mobilities
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Rethinking Community-Led Development in the Anthropocene: New Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    What does transdisciplinary research and practice look like? Landslides, disaster risk reduction, and learning across difference in Nepal

    Organizer: Sara B. Shneiderman – University of British Columbia

    Chair: Amy Johnson – Georgia College & State University

    Discussant: Sara B. Shneiderman – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Jeevan Baniya – Social Science Baha

    Discussant: Amod Dixit – Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN); National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET)

    Discussant: Tek Bahadur Dong – Social Science Baha

    Discussant: Shobhana Gurung Pradhan – BBC Media Action

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    "Nanyang" Crossings: Worlding Sinophone Southeast Asian Literature and Culture
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Asian Monarchies in the Modern World
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Democratic Recession and the Potential for Popular Democracy in Indonesia and Timor-Leste

    Organizer: Lili Chen – UNTL

    Chair: Martinho -. Pereira – UNTL

    Discussant: Lili Chen – UNTL

    Discussant: Richard Fox – University of Victoria

    Discussant: Martinho -. Pereira – UNTL

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Global Asia at China’s Edges: Entrepreneurs, Settlement, and Innovation
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    In Search for Asian Identities: Globalized Perspectives on East Asian Art and Architecture
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Lives Mobilized by Land and Water: Reconfiguring the Local and Beyond in East and Southeast Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Moving into Place: Struggles of Mobility and the State
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Negotiate with the Asian Modernity: Gender, Identity and Popular Culture in Transmedia Fandom Practice
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Protocols versus praxis: Global health goals, biomedical standards, and reproductive realities in South Asia
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Reflections on the Future of Himalayan Studies - II

    Organizer: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Chair: Sara B. Shneiderman – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Ather Zia – University of Northern Colorado

    Discussant: Mona Bhan – Syracuse University

    Discussant: Heather Hindman – University of Texas at Austin

    Discussant: Tanka B. Subba – IIT Gandhinagar

  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Queer Asia: Inter-regional Circulation and Inter-referencing of Boys Love Narratives
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Self-determination in the Philippines: From Anti-Colonialism to City Margins to Decolonial Futures
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    The "Margins" of Chinese Civilization: The Subsistence, Economy, and Identity Formations of Western China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    The Right to the Mountains: Ethnicity and Nation in Himalayan Tourism
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    The Rise of 'Radical Feminism' in Global Asia: Connecting China, India and South Korea
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Global Queer Asias: New Directions

    Organizer: Howard Chiang – University of California, Santa Barbara

    Chair: Lucetta Kam – Hong Kong Baptist University

    Discussant: Aniruddha Dutta – University of Iowa

    Discussant: Howard Chiang – University of California, Santa Barbara

    Discussant: Shana Ye – University of Toronto

    Discussant: James Welker – Kanagawa University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Globalising Asians and Mobility: Marginality and Identity Formation of Asian Migrants
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Negotiating Marginalized Identities: Cultural Memory, Media Narratives, and Resilience in South and East Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Politics of Recognition and Boundary in Trans-Asian Film Cultures
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Migration and Urban Infrastructures in Global Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reimagining the multiplicity of border studies in China and the East Asian Region
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Re-Peripheralization of Buraku as Discriminated Minority: The Dynamics of Outcast Status, Migration, Gendered Subalternity
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Rituals and Myth: Identity Formation of the Ethnic Minorities in China and Southeast Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Rooted in Place: Exploring the Cultural Significance of Plants and Food in Asian Communities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Talking About the Para-academic: Global Asia(s) Through Space-making and Decolonial Feminist Praxis

    Organizer: Pratiti Ketoki – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Organizer: Anushmita Mohanty – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Chair: Pratiti Ketoki – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Discussant: Pratiti Ketoki – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

    Discussant: Anushmita Mohanty – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Discussant: Aratrika Sengupta – Tata Institute of Social Sciences

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Technologies of Desire: Queer Intimacy, Digital Architectures, and Fan Practices in and Beyond East Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Unsettling Asia: Frameworks for Thinking Alongside, Across, and Beyond

    Organizer: Nadine Attewell – Simon Fraser University

    Chair: Nadine Attewell – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: rupak shrestha – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: Anushay Malik – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: Tansen Sen – New York University Shanghai

    Discussant: Yi Gu – University of Toronto

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Women on the Margins: Negotiating Sex, Marriage, and Work across Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Global Visions, Local Encounters: Extraterritoriality, Education, and Nationhood in China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Digitization and Marketization of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Eddies and Circulations, New Formations the Confound the Cultural Center
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Gendered Realities and Intersecting Identities: Roles of Filipino Women During Crisis in the Context of Language, Work, and Caregiving
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Performing and Reclaiming the Female Body through History
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Development in Asia, Part I: Evolving Landscapes
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Thinking Along with Moving: The Sociopolitical, Affective, and Resistant Dimensions of Mobility within and beyond Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Time and Borders in Flux: Rethinking Temporality Beyond China
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Transitioning Gender and Identity: Ethnographies on Education in South Asia
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Who is an Artisan? A Question of Margins and Modernity
    InterareaBorderCrossing