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  • Cancelled
  • Globalisms and Localisms in Asian Hip Hops
    South Asia
  • Saturday, May 31, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM NPT
    Early Career Writing Workshop: 'Preparing Your Article For Publication'
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Sponsored By 
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM NPT
    Opening Ceremony
    Location: Nepa-Dhuku (Radisson)
  • 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM NPT
    Reception
    Location: Nepa-Dhuku (Radisson)
  • Sunday, June 1, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Dangerous Pleasures: Senses, Emotions, and Bodily Practices in Early Modern Chinese Writings
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Wenting Ji (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    Organizer: Xiaoqian Ji (she/her/hers) – Southeast University
    Chair: Shengqing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Mengling Wang (she/her/hers) – Furman University
    Paper Presenter: Ziyun Liu (she/her/hers) – Minzu University of China
    Paper Presenter: Wenting Ji (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoqian Ji (she/her/hers) – Southeast University
    Discussant: Yinzong Wei (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Reading as Embodied Practice: Emotion and Sensory Engagement in Paratexts of Yutai Xinyong (New Songs from a Jade Terrace)
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mengling Wang (she/her/hers) – Furman University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Late Ming Popular Colors and the Visuality of Jinpingmei Cihua (The Plum in the Golden Vase)
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ziyun Liu (she/her/hers) – Minzu University of China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Shameful Or/and Thankful to the Delectable: Emotional Ambivalence in Zhang Dai's (1598-ca. 1684) Writing on Food and Memories in His Tao'an Mengyi (Dream Memory of Tao'an)
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wenting Ji (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Masculine Vanities: The Emotional Landscape of Men's Hair Dye in Early Modern China
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaoqian Ji (she/her/hers) – Southeast University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Dynamics, Complexities and Agencies: Rethinking the Center-margin Relations in Ancient China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Fanghan Wang (she/her/hers) – Shandong University
    Chair: Fanghan Wang (she/her/hers) – Shandong University
    Paper Presenter: Fanghan Wang (she/her/hers) – Shandong University
    Paper Presenter: Dongming Wu (he/him/his) – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Mariana Castro (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Lin Jiao (she/her/hers) – Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
    Discussant: Bo Xie (she/her/hers) – Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Between Center and Periphery: Materializing Imperial Intermediary in the Southern Frontier of Han China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Fanghan Wang (she/her/hers) – Shandong University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) A Center of Craft Production on the Margins of Great Powers: The Sujialong Site in Ancient South China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Dongming Wu (he/him/his) – University of Macau
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Xinjiang and Central Asia During the Iron Age: Nomadic Networks and Competing Economies in the Peripheries
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mariana Castro (she/her/hers) – New York University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) The Nurturers and Self-image Construction: Ten Thousand Buddha Hall in Yixian County, Liaoning Province
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Lin Jiao (she/her/hers) – Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM 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 – National Taipei University of Education
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) Gods and Ancestors: Lineage Practice of Overseas Chinese Across Historical Space
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ruo Lin – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Leveraging the Margins of the "Middle Kingdom": Frontier China in East Asia’s Hot and Cold Wars
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Hao Chen (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
    Chair: Noriko Unno – Osaka University
    Paper Presenter: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
    Paper Presenter: Hao Chen (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Anran Wang – Korea University
    Paper Presenter: Junyi Han – Yale University
    Discussant: Peng Hai – University of Pittsburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Ethnocultural Frontier as 'Rear Area': State Territorialization in Amdo During the Sino-japanese
    war
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) From "Liberation" to "Liberation": International Geopolitics and Transnational Ethnopolitics of Manchurian Koreans in the Interregnum (1945-1949)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hao Chen (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Grassland's Mercy and Misery: The Great Leap Forward and Its Consequences in Inner Mongolia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anran Wang – Korea University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Assisting Our Neighbors: The Role of Yunnan in the Vietnam War, 1964-1974
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Junyi Han – Yale University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
    Paper Presenter: Wan-Ci Jiang (she/her/hers) – HKU University of Arts Utrecht
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Tracing Alternative Narratives of Indonesian and Indo-european Communities in the Netherlands: Being an Outsider as a Method
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Wan-Ci Jiang (she/her/hers) – HKU University of Arts Utrecht
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Negotiation, Agency and Hegemonic Discourses in Northeast India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Pranab Kumar Pegu (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Organizer: Ng Sourav Singha (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Chair: Pranab Kumar Pegu (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Paper Presenter: Pranab Kumar Pegu (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Paper Presenter: Ng Sourav Singha (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Paper Presenter: Roshni Brahma (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    Paper Presenter: Hare Krishna Doley (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Indigeneity and Development: Large Dams and Indigenous Communities in India's Northeast
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pranab Kumar Pegu (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Hierarchies and Claim-making in Conservation: Assertions of Local Communities in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ng Sourav Singha (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Negotiating the Traditional and Modern: Consolidating a Tribal Religion in India's Northeast
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Roshni Brahma (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Ethnic Identity and Developmental Aspirations: The Quest for Scheduled Tribe Status in Assam
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Hare Krishna Doley (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    New Spaces of Borderlands Studies
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Gregory Goulding – University of Pennsylvania
    Organizer: Ayesha Sheth – Ahmedabad University
    Chair: Gregory Goulding – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Gregory Goulding – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Ayesha Sheth – Ahmedabad University
    Paper Presenter: Daniel Lapinski (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Tanuja Kothiyal – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) New Borderlands: Hindi Literature, Indigeneity, and the Territorialization of North India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Gregory Goulding – University of Pennsylvania
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Listening to rāga Goṇḍa: Kingship and Cultural Production in the Borderlands of Early Modern Central India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ayesha Sheth – Ahmedabad University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Constructing and Contesting Marginality: The Politics of Linguistic Scholarship in Colonial Manipur
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Daniel Lapinski (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Bordering the Thar
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tanuja Kothiyal – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University
    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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Outside/in: Reframing Asia Through Decentralized Curatorial Practices
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Cultural Boundaries Between China and Japan in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Wendong Cui (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Shuo-win Chen – Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Wendong Cui (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yin Lu (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Huilin Chang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    Paper Presenter: Jiayin Cai (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Discussant: Yin Lu (he/him/his) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Portraying the Western European Xia (Knight-errant): From Meiji Kanbun-style Writings to Liang Qichao's Heroic Biography
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wendong Cui (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) New Rhetoric Books in Meiji Japan and Traditional Chinese Studies of Literary Compositions
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yin Lu (he/him/his) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Japanese Connoisseur Junzo Go and His Compilation of Chinese Seal Albums
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Huilin Chang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Negotiating Civilization Discourse: Chinese Compilation of Geography Textbooks Mediated by Meiji Japan
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jiayin Cai (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Security in Asia: Looking In, Looking Out
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yoichiro Sato (he/him/his) – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
    Chair: Yoichiro Sato (he/him/his) – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
    Paper Presenter: Beata Bochorodycz – Adam Mikevicz University
    Paper Presenter: Hidekazu Sakai (he/him/his) – Kansai Gaidai University
    Paper Presenter: Shahbaaz Manzoor – Houzeo
    Paper Presenter: Soumya Awasthi – Observer Research Foundation
    Discussant: Barbara Kratiuk (she/her/hers) – Vistula University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Japan's Policy Towards the War in Ukraine and the Role of the NATO Partners in Its Implementation
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Beata Bochorodycz – Adam Mikevicz University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Security Cooperation Between the Quad and the Indian Oceanic Island States
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Hidekazu Sakai (he/him/his) – Kansai Gaidai University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Recent International Conflicts and Their Impact on South East Asia's Economy
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shahbaaz Manzoor – Houzeo
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Cybersecurity Governance in South Asia: Balancing National Security and Good Governance
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Soumya Awasthi – Observer Research Foundation
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Special Roundtable: How to Publish in Academic Journals and Books
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Discussant: Dorothy Schaefter
    Discussant: Elizabeth Walker
    Sponsored By 
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Wonders of Transformation: Technology and Cultural Imaginations in (Pre)Modern China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in St. Louis
    Chair: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Huijun Mai – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Xinyi Fu – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in St. Louis
    Paper Presenter: Dankun Zhao – Southeast University
    Discussant: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Grafting and Being in Time
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Huijun Mai – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Exploring Qing and Mediatization: The Karmic Bookkeeping in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xinyi Fu – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Magical Transformations: Rethinking Early Modern Chinese Theater
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in St. Louis
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Telephone in the 20th Century Shanghai Newspapers: Technology and the Construction of private Auditory Space
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dankun Zhao – Southeast University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    "Zaoren (造人)": Crafting Subjecthood in Premodern China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yuxuan Tay (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Discussant: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Paper Presenter: Yuxuan Tay (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Huajie Fan (she/they) – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Tiantian Cai (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Yutong Li (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Guarding the One: Legitimization of Power Through the Daodejing Commentaries in High Tang
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuxuan Tay (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Hidden Pleasures: Affective Engagement with Erotic Sketches in a Medieval Dunhuang Manuscript
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Huajie Fan (she/they) – University of Virginia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Beyond the Human: Buddhist Ecology and the Interconnectedness of Life in Late Medieval China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tiantian Cai (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Transborder Trade and the Mobile "Other": Imagi(ni)ng "Race" in and Beyond Early Modern China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yutong Li (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Cultural Imagination in Motion: Computational Perspectives on Chinese Heritage, Literature, and Iconography
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Maciej Kurzynski (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    Chair: Zongqi Cai (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Paul Vierthaler (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Jing Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Qiuzi Guo (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Maciej Kurzynski (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Lin Du (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Understanding the Impact of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries on Large Language Models and Chinese Literary Culture
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Paul Vierthaler (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Speaking of the Literary past in Paratexts: A Distant Reading of Prefaces and Postscripts in Late Imperial Chinese Poetry Anthologies
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jing Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Icons on the Move: Computer Vision Analysis of 1970s Chinese Revolutionary Iconography
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Qiuzi Guo (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Fictionality of Non-fiction: A Computational Study of the Heroic Reportage in the People's Liberation Army Daily, 1956-1989
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Maciej Kurzynski (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Democratic Decline and Population Migration: Looking for the Connections
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: AKM Ahsan Ullah – Universiti Brunei Darussalam
    Chair: AKM Ahsan Ullah – Universiti Brunei Darussalam
    Paper Presenter: Jannatul Ferdous (she/her/hers) – Comilla University
    Paper Presenter: Diotima Chattoraj (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Tahseen Jahan (she/her/hers) – Dhaka University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Stateless Struggle: Rohingya Forced Migration and Democratic Absence in Myanmar and Threat for Bangladesh
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jannatul Ferdous (she/her/hers) – Comilla University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Two Decades of Democratic Backsliding in South Asia: Causes, Actors, and Implications
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Diotima Chattoraj (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Road to Autocracy: Governance, Accountability, and Transparency Deficits in South Asia
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Tahseen Jahan (she/her/hers) – Dhaka University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Digital Humanities Meets Print Culture Studies: New Perspectives on Modern Japan and China
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yoshitaka Hibi (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    Chair: Yoshitaka Hibi (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Yoshitaka Hibi (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Zhixi Yin – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Ayumi Mitsuishi – Nara University
    Paper Presenter: Chinatsu Maki – Nara University of Education
    Discussant: Ha-kyoung Shin – Sookmyung Women's University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Evolution of Modern Japanese Novel Titles Through the Lens of Computational Literary Studies
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yoshitaka Hibi (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) The Reception of Japanese Mystery Novels in 21st-century China: A Text Mining Analysis of Douban Reviews
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zhixi Yin – Nagoya University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The 'Body' in Japan's Postwar Era: An Analysis Using the OYA SOICHI Library
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ayumi Mitsuishi – Nara University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Classifying Topics in Banned Book Collections Using NLP Techniques
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Chinatsu Maki – Nara University of Education
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Food (Im-)Mobilities and Multiple Global-asian Futures
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    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) – 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
  • 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: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shuk-Ying Lo (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Platformization of Agricultural Heritage, Young Peasants and Marketing of Global-asian Identities
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sau-Wah Mak (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Development and Localization of Dairy Products in Modern Myanmar
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Emiko Takei (she/her/hers) – Osaka Gakuin University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Identity Transitions in Life Passages: Translating and Interpreting Rites and Rituals in Sinitic Contexts
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Organizer: Yuqing Luo (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Chair: Yuqing Luo (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Paper Presenter: Yunyang Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Leipzig
    Paper Presenter: Yuqing Luo (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Sze Sze Yap (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Fei Deng (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Coming of Age: The Hairpinning Ceremony in the Song Dynasty (960-1279)
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Practice Within Marriage: Buddhist Weddings During the Republican Period of China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yunyang Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Leipzig
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Between Gods and Modernity: Redefining Ritual Authority Among Miao Laosi in Rural-urban Guizhou
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yuqing Luo (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) "To Illuminate the Splendor of Our State's Emulation of Antiquity and Learning of Wen": Manchu Rendition of the Book of Rites
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sze Sze Yap (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Memory, Movement, Montage: Engaging with the Pluralities of Migrant Narratives
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Mobility in South Asian Ports and Port Cities
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Joshua Ehrlich – University of Macau
    Chair: Joshua Ehrlich – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Alastair McClure (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Joshua Ehrlich – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Devika Shankar – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Leilah Vevaina – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) South Asian Migration Histories to Hong Kong, a Digital Humanities Project
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Alastair McClure (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Flows of Ink: Indian Book Buying, Selling, and Reading, 1750-1800
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Joshua Ehrlich – University of Macau
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Missed Connections: Port Building and Mobility in Late Colonial India
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Devika Shankar – University of Hong Kong
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Religious Giving on the Monsoon Winds: Charity Between Hong Kong and Mumbai
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Leilah Vevaina – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    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
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Mufei He – Tsinghua University
    Organizer: Yuyuan (Victoria) Liu – Columbia University
    Chair: Weirong Shen – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Rufei Luo – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Yuewei Wang – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Mufei He – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Shuang Yao – Renmin University of China
    Paper Presenter: Yuyuan (Victoria) Liu – Columbia University
    Discussant: Patrick Dowd – American Institute of Indian Studies
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Rethinking Western Tibet: The Murals of the Zhag Grotto and Their Cultural Exchange with the Silk Road
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Rufei Luo – Nanjing University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) From Kings' Family to Oath-bound Friends: An Analysis of the Sacred Transformation of Mountain God Gnyan Chen Thang Lha
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuewei Wang – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) "Opening" Holy Sites: A Study on the Pilgrimage to Jalandhara of Rgod Tshang Pa Mgon Po Rdo Rje (1189-1258)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mufei He – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Potalaka Reimagined: Interactions and Interpretations of Avalokiteśvara's Sacred Abode in Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shuang Yao – Renmin University of China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Portrait-making and Place-making: Photography and Buddhism in Early Twentieth Century Tibet
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuyuan (Victoria) Liu – Columbia University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Unpacking Relationships: Gender Dynamics in Chinese Reality Television's Depictions of Marriage and Divorce
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yimeng Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Rethinking the Political Geography of Nineteenth-century South Asia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jon E. Wilson (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    Chair: Jon E. Wilson (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Jon E. Wilson (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Shubhanga Pandey (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Iftekhar Iqbal (he/him/his) – Universiti Brunei Darussalam
    Paper Presenter: Mortaza Hassani (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Anxious Multiplicity. the Diversity of South Asia' S Political Forms as a Force in Imperial Politics
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jon E. Wilson (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Encounters at a Friendly Frontier: A View from the 1860 Nepal-awadh Boundary Demarcation
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shubhanga Pandey (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Territories of Water: The Empire and the Brahmaputra's Borders
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Iftekhar Iqbal (he/him/his) – Universiti Brunei Darussalam
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Producing Territory in Mid-nineteenth-century Perso-afghan Historiography: A Study of Tarikh-i Sultani and Tarikh-i Waqaye Wa Sawaneh-i Afghanistan
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mortaza Hassani (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    The Possibilities and Limits of Agrarian Accumulation: Institutions and Climate-change in Contemporary India
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Ashwin Subramanian – Harvard University
    Organizer: Nilotpal Kumar – Azim Premji University
    Chair: Ria Gyawali – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Ashwin Subramanian – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Nilotpal Kumar – Azim Premji University
    Paper Presenter: Gopi Sankar (he/him/his) – Azim Premji University
    Paper Presenter: Anna David Thottappilly (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology
    Discussant: Ria Gyawali – Harvard University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Basmati Tales: Emerging Global Markets and Accumulation in Central India
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ashwin Subramanian – Harvard University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Fruits of Reform: High Value Horticulture and Small Famers in India (Andhra Pradesh)
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nilotpal Kumar – Azim Premji University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Creating Alternative Marketplaces for Smallholder Farmers: Lessons from the Case of Agricultural Warehousing in India
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Gopi Sankar (he/him/his) – Azim Premji University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Fertilization Impact of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Agricultural Yield
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Anna David Thottappilly (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Transnationalizing Three Body: Negotiating China, Futurity, and Global Media
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Shan Mu Zhao (she/her/hers) – Thompson Rivers University
    Paper Presenter: Shan Mu Zhao (she/her/hers) – Thompson Rivers University
    Paper Presenter: Kaby Kung (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Shiyi Zhao (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Shuwen Yang – Stanford University
    Discussant: Hua Li – Montana State University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Aliens of the Past: Defining Chinese History and Futurity Through 3 Body Problem in an Era of Global Streaming
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shan Mu Zhao (she/her/hers) – Thompson Rivers University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) The Humanist Posthumanism in Liu Cixin's the Three-body Problem and Its Subsequent Television Adaptations
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kaby Kung (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Three-body, Two Visions: Reinterpreting China in Netflix and Tencent Adaptations
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shiyi Zhao (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Narrating the Three-body Problem in a Right Way? On Its Adaptation and Fandom
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shuwen Yang – Stanford University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Affective echoes: Gender, Resistance, and Identity in Contemporary East Asia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Xinran Wang (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Xiaoyu Xiong (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Jannis Jizhou Chen (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Xinran Wang (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoyu Xiong (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Jiapei Li (she/her/hers) – University of Southampton
    Paper Presenter: Qianhui Ma (she/her/hers) – Columbia University in the City of New York
    Discussant: Shengqing Wu – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Bitter Taste, Healing Path: Disgust and Self-discovery in Asian Women's Bildungsroman
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xinran Wang (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) "I Feel Uncomfortable": From Affective Dissonance to Affective Solidarity of Chinese Female Otome Game Players
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xiaoyu Xiong (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Public Mourning and Affective Resistance: Exploring Affective Expression of K-pop Fans Through the "Funeral Flower Wreath" Movement
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jiapei Li (she/her/hers) – University of Southampton
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Affective Dissonance and the Femme Fatale: Noir Aesthetics, Gendered Trauma, and Existential Struggle in Post-industrial Northeast China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Qianhui Ma (she/her/hers) – Columbia University in the City of New York
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marginal Spaces in South Asia- part I
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Camellia Biswas (she/her/hers) – Royal Holloway, University of London
    Organizer: Sharada Channarayapatna (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Chair: Sharada Channarayapatna (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Discussant: Camellia Biswas (she/her/hers) – Royal Holloway, University of London
    Discussant: Ashra Madhubhashini Wickramathilaka (she/her/hers) – Earth Lanka
    Discussant: Saurabh Mishra (he/him/his) – IIT Gandhinagar
    Discussant: Sameen A. Mohsin Ali (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    Discussant: Debankita Das (she/her/hers) – University of Hyderabad
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    China’s Expanding Influence on Southeast Asia: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Sociopolitical Dynamics
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Ding Yuan (he/him/his) – Shanghai Normal University
    Chair: Min Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Xinrong Ma (she/her/hers) – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Paper Presenter: Xu Peng (she/her/hers) – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoxu Chen (she/her/hers) – Southern University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Kaili Zhao (she/her/hers) – South China Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Zhongsi Nie – Rhizome Cultural Consultancy
    Discussant: AKM Ahsan Ullah – Universiti Brunei Darussalam
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Irregular Migration Pathways and Affective Geopolitics of Filipino Domestic Workers in China
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xinrong Ma (she/her/hers) – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Media Narratives
    of Transnational Digital Crime: A Study of Dramatization and Securitisation of Asian Online
    scams
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xu Peng (she/her/hers) – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Navigate Through/ with Waves: Place, Rhythm and Enskilment on the Lancang-mekong River
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaoxu Chen (she/her/hers) – Southern University of Science and Technology
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Promoting China's Cultural Soft Power in Brunei Darussalam: Perspectives from Sports, Education, and Tourism
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kaili Zhao (she/her/hers) – South China Normal University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Special Immigration Zone: Creating Stability Through Precarity Among Labor Migrants in the China-myanmar Border
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zhongsi Nie – Rhizome Cultural Consultancy
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Community, Space and Everyday Socio-political Negotiations in India: Historical and Ethnographic Inquiries
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dyotana Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Krea University
    Organizer: Sarthak Bagchi – Ahmedabad University
    Chair: Dyotana Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Krea University
    Paper Presenter: Dyotana Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Krea University
    Paper Presenter: Abhijit Dasgupta (he/him/his) – Vellore Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Atmadeep Sengupta – Presidency University
    Co-Author: Atmadeep Sengupta – Presidency University
    Paper Presenter: Sarthak Bagchi – Ahmedabad University
    Co-Author: Sarthak Bagchi – Ahmedabad University
    Paper Presenter: Jahnu Bharadwaj (he/him/his) – Tihu College
    Co-Author: Madhumita Sengupta (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Co-Author: Saurabh Saikia – Cotton University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Statues, Shrines and Caste Pride: Politics of New Kshatriya Mobilisations in Gujarat
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dyotana Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Krea University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) A Neighbourhood for Catholic Mothers: Gender, Community and Ma Maria Smriti
    sangha Club in Kolkata
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Abhijit Dasgupta (he/him/his) – Vellore Institute of Technology
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) What Is Being Served? non Veg Food Vendors and Negotiations in a Gujarati Metropolis
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Atmadeep Sengupta – Presidency University
    Co-author: Madhumita Sengupta (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Co-author: Sarthak Bagchi – Ahmedabad University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) What Is Being Served? non Veg Food Vendors and Negotiations in a Gujarati Metropolis
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sarthak Bagchi – Ahmedabad University
    Co-author: Atmadeep Sengupta – Presidency University
    Co-author: Madhumita Sengupta (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Caste Norms, Social Hierarchies and the Neo-vaishnavite Movement in Colonial Assam
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jahnu Bharadwaj (he/him/his) – Tihu College
    Co-author: Saurabh Saikia – Cotton University
    South Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 – University of Western Australia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Feminine Metamorphosis: Re-situating Women in the Emerging China from Needlework, Columns, to Inter-species Writing
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Yunyi Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Shuhui Yin (she/her/hers) – Macau University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Yunyi Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Trista Ching Yeung (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Shuhui Yin (she/her/hers) – Macau University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Hoi Yan Chu (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    Discussant: Linshan Jiang (she/her/hers) – Colby College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Re-naming and Re-moulding Femininity: A Study on the Phenomenon of “Little Women’s Prose” (1990-1999)
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yunyi Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) From Feminine Virtues to Economic Independence: A Glimpse into the Fluidity of the Position of Needlewomen Between the Private and Public Spheres in Republican China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Trista Ching Yeung (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) From La Jeunesse to "New Women": A Comparative Study of Xue Qiying and Shen Xingren (1915-1930)
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shuhui Yin (she/her/hers) – Macau University of Science and Technology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Re-imaging Femininity in an Animal Body: Inter-species Writing in Lin Zhao's Tidal Atlas (2022)
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hoi Yan Chu (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    India and the Asian Arc: Enhancing Partnerships in South and Southeast Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Paper Presenter: Amit Singh (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Paper Presenter: Neha Sinha (she/her/hers) – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University
    Paper Presenter: Bhawna Sharma (she/her/hers) – Geeta University
    Paper Presenter: Shreesh Kumar Pathak (he/him/his) – Amity University
    Paper Presenter: Tomasz Lukaszuk – University of Warsaw
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Role of Indian Diaspora in Engaging ASEAN: A Study of Act-east Policy
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Amit Singh (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Analysing the Role and Contribution of Indian Diaspora in Socio-economic and Political Transformation in Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Neha Sinha (she/her/hers) – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) India's Role in Constructing Global Asia: Analysing the Role of Sanskrit in Connecting Asian Traditions
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Bhawna Sharma (she/her/hers) – Geeta University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Border Management in South Asia: Pathways to Regional Stability and Security
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Shreesh Kumar Pathak (he/him/his) – Amity University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Between BRICS + and MIKTA: Strategic Dilemma of South and Southeast Asia Countries
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Tomasz Lukaszuk – University of Warsaw
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Inequality of Aspiration in Contemporary Urban Indonesia
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Anders Møller (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Anindya Tamara (she/her/hers) – Universitas Semarang
    Chair: Wenjing Qiu (she/her/hers) – Leiden University
    Paper Presenter: Aireen Grace Andal (she/her/hers) – Airlangga University
    Paper Presenter: Anders Møller (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Wenjing Qiu (she/her/hers) – Leiden University
    Paper Presenter: Anindya Tamara (she/her/hers) – Universitas Semarang
    Discussant: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Children's Dreams, Dissent, and Alternative Imaginaries
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Aireen Grace Andal (she/her/hers) – Airlangga University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Seductive Nightmares: The Elite Aspirations of Nusantara's Mega-urbanisation
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anders Møller (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Envisioning the Coastal Futures in the Kampung and Superblock: Policy, Local Perceptions, and Actions
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Wenjing Qiu (she/her/hers) – Leiden University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Exploring Thematic Villages in Semarang: Advancing Sdgs and Reducing Inequality
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anindya Tamara (she/her/hers) – Universitas Semarang
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women and Mobilities in Modern Japan
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Andrew C. Elliott (he/him/his) – Doshisha Women's College
    Chair: Edward Boyle (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Paper Presenter: Andrew C. Elliott (he/him/his) – Doshisha Women's College
    Paper Presenter: Ryōta Nishino – Meijo University
    Paper Presenter: Isabel Fassbender (she/her/hers) – Kansai Gaidai University
    Paper Presenter: Maria L. Correa (she/her/hers) – Doshisha Women's College
    Discussant: Edward Boyle (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Female Workers and Mobilities in the Japanese Inbound Tourism Industry, 1910s-1940s
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Andrew C. Elliott (he/him/his) – Doshisha Women's College
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Nostalgic Journeys to French Polynesia: 1960s Travelogues by Kita Morio, Kotani Hideo and Morishita Ken
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Ryōta Nishino – Meijo University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Choosing the Inaka: Voices of Women in I-turn and U-turn Settings in Contemporary Japan
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Isabel Fassbender (she/her/hers) – Kansai Gaidai University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Extimacy and Mobility: Language and Movement in Recent Novels by Tawada Yoko
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Maria L. Correa (she/her/hers) – Doshisha Women's College
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Modernity in the Making: Rethinking and Reframing Gender Dynamics in Contemporary China
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
    Chair: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
    Paper Presenter: Zexu Guan (she/her/hers) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Co-Author: Fang Yang (she/her/hers) – Hangzhou Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Erika Ningxin Wang (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    Paper Presenter: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
    Paper Presenter: Chengpang Lee (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Discussant: Geng Song (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Gender Confrontation?: Radical Feminism, Affective Politics, and China's Modernization

    gender Confrontation?: Radical Feminism, Affective Politics, and China's Modernization
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zexu Guan (she/her/hers) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Co-author: Fang Yang (she/her/hers) – Hangzhou Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Heterotopia of Intimacy and Transitional Objects in Fans' Gendered Identification
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Erika Ningxin Wang (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Women's Problems and Feminism in Chinese Boy's Love: The Re-construction of Romance and Family
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xi Tian – Bucknell University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Evolution of Male-oriented Novels: Sub-genres, Gender Dynamics, and Sociological Insights in Chinese Internet Literature
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Chengpang Lee (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Roots, Resistance, and Decoloniality: Political Ecology By, Of, and for Southeast Asia
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Chair: Amanda Flaim – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Thaw Htoo – Université de Lausanne
    Paper Presenter: Manapee Khongrakchang (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Koning – University of Nevada, Reno
    Paper Presenter: Christina Sayson – Unaffiliated
    Paper Presenter: Khin Shwe Oo – Chiang Mai University
    Co-Author: Amanda Flaim – Michigan State University
    Organizer: Stephanie Koning – University of Nevada, Reno
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Inverting the Infrastructural Inversion: An Agroecological Decolonial Spatiality
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Huiying Ng – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    Co-author: Christina Sayson – Unaffiliated
    Co-author: Dimas Laksmana – Universitas Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Rare Earth Mining in Myanmar's Civil War
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Thaw Htoo – Université de Lausanne
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Voices Amidst Strife: Exploring Rohingya Perceptions on the Arakan Army and Myanmar Military Conflict, NUG Legitimacy and Transitional Justice Amidst of Revolution
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tin Mar Oo – University of Montana
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Art-based Storytelling as a Tool in Interpreting Environmental Justice of Mae Ngao River: The Case Study of the Bhumibol Reservoir Inflow Augmentation Project in Mae Ngao Village
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Manapee Khongrakchang (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Embodied Legacies and Roots of Resilience: Conflict, Displacement, and Family Health at the Thailand-myanmar Border
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Stephanie Koning – University of Nevada, Reno
    Co-author: Khaing Zar Lwin (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
    Co-author: Stephanie Koning – University of Nevada, Reno
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Surprise Circuits: Translating Modern Korea and Beyond the Problem of (In)fidelity
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jae Won E. Chung (he/him/his) – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Chair: Sunyoung Park (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Jae Won E. Chung (he/him/his) – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Paper Presenter: Haerin Shin (she/her/hers) – Korea University
    Paper Presenter: Susan Hwang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Sunyoung Park (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Translator's Visibility: K-lit and Anglophone Cosmopolitics
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jae Won E. Chung (he/him/his) – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Fraying the Fringes of Bare Life: Vegetal Life and Its Agency in Han Kang's "the Vegetarian" and Its Translation
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Haerin Shin (she/her/hers) – Korea University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Between Hanyak and "Dew Water from the Mountains": The Formation of Transcultural and Translingual Space in Minari (2020)
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Susan Hwang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Varieties of Environmentalism in East Asia (Part I): The Asian Anthropocene
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Loretta Lou – Durham University
    Organizer: Myung-Ae Choi (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Chair: Loretta Lou – Durham University
    Paper Presenter: Lichao Yang – Beijing Normal University
    Co-Author: Robert Walker – Beijing Normal University
    Co-Author: Guanli Zhang – Beijing Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Seung Hee Cho – Jeju National University
    Co-Author: Yijun Gai (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Hao-tzu Ho – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Myung-Ae Choi (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Hideaki Fujiki – Nagoya University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Governmentality, Identity, and Air Pollution Control: Listening to Laid-off and Land-lost Peasants in China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Lichao Yang – Beijing Normal University
    Co-author: Robert Walker – Beijing Normal University
    Co-author: Guanli Zhang – Beijing Normal University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cold and Hot Margins: Operation of Energy Policies in Jeju and Hong Kong After the Cold War
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Seung Hee Cho – Jeju National University
    Co-author: Yijun Gai (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Green Farming and Youth's Self-realisation in Hong Kong and Taiwan: An Entangled yet Neglected Relationship
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hao-tzu Ho – National Chengchi University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Accidental Nature: Rewilding Within and Around the DMZ, Cheorwon, South Korea
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Myung-Ae Choi (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Media Ecology and the Anthropocene in the Aftermath of the 3/11 Fukushima Disaster
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hideaki Fujiki – Nagoya University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Why Space in Korea, Now? Rethinking Site-specificity in Contemporary Korea
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Madeleine Han (She/they) – Yale University
    Chair: T. Yejoo Kim (she/they) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: T. Yejoo Kim (she/they) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Soyoon Ryu (she/they) – The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    Paper Presenter: Madeleine Han (She/they) – Yale University
    Discussant: Eleana Kim – University of California, Irvine
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) DMZ as Method
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: T. Yejoo Kim (she/they) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Lands of Presence: Yatoo Outdoor Field Art Research Association and Ethics of Hyeonjang in 1970-80s South Korean Art
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Soyoon Ryu (she/they) – The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) A History of Drowning
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Madeleine Han (She/they) – Yale University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Academic Freedom and Knowledge Production in Southeast Asia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Stefani Nugroho (she/her/hers) – Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University of Indonesia
    Organizer: Sri Wahyuningroem (she/her/hers) – Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta
    Chair: Stefani Nugroho (she/her/hers) – Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University of Indonesia
    Paper Presenter: Stefani Nugroho (she/her/hers) – Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University of Indonesia
    Paper Presenter: Sri Wahyuningroem (she/her/hers) – Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta
    Co-Author: Laurentius P. Christianto (he/him/his) – Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University of Indonesia
    Paper Presenter: Cherian George (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Nelson G. Cainghog (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines, Diliman
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Self-censorship in Indonesian Higher Education
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Stefani Nugroho (she/her/hers) – Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University of Indonesia
    Co-author: Laurentius P. Christianto (he/him/his) – Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University of Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Serving the Country or Telling the Truth? Civil Servants and Academic Freedom in Public Universities in Indonesia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sri Wahyuningroem (she/her/hers) – Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Negotiating Hegemonic Power in Singapore's Consolidated Authoritarian Higher Education System
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Cherian George (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Academic Freedom in the Philippine Context: Guaranteed for Institutions, Challenging for Academics
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nelson G. Cainghog (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines, Diliman
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    AI in Action: Enhancing Asian Studies Education Through Practical Applications
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Chunmei Du (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Chair: Chunmei Du (she/her/hers) – 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 (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Youjia Li (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marginal Spaces in South Asia- part II
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Camellia Biswas (she/her/hers) – Royal Holloway, University of London
    Organizer: Debasmita Ghosh (she/her/hers) – IIT Gandhinagar
    Chair: Camellia Biswas (she/her/hers) – Royal Holloway, University of London
    Discussant: Debasmita Ghosh (she/her/hers) – IIT Gandhinagar
    Discussant: Pallavi Narayan (she/her/hers) – Ahmedabad University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Climate Change, Urban Political Ecology and Transboundary Environmental Issues in Southeast Asia'
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Didid Haryadi (he/him/his) – University of Brawijaya
    Chair: Phimmaly Thammavong – Global Green Growth Institute, Laos
    Paper Presenter: Medina Adulyarat – University of Vienna
    Paper Presenter: Phyo Su San – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Rattanasiri Kittikongnapang – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Banthoon Phankaew, Lecturer, Department of Communication Management, Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, Thammasat University
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Navigating Environmental Hazards: Coping Mechanisms of Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Conflict-affected Southern Thailand
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Medina Adulyarat – University of Vienna
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Living with the River: Resilience and Suffering Under Climate Crisis on the Irrawaddy
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Phyo Su San – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Invention of Zero: On the Antinomies of Carbon Offsets and the Unbecoming Climate Justice of Land and Forests in Thailand
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rattanasiri Kittikongnapang – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Conciliating Science and Religion: Understanding South Asian Epistemology
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: sanjeev kumar, Co-author (he/him/his) – Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, University of Delhi
    Organizer: Neha Singh, Co-author (she/her/hers) – Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
    Chair: Rekha Saxena (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Neha Singh, Co-author (she/her/hers) – Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Pankaj Kumar Bharti (he/him/his) – Magadh University
    Paper Presenter: Anselam Minj (he/him/his) – Ranchi University
    Paper Presenter: Anil Kumar (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Co-Author: Mayank Chaurasia (he/him/his) – Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Rabit Kumar (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Confluence of Science and Religion from Medieval to Modern
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Pankaj Kumar Bharti (he/him/his) – Magadh University
    Co-author: sanjeev kumar, Co-author (he/him/his) – Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Question of Ethics and Morality and the Discourse on Science and Religion in Late 19th Century India
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anselam Minj (he/him/his) – Ranchi University
    Co-author: Neha Singh, Co-author (she/her/hers) – Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Conciliating Science and Religion: Contribution of Vivekananda in the Understanding of the 'International'
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anil Kumar (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Co-author: Mayank Chaurasia (he/him/his) – Ramanujan College, University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Ambedkar's Pragmatism and the Relationship Between Science and Religion
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Rabit Kumar (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Co-author: Ritika Mishra, Research Scholar – Ambedkar University Delhi
    Co-author: Himanshi Kadyan, Research Scholar – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    Organizer: Sulakshana Sen (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: Sulakshana Sen (she/her/hers) – Symbiosis International University
    Discussant: S. Irudaya Rajan (he/him/his) – IIMAD
    Discussant: Neeta Inamdar – Manipal Academy of Higher Education
    Discussant: Zafar Iqbal (he/him/his) – DePaul University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Flowing Boundaries：new Orders on the Yangtze River from Ecological, Economic, and Territorial Perspectives
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Jiaxin Jiang (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Customs University
    Chair: Tomoko Shiroyama (she/her/hers) – The University of Tokyo
    Discussant: Tomoko Shiroyama (she/her/hers) – The University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Hong Jiang (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Xi Ma (he/him/his) – Yuelu Academy, Hunan University
    Paper Presenter: Jiaxin Jiang (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Customs University
    Paper Presenter: Ruochen Chen (he/him/his) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Paper Presenter: Zilong Wang (he/him/his) – The University of Tokyo
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Fixing the River, Fixing the Community: Late Qing Levee Construction and Management in the Jianghan Plain
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hong Jiang (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Irrawaddy Intersected: Colonial Explorations, Territorial Borders, and the Charting of a Transboundary River in the Age of Empire
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Xi Ma (he/him/his) – Yuelu Academy, Hunan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Unveiling the China Market: British Merchants, Commercial Expeditions, and the Opening of the Yangtze
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jiaxin Jiang (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Customs University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Harboring Semi-colonial Order: River Management and a Reevaluation of State-building in Late Qing Shanghai
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Ruochen Chen (he/him/his) – Washington University in St. Louis
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Competition and Cooperation: The Shipping Conference on the Yangtze River, 1882-1911
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Zilong Wang (he/him/his) – The University of Tokyo
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Indigenous Communities and Eurocentric Conservation Models: Reflections from the Eastern Himalayas
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    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
    Discussant: Pasang Y. Sherpa (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Land, State, and Conservation: The Case of the Mising Community in Dibru-saikhowa National Park
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Noihrit Gogoi (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) More-than-human Ecologies: Deities, Conservation, and Climate Discourses in Bhutan's Kumbu Valley
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Deki Yangzom (she/her/hers) – Royal Thimphu College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) State-led Conservation and Indigenous Perspectives: Reflections on Idu-mishmi Ecology in Arunachal Pradesh
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Raysha Alvir (she/her/hers) – Chr. Michelsen Institute
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Modernization and Urbanization in China: The Changing Faces of Local Life
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Hongyang Ji – University of Alberta
    Chair: Yao Li (he/him/his) – Hunan Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Hongyang Ji – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Bingli Liu – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Qi Yang – University College London
    Paper Presenter: Qian Feng (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Yao Li (he/him/his) – Hunan Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Translating Ecoambiguity in Border Town and Its Implication in the Practice of Eco-translation
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hongyang Ji – University of Alberta
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Preservation Through Transformation: The Chinese Dragon in Modernized China
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Bingli Liu – University of Alberta
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Urbanization and Rootlessness: Illness Metaphors in Xu Zechen's Beijing Drifters
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Qi Yang – University College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Orientalism in Contemporary China Through Guy Delisle's Shenzhen
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Qian Feng (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Spatial and Social Mobilities in Early Modern Japan
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Chair: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Miyabi Asai – Yokkaichi University
    Paper Presenter: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Yasuhiro Takahashi – Tama University
    Paper Presenter: Norio Shimizu (he/him/his) – Meiji University
    Discussant: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Social and Spatial Mobility in Higher Education
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Miyabi Asai – Yokkaichi University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Spatial and Social Mobilities and Limitations in a Scholar's Household
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Land Problem Regarding Burial Places in Early Modern Japan as Seen by Confucian Scholars
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yasuhiro Takahashi – Tama University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Imagined Mobility: Early Modern Japanese Confucian Reinterpretation of “japan”
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Norio Shimizu (he/him/his) – Meiji University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Theater Without Borders: Beyond Gender and into Fantasy in Japanese Cross-dressing Performances
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Carmen Tamas (she/her/hers) – University of Hyogo
    Chair: Carmen Tamas (she/her/hers) – University of Hyogo
    Discussant: Marco Del Din (he/him/his) – Heidelberg University - Ca' Foscari University of Venice
    Discussant: Emerald L. King (she/ zir) – University of Tasmania
    Discussant: Stefana Samfira (she/her/hers) – National University of Theater and Film "I.L. Caragiale"
    Discussant: Afreeda Obreat (she/her/hers) – Osaka University of Arts
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Transforming Japanese Studies in a Multicultural Era: Opportunities, Obstacles, Outlooks
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yufei Zhou (she/her/hers) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Organizer: Kazuhiro Takii (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Chair: Torsten Weber (he/him/his) – German Institute for Japanese Studies
    Discussant: Yufei Zhou (she/her/hers) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Discussant: Kazuhiro Takii (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Discussant: Zahra Moharramipour (she/her/hers) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Discussant: Mai Kataoka (she/her/hers) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Discussant: Nobuko Kayashima (she/her/hers) – JICA Ogata Research Institute
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Varieties of Environmentalism in East Asia (Part II): Environmentalism Revisited
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Myung-Ae Choi (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Organizer: Loretta Lou – Durham University
    Chair: Myung-Ae Choi (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Brian Spivey – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Eetu Laustela – University of Duisburg-Essen
    Paper Presenter: Loretta Lou – Durham University
    Paper Presenter: Ka Ming Wu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-Author: Ke Zhu – University of Amsterdam
    Co-Author: Yu-ting Ho – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Young Rae Choi – Florida International University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) "A New Contradiction": Maoist Environmentalism in the Cultural Revolution
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Brian Spivey – Australian National University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) War with Nature: State Environmentalism and Green Futures in Contemporary North Korea
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Eetu Laustela – University of Duisburg-Essen
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Greening Our Home: Embodied Environmentalism in Hong Kong
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Loretta Lou – Durham University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Inter-asia Ecological Agent: Domestic Helpers and Plastic Waste Sorting
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ka Ming Wu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-author: Ke Zhu – University of Amsterdam
    Co-author: Yu-ting Ho – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) From Death to Life, and Then to Rebirth: For a Resilient Tidal Flat Environmentalism Embracing Its Slippery Ontologies
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Young Rae Choi – Florida International University
    Northeast Asia
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Breaking Barriers: Gender and Work Dynamics in China’s Social and Political Arenas
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Ling Han (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Chengpang Lee (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Ling Han (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Jiangyi Chen (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-Author: Jing Song (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Xinhui Jiang (she/her/hers) – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Yingyi Wang (she/her/hers) – St. Lawrence University
    Co-Author: Nan Lin (she/her/hers) – Nanjing University
    Discussant: Yunyun Zhou (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University of London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Doing Gender Philanthropy Without Gender: Stealth Digital Work and Institutional Legitimacy in Chinese Gender Ngos
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ling Han (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) From Tradition to Transformation: Women Entrepreneurs' Guanxi and Network Building in Guangzhou
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jiangyi Chen (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-author: Jing Song (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Hierarchy of Representation: Women's Substantive Representation and Women's Congress in Chinese Politics
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xinhui Jiang (she/her/hers) – Nanjing University
    Co-author: Nan Lin (she/her/hers) – Nanjing University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Precarious Labour, Affect, and Intersectional Inequalities: Working as Feminist and LGBT NGO Activist-workers in China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Stephanie Yingyi Wang (she/her/hers) – St. Lawrence University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    BRICS as a Strategic Platform? Reconfiguring Global Order Beyond Established Institutions
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Adrian Brona – Jagiellonian University
    Chair: Adrian Brona – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Łukasz Fyderek – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Agnieszka Kuszewska-Bohnert – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Michał Lubina – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Karolina Wanda Olszowska – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Adrian Brona – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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 – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Role of BRICS in India's International Strategy
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Agnieszka Kuszewska-Bohnert – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Quest for Global Influence? BRICS in China's International Strategy
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Adrian Brona – Jagiellonian University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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 – Kobe University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Generations and Social Movements in Mainland Southeast Asia
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jane M. Ferguson (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Chair: Tyrell Haberkorn (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Tyrell Haberkorn (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Jane M. Ferguson (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Khin Zaw Win (he/him/his) – Tampadipa Institute
    Paper Presenter: Kyaw Min Oo (he/him/his) – Athan - Freedom of Information Organisation
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Carceral Kingdom: Political Prisoners, Monarchy and History in Thailand
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tyrell Haberkorn (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Shanland Above the Milk Tea Flood?
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jane M. Ferguson (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reflections on Four Decades of Work Fighting Authoritarian Rule in Myanmar
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Khin Zaw Win (he/him/his) – Tampadipa Institute
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Making of Myanmar's Gen-z
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kyaw Min Oo (he/him/his) – Athan - Freedom of Information Organisation
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Margins as Loci of Knowledge Production: Border Thinking and Local Knowledges in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Shireen Khan (he/him/his) – BUITEMS, Quetta
    Chair: Hamayoon Khan, N/A (he/him/his) – Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, (BUITEMS) Quetta
    Paper Presenter: Hamayoon Khan, N/A (he/him/his) – Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, (BUITEMS) Quetta
    Paper Presenter: Homer Jan (he/him/his) – BUITEMS Quetta
    Discussant: Homer Jan (he/him/his) – BUITEMS Quetta
    Paper Presenter: Sara Rashid (she/her/hers) – Higher Education Department, Peshawar
    Paper Presenter: Shireen Khan (he/him/his) – BUITEMS, Quetta
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Local Knowledges Concerning Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of Baloch Women Activists
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hamayoon Khan, N/A (he/him/his) – Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, (BUITEMS) Quetta
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) When Modernity Meets Indigeneity: A Case Study of Fishermen in Gwadar
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Homer Jan (he/him/his) – BUITEMS Quetta
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) 'Missing Persons' and Ambiguity of Loss: Theorizing Grief from the Margins
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sara Rashid (she/her/hers) – Higher Education Department, Peshawar
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Graveyard of Memory
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shireen Khan (he/him/his) – BUITEMS, Quetta
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Margins as Method: Situated Knowledge, Subversive Invisibility, and Resilience in Asia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    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)
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Film in Circumambulation: The Mountain Deity and the Politics of the Nonhuman in Contemporary Tibetan Cinema
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Qihui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Jinan (Guangzhou)
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Senter Bi (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Haunted Border: Southeast Asian Images' Imaginary City, Plural Bodies and the Returns of Socio-ecological Violence — Using Cemetery of Splendour by Apichatpong as an Example
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Qifan Hao (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Alternative to Hydroelectricity: A Study of Lightup Borneo’s Approach to Environmental Sustainability in Sabah
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Krystie Ng – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jocelyn Ford (she/her/hers) – Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (Zhuhai)
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Material Mobilities and Medleys: Reframing Asian Territories Through Cross-border Dust, Beef, Relics, and Secondhand Clothes
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Chair: Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Jiraporn Laocharoenwong (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Prakirati Satasut (he/him/his) – Thammasat University
    Paper Presenter: Chaiyaporn Singdee (he/him/his) – King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Atmospheric Zomia: Revisiting Upland Southeast Asia Under Anthropocene
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jakkrit Sangkhamanee (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Rethinking 'Area' Through Appetite for Hot-fresh Meat and the Cross-border Cattle Trade
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jiraporn Laocharoenwong (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Relics as Infrastructure: Buddhism, Material Exchange and Spatial Politics in Thailand
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Prakirati Satasut (he/him/his) – Thammasat University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) "Capturing Vintage": Tracing the Global Flows and Value Creation of Secondhand Clothing in Thailand
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Chaiyaporn Singdee (he/him/his) – King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Negotiating the Local and the Global in Modern China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Xiaoqing Diana Lin (she/her/hers) – Indiana University Northwest
    Chair: Guoqi Xu (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Guoqi Xu (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Qiong Zhang (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University
    Paper Presenter: Dan Du (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    Paper Presenter: Yat Ivi Fung (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoqing Diana Lin (she/her/hers) – Indiana University Northwest
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Re-envisioning the Human Body and the Global Community in Post- opium War China: HE Qiutao and His Shuofang Beisheng
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Qiong Zhang (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Incorporate for the Public: Transforming Joint-stock Corporations to Reform China's Tea Economy, 1870s-1911
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Dan Du (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The People's Republic of China and "Universal" Human Rights (1950-60)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yat Ivi Fung (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Reconstituting China and the World: Discourses About Civilizational State and Tianxia, 1990s‒2000s
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xiaoqing Diana Lin (she/her/hers) – Indiana University Northwest
    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
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Chair: Yoichiro Sato (he/him/his) – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
    Paper Presenter: Abhiruchi Ojha (she/her/hers) – Jamia Millia Islamia University
    Co-Author: Leslie Keerthi Kumar SM (he/him/his) – Lady Shri Ram College
    Paper Presenter: Barbara Kratiuk (she/her/hers) – Vistula University
    Co-Author: Rob Rabel (he/him/his) – Victoria University of Wellington
    Paper Presenter: Seohee Ashley Park (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
    Paper Presenter: Dipannita Maria Bagh (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Asian Geopolitics in Flux: Back to the Future?
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Abhiruchi Ojha (she/her/hers) – Jamia Millia Islamia University
    Co-author: Leslie Keerthi Kumar SM (he/him/his) – Lady Shri Ram College
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Indo-pacific's Defining Dilemma
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Barbara Kratiuk (she/her/hers) – Vistula University
    Co-author: Rob Rabel (he/him/his) – Victoria University of Wellington
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Technological Empowerment and Regional Power Shifts: The Impact of Chinese AI Advancements on Indo-pacific Security Dynamics
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Seohee Ashley Park (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Democratic Norm Localization in Myanmar: A Critical Study of Asian Response to Global Dynamics
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dipannita Maria Bagh (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    The Vanishing Stories of the Mountain Regions
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Nazmeen Hamza – F.G Girls College Gakuch Gizar
    Chair: Arif Hussain – Karakorum International University Gilgit
    Discussant: Arif Hussain – Karakorum International University Gilgit
    Discussant: Nazmeen Hamza – F.G Girls College Gakuch Gizar
    Discussant: Azra Syed – GGDC Chitral Higher Education Department
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Tibet Between Film and Fiction: In Memory of Pema Tseden
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Howard Y. F. Choy – Wittenberg University
    Chair: Howard Y. F. Choy – Wittenberg University
    Paper Presenter: Howard Y. F. Choy – Wittenberg University
    Paper Presenter: Christopher Peacock – Dickinson College
    Paper Presenter: Yang Xiang – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Chantal Ying-tung Chau (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani – Old Dominion University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Between Sinophone and Minor Literature: On Pema Tseden's Short Stories
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Howard Y. F. Choy – Wittenberg University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Between Representation and Representativeness: The Productive Tension of Pema Tseden's Dual Roles
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Christopher Peacock – Dickinson College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Between Lives and Culture: Animals in Pema Tseden's Cinema
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yang Xiang – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Between Vision Machines and Digital Objects: On Pema Tseden's Techno-tibet in the Hyper-industrial Era
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Chantal Ying-tung Chau (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Unraveling the Interplay of Feudal Systems, Gender Inequality, Social Progress, and Reproductive Trends in Rural Regions of Pakistan
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Salma Zahir (she/her/hers) – Government Girls Degree College Marguz Swabu
    Chair: Farhan Ahmed (he/him/his) – NED University
    Paper Presenter: Farhan Ahmed (he/him/his) – NED University
    Paper Presenter: Salma Zahir (she/her/hers) – Government Girls Degree College Marguz Swabu
    Discussant: Nazia Aslam (she/her/hers) – Government Girls High School, Rahimabad
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad Yaseen – University of Turbat
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Exploring Land Ownership Dominance and Its Impact on Agriculture and Socioeconomic Inequality in Rural Sindh
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Farhan Ahmed (he/him/his) – NED University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Examining Women's Reproductive Agency Within Gender Norms and Power Dynamics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Salma Zahir (she/her/hers) – Government Girls Degree College Marguz Swabu
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Dual Political Role of Feudal Lords and Their Impact on Health Sector Funding in Balochistan
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Muhammad Yaseen – University of Turbat
    South Asia
  • 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM NPT
    KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Reframing Global Asias: The Nepal Perspective
    Keynote Speaker: Pitamber Sharma (he/him/his)
    Sponsored By Asia Pacific Viewpoint
  • 6:45 PM – 8:20 PM NPT
    FILM: Sherpas – The True Heroes of Mount Everest
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    South Asia
  • Monday, June 2, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Anti-gender Sentiment in China and South Korea
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    Chair: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    Co-Author: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    Paper Presenter: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Stevi Jackson (she/her/hers) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: Euisol Jeong (she/her/hers) – Baekseok University
    Discussant: Stevi Jackson (she/her/hers) – University of York
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Familial Authoritarianism: The Gendered Politics of Sexuality in 21st Century China
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) A Review of Anti-gender Sentiments in China
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) "What If Your Son Becomes a Daughter, Threatening the Family Lineage?": The Anti-gender Discourse Created by Christian Fundamentalist Groups in South Korea
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Euisol Jeong (she/her/hers) – Baekseok University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Border Land Issues: Contextualized Experiences from South and Southeast Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Tabassum Majeed (she/her/hers) – Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar
    Paper Presenter: Kesone Kanhalikham (she/her/hers) – National University of Laos
    Chair: Furrukh Khan (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Discussant: Furrukh Khan (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Amit Gautam – Social Science Baha
    Paper Presenter: Sreang Chheat – Griffith University
    Paper Presenter: Maria Carolina Rodriguez Bello Dawonlay (they/them/theirs) – Lalang Hu Mga Laga Organization Inc.
    Co-Author: Samiksha Neupane – Centre for Social Change
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Border as a Space of Negotiation: Quest for Livelihood Among the Residents of Susta,Nepal
    Paper Presenter: Amit Gautam – Social Science Baha
    Co-Author: Samiksha Neupane – Centre for Social Change
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Dams, Conflicts, and Civil Society in the Mekong Region
    Paper Presenter: Sreang Chheat – Griffith University
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Community-based Participatory Study on Practices That Build Young Moro Women's Economic and Health Resilience in Conflict-affected Areas: Search for Policy Recommendations
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Maria Carolina Rodriguez Bello Dawonlay (they/them/theirs) – Lalang Hu Mga Laga Organization Inc.
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Taliban II and Women of Swat
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Tabassum Majeed (she/her/hers) – Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) The Laos-china Border as a Beautiful Land Special Economic Zone: The City of Exclusion and the Practice of Everyday Life
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kesone Kanhalikham (she/her/hers) – National University of Laos
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Breaking and Bridging: Understanding Sino-philippines Relations Through Shifting Social Mobilities and Transnational Networks
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ma. Regina P. Agustin (she/her/hers) – University of Santo Tomas
    Paper Presenter: Ella Joy A. Ponce (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Discussant: Ma. Regina P. Agustin (she/her/hers) – University of Santo Tomas
    Discussant: Ella Joy A. Ponce (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Philippines' Sub-national Government Relations with China: Evolution and Challenges from Marcos Sr. to Marcos Jr
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Strengthening Linkages Through E-commerce from International Agreements to Local Consumption: The Case of Chinese E-commerce Exports to the Philippines
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ma. Regina P. Agustin (she/her/hers) – University of Santo Tomas
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Hedging in Troubled Waters: The Philippines' Strategy in Sino-philippine Relations Across the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ella Joy A. Ponce (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Cities of Modern Bengal
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    Chair: Sandip Munshi (he/him/his) – BITS Pilani Mumbai
    Paper Presenter: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    Discussant: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    Paper Presenter: Sandip Munshi (he/him/his) – BITS Pilani Mumbai
    Paper Presenter: Suchetana Chattopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Jadavpur University
    Paper Presenter: Aritra De (he/him/his) – Tarleton State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Female Schools of Bengal: An Overview
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Reframing Asian Marginal Conditionalities and Its Influence on the Global Mobilities: A Case Study of the Eighteenth Century French Colonies of Bengal India
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sandip Munshi (he/him/his) – BITS Pilani Mumbai
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Of Germans and Others: Calcutta During First World War
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Suchetana Chattopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Jadavpur University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Kalimpong in the Cold War: Economic Disruption and Social Tensions in the Eastern Himalayas
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Aritra De (he/him/his) – Tarleton State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Consumption, Resistance, or Subversion? : Indonesian Women's Use of East Asian Popular Culture
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Kohki Watabe (he/him/his) – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Chair: Kohki Watabe (he/him/his) – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Noriko Hiraishi – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Mana Kamioka – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: Fithyani Anwar (she/her/hers) – Hasanuddin University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Tradition and Innovation in Indonesian Superheroine Reboot Comics
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Noriko Hiraishi – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Co-author: Idrus N/A (he/him/his) – Andalas University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) JKT48 as a Japanese Girls Idol: How They Operate It in Indonesia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mana Kamioka – Keio University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Adoption of Korean Fashion Trends Among Female Students: A Case Study on the Influence of K-drama and K-pop in Makassar
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Fithyani Anwar (she/her/hers) – Hasanuddin University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    From Memorials to Popular Culture: The Processes of Heritage Making in China
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Chair: Li Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Li Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Liping Peng – Polytechnic University of Milan
    Co-Author: Yapeng Duan – Jiangxi Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Reinterpreting War Memories: Heritage Education at the Weihsien Concentration Camp Museum in China
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Co-author: Yujie Zhu – Australian National University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Digital Renaissance: Exploring the Popularisation and Commercialisation of Xinjiang Dance Among Han Chinese Elders on Kuaishou
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Li Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) From Hotel to National Museum: The Top-down Transformation of the Nanchang August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Liping Peng – Polytechnic University of Milan
    Co-author: Yapeng Duan – Jiangxi Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Kathmandu University Yoga Workshop
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Listening in the Sub-continent: Sonic Practices and Mobilities of Hindi Cinema
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    Chair: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Shikha Jhingan – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Paper Presenter: Sebanti Chatterjee – SRM University-AP
    Paper Presenter: Ravi Kant – CSDS
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) From Acousmetre to Akashvani: Listening to Gender and Voice in the Lunchbox (2013)
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Listening to the Biopic of a Musician: Popular Songs Genres and Subaltern Aesthetics
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shikha Jhingan – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Listening as a Refrain: In Search of Anahad nād
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sebanti Chatterjee – SRM University-AP
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Radio Listeners on Hindi Film Screen (C. 1939-1980)
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ravi Kant – CSDS
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Locally Made: Reconstructing the Indigenous and Diasporic Knowledge Exchange Networks in Southeast Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Chair: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Shaun Yi Xian Lee (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad (Louie) Buana (he/him/his) – Leiden University / Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    Paper Presenter: Guo-Quan Seng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Guo-Quan Seng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Tackling the Troubling Tropics: Diasporic Construction Knowledge Networks in Dutch Malacca and VOC Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Travelling Teachers: Mandarin Teachers in Singapore in the 1930s
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shaun Yi Xian Lee (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Law Carried by Waves: The Networks and Legacy of Bugis Maritime Customary Law in Southeast Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Muhammad (Louie) Buana (he/him/his) – Leiden University / Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Transnational Hokkien Networks and Mass Market Batik Production in Jakarta (1910s-1970s)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Guo-Quan Seng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) "Chinese Female Students in the in the American South: Learning Through Observation, Practice, and Educational Experience"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Navigating Desire and Resistance: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Chinese Digital Media
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    Organizer: Tong Meng (she/her/hers) – Durham University
    Chair: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    Paper Presenter: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    Paper Presenter: Tong Meng (she/her/hers) – Durham University
    Paper Presenter: Yiming Wang (she/her/hers) – Maastricht University
    Paper Presenter: Zhifan Sheng (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Constrained Spaces: Algorithmic Bias and Female Survival Tactics on Chinese Social Media
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Love in a Transient Sexual Field: Female Chinese International Students' Racialised Desire on Mobile Dating Applications
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tong Meng (she/her/hers) – Durham University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Pure Love and Shadow Desire: Navigating Queer and Censorship in Chinese Boys' Love Erotica
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yiming Wang (she/her/hers) – Maastricht University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Qiu Miaojin and the Remediation of Queer Letters in Sinophone New Media Art
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhifan Sheng (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Shifting Spaces: Domesticity, Technology, and Identity in Global Asian Modernities
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    Chair: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Hua Li – Montana State University
    Paper Presenter: Ling Zhan – Hangzhou Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) From Patriarchal Home to Family Home: Negotiating Domestic Space in Early 20th China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Contaminated Space Within and Without: A Reading of Tang Fei’s "Waste Material"
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Hua Li – Montana State University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Dynamic and Holistic Narrative Space in Lin Zhao's Tide View
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ling Zhan – Hangzhou Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    The Work of Heritage: Culture, Conservation, Critique, Life
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Chair: Neel Kamal Chapagain (he/him/his) – 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
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Transimperial Agents and the Cultural Production of the Global Qing
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Sylvia Tongyan Qiu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Andrea S. Goldman (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Sylvia Tongyan Qiu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Yushu Chen (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Benji Fleischacker (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Czar's Embassies to Beijing and the Remapping of 'Tartary', 1690-1770
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sylvia Tongyan Qiu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) From 'Mantrim' to 'Man Da ren:' the Evolution of the Notion of the 'Mandarin' from the 16th Century to the Present
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yushu Chen (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) 'As Much Noise in the Night as in the Day': Chinese Soundscapes in Eighteenth-century European Sources
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) Southwestern China's Conservative Innovators (1870 - 1930)
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Benji Fleischacker (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Agrarian Perspectives on Asian City Futures
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Sangeeta Banerji – New York University Shanghai
    Organizer: Lena Scheen – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Lena Scheen – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Tang Min (she/her/hers) – 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
    Discussant: Sushmita Pati – National Law School of India University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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 (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    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
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yixin Liang (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University
    Chair: Yi-fei You – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Yunhao Tian – University of Munich
    Paper Presenter: Flaminia Pischedda (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    Paper Presenter: Yixin Liang (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University
    Paper Presenter: Li Ni – Zhejiang University
    Discussant: Yantao Kuang (he/him/his) – University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Cong 琮, a Hallucination：a Critique of the Interpretation Based on Ancient Cosmology
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yunhao Tian – University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Movements and (re)conceptualisations of Textualised Knowledge in the Shuzi Gua 數字卦 Divination Traditions
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Flaminia Pischedda (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Fallen Deities: The Cosmic Diagram of Tsinghua Bamboo Slips Wuji 五紀 and the and Warring States' Divination Culture Shift
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yixin Liang (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) From Techniques of Divination to the Study of Prophecy 讖緯: The Transformation of fengjiao 風角 knowledge During the Han and Wei-jin Periods
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Li Ni – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Climate Governance and Carbon Modernities in Southeast Asia’s Margins
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Helena Varkkey – Universiti Malaya
    Paper Presenter: Yustina Octifanny – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Danny Marks (he/him/his) – Dublin City University
    Co-Author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Jay Mar D. Quevedo – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Are Urban Residents Willing to Pay for Ecosystem Services? Carbon Modernities, Marginal Climate Discourses and Urban-rural Connections in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Mumahmad Shehryar – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Alberto Salvo – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Positioning Southeast Asia in Conversations, Priorities, and Outcomes for Nature-based Solutions Within the UNFCCC
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Helena Varkkey – Universiti Malaya
    Co-author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Marginalization and Feminist Political Ecology Within the Ecosystem Carbon Frontier
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yustina Octifanny – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Polluting the Air to Feed the Animals: Placing Food Production Systems Within a Political Ecology of Carbon Colonialism and Climate Adaptation
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Danny Marks (he/him/his) – Dublin City University
    Co-author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Access vs. Preservation: Examining the Effects of Mangrove Policies on Marginalized Communities
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jay Mar D. Quevedo – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Conceptualising the Adivasi Mode of Production in South Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Fraser Sugden – University of Birmingham
    Paper Presenter: Fraser Sugden – University of Birmingham
    Paper Presenter: Suresh Dhakal – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Kumar Sanjay Singh – Delhi University
    Discussant: Janak Rai (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University, Nepal
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Articulation of the Adivasi Mode of Production with Feudalism and Capitalism in the Kirat Homelands of Eastern Nepal
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Fraser Sugden – University of Birmingham
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) State-adivasi Relations in Retrospect Through the Study of Shifting Cultivation as an Adivasi Mode of Production
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Suresh Dhakal – Tribhuvan University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Situating the Adivasi Mode of Production in Contemporary World
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Kumar Sanjay Singh – Delhi University
    South Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Domesticity as Method: Engaging Materialities and Lived Experiences in Global Asia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Aileen Del Rosario-Rondilla – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Royal and Queer House of Galang: Philippine Drag and Reconfiguring Queer Domesticity
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) 'We Keep Trained Baboons to Do Housework': Repulsive Animality and the Making of Colonial Domesticity in the Philippines
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Precarious Domesticities: figurations of Filipino Domestic Workers in Cathy Garcia-sampana's Hello, Love, Goodbye
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Domestic Dynamics: Entrepreneurial Class-makings and Economic Strategies of Local Family Businesses in the Philippine Construction Industry
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Aileen Del Rosario-Rondilla – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    From Structure to Sensation: Literary Mapping and Infrastructure Transformation in Cold War Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    Chair: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    Paper Presenter: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    Paper Presenter: Yu Lin (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Seongju Lee – Dongguk University
    Paper Presenter: Chieh-Ju Lin (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    Discussant: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Diffracting Nature and the Sensibility of War: Archipelagos and Landscapes in the Literature of Gongsun Yan
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Poetry at a Crossroads: The Factors of Glocalization in Taiwan's Modern Poetry Through Visual Technology
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yu Lin (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Significance of Cracks in Land Reform and Anti-communist Narrative: Focusing on Hwang Sun-won's Descendant of Cain
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Seongju Lee – Dongguk University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Battle of Female/ Taiwanese Ghosts: Exploring Taiwanese Landscape and Local Agency in Li Ang's the Visible Ghosts
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chieh-Ju Lin (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    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
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Chair: Nissim Otmazgin – 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 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Captivity of Yoneoka Futoru at Tule Lake
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sarah Kovner – Columbia University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Local Expressive Practices in Global Circulation: Documentation, Archiving, Performance, and Sustainability
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Chair: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Paper Presenter: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Paper Presenter: Mason Brown – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Rajan Shrestha (he/him/his) – Nepal Music Archive
    Paper Presenter: Dinesh Raj Upadhyaya – Kathmandu University
    Co-Author: Rita Thapa Magar (she/her/hers) – Folk and Dohori Song Academy Nepal
    Co-Author: Hikmat Khadka (he/him/his) – US Embassy Nepal
    Paper Presenter: Lochan Rijal (he/him/his) – Kathmandu University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Preserving Sorati: Subi Shah's 1960s Efforts and Contemporary Performers' Desires
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Co-author: Rita Thapa Magar (she/her/hers) – Folk and Dohori Song Academy Nepal
    Co-author: Hikmat Khadka (he/him/his) – US Embassy Nepal
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Sugar for the Ears: Collaborative Song Collecting in Nubri, Nepal
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mason Brown – Independent Scholar
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Nepal Music Archive: Preserving and Repatriating Nepal's Musical Heritage
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rajan Shrestha (he/him/his) – Nepal Music Archive
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Music Documentation Through Documentary Filmmaking: Ideals and Challenges
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Dinesh Raj Upadhyaya – Kathmandu University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Preserving Tangible and Intangible Heritage Together at Kathmandu University Department of Music's Tripura Sundari Campus
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lochan Rijal (he/him/his) – Kathmandu University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Marginality and Violence in Literature: Assessing Role and Impact as Agent of Solution
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Garima Malik (she/her/hers) – Bhagat Phool Singh Women University
    Organizer: Kadambri Gasso (she/her/hers) – Government College, Amargarh (Malerkotla)
    Chair: Ashok Verma (he/him/his) – Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya
    Paper Presenter: Garima Malik (she/her/hers) – Bhagat Phool Singh Women University
    Paper Presenter: Kadambri Gasso (she/her/hers) – Government College, Amargarh (Malerkotla)
    Paper Presenter: Mohit Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Vikash Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Saru Sachdeva – Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
    Co-Author: Sanjeet Kaur (she/her/hers) – University of Lucknow
    Co-Author: Vrinda Vats (she/her/hers) – PM Shri Jawhar Navodya School
    Discussant: Himanshu Parmar (he/him/his) – Himachal Pradesh University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Language and Literature as Instruments of Resistance: A Comparative Study of Right-wing Propaganda and Counter-narratives in India
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Garima Malik (she/her/hers) – Bhagat Phool Singh Women University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Countering Islamophobia: Studying Sufism as a Solution to the Violence Against Religious Minorities in India
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Kadambri Gasso (she/her/hers) – Government College, Amargarh (Malerkotla)
    Co-author: Vrinda Vats (she/her/hers) – PM Shri Jawhar Navodya School
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Eclipsed Voices: Marginality and Caste Violence in Gurdial Singh's Alms for a Blind Horse
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mohit Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Life on the Burning Ghats: Understanding Caste Disparity in Modern India as Showcased in Rajesh S. Jala's Documentary Children of the Pyre
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Vikash Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) The Complexity of gender and Sexuality: Assessing the Depiction of Marginality and Violence in Sridhar Rangayan's Documentary Purple Skies
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Saru Sachdeva – Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
    Co-Author: Sanjeet Kaur (she/her/hers) – University of Lucknow
    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
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Ruize Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Zhan Yang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Ruize Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Zhan Yang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Mengjun Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Ai Gu (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Discussant: Yukun Zeng (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Aidong (Eden) Li (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    The Political Economy of Unfinished Residential Construction: Fiscal Institutions and Financial Regulation in China and India
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Aidong (Eden) Li (she/her/hers) – Brown University
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) "For Every Degree We Weather Together": Electrifying a Haunted Landscape of Chinese Hyper-modernization in Chongqing's Scorching Summers
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ruize Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Constructing Livable Reality Through the Commitment to the near Future in China's Developmental Zones
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zhan Yang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Made in China 2.0: Temporal Encounters and Affective Displacement in Reframing the Promise of China's Globalisation Frontiers
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mengjun Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Temporal Fractures and Repairments: The Nostalgic and Melancholic Practices of Chinese Youth Left-wing Activists
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ai Gu (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    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
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University
    Chair: Armand Azra bin Azlira – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Sharmini Aphrodite – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Armand Azra bin Azlira – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Ke Ying Sheryl Lee – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Alison Fong (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Sharmini Aphrodite – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Behind Plantation Lines: Cartography and Space on Malayan Rubber Estates in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Ringing the Bells: Christianity and the Kadazan-dusun Identity from 1967-1976
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sharmini Aphrodite – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Radio War Malaysia: Neo-colonial Subjectification Under Konfrontasi and the Ghosts of Kalimantan Utara in 1963-1966
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Armand Azra bin Azlira – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Navigating the In-between: Belief on Singapore's Waterloo Street
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ke Ying Sheryl Lee – Nanyang Technological University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) From City Streets to Crop Fields: Housewives and the Illicit Economy in Japanese-occupied Singapore
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Alison Fong (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Text, Image, Code: How Digital Media Became "Global" in the Sinosphere
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Ulug Kuzuoglu (he/him/his) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Paper Presenter: Angela Xiao Wu (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Eliot Chen (they/them/theirs) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Discussant: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Film, Bianxiang, and Digital Mediation in Chen Chieh-jen's Video Art
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Taxation, Policing, and the Origins of Chinese Data Processing in Taiwan
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ulug Kuzuoglu (he/him/his) – Washington University in St. Louis
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Chinese Platformization: A Genealogy
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu (she/her/hers) – New York University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Edward Yang's Wind: (Un)Folding a Global History of the Digital Neo-baroque
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Eliot Chen (they/them/theirs) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Transcending Margins: (Re)Imagining Women's Identity in South Asian Performative Space(s)
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Organizer: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Chair: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Paper Presenter: Kuntalika Jharimune (she/her/hers) – Vignan's Institute of Information Technology
    Paper Presenter: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Paper Presenter: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Discussant: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Amidst Opportunity and Exclusion: Urban Jatra and Its Women Performers
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kuntalika Jharimune (she/her/hers) – Vignan's Institute of Information Technology
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Performing Bidaai in the City: Migration, Modernity, and the Reconfiguration of Gender Roles
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Dynamics of Identity and Space in Performing Chhat Puja by Migrant Groups in Urban India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Asian Digital Nomads in the Post-pandemic Era: Navigating Identity, Gender, Home and Spatial Practices
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Crafting an Aspirational Digital Nomad Identity: Identity Building, Psychological Satisfaction, and Consumerism
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yuchen Song (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Qinghan Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yifan Yang (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yinshuang Dong – Nanjing University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond Audibility: Cultural Soundscapes and Sensory Belonging in Contemporary East Asia
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Fenglin Ju (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Yucong Hao (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Discussant: Ka Lee Wong – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Fenglin Ju (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Paper Presenter: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    Paper Presenter: Zixuan Wang – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Yitong Guo (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Does the Tree Make a Sound? Inaudible Sound and Affect in Chinese Otome Games
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Fenglin Ju (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cultural Imagination: A Study on Enhancing the Sense of Belonging Among Asian International Students Through Sound-based Pedagogy
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Co-author: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Co-author: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Cultural Imagination: A Study on Enhancing the Sense of Belonging Among Asian International Students Through Sound-based Pedagogy
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Collective Musicking on Bilibili
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zixuan Wang – University of Texas at Austin
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Animated by Earshot: Podcast Listening, Audio Drama, and Digital Intimacy in Contemporary China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yitong Guo (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond the Margins: Reframing Marginality and Identity in Taiwan in the Modern Era
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Horng-luen Wang (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Chair: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Harry Yi-Jui Wu (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University
    Discussant: Harry Yi-Jui Wu (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University
    Paper Presenter: Horng-luen Wang (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Pin-Yi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Jolan Hsieh (she/her/hers) – National Dong Hwa University
    Discussant: Jolan Hsieh (she/her/hers) – National Dong Hwa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Strengthening the Nation's Body by Mobilizing the Colony's Environment: A Case Study of Onsen Bathing in Transwar Taiwan
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Harry Yi-Jui Wu (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Navigating Through the Edge of Empires: Marginality, External Factors and Taiwan's Search for National Identity
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Horng-luen Wang (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reconstructing National Identity: Exploring Marginalities in Taiwan's National Museums
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pin-Yi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) From Margins to Core: The Path of National Identity for Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jolan Hsieh (she/her/hers) – National Dong Hwa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Contested Urbanism: Making Sense of the Spatial Dynamics of Cities in Indonesia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Organizer: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Chair: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Paper Presenter: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Paper Presenter: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Amalinda Savirani (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    Paper Presenter: Evi Mariani (she/her/hers) – Project Multatuli
    Paper Presenter: Herlily Herlily (she/her/hers) – University of Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Algorithmic Dreamscapes: Navigating Utopian Narratives and Resistance in Nusantara, the New Capital
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Political Ecology and Spatial Contestations in the Urbanising Pantura
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Geography of Resistance, Labour Union, and Urban Spatial Politics in Bekasi, West Java Indonesia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Amalinda Savirani (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Flooded and Suffocated: Poor Housing Conditions for Workers in Jakarta Amid the Climate Crisis
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Evi Mariani (she/her/hers) – Project Multatuli
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Politicising the Kampung: Narratives of Jakarta's Urban Poor in Gubernatorial Campaigns (2012-2024)
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Herlily Herlily (she/her/hers) – University of 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
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Barnali Chanda (she/her/hers) – Adamas University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Swati Moitra (she/her/hers) – Gurudas College, University of Calcutta
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Arpita Bose (she/her/hers) – Hooghly Mohsin College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jinyun Li – Fuzhou University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Reworlding China from the Below: Affective Mobilities in British Women's Travel Narrative on China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Juanjuan Wu (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    From Bonds to Borders: Exploring Taiwan’s Role in Reframing Asia Through Finance, Trade, and Diasporic Networks
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Yu-wei Huang – National Taiwan University
    Chair: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Paper Presenter: Yu-wei Huang – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Discussant: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Taiwan's Sugar Trade and the Integrating of 18th-century Western Pacific Economic Network
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yu-wei Huang – National Taiwan University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Revisiting Qing's Maritime Frontier: Mapping Southeast Asia onto the Haijiang Structure
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Grain, Tobacco, and Papermaking: State Building and Rural Economy in Wartime China (1927-45)
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Boshen Yan (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Yue Yu (she/her/hers) – Xiamen University
    Discussant: Hanzhi Dai (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Growing US Tobacco in Native Soil: The Agricultural Reform and Rural Governance in Yunnan (1939-45)
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Feeding Ten Million Soldiers: Nationalist Army Food Provision in Republican China, 1927-1937
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Boshen Yan (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Fujian Provincial Government's Wartime Economic Control of the Paper Industry (1937–1945)
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yue Yu (she/her/hers) – Xiamen University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Landscapes of Contemporary Resistance and Marginalized Tradition: Reframed Localities, Mediated Heritages, and Organized Dissent in China and India
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Thomas Noel (he/him/his) – Villanova University
    Chair: Nathan Badenoch – Kyoto University
    Discussant: Nathan Badenoch – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Anusha Hariharan – Villanova University
    Paper Presenter: Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Noel (he/him/his) – Villanova University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Landscape(s) of Feminist Activism: Tamil Nadu and Its "Others."
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anusha Hariharan – Villanova University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Sacred and the "Dammed": The Narmada River as a Semiotic Landscape
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Hierological Landscapes and Prosodic Topographies: Onomatology, Pareidolia, and the Many Literary Faces of the Mount Lu Range
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Thomas Noel (he/him/his) – Villanova University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Many Cosmopolitanisms: Memory and Modernity in the South Asian Metropolis
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Zoya Sameen (she/her/hers) – Aga Khan University
    Chair: Surabhi Pudasaini – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Zoya Sameen (she/her/hers) – Aga Khan University
    Paper Presenter: Ahona Panda (she/her/hers) – Claremont McKenna College
    Paper Presenter: Navine Murshid – Colgate University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Cleansing Difference in a Port City: The Many Lives of Cosmopolitan Karachi
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Zoya Sameen (she/her/hers) – Aga Khan University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Armenian Calcutta: Between Memory and History
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ahona Panda (she/her/hers) – Claremont McKenna College
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The past in the Present in Folk Songs and Traditions
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Navine Murshid – Colgate University
    South 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
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    Chair: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    Paper Presenter: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    Paper Presenter: Sera Mika (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Shau-lou Young (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Hsiang-I Teng (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) In Situ Diaspora in the Ancestral Lands: Extractivism, Resource Politics and Multiple Marginalities in an Indigenous Truku Community, Taiwan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Extractivism in National Energy Policy: Negotiation and Resistance of Marginalized Communities
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sera Mika (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Fire Pits on the Move: Dynamically Constructing, Multiplying, and Transforming the Boundaries of Indigenous Tsou Communities in Urban Taiwan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shau-lou Young (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Un/covered Indigeneity: The Indigenous Political Violence and Transitional Justice in Taiwan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hsiang-I Teng (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    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
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ki-Hyun Bae (she/her/hers) – Sogang University
    Chair: Yoon Hwan Shin – Sogang University
    Discussant: Ki-Hyun Bae (she/her/hers) – 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
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Photography's Asian Archives: Transforming Memory and Community from the Margins
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Chair: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Yi Gu (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto, Scarborough
    Discussant: Diwas Kc (he/him/his) – Nepal Picture Library
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Pluralism and Inclusive Service Delivery: Issues and Challenges Faced by the Malaiyaha Community in Sri Lanka
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Ravindra C. Palliyaguruge (he/him/his) – Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
    Chair: Deepika Singh, She (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Raktim Patar, He (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Discussant: Phirmi Bodo, She (she/her/hers) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Discussant: Atrayee Saha, She (she/her/hers) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Discussant: Rajendra Sharma (he/him/his) – Social Science Baha
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Reflections on the Future of Himalayan Studies - I
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Chair: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Discussant: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Discussant: Mark Turin (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Janak Rai (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University, Nepal
    Discussant: Ariana Maki (she/her/hers) – University of Idaho
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    The Governance of the Forest Carbon Frontier in Southeast Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Chair: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Paper Presenter: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Paper Presenter: Rob Cole (he/him/his) – WWF Asia-Pacific and Greater Mekong
    Paper Presenter: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Knowledge Biases in Nature-based Carbon Credits
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Shakura Nuha Binte Bashir – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Shifting the Blame: Upland Swidden Cultivation Practices and Contested Climate Change Discourses in Laos
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Navigating Through Policies and Institutions Towards Developing the National Forest Carbon Program in the Philippines
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Co-author: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Nature-based Carbon Sinks and Agri-food Systems in the Greater Mekong Region: Current Trends, Mitigation Potential and Finance Needs
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rob Cole (he/him/his) – WWF Asia-Pacific and Greater Mekong
    Co-author: Rueben Manokara – WWF Asia Pacific
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Mapping Forest Carbon Markets in Laos: Commodity Chain and Actor Networks in Adaptation to Global Carbon Frameworks
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Expanding Horizons: Researching Twentieth-century China from Within and Without
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    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
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Experimental Life-making in the Margins of East Asian Urbanization
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Organizer: Min Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Paper Presenter: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Paper Presenter: Min Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Jinjin Zhang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Daeun Lee (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Mun Young Cho – Yonsei University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Oral History and Community Building at the Urban Edge: A Case from Hong Kong's Land Activism
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Migration as an Experiment: Urban-to-rural Migration and Creative Life-making in a Bookworm Village in Southwest China
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Min Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Engaging Global Urbanites: Digital Community-making for Rural Revitalization in Japan
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jinjin Zhang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Experiments in Life and Community-making with Digital Nomads in East Asia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Daeun Lee (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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 Ruanto-Ramirez (he/him/his) – Southwestern University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Feeding the Dead: On Atang and Pitik in the Philippines
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Joseph Ruanto-Ramirez (he/him/his) – Southwestern University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Global South Asians Against Global Empire Before 1947
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College
    Chair: Iqbal Sevea – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Shatrunjay Mall – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Samee Siddiqui – Drury University
    Paper Presenter: Mark Reeves – University of the West of England Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College
    Discussant: Iqbal Sevea – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) An Itinerant Intellectual on a Global Stage: Thakur Gadadhar Singh and Theorizing a Pan-asianism in the South Asian Vernacular
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shatrunjay Mall – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) A Religious History of Pan-asianism: World Religioning, Indian Anticolonialism, and the Japanese Empire
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Samee Siddiqui – Drury University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Menon on the Move: V. K. Krishna Menon and Mobile Anticolonial Diplomacy
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mark Reeves – University of the West of England Bristol
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Interconnected Anticolonial Movements in British Malaya and India, 1941-1947
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Material Matters: The Agency of Objects in Chinese Cinematic Culture
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Chair: Paola Iovene (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Paola Iovene (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Hongfeng Tang (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Ting Luo – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Yiyang Hou – Lingnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) An Archaeology of "Shadow": From Early Cinematic Experience to Traditional Visual Culture in China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hongfeng Tang (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Film Scenes as Assemblages: Objects, Attraction, and Affect in Early Chinese Cinema
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Voice of Technology and Modernity: Gramophone, Radio and the Making of Talkies in Chinese Cinema (1931-1936)
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ting Luo – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Curating a Film Club in Print: The Editorial Design of Movie Magazines in Post-mao China, 1978-1989
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yiyang Hou – Lingnan University
    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
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yu Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Organizer: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Liang Luo (she/her/hers) – The University of Kentucky
    Paper Presenter: Yu Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Tim Shao-Hung Teng – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Qiufan Chen – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Discussant: Liang Luo (she/her/hers) – The University of Kentucky
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Love over the Wires: Representations and Discourses of Early Telephony in Late Qing and Early Republican China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Medial Avant-gardism in 1960s Taiwan: Reconceptualizing Modernism as Transmedia Humanities with Huang Hua-cheng as an Example
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Geological Aesthetics and the Medium of Life: On Wu Xubin's "Bison"
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tim Shao-Hung Teng – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Can AI Dream of Hyperreality?
    the Excessive Present and the Participatory Future of China Digital Media
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Qiufan Chen – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    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
    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 Marni (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Xuexin Cai (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Discussant: Yucheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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 Marni (he/him/his) – Yale University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Marginality: The Redefinition of Chinese Elite Women in a Globalized World
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    Chair: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    Paper Presenter: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    Paper Presenter: Di Wang – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Yukun Zeng (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: hanzhang liu – Pitzer College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Compete Like a Man? The Social Origine of Women Who Succeeded in the First Gaokao After the Cultural Revolution
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Subversive Nude and the Pioneering Women Artists in Modern China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Di Wang – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Social Contradiction of Intensive Confucian Mothering: Elite Dujing Mothers and the Gentrification of Confucian Revival
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yukun Zeng (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Trusting a Government Without Women? Lack of Female Leadership and Regime Support in China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: hanzhang liu – Pitzer College
    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
    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 Institute of Sacred Music
    Discussant: Rundong Ning (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Re-harkening Her Life Story: Women and Biographical Memory in Early Modern East Asia
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Chair: Maki Nakai – School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
    Discussant: Jolan YI (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Discussant: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Tradition and Transition: Ideological and Cultural Mobilities Shaping Modernities Across Asia and Beyond
    Location: Kailash (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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Revolutionizing Education: Labor, Ideology, and Modernization in Maoist China
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Zhe Hou (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shuyang Zhao (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Asiatic Mode of Production and Mexico's post-1968 Cultural Movement
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Commenting for Publishing: Zhong Xing's Shijing Theory and Related Commentaries
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yang Luo (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Ulil Amri – Creighton University
    Discussant: Ulil Amri – Creighton University
    Paper Presenter: Amalie Goul Dueholm – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Khathaleeya Liamdee (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) New Capital City in Flame: Spatial Justice and Digital Environmentalism in Indonesia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ulil Amri – Creighton University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Voices on the Margins: Contemporary Art and Intersectionality in Hong Kong
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Discussant: Yu-Chieh Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Queenie Liu (she/her/hers) – HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education
    Paper Presenter: Doris Wai Yin Wong (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Carol Pui Ha Chow (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Crafting Connection in Constrained Spaces: The Case of Black Window, Soboring and Printhow
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Queenie Liu (she/her/hers) – HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Artist in the Nights of Labor: Undercover Worker by Luke Ching Chin Wai and the Gift Economy
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Doris Wai Yin Wong (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) When Feminism Meets Hauntology: The Return of the Dead, Trauma, and Justice in Ivy Ma's post-2012 Photo-media Art
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Carol Pui Ha Chow (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Agency of Host Countries Within China’s BRI
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Chair: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Paper Presenter: Rose Luke (she/her/hers) – University of Johannesburg
    Discussant: Rose Luke (she/her/hers) – University of Johannesburg
    Paper Presenter: Renaud Egreteau (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ruiyi Zhu (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Impact of BRI Logistics Projects on African States
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rose Luke (she/her/hers) – University of Johannesburg
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Do Parliaments Constrain Foreign Policy? Evidence from Myanmar's Parliamentary Debates on China and the BRI [2011-2021]
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Renaud Egreteau (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Negotiating Standards in Sino-mongolian Industrial Relations
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ruiyi Zhu (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) BRI Infrastructure in Sri Lanka: Examining Local Discourses
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Algorithmic Doubt in Contemporary Chinese Culture
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
    Chair: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Wenzhu Li – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Annabella Mei Massey – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Paper Presenter: William Beswick – Ashmolean Museum Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Implacable Emotion: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Reconstructing Gender: How Ai-generated Conversations from Weibo Amplify Gender Biases
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wenzhu Li – University of Alberta
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Chinese Pastoral in the Age of AI: From Cottagecore to New Media Art Experiments
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Annabella Mei Massey – Courtauld Institute of Art
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) A(bstract)i(nk) Painting: A History of Artificial Intelligence-generated Art
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: William Beswick – Ashmolean Museum Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Contagious Cartographies: Risk, Agency, and Belonging in Queer Asias
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Paul Michael L. Atienza (any pronouns) – Cal Poly Humboldt
    Paper Presenter: Jih-Fei Cheng – Scripps College
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Pulse of Gay Asia: Infrastructure, Homophobia, and Neoliberal Agency in HIV Medical Tourism
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Online Worlds in the Multiverse of Queerness: Reimagining Belonging and Queer Identity Subject Formation Among the Global Filipinx/a/o
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Paul Michael L. Atienza (any pronouns) – Cal Poly Humboldt
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Financial Epidemiology: Diseased Ecologies and the Global Risk Economy
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jih-Fei Cheng – Scripps College
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Contours of Cosmopolitanism: Cityscapes of Belonging and Marginal Modernities in Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Abhimanyu Kumar (he/him/his) – Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University
    Chair: Arun Gupto (he/him/his) – Pokhara University
    Paper Presenter: Abhimanyu Kumar (he/him/his) – Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University
    Paper Presenter: Pankaj kumar Singh (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    Paper Presenter: Jonmani Das (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Paper Presenter: Mayurakshi Kumar (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) City of Faith: Religious Identity Formation and Urbanisation in the Kathmandu Valley
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Abhimanyu Kumar (he/him/his) – Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Sacred Urban Space and Cultural Pluralism: The Evolution of Early Modern Banaras as a Cosmopolitan Centre
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Pankaj kumar Singh (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Making of an Early Modern Civic Space: Law and Authority and Everyday Governance in the English East India Company Settlement of Madras (1640s-1750s)
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jonmani Das (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Hierarchies of Belonging: Pluralism and Social Regulation in the Urban Landscape of 18th Century Jaipur
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mayurakshi Kumar (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    South 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
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Juliana Wijaya (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Juliana Wijaya (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Pia Arbodela (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Discussant: Kimi Yamoto (she/her/hers) – Osaka University
    Discussant: G. G. Weix (she/her/hers) – University of Montana
    Discussant: Richard Fox (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    From Margins to Center: Rediscovering Peripheral Artifacts in Late Imperial China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Tianyu Shi (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
    Organizer: Dingwei Guo (he/him/his) – Free University
    Chair: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Tianyu Shi (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
    Paper Presenter: Dingwei Guo (he/him/his) – Free University
    Paper Presenter: Ziwei Ye – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    Discussant: Yi-fei You – National Chung Hsing University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Unearthed Gems: The Rediscovery and Centralization of Stone Inscriptions from the Margins of the Empire in the 18th Century
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tianyu Shi (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Invisible Tapestry: The Reception and Reconstruction of Confucian Ritual Music by Dongjing Assemblies 洞经会 in Yunnan Jianshui During the Late Qing
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Dingwei Guo (he/him/his) – Free University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Revival of Buddhist Glossaries: Knowledge Flow and Perception in Qing China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ziwei Ye – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Discovering the Frontier from the Center: The Rise of Northwestern Studies and Information Networks in 19th-century China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Intersections of Identity, Gender, and Representation in Modern South Asia
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar, pakistan
    Chair: Pradip Prakashrao Kapse (he/him/his) – Savitribai Phule Pune University
    Paper Presenter: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar, pakistan
    Paper Presenter: Pradip Prakashrao Kapse (he/him/his) – Savitribai Phule Pune University
    Co-Author: Aung Min Thein (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Anagha Tambe
    Paper Presenter: Abhijit Bhattachatya (he/him/his) – Nabagram Amar Chand Kundu College
    Speaker: Ame Khin May-Kyawt (she/her/hers) – York University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Indigenous Rights, Globalized Regressions: The case of Transgender Protection Act in Pakistan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad Nawfal Saleemi (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Gendered Perspectives on Decolonisation: The Role of Women in Reshaping Psychological Knowledge in Pakistan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar, pakistan
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Debating Marginal Bodies: Representation of 'Disability' in Hindi Sports Cinema
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pradip Prakashrao Kapse (he/him/his) – Savitribai Phule Pune University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Redefining the Migrant Body: A Study of RBD Settlements in Middle Andaman Island After 1964
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Abhijit Bhattachatya (he/him/his) – Nabagram Amar Chand Kundu College
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Forced Mobility and Marginalized Minorities: A Comparative Study of the Lived Experiences of Forced Displaced Women in Thailand and Canada
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ame Khin May-Kyawt (she/her/hers) – York University
    Co-author: Aung Min Thein (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    'Meatways' in Asia: Health, Cultural Politics, and Sustainability
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sango Mahanty (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Organizer: Assa Doron (he/him/his) – Australian National University
    Chair: Assa Doron (he/him/his) – Australian National University
    Discussant: Sango Mahanty (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Discussant: Danny Marks (he/him/his) – Dublin City University
    Discussant: Sarah Turner (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Discussant: Eva Nisa (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Discussant: Jin Qian (she/her/hers) – Wageningen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    Chair: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    Paper Presenter: Satoshi Kato – Tohoku University
    Paper Presenter: Mayumi Ono – Ritsumeikan University
    Paper Presenter: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Media Coverage of Respect for the Aged Since the Late 20th Century
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Satoshi Kato – Tohoku University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Notion of Not Being a Burden to Others Among Japanese Retirement Migrants in Malaysia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mayumi Ono – Ritsumeikan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Relationship Between Mobility of Place of Receiving Care and the Notion of Being a Burden to Others in Early Modern Japan
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    New Perspectives on Culture Under Empire in Modern China Japan Relations
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Chair: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Yun Xia – Shanghai University
    Paper Presenter: Haiying Hou – Shanghai Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Liang Yao – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yijia Zhang – Shanghai University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Inter-asian Translation: Japanese Colonizers Study Chinese and Taiwanese
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Prohibition in China and Japan in the Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Analysis
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yun Xia – Shanghai University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Pioneering Japanese Women Doctors in Early 20th-century China: The Case of Maejima Keiko
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Haiying Hou – Shanghai Normal University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Sino-japanese Rivalry in the Soft Drink Business in Early Twentieth Century Tianjin: A Case Study on Hongxing Soft Drink Company
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Liang Yao – Peking University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) The Shanghai Espionage Incident and the Trilateral Conflicts Among China, Japan and the United States
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yijia Zhang – Shanghai University
    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
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Tomasz Ewertowski (he/him/his) – Shanghai International Studies University
    Paper Presenter: Wenhao Guan (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Rui Li (he/him/his) – The University of Guelph
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reimagining Landscapes and Shaping Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Manchurian Travel Handbooks in the Early Twentieth Century
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Educating Teachers About Manchuria: Geography Teacher's Guide, Nation-building, and Knowledge Production in Late Qing & Republican China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Wenhao Guan (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Marriage and Family Under the Racial and Gender Hierarchies in Manchukuo: Gender Knowledge From
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Rui Li (he/him/his) – The University of Guelph
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Hinduism in the Global Space: Texts, Traditions, and Theopoetics
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: George Pati – Valparaiso University
    Chair: Diana Dimitrova – University of Montreal
    Paper Presenter: George Pati – Valparaiso University
    Paper Presenter: Diana Dimitrova – University of Montreal
    Paper Presenter: Tracy Pintchman – Loyola University, Chicago
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reframing Bhakti from the Margins in the Global Space of Theopoetics
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: George Pati – Valparaiso University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Reframing the Brahma Kumari Tradition in Global Space
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Diana Dimitrova – University of Montreal
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reframing Kalki for a Global Audience in Kevin Missal's Kalki Trilogy
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Tracy Pintchman – Loyola University, Chicago
    South Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Toward Ethical Futures: Reframing the Japanese Repatriation Vis-à-vis Atomic-bombings, Ethnic Minorities, and Museums
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Nobuko Yamasaki – Lehigh University
    Chair: Nobuko Yamasaki – Lehigh University
    Discussant: Nobuko Yamasaki – Lehigh University
    Paper Presenter: Takayuki Kawaguchi (he/him/his) – Hiroshima University
    Paper Presenter: Wenju Lee – Tamkang University
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan Bull – Hokkaido University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The "Atomic Bomb" Narrative and the "Repatriation" Narrative: Their convergence or their divergence
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Takayuki Kawaguchi (he/him/his) – Hiroshima University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Landscape of Colonial Taiwan in Repatriate Literature – Sakaguchi Reiko's Post-war Literature
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Wenju Lee – Tamkang University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Incorporating a Cultural History of Margins and Mobilities into Japanese Repatriation Museums
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jonathan Bull – Hokkaido University
    Northeast Asia
  • 6:45 PM – 7:40 PM NPT
    FILM: Bhedako Oon Jasto (Like Sheep’s Wool)
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    South Asia
  • Tuesday, June 3, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    China Infrastructural Inc: Cultural Politics of Modernity in the Making on Margins
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Minhua Ling (she/her/hers) – Geneva Graduate Institute
    Organizer: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Minhua Ling (she/her/hers) – Geneva Graduate Institute
    Co-Author: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yu Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Puget Sound
    Paper Presenter: Yi Kang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Shiru Wang (she/her/hers) – Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Juan Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Infra)-structural Disconnect: Modernizing Toilets in Rural China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Minhua Ling (she/her/hers) – Geneva Graduate Institute
    Co-author: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Infrastructure in Suspension and the Fetishism of Tourism in Ethnic Rural China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yu Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Puget Sound
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Navigating the Evolving Digital Landscape in Hong Kong
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yi Kang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Co-author: Kevin K. W. Ip – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Co-author: Wendy L.Y. Leung – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Social Media as Infrastructure for Centralizing Nationalist Discourse
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shiru Wang (she/her/hers) – Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Cross-border Migration in India and Pakistan: Exploring Contemporary Trends and Challenges
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Rashid Muhammad – The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan
    Chair: Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely (she/her/hers) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Rashid Muhammad – The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan
    Paper Presenter: Shahana Maryam (she/her/hers) – University of Sargodha
    Paper Presenter: Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely (she/her/hers) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa (he/him/his) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    Discussant: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa (he/him/his) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Cross-border Migration in India and Pakistan: Exploring Contemporary Trends and Challenges
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rashid Muhammad – The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Divided Waters, Contested Legacy: Hydro-diplomacy over Indus Basin in the Wake of India's Partition
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shahana Maryam (she/her/hers) – University of Sargodha
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) A Dark Chapter of Muslim Genocide: Partition of India 1947
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely (she/her/hers) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Kashmir: A Partition Story-unraveling the Migration Dynamics
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa (he/him/his) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    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
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Chair: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Joanne Lim – University of Nottingham Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Linda Bustan – Petra University
    Discussant: Inggrid Tania (he/him/his) – Indonesian Medical Association for The Development of Traditional Medicine
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) (not)-chinese, (not)-Malay, (not)-Indian: Racialization and Deracialization of Traditional Asian Medicine in Singapore.
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Understanding (Re)Generative Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Malaysia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Joanne Lim – University of Nottingham Malaysia
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Dynamic Practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Indonesia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Linda Bustan – Petra University
    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
    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 – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Other Possibilities of Infrastructure in East Asia: Counter-masculinity, Counter-aesthetics, and Visual Speculation
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Weiying Yu – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Gendered Transformations in Reproduction and Parenting: Ideological Shifts in Motherhood and Fatherhood in Contemporary China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Congwei Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Glasgow
    Chair: Yifan Yang (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Congwei Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Glasgow
    Paper Presenter: Haoyue tan – University College London
    Paper Presenter: Xijia You, n/a – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Mingxuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) After Surrogacy: Parenting Experiences of Chinese Gay Men
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Congwei Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Glasgow
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Understanding Contemporary Chinese Fatherhood: Cultures and Practices of Urban Middle-class Millennial Fathers
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Haoyue tan – University College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Gendered Temporalities and Shifting Reproductive Norms: A Study of Delaying Childbearing in Shenzhen, China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xijia You, n/a – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Motherhood Before Birth: Navigating Drug Use During Pregnancy in Contemporary China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mingxuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Mediating Spaces On/of Screen (Part 2): Construction, Circulation and Reception in South Asian Media Ecology
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Pritha Chakrabarti (she/they) – Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University
    Chair: Neepa Majumdar (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Neepa Majumdar (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Suvadip Sinha (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Pritha Chakrabarti (she/they) – Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University
    Paper Presenter: Rutuja Deshmukh (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Veil and the Screen: Purdah in 1930s Bombay Movie Theaters
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Neepa Majumdar (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) When the Lights Go Down: Film Theatres in Indian Cinema
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Suvadip Sinha (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Constructing Spaces of Love and Modernity: Role of Art Direction in Hindi Film Song and Dance
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pritha Chakrabarti (she/they) – Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Rehearsing Resistance: 'Talim' as a Space of Bahujan Assertion in Marathi Cinema
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rutuja Deshmukh (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    New Frontiers of Politics, Economy, and Settlement in Ancient East and Inner Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    Chair: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Annie Chan (she/her/hers) – University of Munich
    Paper Presenter: Yuri Pines (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Yohei Kakinuma – Waseda University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) China's First Colonial Experience in Inner Asia from a Comparative Perspective
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) The Built Environment as Mobility Strategy in the Montane and Desert Steppes of Iron Age Inner Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Annie Chan (she/her/hers) – University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Empire-building on the Margins: The State of Zeng and Chu's "Soft Power"
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yuri Pines (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Gift Exchange in Early China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yohei Kakinuma – Waseda University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Ecological Perspectives for a Global Asia: What Do Hindu Traditions Offer?
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    Chair: Knut Axel Jacobsen (he/him/his) – University of Bergen
    Paper Presenter: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    Discussant: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    Paper Presenter: Knut Axel Jacobsen (he/him/his) – University of Bergen
    Paper Presenter: Manisha Sheth Gutman (she/her/hers) – Ecoexist Foundation
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Krishna's Pastimes Revised: The Intersection of Rural Eco-communal Living and the Hindu Sacred Landscape of the Krishna Valley (Hungary) and Radhadesh (Belgium)
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Some Possible sāṃkhya-yoga Ethical Responses to the Current Ongoing Destruction of the Natural World
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Knut Axel Jacobsen (he/him/his) – University of Bergen
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Circularity in Hindu Belief Systems - A Case Study of the Punaravartan Campaign During the Ganesh Chaturthi Festival
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Manisha Sheth Gutman (she/her/hers) – Ecoexist Foundation
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Gendered Futures on Digital Platforms and Through Transnational Mobility
    Location: Dhuku (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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Affordable Deepfake Russian Wives Amongst Chinese Digital Influencers
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Katrien Jacobs (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM 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: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yuan Jasmine Zhu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Middle-aged Matters: Transnational Care Among Hong Kong Women Immigrants in the UK
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Francisca Yuenki Lai – National Tsing Hua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Living in and Outside of Hong Kong: The Transnational Mobility of Queer Women Immigrants
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Interspecies Subjectivities in Global Asia: Ethnographic Engagements with Human-elephant Mobility, Temporality, and Intersubjectivity
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Rebecca S. Winkler (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Chair: Anandi Gandhi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca S. Winkler (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Anandi Gandhi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Reframing Human-elephant Co-laboring, and Cohabitation in Thailand
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rebecca S. Winkler (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Interspecies Tactics of Disruption: Farmer-elephant Sociality in Eastern Thailand
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anandi Gandhi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) The Kui and Their Elephants, a Modern Nomadic Life in Thailand Tourism Landscape
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reimagining Indigeneity: Indigenous Alternatives and Nonhuman Companions on the Tibetan Plateau
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    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
  • 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: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Junhan Hu (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Drolma Gadou (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado, Boulder
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Geographical Abstraction in Caterpillar Fungus Commodification: Interactions Between Urban Markets and Rural Frontier Tibet
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Dan WU (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Guangye Qi (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Taste, Tradition, and Transformation: Exploring Food Cultures and Identities in Laos and Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Malinee Khumsupa (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Malinee Khumsupa (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Sorayut Aiem-UeaYut (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Phothong Chanthavilay (he/him/his) – National University of Laos
    Paper Presenter: Ruetaitip Chansrakaeo (she/her/hers) – Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Nourishing Identity: Exploring Gastronomy, Food Sovereignty, and Sustainability in Chiang Mai, Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Malinee Khumsupa (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Multicultural Roti Societythe Myth of Flavors and the Immigrational Taste in Chiang Mai, Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sorayut Aiem-UeaYut (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) The Cultural Politics of Food in Laos: Sustainability, Ethics, and New Styles of Taste and Consumption
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Phothong Chanthavilay (he/him/his) – National University of Laos
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) The Mala Hotpot and the New Chinese Migrants in Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ruetaitip Chansrakaeo (she/her/hers) – Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Thai Buddhist Cosmology and Divination in Contemporary Contexts
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Roni N. Wang (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Chair: M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Paper Presenter: Roni N. Wang (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Paper Presenter: Bonnie Pacala Brereton (she/her/hers) – Khon Kaen University
    Paper Presenter: Natchapol Sirisawad (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Oh My Ghost: Pret and Phi Representations in Thai Cosmological Parks
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Roni N. Wang (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Why Do Contemporary Murals in Thai Temples Include Divination Subject Matter? reflections on Mural Paintings at Wat Sisudharam and Wat Sunthorn Thammatan
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Thai Buddhist Cosmology: Descriptions of the Human Realm
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Bonnie Pacala Brereton (she/her/hers) – Khon Kaen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Interpreting the Three Worlds Cosmology or Tribhūmi: A Case of buddhist Art at Wat Sutthiwararam, Bangkok
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Natchapol Sirisawad (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Things That Connect: New Approaches to Material Culture and Women in Late Imperial China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Chair: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuanfei Wang (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Huan Jin – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Yuhang Li – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Supernatural Hairpin in Three Late Ming Chuanqi Plays
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuanfei Wang (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Paper Bodies: Letter and Gender in Jin Ping Mei
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Huan Jin – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Sensuous Plum Blossoms: Jin Liying (1772-1807) and the Paintings of “Luofu Dream”
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Wandering on Water: Empress Dowager Cixi and Her Boats
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuhang Li – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
    Organizer: Adhira Mangalagiri (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Discussant: Sarvani Gooptu, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Cosmos, City and the World: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Classical and Modern Contexts
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Weimo Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Chair: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Weimo Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Cosmology and the Ideal State-city in Plato's Magnesia and Yuan Beijing: Text and Practice
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Weimo Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Emerging Digital Media Landscape and Civic Imagination in Contemporary China
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Chair: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Lucia Lu Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Shuhao Chen (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Hong Zeng (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Digital Diaspora in China: Internet Citizenship and the Emergence of Runology
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) “Too Tired to Sleep”: ASMR, Self-Care, and the Contested Rest in China’s Digital Landscape
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lucia Lu Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Reimagining Identity through Short Video: Chinese Internal Return Migrants as Digital Creators
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shuhao Chen (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Techno-cultural Nationalism in China's Gaming Industry: The Case of Black Myth: Wukong
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Hong Zeng (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    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
    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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Lighthouses, Labs, and Observatories: Glocalizing Infrastructures and Sciences in Modern China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Xiaoping Xue (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Chair: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Discussant: Ke Zhang – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Cao (she/her/hers) – University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Zhilin Chu (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoping Xue (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Making a Trade and Transport Revolution: Global Infrastructure in Coastal China, 1921-1923
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Cao (she/her/hers) – University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Vaccinate Your Dogs: Japanese-led Dog Vaccination Programmes in Modern China, 1915-1945
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zhilin Chu (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Towards the "Chinese-japanese Sea": Qingdao Observatory and the Transnational Meteorology in Modern China, 1898-1937
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaoping Xue (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Of Bazar, Town, and City: Indigenous and Mainstream Imagination in Nepal
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Komal Phuyal (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Chair: Ammaraj Joshi (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Komal Phuyal (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Discussant: Ammaraj Joshi (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Dipak Lungeli (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Mohan Dangaura (he/him/his) – Nepal Sanskrit University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Modern Awakenings: Ruminations on Modern Asian Cities in Nepali Literature
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Komal Phuyal (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Indigenous Urabnism: Modernity of Its Own in Limbu Urban Spaces
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dipak Lungeli (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Cultural Memory of Tharu Dance Songs: Modernism and Urban Spectacle
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mohan Dangaura (he/him/his) – Nepal Sanskrit University
    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
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: C. Julia Huang (she/her/hers) – National Tsing Hua University
    Chair: Robert Weller – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: C. Julia Huang (she/her/hers) – National Tsing Hua University
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Nedostup – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Juan Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Co-Author: Jiahui Li – University of Bristol
    Discussant: Robert Weller – Boston University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Moral Career of a Dead Body: Whole-body Donations for Medical Education in Taiwan
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: C. Julia Huang (she/her/hers) – National Tsing Hua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) How to Silence a Body
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rebecca Nedostup – Brown University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Zero-covid in China and Its Necropolitics
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Juan Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Co-author: Jiahui Li – University of Bristol
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing the 1949 Divide: Was the Mao Era an Anomaly?
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yidi Wu (she/her/hers) – Elon University
    Chair: Yidi Wu (she/her/hers) – Elon University
    Discussant: Timothy Weston (he/him/his) – University of Colorado, Boulder
    Discussant: Lara Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Heidelberg
    Discussant: Chang Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Statelessness, Everyday Violence and Camps in Southern Asia: The Rohingya Question
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Nasreen Chowdhory, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Chair: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Nasreen Chowdhory, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Meherun Ahmed (she/her/hers) – Asian University for Women
    Paper Presenter: Shahana Chowdhury (she/her/hers) – University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Figure of the 'Refugee' in Camps in Southern Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Nasreen Chowdhory, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Rohingya and Everyday Violence
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Selective Relocation to Bashan Char and the Vulnerability of young Rohingya Women
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Meherun Ahmed (she/her/hers) – Asian University for Women
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Social Integration and Security Challenges of Rohingya Women in Bangladesh
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shahana Chowdhury (she/her/hers) – University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    The Dynamics of Performance: Understanding Asia Through Its Rituals
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Chair: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Paper Presenter: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Paper Presenter: Prachi Chauhan (she/her/hers) – Tezpur University
    Paper Presenter: Anju Orkkatteri Krishnan (she/her/hers) – NAM College Kallikkandy, Kannur University
    Paper Presenter: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Performing Itu Pujo: Becoming the Agency Through Ritual Performances
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Calling the Cosmic: Jeen Mata of Rajasthan and Her Possession as Cultural Reality
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Prachi Chauhan (she/her/hers) – Tezpur University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Sacred Feminine: A Study of the Representation of the Feminine in Theyyam
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anju Orkkatteri Krishnan (she/her/hers) – NAM College Kallikkandy, Kannur University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Dance of Mind: Transformation, Identification and Consciousness in the Tibetan Ling Dro Dechen Rolmo Dance
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    The Making of Space: Bodies, Borders, Boundaries
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Shahnaz T. Rouse (she/her/hers) – Sarah Lawrence College
    Chair: Shahnaz T. Rouse (she/her/hers) – Sarah Lawrence College
    Discussant: Shahnaz T. Rouse (she/her/hers) – Sarah Lawrence College
    Paper Presenter: Esha Niyogi De (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Zebunnisa Hamid (she/her/hers) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Gwendolyn Sarah Kirk (she/her/hers) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Fighters and Monsters in Pakistani Women's Cinema: Feminocentric Heroism in Urdu and Pashto Genres, 1980/90s
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Esha Niyogi De (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Alternative and Counter Screen Cultures: Independent Filmmaking in Pakistan
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zebunnisa Hamid (she/her/hers) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Other Punjab: Pakistani Hauntings in Indian Punjabi Cinema
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Gwendolyn Sarah Kirk (she/her/hers) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship Part 1: Perspectives on Cultural Identities
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    Organizer: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Chair: Ulil Amri – Creighton 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Urbanising Marginality and the Failure of Modernity Project
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Ethnic and Cultural Reconstruction in Local Society: The Case of Belitung Island in Indonesia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kazuyo Futaesaku (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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 (Manaslu)
    Speaker: John Iremil Teodoro – De La Salle University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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 (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lermie Shayne S. Garcia (she/her/hers) – Ateneo De Manila University
    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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Accumulation, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Margins: Case Studies from India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Organizer: Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (she/her/hers) – Ranchi University
    Chair: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Paper Presenter: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Paper Presenter: Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (she/her/hers) – Ranchi University
    Paper Presenter: Repakaba Tzudir (he/him/his) – Nagaland University
    Paper Presenter: Thangsiandong Guite (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali
    Paper Presenter: Sujatha Devarapalli (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    Co-Author: Gayatri Balu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Accumulation by (dis)possession and the Making of New Resource Frontiers in India's Periphery
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Beyond Words: Language, Cultural Dispossession, and Indigenous Citizenship in India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (she/her/hers) – Ranchi University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Negotiating Extraction: Indigenous Perspectives on Coal Mining in Nagaland
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Repakaba Tzudir (he/him/his) – Nagaland University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Extractive Institutions and the Mizo Tribes of Northeast India: A Labour Market Perspective
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Thangsiandong Guite (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Land, Law, and Loss: Gendered Dimensions of Tribal Dispossession in India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sujatha Devarapalli (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    Co-Author: Gayatri Balu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Artificial Intelligence: Representations, Practices, and Implications in Asian Popular Culture
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Organizer: Ananya Saha (she/her/hers) – Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
    Chair: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Ananya Saha (she/her/hers) – Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
    Paper Presenter: Patrick W. Galbraith – Senshu University
    Paper Presenter: Megan Catherine Rose (she/her/hers) – University of New South Wales
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Humanlike Robot and Inhumane AI: Comparison of Robot and AI in Tezuka Osamu
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Manga- machine-mayhem: AI and the Evolving Culture Industry
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ananya Saha (she/her/hers) – Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) AI as "Ai?" Loving the Machine in Japan
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Patrick W. Galbraith – Senshu University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Taming the Tamagotchi: Neuroqueer Potentials in AI Pet Design
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Megan Catherine Rose (she/her/hers) – University of New South Wales
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 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: Shyam Kumar Anand – Academy of Korean Studies
    Discussant: Vinay Kumar – Delhi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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)
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Boyi Pang – The University of Macau
    Chair: Tianshu Zhu – The University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Boyi Pang – The University of Macau
    Discussant: Naomi Elaine Thurston – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Li – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    Paper Presenter: Wenjin Fang – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Chinese Catholic Odyssey: Paul Yu Pin and His Global Journey, 1920-1970
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Boyi Pang – The University of Macau
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Image of God and Ghosts in Mid-qing Dynasty: An Analysis Through the Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Observations
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yifan Li – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Temple Destruction in Early 20th Century China: A Case Study of the Ba country,1900-1936
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Wenjin Fang – Duke University
    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
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Chair: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Nir Avieli (he/him/his) – Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    Paper Presenter: Phuong-Anh Dang (she/her/hers) – University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Discussant: Pia Arbodela (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Vietnamese Food Culture in the Age of Media Cooking: Culinary Influencers and Adaptation
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Coffee and Cafes in Vietnam: Heritage, Adaptation and Preservation
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nir Avieli (he/him/his) – Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Diversity in Local Culinary: Culturally Vibrant Community Based Tourism in the Mekong Delta
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Phuong-Anh Dang (she/her/hers) – University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Co-author: Minh Thanh Le – Van Lang University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Identity, Resistance, and Maintenance: Navigating Infrastructures in South and Southeast Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Chair: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Paper Presenter: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Paper Presenter: Harsha Man Mahajan (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Paper Presenter: Ratnamala Vananamalai (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    Co-Author: Lalchhandami Lalchhandami (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Indonesian Energized Powerline Maintainers
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Digital ID Myth Makers: Expert Imaginaries and the National Identification System in Nepal
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Harsha Man Mahajan (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Resistance to Aadhaar Enrollment in Mizo Hills
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ratnamala Vananamalai (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    Co-author: Lalchhandami Lalchhandami (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    South Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Meaningful Places: Famous Sites in Japanese Cultural Memory
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Motoi Katsumata (he/him/his) – Meisei University
    Organizer: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Chair: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Paper Presenter: Bo Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Motoi Katsumata (he/him/his) – Meisei University
    Paper Presenter: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Paper Presenter: Junfu LI (he/him/his) – Osaka University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Representation of Remote Places in Warriors' Waka Poetry of Medieval Japan: Intersections of Geography, Politics, and Literature
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Bo Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Mt. Fuji as a Battlefield
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Motoi Katsumata (he/him/his) – Meisei University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Garden of Poetry Immortals: Ishikawa jōzan's Shisendō in Cultural Memory
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Famous Sites and Strange Stories: On "Meika Zuihitsushu", an Unpublished Manuscript by Natsume Seibi
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Junfu LI (he/him/his) – Osaka University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities in Sinophone Cinema, Performance, and Literature
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Tze-lan Sang (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Chair: Tze-lan Sang (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Discussant: Alvin K. Wong (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University
    Discussant: Miaomiao Qi (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ling Zhang (she/her/hers) – State University of New York, Purchase College
    Discussant: Jia Tan (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Hangping Xu (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas I: The (Non) Centrality of the State
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dibyesh Anand (he/him/his) – University of Westminster
    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
    Discussant: Swargajyoti Gohain (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Organizing Nature: Tracking the Capitalocene in South Asia
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    Organizer: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    Chair: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Elliott Prasse-Freeman – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Suvendu Ghatak – University of Florida
    Paper Presenter: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    Discussant: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    Paper Presenter: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Rohingya, Rakhine, and the Capitalocene in Myanmar
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Elliott Prasse-Freeman – National University of Singapore
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) "Pox Britannica": Colonial Capital and Tropical Pathogeny in South Asia
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Suvendu Ghatak – University of Florida
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Futuristic and the Obsolete: "Cheap Times" and the Making of the Contemporary Indian Sacred
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Contradictions of Nature: Capitalocene and the Colonial Himalaya
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Outside In: When Foreign Became Tradition in East Asian Art
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Ching-Ling Wang (he/him/his) – Rijksmusem
    Paper Presenter: Ching-Fei Shih (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Discussant: Matthew McKelway (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Andrew On-Tsun Fung (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Ramifications of the Imperial Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan in 18th-century Chinese Export Paintings
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Chinese Ivory Puzzle Ball: Its European Origin and Indigenization
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ching-Ling Wang (he/him/his) – Rijksmusem
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Turning from West to East: The Role of the European Enamel Color Palette in 18th-century Chinese Porcelain and Copper
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ching-Fei Shih (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Re-examining Kenzan's Cylindrical Tea Bowls via the Obaku Jikishian Temple: A Sencha Perspective
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Andrew On-Tsun Fung (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    What Gender Means and What Gender Does in Timor-leste
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Organizer: Senhorina Madalena dos Santos – UNTL - Human Rights Centre
    Chair: Joanico Gusmao Alves (he/him/his) – UN Women
    Paper Presenter: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Paper Presenter: Josh Trindade (he/him/his) – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Iram Saeed (she/her/hers) – Arcoiris Timor-Leste
    Paper Presenter: Bernardo Leto – UNTL
    Discussant: Mica Barreto Soares – UNTL
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Border-crossing, Gender, and Women: Timorese Women's Complex Life Experiences in Indonesia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) “lo Le’a Lo Mata": Marriage and Death Ritual Among the Naueti of Timor-leste
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Josh Trindade (he/him/his) – University of Melbourne
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Wellness Survey of The lgbtiq Community in Timor-leste in 2024
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Iram Saeed (she/her/hers) – Arcoiris Timor-Leste
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Illegal Movement Between Timor Leste and Indonesia and Its Implication for Woman and Children
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bernardo Leto – UNTL
    Southeast Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Enlarging the Margins: Struggles and Solidarities Among the Subjugated in Modern Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Mortaza Hassani (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Sara Hussein – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Waxman – University of California, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Rebecca Waxman – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad Ashraf T. P. – Humboldt University, Berlin
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Reformer from the Margins: Sree Narayana Guru's Navigation of Colonial Modernity and Caste Mobility
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Islam, Ethnicity, and Political Movement in Afghanistan: A Study of Sayed Ismael Balkhi's Political Ideas
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Mortaza Hassani (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Afro-asian Sisterhood: AAPSO Women's Bureau Against Empire
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sara Hussein – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Rape, Rule, Resistance: Key Issues of Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in Postcolonial North India
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Rebecca Waxman – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Spaces of Daʿwa (religious Work); Mobility, Community and the Everyday Among the Keralite Muslim Groups in Qatar
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Muhammad Ashraf T. P. – Humboldt University, Berlin
    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
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Farhan Ahmed Shaikh (he/him/his) – NED University of Engineering & Technology
    Chair: Aamir Aijaz Syed (he/him/his) – Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University
    Paper Presenter: Farhan Ahmed Shaikh (he/him/his) – NED University of Engineering & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Fahmida Laghari (she/her/hers) – Xijing University
    Paper Presenter: Aamir Aijaz Syed (he/him/his) – Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University
    Paper Presenter: Syofriza Syofyan – Trisakti Universitas
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Fiscal Decentralization and Digitalization Nexus: Evidence from Pakistan
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Farhan Ahmed Shaikh (he/him/his) – NED University of Engineering & Technology
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Assessing the Role of Fiscal Decentralization in China's Environmental Sustainability
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Fahmida Laghari (she/her/hers) – Xijing University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Fiscal Autonomy and Its Influence on Human Development: Evidence from India
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Aamir Aijaz Syed (he/him/his) – Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Role of Fiscal Decentralization in Fostering Institutional Quality in Indonesia
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Syofriza Syofyan – Trisakti Universitas
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Images Worlding: Trans-asia Visual Media and Filmed History of the 20th Century
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Chair: Xiang Fan (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Lu Pan – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Ran Ma – Nagoya University
    Discussant: Xiang Fan (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Gaze and Counter-gaze On/from the Island: The Dialectics of Hainan's Documentary Imagery in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lu Pan – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Hong Kong Amateur Cine Club's 1953 Coronation Film
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Communist Hair and Xiaohongshu Clay: Remediating History in Digital Things
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Un/bounding the Great Wall—sino-japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980's
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ran Ma – Nagoya University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Knowledge on the Move: Nature, Science, and Memory in Modern East Asia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Aolan Mi (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Chair: Kan Li (she/her/hers) – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    Paper Presenter: Kan Li (she/her/hers) – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    Paper Presenter: Wenyi Guo (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    Discussant: Wenyi Guo (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    Paper Presenter: Liangyu Hu (he/him/his) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Discussant: Liangyu Hu (he/him/his) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Paper Presenter: Aolan Mi (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reclassifying Nature: Introduction and Evolution of the Concepts of Pests and Beneficial Animals in Republican China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kan Li (she/her/hers) – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Inscriptions on Historic Sites: The Metropolitan Writings and Cultural Memory of Literati in an Era of Change
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Wenyi Guo (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Beijing Zoo as an Anthropological Apparatus: Cold War Animal Mobility and Knowledge Production (1950s-1970s)
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Liangyu Hu (he/him/his) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Traditional Pastimes for the Railway Age: Railway Sugoroku and Train Games in 1930s China and Japan
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Aolan Mi (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities of Buddhist Place and Practice in Premodern Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Histories of Sacred Space on the Margins: The Three Pagodas of Dali, Yunnan
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Between Pillars and Pagodas: Imagining the Afterlife in Tombs in China, 300-600 CE
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mingzhou Chi – Beijing Science and Technology University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Monks, Merchant Networks, and Religious Mobility Among the Jains
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Eric Villalobos – Emory University
    Chair: Jyoti Agarwal (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Eric Villalobos – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Jyoti Agarwal (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Anchit Jain – University of Delhi
    Discussant: David Silverberg – Columbia University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Jain Monastic Lineage Dispute During the Migration of the Kutchi Jain Oswals
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Eric Villalobos – Emory University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Pilgrimage, Patron, and Region: Parasnath Hill in a Historical Perspective
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jyoti Agarwal (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Medieval Monks as 'Contested' Caste Creators: Evaluating the Role of Jain Monks in the Proliferation of the Oswal Caste
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anchit Jain – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Moving with the Times: Footpaths, Roadways, and Everyday Journeys in the Transnational Himalaya
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Amy Johnson (she/her/hers) – Georgia College & State University
    Chair: Amy Johnson (she/her/hers) – Georgia College & State University
    Discussant: Bhoomika Joshi (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Nishtha Tewari (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Anisa Bhutia (she/her/hers) – Aarhus University
    Discussant: Logan M. Emlet (he/him/his) – Yale University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Racialized and Gendered Bodies in East Asia: Colonization, Biopolitics, and Agency
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Emi Omuro (they/them/theirs) – Ochanomizu University
    Organizer: Misha Cade (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Emi Omuro (they/them/theirs) – Ochanomizu University
    Paper Presenter: Libera Amadiwakama Mochihashi (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Paper Presenter: Junxiao Leng (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    Paper Presenter: Misha Cade (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Chair: Junxiao Leng (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The "Body" as a Site of Control: Imperial Male Doctors' Gaze in Colonial Korea
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Emi Omuro (they/them/theirs) – Ochanomizu University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Beneath the Gaze: Multiethnic Body Image and the Impact of Japan's Imperial Gaze
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Libera Amadiwakama Mochihashi (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reclaiming Autonomy: Menstrual Poverty, Gender Power Imbalances, and Activism in Digital Japan
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Junxiao Leng (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Bodies in the Gray-zone: Sexual Consent Practices Among Japanese Youth
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Misha Cade (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Reconstructing Identities and Cultural Resistance: Youth Culture in East Asia's Digital Age
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Zhuyuan Han (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-Author: Zhuyuan Han (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Kexuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Xiaodan Wang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Helena Hiu Yung Chung (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Lijin Yang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Being out of Social Clock: Understanding Chinese Youth's Decision to Take a Gap Year in Post-socialist China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kexuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Escape from Being Abducted by Beauty
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaodan Wang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Entanglement Between Digital Nationalism, Naturalized Athletes, and Chinese Fandom Culture in the Paris Olympics
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Helena Hiu Yung Chung (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Negotiated Identity in a Burnout Society: Recontextualizing the Discourse of 'Waste (废)/Trash (垃圾)' in Chinese Youth Culture
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-author: Zhuyuan Han (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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 – 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
  • 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
  • 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 – University of Western Australia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Riparian Governmentalities in Urbanising South Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Organizer: Barsha Santra (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Chair: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Paper Presenter: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Co-Author: Barsha Santra (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Paper Presenter: Sivee Chawla – James Cook University
    Co-Author: Sheetal Patil – Indian Institute for Human Settlements
    Paper Presenter: Ritika Rajput – United Nations University
    Paper Presenter: Divya Chand – Lokal Habitat Labs
    Paper Presenter: Vaishali Kashyap – Birla Institute of Technology Pilani (Goa)
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Ecological Anxieties, Environmental Jurisprudence, and the Yamuna in Delhi
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Co-author: Barsha Santra (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Water Use Management, Institutional Support, and Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Bengaluru
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sivee Chawla – James Cook University
    Co-author: Sheetal Patil – Indian Institute for Human Settlements
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Hydro-anxieties and Agrarian Entanglements in Peri-urban Delhi
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ritika Rajput – United Nations University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) From Commons to Commodities :the Changing Landscape of Raipur's Lakes
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Divya Chand – Lokal Habitat Labs
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Governance Paradigms of Guwahati's Beels
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Vaishali Kashyap – Birla Institute of Technology Pilani (Goa)
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Transregional Ecological Concerns, Connections, and Cooperation
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Wenbin Peng – Sichuan Normal University
    Chair: Tsering Bum – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Paper Presenter: Tsering Bum – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Discussant: Wenbin Peng – Sichuan Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Xi Zhang – Minzu University of China
    Paper Presenter: Ping Huang – Sichuan Film and Television University, Chengdu University of Information Technology
    Paper Presenter: Haimei Shen – Yunnan Minzu University
    Paper Presenter: Yachuan Zhao – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Co-Author: Drashi Dondrub – Leshan Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Social Life of Rivers: Water Governance, Community Wellbeing, and Climate Change in a Tibetan County in Western China
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tsering Bum – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Ecology, Environment, and Resources：from the Perspective of the Concept of "Culture"
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xi Zhang – Minzu University of China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Research on the Risk Assessment and Collaborative Response and Governance Mechanism of Meteorological Disaster Tourism in the Himalayan Region of China and Nepal
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ping Huang – Sichuan Film and Television University, Chengdu University of Information Technology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Adaptation to the Drought Climate in the Eastern Himalayas: Gendered Traditional Knowledge of Water and Viticulture in the Meili Tibetan Yunnan of China
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Haimei Shen – Yunnan Minzu University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Ecological Migration and Livelihood Transformation: The Development Trajectory of a Yugu Resettlement Village
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yachuan Zhao – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    War and Its Afterlife: Narratives of Identity and Cultural Memory in Global Asia
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    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
    Paper Presenter: Xianmin Shen (she/her/hers) – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Chin Siblings During China's War of Resistance (1936-1944)
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jin Feng (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) To Distant Shores: The Un-becoming in Eileen Chang's “flowers Adrift, Blossoms Afloat”
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jie Zhang (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Borrowed Time, Renewed Self: Gender, Race and Writing in a Many-splendored Thing
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xianmin Shen (she/her/hers) – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Ethnobotany at the Margin: Traditional Healing, Ecological Resilience, and Indigenous Ecologies
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Chair: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Areeya Tivasuradej (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Thianchai Surimas (he/him/his) – Thammasat University
    Paper Presenter: Pranab Kumar Mandal (he/him/his) – Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
    Discussant: Nanthanoot Udomlamun (she/her/hers) – Kasetsart University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Political Ecology of Conventional Medicine over Folk Healing Narratives: A Case Study of Chiang Mai Local Healers
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Fluid Gardening with Chiang Mai Urban Farm
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Areeya Tivasuradej (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Understanding Wetland Forest-rivers-human Relationship Through Local Practices of the Ing River Basin
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Thianchai Surimas (he/him/his) – Thammasat University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Biopiracy of Indigenous Ethnobotanical Knowledge in India: Extractions, Deforestations, and Injustices
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pranab Kumar Mandal (he/him/his) – Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Exile Landscapes: Tibetan Refugee Experiences, Survival and Community Resilience in South Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Chair: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Paper Presenter: Joanna Pereira Coelho (she/her/hers) – Goa University
    Paper Presenter: Nimu Sherpa (she/her/hers) – Mirik College, University of North Bengal
    Paper Presenter: Tashi Phuntsok (he/him/his) – Vidyasagar College, Calcutta University
    Paper Presenter: Arnab Mandal (he/him/his) – Krishnagar Government College
    Paper Presenter: Janhavi Pande (she/her/hers) – University of Adelaide
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Negotiating Ethnicity, Reimagining Community: The Dialectics of Religious Nationalism Among Tibetans in India
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Joanna Pereira Coelho (she/her/hers) – Goa University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Exile and Existence;tibetan Refugees in Darjeeling Hills
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nimu Sherpa (she/her/hers) – Mirik College, University of North Bengal
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Capability and Well-being of the Tibetan Community in South Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Tashi Phuntsok (he/him/his) – Vidyasagar College, Calcutta University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) An Exploration of the Marginal Narrative of Chushi Gangdruk in the Tibetan Nation in Exile through Jamyang Norbu's Echoes from Forgotten Mountains and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's "From the Margins of Exile"
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Arnab Mandal (he/him/his) – Krishnagar Government College
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Self-determination in Exile: A Social Movement Analysis of Political Mobilisation Among Tibetan Diaspora Groups
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Janhavi Pande (she/her/hers) – University of Adelaide
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    EXPLORING TOURIST Urbanization.colonial Legacies, Social Tensions, and Transformations in South Asian Mountain Landscapes
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Rémi Mr de Bercegol (he/him/his) – CNRS
    Chair: Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud (he/him/his) – Université de Bordeaux
    Discussant: Nicolas Bautes (he/him/his) – Université de Montpellier
    Paper Presenter: Ratoola Kundu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Diya Mehra (she/her/hers) – South Asia University Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Tudor Silva (he/him/his) – University of Peradeniya
    Paper Presenter: Odile Henry (she/her/hers) – Université de Paris 8/ CSH Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Akumtong Imchen (he/him/his) – Highland Institute
    Co-Author: Victoire Bertholet (she/her/hers) – French Institute of Puducherry
    Discussant: Balasubramanian Dhandapani, French Institute of Puducherry (India)
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Title: Exploring Everyday Environmentalism in Darjeeling, India
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ratoola Kundu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Modes of Regulation: The Case of Building, Tourism and Infrastructure in the Kullu Valley:
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Diya Mehra (she/her/hers) – South Asia University Delhi
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Hill Stations, Mountain Resorts and Urbanization in Central Sri Lanka
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tudor Silva (he/him/his) – University of Peradeniya
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Colonial Educational Heritage and Tourism Urbanisation: The Case of the Mussoorie Region (Uttarakhand, India),
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Odile Henry (she/her/hers) – Université de Paris 8/ CSH Delhi
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Homestays and Urbanization: Integrating Rural Economies into Kohima's Tourism Landscape
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Akumtong Imchen (he/him/his) – Highland Institute
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas II: Contestations and Connections
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dibyesh Anand (he/him/his) – University of Westminster
    Chair: Nitasha Kaul (she/her/hers) – University of Westminster
    Discussant: Swati Chawla (she/her/hers) – O. P. Jindal Global University
    Discussant: Sayantani Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Discussant: Sanjukta Datta (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    New Ways of Knowing and New Boundaries of Knowledge Production Between Nepal and China
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reconsidering Trans-Himalayan Complexity: Modernity, Diplomacy and Knowledge Production between Nepal and China (1930-1940)
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Amish Mulmi (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Nepal-chin Matree Sangh-a Pioneer People-level Initiative: Contribution for Nepal-china Diplomatic Relation
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Niraj Lawoju (he/him/his) – Sichuan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) In the Pursuit of Profit and Eecognition: Of Nepali Entrepreneurs in China
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Raunab Singh Khatri (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Co-author: Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) The Empirical State? Geographical, Ethnographic and Statistical Knowledge of China in 19th-century Nepal
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shubhanga Pandey (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    On the Movement of Identity in a Global Asia: A Cross-media, Decolonial Panel
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Identity Construction Through Imagined Migration: Translating Sinophone Literature from Thailand
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (she/her/hers) – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) "Like Charlie Chan but Real!": Mobility, Mimicry, and Alienation in the Good Asian
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Fareed Ben-Youssef (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) "We Are All Indigenous": Emancipatory Discourse Moving from North to North
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Roslynn Ang (she/her/hers) – NA
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Revolutionary Narratives: Gender, Trauma and the Rewriting of Identity in Modern Chinese Female Literature
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Chair: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Zhe Song (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Hiu Lam Mak – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Diary Writing as Embodied Practice: Fang Si-chi’s First Love Paradise (2021), and the Negotiation of (Post)trauma
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Social Revolution and the Genesis of Ding Ling's Early Works
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhe Song (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Visual-sensual Intertextuality and the Post-gendered Body in Ling Long Magazine: The Works of Ding Ling and Eileen Chang
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hiu Lam Mak – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Seeing the Silence in Modernity: Reconsidering 'Death' in Contemporary China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Hanqiu Guo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Hanqiu Guo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Miao He (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Miao He (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Hechen Liu – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Jiaxin Li (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Chair: Hechen Liu – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Too Fast to Say Goodbye: On the Cultural and Political Force of Individual Grief Within Chinese Funeral Reform
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hanqiu Guo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) A Floating Corpse: Death Pollution and Ghost Politics in Modern China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Miao He (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) "It's a City of Death": Dreams, Trauma, and Memories of Out-migrating Youths from Late Industrial Fushun, a Company Town in Northeast China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hechen Liu – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Living with Pet Ghosts at Home: Pet Mourning and the Interspecies Relationship in Contemporary China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jiaxin Li (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    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
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Chao Wang (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    Chair: Yun Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Discussant: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuye Kong (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yun Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Linghui Ji (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Chao Wang (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Advancing Handweaving to the Frontline of the Revolution: Technology Dissemination and Women's Labor in Shanxi-hebei-shandong-henan Border Region, 1943-1949
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yuye Kong (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Mobilizing Native Medicines: Local Knowledge, Mass Health Work, and the Environment in the Wartime Shaan-gan-ning, 1937-1947
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yun Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Biological Products, Pharmaceuticals, and Epidemic Prevention in Wartime China, 1937-1949
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Linghui Ji (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Broken Bodies of War: Rehabilitation Technology of Disabled Veterans in Wartime China, 1943-1945
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chao Wang (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Sentiment, Trauma, and Fluidity: Marginalized Bodies in Global Asian Cinema
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Chair: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Paper Presenter: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Paper Presenter: Karen Ren – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Jie (Jocelyn) Xu – University of York
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) When Queerness Suffuses the Urban Space -- an Analysis of Kissing the Ground You Walked On
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Queer Time and Affective Cinema: Exploring the Intimacy and Solidarity in Inter-asian Queer Cinema
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Karen Ren – University of Toronto
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Sun Rises, Sorrows Unfold: Examining the Representation of Comfort Women in Chinese Documentary Films
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jie (Jocelyn) Xu – University of York
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Climate Change and Development in Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Jacob Rinck – George Washington University
    Organizer: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Chair: Jacob Rinck – George Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Rose-Jensen – American University of Phnom Penh
    Paper Presenter: Shangrila Joshi – The Evergreen State College
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Webber – University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Zezhou Yang, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cambodian Buddhism and Environmental Work
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sarah Rose-Jensen – American University of Phnom Penh
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) From 'Gap Talk' to 'Justice' in Climate and Development Finance
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sophie Webber – University of Sydney
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Development and Alternative Modernities in North-east India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Thomas Malsom (he/him/his) – North Eastern Hill University
    Chair: Pompi Basumatary (she/her/hers) – The Assam Royal Global University
    Paper Presenter: Nakhrai Debbarma (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    Paper Presenter: Sonjit Chakma (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
    Paper Presenter: Pompi Basumatary (she/her/hers) – The Assam Royal Global University
    Paper Presenter: Orenvungi L Ngullie (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Malsom (he/him/his) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Developmental Dilemmas and Its Impact on Minorized Indigenous in Tripura, Northeast India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nakhrai Debbarma (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Climate Change and Disaster Resilient Development: The Role of Education in Community Preparedness in Arunachal Pradesh, India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sonjit Chakma (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Language Policy as an Agent for Development: The Case of Bodos of Assam
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pompi Basumatary (she/her/hers) – The Assam Royal Global University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Looking into the Plate of Nagaland vs the Unreliable Narratives of Sensational Food Bloggers
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Orenvungi L Ngullie (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Global Extractive Economies and Its Impact on Indigenous People in Northeast India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Thomas Malsom (he/him/his) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Villages and Peasants in a Mobile Era: Coping Strategies and Survival Tactics of Individuals
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yu Le – Ochanomizu University
    Chair: Zhang Manqing – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Zhou Yuqin – Tohoku University
    Discussant: Zhou Yuqin – Tohoku University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Le – Ochanomizu University
    Paper Presenter: Liu Chenyu – Hitotsubashi University
    Paper Presenter: Shen Siyuan – Kobe University
    Paper Presenter: Zhang Manqing – Kyoto University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Sociological Study on the Relationship Between Out-migrants, Village, and Their Families: A Case Study on an Inland Rural Area of China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhou Yuqin – Tohoku University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) County Migration of the Second-generation Rural Migrants and the Restructuring of Urban-rural Relations: A Case Study of X County in Hubei Province
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yu Le – Ochanomizu University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters' Roles and Positions in Patriarchal Families: Experiences of Three Generations of Daughters in Central Rural China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Liu Chenyu – Hitotsubashi University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Household Maintenance by Domestic Workers During Social Transition: A Case Study from Anhui Province, China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shen Siyuan – Kobe University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Maintaining Minor Subsistence Amidst Social Transformation: A Case Study in an Inland Rural Area of China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhang Manqing – Kyoto University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Win-Win-Win Collaborations to Grow – How the Joint Fellowship Programs Create New Opportunities to Researchers, Host Institutions and the Funder
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Sponsored By 
  • 6:45 PM – 7:15 PM NPT
    FILM: Blues of Pink
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    South Asia
  • Wednesday, June 4, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    20 Years of Impossible Desires
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Anandi Rao (she/her/hers) – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    Chair: Mehak Khan – University of Notre Dame
    Discussant: Anandi Rao (she/her/hers) – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    Discussant: Gayatri Gopinath – New York University
    Discussant: Mehak Khan – University of Notre Dame
    Discussant: Omar Kasmani – Freie Universitat
    Discussant: Akhil Katyal – BITS Law School
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    A Passage to Southwest China: Reconsidering Transregionality from an Asian Borderland
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Jannis Jizhou Chen (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Mingwei Song – Wellesley College
    Paper Presenter: Jannis Jizhou Chen (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Robin Visser – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Linshan Jiang (she/her/hers) – Colby College
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Ziyu Liu – Guizhou University
    Paper Presenter: Dihao Zhou – Sichuan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Apocalypse from the Borderland: Fengwu, Routes, and the Topopoetics of Tong Mo's Southwest Narrative
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jannis Jizhou Chen (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Translational Identities and Cultural Memories of Guilin in Taiwan Through Pai Hsien-yung, Li Zishu, and Chan Tah Wei
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Linshan Jiang (she/her/hers) – Colby College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Making Their Own "west:" Local Modernity and Global Imagination in Southwest China
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kevin Ziyu Liu – Guizhou University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Southwest Sci-fi's Critical Provincialism
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Dihao Zhou – Sichuan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Art, Archives and Archaeology: New Evidence and Methodology in East Asian Studies
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Kent Cao (he/him/his) – Duke Kunshan University
    Chair: Kent Cao (he/him/his) – Duke Kunshan University
    Paper Presenter: Kent Cao (he/him/his) – Duke Kunshan University
    Paper Presenter: Zhuming Yao – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Sinae Kim – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Mai Yamaguchi (She/They) – San Antonio Museum of Art
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Stray Finds: Bronze Archaeology in the Yangtze River Valley, South China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Kent Cao (he/him/his) – Duke Kunshan University
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) The Burden of New Materials: A Literary Critique of Textual Discoveries
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhuming Yao – Boston University
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Vernacular Scripturalization: "Sutra Lecture Texts" from Dunhuang in Medieval China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sinae Kim – University of Toronto
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Sleeping Beauty: A Case Study of a Forgotten Rhinoceros
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mai Yamaguchi (She/They) – San Antonio Museum of Art
    Northeast Asia
  • 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) – Palace Museum, Beijing
    Paper Presenter: Christian Luczanits (he/him/his) – School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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) – Palace Museum, Beijing
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Challenges and Persistence of LGBTQ+ People in Korea and Japan: Everyday Life, Pride and Backlashes
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Tomomi Yamaguchi (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University
    Organizer: Sumi Cho (she/her/hers) – Myongji University
    Chair: James Welker (he/him/his) – Kanagawa University
    Paper Presenter: Jieha Lee (she/her/hers) – Soongsil University
    Paper Presenter: Akiko Shimizu (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Tomomi Yamaguchi (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University
    Paper Presenter: Sumi Cho (she/her/hers) – Myongji University
    Discussant: James Welker (he/him/his) – Kanagawa University
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Navigating Challenges: The Stories of Sexual Minority Women in South Korea
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jieha Lee (she/her/hers) – Soongsil University
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Demanding Safety: Feminist Politics of Feelings and the Anti-trans Movement in 21st Century Japan
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Akiko Shimizu (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Religion, Politics, and Anti-gender Activism in Japan: The Role of the Unification Church
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Tomomi Yamaguchi (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Anti-hate Alliance in Pride: Exchanges Between Seoul Queer Culture Festival and Tokyo Rainbow Pride
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sumi Cho (she/her/hers) – Myongji University
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (0) Exposed Bodies: Corporeal Imagination in East Asian Media Against Globalism
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Jeongon Choi (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    Chair: Xiangqing Song (she/her/hers) – Sungshin Women’s University
    Paper Presenter: Xiangqing Song (she/her/hers) – Sungshin Women’s University
    Paper Presenter: Shenglai Jin (he/him/his) – Sungkyunkwan University
    Paper Presenter: Harim Park (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Jeongon Choi (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    Discussant: Jeongon Choi (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Facial Expressions on Modern Chinese Screen: Revisiting Lu Xun's Criticism of Cinematic Faces
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xiangqing Song (she/her/hers) – Sungshin Women’s University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Exposing North Korea: Transnational Cinema in 1980s and 2000s North Korea
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shenglai Jin (he/him/his) – Sungkyunkwan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Women, Cyborgs and Vulnerability in I'm a Cyborg, but That's Okay (Park Chan-wook, 2006)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Harim Park (she/her/hers) – New York University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Poisoning Girls: Botanical Bodies in Netflix Series Little Women (2022)
    Location: 6
    Speaker: Jeongon Choi (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    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
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Ria Gyawali – Harvard University
    Organizer: Ashwin Subramanian – Harvard University
    Chair: Ashwin Subramanian – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Ria Gyawali – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Vinayak Krishnan – University of Sussex
    Paper Presenter: Marini Thorne – Columbia University
    Discussant: Nilotpal Kumar – Azim Premji University
    Paper Presenter: Ahmad Fahim – Indian Institute of Technology
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Governing Return Migration
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ria Gyawali – Harvard University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) The Social Production of Statistics: Analyzing the Role of Enumerators
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Vinayak Krishnan – University of Sussex
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Formalizing the Economy? Contested Regimes of Labor's Governance and the Growth of Gig Work in India
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Marini Thorne – Columbia University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Lucknawi Chikankari Embroidery Production System: Gender and Value of Labor of Artisan Women
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ahmad Fahim – Indian Institute of Technology
    South Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Media, Discourse, and Ideological Construction in Contemporary China
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Haoguang Li (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Chair: Haoguang Li (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Discussant: Guoguang Wu (he/him/his) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Haoguang Li (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: Jiayue Xu (she/her/hers) – Sciences-Po Paris
    Paper Presenter: Weiru Cheng (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Ming Mo (she/her/hers) – Shandong Institute of Modern Financial Development
    Discussant: Ruolin Hou
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Modernity of Media and Nationalism in Contemporary China: A Critical Approach
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Haoguang Li (he/him/his) – Keio University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) North Korea's Nuclear Tests in Chinese Media: A Psychological Exploration of Nuclear Deterrence
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jiayue Xu (she/her/hers) – Sciences-Po Paris
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Techno-nationalism in Technology Reporting: A Comparative Study of Cgtn's Domestic and International Coverage of Chips and Soybeans
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Weiru Cheng (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Indian Citizens’ Public Opinion towards China: Insights from Reddit using BERT & STM
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ming Mo (she/her/hers) – Shandong Institute of Modern Financial Development
    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
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Shabbir Ghulam, Sr. (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Chair: Shabbir Ghulam, Sr. (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Paper Presenter: Shabbir Ghulam, Sr. (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Co-Author: Shabbir Ghulam, Sr. (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Paper Presenter: Niazi Komal (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Co-Author: Niazi Komal (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Mehmood Arfan (he/him/his) – Punjab University
    Discussant: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Is the One Belt One Road a Good Opportunity?
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shabbir Ghulam, Sr. (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Co-author: Niazi Komal (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Navigating Regional Connectivity Through Belt and Road Initiative: Prospects and Challenges of South and Central Asian Integration Amid Changing Geopolitical Dynamics
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Niazi Komal (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Co-author: Shabbir Ghulam, Sr. (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Navigating Regional Connectivity Through Belt and Road Initiative: Prospects and Challenges of South and Central Asian Integration Amid Changing Geopolitical Dynamics
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mehmood Arfan (he/him/his) – Punjab University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reversing the Gaze: The Marginalized Representations of Otherized Women in Early Modern China
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yan Ki (Otilie) Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Hui Wang – Nanjing Xiaozhuang University
    Paper Presenter: Yan Ki (Otilie) Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Yuming Yu (she/her/hers) – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Paper Presenter: Weiling (Dolores) Kong – University of Notre Dame
    Paper Presenter: Zhexin Gao – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ziyue Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Magnified Female Genitalia and Sexual Inequality: An Analysis of Portrayals in Pre-modern Chinese Erotic Fiction
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yan Ki (Otilie) Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Public Virtue vs. Individual Virtue: A Comparative Analysis of Catholic and Neo-confucian Sexual Ethics in the Late Ming and Early Qing Period
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Weiling (Dolores) Kong – University of Notre Dame
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Womenizing and Phallicism vs. the Alienated Female Homoeroticism: A Comparative Exploration of Female Same-sex Love and Desire in 18th & 19th Centuries Chinese Fiction
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Zhexin Gao – University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) The Marginalized Othering in Female Writing and Friendship: The "Villainess" in Women's Tanci Fiction of Early Modern China
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ziyue Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Transnational Therapeutics: Technologies and Landscape of Healing in the Broad Indo-malay Networks
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: EnChieh Chao (they/them/theirs) – National Sun Yat-sen University
    Chair: EnChieh Chao (they/them/theirs) – National Sun Yat-sen University
    Paper Presenter: EnChieh Chao (they/them/theirs) – National Sun Yat-sen University
    Paper Presenter: Tsung-Ren Hung – University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Fikriyah Winata – Texas A & M University
    Paper Presenter: Meta Astuti – Hasanuddin University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Transnational Therapeutics: Technologies and Landscape of Healing Among Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: EnChieh Chao (they/them/theirs) – National Sun Yat-sen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) To Be Food or Not to Be? The Circulation and the Re-enchantment of Jamu to Taiwan
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tsung-Ren Hung – University of Sydney
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Exploring Eight Dimensions of Wellbeing Through Therapeutic Landscape And
    network Encounters
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Fikriyah Winata – Texas A & M University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Medicine, Media, and Prophecy: The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry and Identity Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1905-1942
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Meta Astuti – Hasanuddin University
    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
    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
  • 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM NPT
    Visualizing Leprosy: Race, Labor, and Value in Nineteenth-Century Medical Photography
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Paper Presenter: Koyna Tomar, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Crossing Gendered Boundaries: Yaoguai (妖怪), Monstrosity, and Identity in East Asian Narratives
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Lijin Yang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Lijin Yang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Jingyang Zhao (she/her/hers) – Southwest University of Political Science and Law
    Paper Presenter: Ang Li (she/her/hers) – University of Stirling
    Paper Presenter: Qianyi Ma – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Meixi Chen – Colorado College
    Paper Presenter: Chenying Wang – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yingxin Zhang (She/They) – University College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) From Yao to Human Being: The Identity Transformation of Yecha in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ang Li (she/her/hers) – University of Stirling
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Shapeshifting and Boundary-crossing: From "Madam White Is Kept Forever Under the Thunder Peak Tower" to Her Adventures in Serpentine and Sacrifice
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Qianyi Ma – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Body, Affect, and Queering Green Snake: The Femslash of Chinese Animation White Snake Series
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Meixi Chen – Colorado College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Continuing Cultural Traditions and Transcending Gender Norms in MOBA Game: A Critical Examination of Monstrous Female Characters in "Honor of Kings"
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Chenying Wang – University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Pathologised Bodies and Resilient Narratives: Biopolitics, Monstrosity, and Medical Violence in Chinese Intersex Memoirs
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yingxin Zhang (She/They) – University College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Cultural Heritage: Metamorphosis Through Time and Space - Exploring the Transformation from Traditional to Modern Style
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Hui 荟 Wang – central south university
    Chair: Wei Liu – Beijing Normal University
    Discussant: Xinyuan Cheng – Yulin Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Hui 荟 Wang – central south university
    Paper Presenter: Xinran XU – Guangzhou University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) From Home to Commercialized Home: The Process and Mechanism of the Evolution of Dong Nationality Home Space from the Perspective of Modernity
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hui 荟 Wang – central south university
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Study on the Identity Transformation and Reproduction Mechanism of Traditional Crafts Under Cultural Ecological Change: A Discussion Based on Local Practices of Traditional Embroidery Art Development in Tibet
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hui 荟 Wang – central south university
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Historical Evolution and Contemporary Transformation of Traditional Village Public Cultural Spaces: A Case Study of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 'Apo Tea'
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xinran XU – Guangzhou University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Decolonizing Methodologies and South Asian Experiences
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Manjusha Nair – George Mason University
    Organizer: Rashmi Sadana – George Mason University
    Chair: Kathryn Wellen (she/her/hers) – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    Paper Presenter: Labib Hossain – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Sanjay Sharma – Aarhus University
    Paper Presenter: Debjani Das – Vidyasagar University, Medinipur
    Paper Presenter: Manjusha Nair – George Mason University
    Discussant: Rashmi Sadana – George Mason University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Methods for Recuperating the Forgotten Indigenous Water Infrastructure: The Case of Dacca, Eastern Bengal
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Labib Hossain – Cornell University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Decolonizing Fieldwork: Global Nepalis in Collaborative Knowledge Production
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sanjay Sharma – Aarhus University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge Production: The Healing Practices of the Adivasis of West Bengal
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Debjani Das – Vidyasagar University, Medinipur
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Concepts for a Decolonized Study of Global Connections Between Asia and Africa
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Manjusha Nair – George Mason University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Global Ceramics: Interregional Trade and Cultural Interchange in the Early Modern Era
    Location: Kailash (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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Dragon and Kraak: The Interactions Between the Imperial Ming and the World
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Guanyu Wang (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Navigating the Oceanic Crossroads: Zhangzhou Porcelain Trade in Indonesia During the Early Seventeenth Century
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Judy Law (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chuiki Maggie Wan (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Western Technology and Porcelain "Medicinal Dew" Utensils of the Qing Dynasty Palace
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kunpeng Xiang, N/A (he/him/his) – Palace Museum, Beijing
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Heritage, Modernization, and the Marginalization of Japan’s Alternative 'Capitals'
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Daniel J. Milne (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Chair: Daniel J. Milne (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Daniel J. Milne (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Jens Sejrup (he/him/his) – University of Copenhagen
    Paper Presenter: Ellen Van Goethem (she/her/hers) – Kyushu University
    Discussant: Andrew C. Elliott (he/him/his) – Doshisha Women's College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) 'New' Wars in the 'Old Capital': Transnational Memory and Kyoto's Modern Memorial Landscape
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Daniel J. Milne (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Re-inviting Global Flows: Globalist Metaphors at Two Reconstructed Heritage Sites in Japan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jens Sejrup (he/him/his) – University of Copenhagen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) (Re)Imaginings of the Heian, Nara, and Shuri Palaces in Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ellen Van Goethem (she/her/hers) – Kyushu University
    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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Metaphorical Paradigms in Global Asias: Navigating Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Dimensions
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Bairam Khan (he/him/his) – International Communication Associates (ICA)
    Chair: Premlata Vaishnava (she/her/hers) – International Communication Associates (ICA)
    Paper Presenter: Bairam Khan (he/him/his) – International Communication Associates (ICA)
    Paper Presenter: Premlata Vaishnava (she/her/hers) – International Communication Associates (ICA)
    Paper Presenter: Shiv Kumar Singh (he/him/his) – University of Lisbon
    Paper Presenter: Mansi Bajaj (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Mythic Metaphors in Global Marketing: Cognitive and Cultural Implications
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bairam Khan (he/him/his) – International Communication Associates (ICA)
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Fruit Metaphors: A Critical Analysis of Symbolism in Health Communication
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Premlata Vaishnava (she/her/hers) – International Communication Associates (ICA)
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Metaphors in Teaching of Hindi as a Foreign Language
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shiv Kumar Singh (he/him/his) – University of Lisbon
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Metaphors in Language Acquisition: Pedagogical Perspectives
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mansi Bajaj (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Moving into Place: Struggles of Mobility and the State
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Daungyewa Utarasint (she/her/hers) – New York University Abu Dhabi
    Chair: Budi Hernawan (he/him/his) – Driyarkara School of Philosophy
    Paper Presenter: Colum Graham (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Qi Li (she/her/hers) – Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Paper Presenter: Daungyewa Utarasint (she/her/hers) – New York University Abu Dhabi
    Paper Presenter: Budi Hernawan (he/him/his) – Driyarkara School of Philosophy
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Teak Season and Its Aftermath in Rural East Java
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Colum Graham (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Paths of the Displaced: Eviction, Reclamation, and Informal Housing in The

    zhangjiang Science City, Shanghai
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Qi Li (she/her/hers) – Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) When Elephants Collide: Natural Disasters and Voting Patterns in Thailand
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Daungyewa Utarasint (she/her/hers) – New York University Abu Dhabi
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) We Are Afraid but We Can Do Nothing. the Military Are There to Protect Them": Outsourcing of the State Sovereignty in West Papua
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Budi Hernawan (he/him/his) – Driyarkara School of Philosophy
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Performing and Reclaiming the Female Body Through History
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Shuangting Xiong – Bard College
    Chair: Shuangting Xiong – Bard College
    Paper Presenter: Yu Chih Chou – Goucher College
    Paper Presenter: Shuangting Xiong – Bard College
    Discussant: Kwan Yin Lee – Wofford College
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoyan Deng – University of Oregon
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Between Virtuous Wife and Modern Woman: The Problematics of Representing Women in Early Republican Print and Visual Media
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yu Chih Chou – Goucher College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Revolutionary Bodies: Performing Female Revolutionary Heroes on Stage and Screen
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shuangting Xiong – Bard College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Outlaw Bodies: Making Female Actors Worthy Subjects of Late-qing Xiqu History
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xiaoyan Deng – University of Oregon
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Lesbian Uses of Social Media Across City, Town and Rural Settings in China's Jiangsu Province
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yujie Xu (she/her/hers) – University of York
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Reimagining Environmental Narratives in Asian Margins: Climate Change, Cultural Heritage, and Local Mobilities
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Pawel Piszczatowski (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Organizer: Neha Khetrapal (she/her/hers) – O. P. Jindal Global University
    Chair: Pawel Piszczatowski (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Joanna Jurewicz (she/her/hers) – University of Warsaw
    Discussant: Joanna Jurewicz (she/her/hers) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Pawel Piszczatowski (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Neha Khetrapal (she/her/hers) – O. P. Jindal Global University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Remarks on Yoga, Indology, and Cognitive Linguistics
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Joanna Jurewicz (she/her/hers) – University of Warsaw
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Reframing Asia: A Critical Analysis of the Western Orientalization and Romanticization of Asian Spirituality (Matthiessen, Ransmayr, Carrère)
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pawel Piszczatowski (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Reframing Asia II: Russian Instrumentalisations of Asian Spiritualities as a Means to Construct Anti-western Empire (Viktor Pelevin, Aleksandr Slepakov, Eduard Verkin)
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Cultural Heritage and Environmental Interconnections: The Role of Olfactory Heritage in Northern India Temple Architecture
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Neha Khetrapal (she/her/hers) – O. P. Jindal Global University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Rethinking Community-led Development in the Anthropocene: New Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak – National Taiwan Normal University
    Organizer: Keng Hang Frankie Fan – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Paper Presenter: Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak – National Taiwan Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Keng Hang Frankie Fan – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Paper Presenter: Nadzirah Hosen (she/her/hers) – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
    Discussant: Nadzirah Hosen (she/her/hers) – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Yi-Chin Wu – National Taiwan Normal University
    Chair: Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak – National Taiwan Normal University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Reimagining the 'Community' Within Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Initiatives: A Political Ecological Perspective on Case Studies in Vietnam
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak – National Taiwan Normal University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Reinterpreting the 'Community' in Community-based Tourism Development: The Case of a Multi-ethnic National Park in Malaysia
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Keng Hang Frankie Fan – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Regenerative Tourism as a Model for Community Resilience: A Case Study of Miso Walai Homestay, Sabah
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Nadzirah Hosen (she/her/hers) – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Negotiating Heritage for Self-determination－values, Meanings, and Politics of the Ifugao Rice Terraces in the Philippines
    Location: Princess Ballroom(Dusit)
    Speaker: Yi-Chin Wu – National Taiwan Normal University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Tracing Links to Ancestral Lands: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Expressions, and Environmental Stewardship in the Philippines
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Eden H. Terol (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines
    Chair: Agnes Silva – Far Eastern University
    Paper Presenter: Marian Gongora (she/her/hers) – Far Eastern University
    Paper Presenter: Estrella Dacillo (she/her/hers) – Central Mindanao University
    Paper Presenter: Maria Zenia Dulce (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Tacloban College
    Paper Presenter: Eden H. Terol (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) A Study on the Philippines' Sustainability of Climate Change Policies and Its Effects on
    women Post-typhoon Rai (Odette)
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Marian Gongora (she/her/hers) – Far Eastern University
    Co-author: Agnes Silva – Far Eastern University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Plot Genotype of Agusan Manobo Folk Narratives
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Estrella Dacillo (she/her/hers) – Central Mindanao University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Embodiment of Knowledge in the Dance Rituals of the Mamanwa in Eastern Visayas Philippines
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Maria Zenia Dulce (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Tacloban College
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Youth Perspectives on Environmental Conservation and Ecotourism in the Sierra Madre Alta Ancestral Domain, Aurora, Philippines
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Eden H. Terol (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines
    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
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sara B. Shneiderman (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Amy Johnson (she/her/hers) – Georgia College & State University
    Discussant: Sara B. Shneiderman (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Jeevan Baniya (he/him/his) – Social Science Baha
    Discussant: Amod Dixit (he/him/his) – Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN); National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET)
    Discussant: Tek Bahadur Dong (he/him/his) – Social Science Baha
    Discussant: Shobhana Gurung Pradhan (she/her/hers) – BBC Media Action Nepal
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    “Nanyang” Crossings: Worlding Sinophone Southeast Asian Literature and Culture
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Soon Yi Poon – National Taiwan University
    Chair: Chee Lay Tan – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Yihan Xie (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Qianru He – Nanyang Technological University
    Discussant: Chee Lay Tan – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Soon Yi Poon – National Taiwan University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Screening "Chinese Films": Early Chinese Cinema in Nanyang (1910s-1920s)
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yihan Xie (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cultural Anxiety: A Phenomenological Study of Chinese Novels in Singapore and Malaysia
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Qianru He – Nanyang Technological University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Sinophone Crossings: Circulation of Chinese “Patriotic Songs” in British Malaya
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Soon Yi Poon – National Taiwan University
    Southeast Asia
  • 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: Bill Long (he/him/his) – Georgia State University
    Paper Presenter: Kittisak Sujittarom (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Co-Author: Astrid Norén-Nilsson – Lund University
    Paper Presenter: Duncan McCargo (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Protecting Tradition While Promoting Reform: The Bhutanese Monarchy
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Bill Long (he/him/his) – Georgia State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Re-monarchization of the Public Sphere: Royal Visits During the Early Reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 1950s-1960s
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Kittisak Sujittarom (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Divergent Trajectories: The Thai and Cambodian Monarchies in Comparison
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Duncan McCargo (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    Co-author: Astrid Norén-Nilsson – Lund University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Democratic Recession and the Potential for Popular Democracy in Indonesia and Timor-leste
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Chair: Martinho -. Pereira (he/him/his) – UNTL
    Discussant: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Discussant: Richard Fox (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Discussant: Eunsook Jung – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Gendered Realities and Intersecting Identities: Roles of Filipino Women During Crisis in the Context of Language, Work, and Caregiving
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Eden H. Terol (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines
    Chair: Florinda Palma Gil (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: Florinda Palma Gil (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Cunanan (she/her/hers) – Aurora State College of Technology (ASCOT)
    Paper Presenter: May Desiree Hulipas – Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Mapping Heritage Language Maintenance and Shift of Filipino Women in Japan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Florinda Palma Gil (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Exploring the Identities of Filipino Domestic Workers During COVID from the Lenses of Socioecology and Intersectionality
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Stephanie Cunanan (she/her/hers) – Aurora State College of Technology (ASCOT)
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Exploring the Roles of the Filipino Indigenous Women as Carers and Teachers During the Pandemic
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: May Desiree Hulipas – Polytechnic University of the Philippines
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Global Asia at China’s Edges: Entrepreneurs, Settlement, and Innovation
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Andrew Grant (he/him/his) – University of Tampa
    Chair: Sonika Gupta (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology
    Discussant: Andrew Grant (he/him/his) – University of Tampa
    Paper Presenter: Duojie Zhaxi (he/him/his) – Qinghai Minzu University
    Paper Presenter: Wandai Ji – Qinghai Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Sanggay Tashi – University of Colorado, Boulder
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) “Show Me Your Products”: Mind the Gap Through Entrepreneurship and Material Development
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sanggay Tashi – University of Colorado, Boulder
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Opportunism After the Earthquake: Chinese Entrepreneurs, Migration, and Disaster Capitalism in Kathmandu
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Duojie Zhaxi (he/him/his) – Qinghai Minzu University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Navigating New Horizons: Han Chinese Migration and Educational Choices in Chiang Mai
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Wandai Ji – Qinghai Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    In Search for Asian Identities: Globalized Perspectives on East Asian Art and Architecture
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Anton Schweizer – Kyushu University
    Organizer: Gloria Yu Yang – Kyushu University
    Chair: Anton Schweizer – Kyushu University
    Paper Presenter: Anton Schweizer – 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Nanban Lacquer as a Global Style
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anton Schweizer – Kyushu University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Negotiate with the Asian Modernity: Gender, Identity and Popular Culture in Transmedia Fandom Practice
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Su Li – Cardiff University
    Chair: Su Li – Cardiff University
    Paper Presenter: Su Li – Cardiff University
    Paper Presenter: Kaiwen Zheng (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Kaiwen Zheng (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Jialu Wen (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Wenxin Xiao – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Transnational Fandom and Identity Negotiation: The Localisation of Ouen Culture in Chinese Screenings of the First Slam Dunk
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Su Li – Cardiff University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Discourse Representation on the Chinese Platform About the Bodysuit of Taylor Swift and K-pop Female Idols
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kaiwen Zheng (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Transnational Consumption Turn on the Femininity of Japanese Beauty Monster Tomie
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jialu Wen (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) From Boys' Love to Girls' Love: Transmedia Play, Performativity, and Identity Construction in Language Cosplay (Yu C) Among Chinese Young Women
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Wenxin Xiao – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    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
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Jan Brunson – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Chair: Sreeparna Chattopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Flame University
    Paper Presenter: Sreeparna Chattopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Flame University
    Paper Presenter: Jan Brunson – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Paper Presenter: Abdullah All Shakil (he/him/his) – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Anindita Majumdar (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
    Discussant: Sita Mademba – Social Science Baha
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Risky for Whom? Registers of Risks for Highly Biomedicalised Births in India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sreeparna Chattopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Flame University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Social Choreography of Cesarean Sections in Nepal
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jan Brunson – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Climate Change Reductionism, Uterus Infections and Hysterectomies on the Southwestern Coast of Bangladesh
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Abdullah All Shakil (he/him/his) – University of Connecticut
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Sanitation and Reproductive Well-being Amongst Women in India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Anindita Majumdar (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Reflections on the Future of Himalayan Studies - II
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Chair: Sara B. Shneiderman (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Ather Zia – University of Northern Colorado
    Discussant: Mona Bhan (she/her/hers) – Syracuse University
    Discussant: Heather Hindman – University of Texas at Austin
    Discussant: Tanka Subba – IIT Gandhinagar
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Self-determination in the Philippines: From Anti-colonialism to City Margins to Decolonial Futures
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Cla Ruzol (they/them/theirs) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Organizer: Kristian Karlo Saguin – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Chair: Aireen Grace Andal (she/her/hers) – Airlangga University
    Paper Presenter: Karminn C. D. Daytec Yañgot (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Baguio
    Paper Presenter: Cla Ruzol (they/them/theirs) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Arnisson Andre Ortega (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Discussant: Kristian Karlo Saguin – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Claims and Counterclaims: Pursuits of Indigenous Self-determination in a Colonial City
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Karminn C. D. Daytec Yañgot (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Baguio
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Indigenous Consent as Brokerage in Large Dam Building
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Cla Ruzol (they/them/theirs) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Indigenous Urbanisms in a Postcolonial City
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Arnisson Andre Ortega (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    The "Margins" of Chinese Civilization: The Subsistence, Economy, and Identity Formations of Western China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yu Dong – Shandong University
    Chair: Xuexiang Chen – Shandong University
    Paper Presenter: Xuexiang Chen – Shandong University
    Paper Presenter: Alice Yao – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Alice Yao – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Kuei-chen Lin – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Yu Dong – Shandong University
    Co-Author: Wei Yang – Yunnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reform of Agricultural Production Mode and Frontier Management Practice in Early Yunnan Under the Pattern of Pluralism and Integration: From the Perspective of Plant Remains in Dianchi Basin
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xuexiang Chen – Shandong University
    Co-author: Wei Yang – Yunnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Beyond Heavy Metal: Revisiting the Bronze Age Economics of the Tin and Copper Belt in the Honghe (Red) River Valley
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Alice Yao – University of Chicago
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Different Uses and Relationships Between the Southwestern China and the Central Plains Revealed by the Ba-shu Style Weapons
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kuei-chen Lin – Academia Sinica
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Persistence and Changes in Subsistence Practices During Late Bronze Age to Han Dynasty in Northeastern Sichuan, Southwestern China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Dong – Shandong University
    Co-author: Xiaobin Wang – Shandong University
    Co-author: Weidong Chen – Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    The Right to the Mountains: Ethnicity and Nation in Himalayan Tourism
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Young Hoon Oh (he/him/his) – Kyungbook National University
    Chair: Young Hoon Oh (he/him/his) – Kyungbook National University
    Paper Presenter: Ian Bellows (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Young Hoon Oh (he/him/his) – Kyungbook National University
    Paper Presenter: Khadga Narayan Shrestha (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Medhavi Gulati (she/her/hers) – Panjab University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reclaiming Everest: Discontents, Disasters, and the Making of a Nepali Mountain
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ian Bellows (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Neoliberal Ethnicity: Makalu Sherpa and the Evolution of Himalayan Mountaineering
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Young Hoon Oh (he/him/his) – Kyungbook National University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Tourism and Inter-ethnic Relations in Khumbu Region of Nepal
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Khadga Narayan Shrestha (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Navigating Fluid Identities: Dynamics of Power Relations Among Sherpas in Himalayan Mountaineering
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Medhavi Gulati (she/her/hers) – Panjab University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    The Rise of 'Radical Feminism' in Global Asia: Connecting China, India and South Korea
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yunyun Zhou (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University of London
    Chair: Yunyun Zhou (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University of London
    Co-Author: Yunyun Zhou (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University of London
    Discussant: Euisol Jeong (she/her/hers) – Baekseok University
    Discussant: Niharika Pandit (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University of London
    Paper Presenter: Hongkun Wang (she/her/hers) – Shenzhen University
    Co-Author: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Yaya Ji (she/her/hers) – University College London
    Paper Presenter: Xumeng Xie (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University of London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Scolding Is Saving：a Hermeneutic Analysis of Chinese Radical Feminism in the Post-#metoo Era
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hongkun Wang (she/her/hers) – Shenzhen University
    Co-author: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reclaiming Power: A Diaspora Autoethnography of Radical Feminist and Anarchist Activism
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yaya Ji (she/her/hers) – University College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Queering or Abolishing the Marriage-family Continuum? The Imaginations About Radical Intimacies Within Chinese Queer Communities and Radical Feminists
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xumeng Xie (she/her/hers) – Queen Mary University of London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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 – 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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) – National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand
    Paper Presenter: Edwin Michielsen (_) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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) – National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Negotiating the Locality and Subjectivity: On the Ethnic Chinese Under Imperial Order and Global Discourse
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    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: Yunjing Yi (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    Paper Presenter: Yue Duo (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Xin Su (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Not Only Behind the Scene: A Study of Baohuanghui and China's Anti-american Boycott Movement in 1905
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yunjing Yi (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Hometown: Colonial Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Consular Jurisdiction in Late Qing Dynasty
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yue Duo (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Reconstructing Teo-swa Identities: Qiaopi and Its Changed Meanings in Contemporary Chinese Literature
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xin Su (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Queer Asia: Inter-regional Circulation and Inter-referencing of Boys Love Narratives
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Representation of Fictional Sexualities in the Omega-verse Worldview and Its Characteristics: Dual Gender Oppression and the Visibility of Subcultures
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mingi Jang (she/her/hers) – Kyungnam University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Boys Love as a Genre of Unpolitical Fantasy
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Masao Imamura (he/him/his) – Yamagata University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Y Phenomenon: Dystopia, Utopia, and Heterotopia in Thai Boys Love Media
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ying-kit Chan (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Alternative Civility and Audience Reception of Thai Boys' Love Series in Japan and China
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Amporn Jirattikorn (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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, N/A (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, N/A (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
  • 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, N/A (he/him/his) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Weunten (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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Tatsuki Kataoka – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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 – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Technologies of Desire: Queer Intimacy, Digital Architectures, and Fan Practices in and Beyond East Asia
    Location: Kailash (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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Emotional Capitalism and Gendered Consumption: Consumption of Man Pop Idols by Chinese Women Fans
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ziwei Tiffany Tang (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kaiwen Zheng (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Shaping Fans’ Bodily Horizon Through Affective Contact: K-pop Skinship and Reflexive Literature on Deokjil
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yongkun Vicky Wu (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) "Seeing" Through Transmedia Fantasy: Chinese Nisu Fans’ Sensibility Threshold of Queer Desire
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Norah Chungyan Chow (she/ta) – University of Kentucky
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) From Fantasy to Friction: Exploring the Unseen Sexual Capital in Cosplay Commission
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xinyue Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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: Huichi Hsu – National Chengchi University
    Discussant: Huichi Hsu – National Chengchi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) What Women Want: Feminist Rectification of New Sexual Morality in Republican China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Huichi Hsu – National Chengchi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Complex Mobilities Within and from Asia: Shifting Flows, Drivers, and Experiences
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Ashika Niraula (she/her/hers) – Toronto Metropolitan University
    Chair: Ashika Niraula (she/her/hers) – Toronto Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Sagar Raj Sharma
    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
    Discussant: Usha George
    Paper Presenter: Pushpa Acharya – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Yu Huang – Edith Cowan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Adaptation Amidst Precarity: Nepali Migrant Workers in India
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Sagar Raj Sharma
    Co-Author: Chandana Sharma
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Rohingya Refugees in India: Analysing the Lack and Necessity of Refugee Policies in India
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Pratiti Roy (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Nepali Immigrants in Canada: Complex Pathways and Experiences
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Richa Shivakoti (she/her/hers) – Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Redefining Belonging: Migration, Identity, and Resilience in Himalayan Diaspora Literature
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pushpa Acharya – University of British Columbia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Intergenerational Negotiations in Chinese Immigrant Families: The Role of Welfare Policies Across Borders
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Huang – Edith Cowan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Digitization and Marketization of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Asia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    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: Bingbing Shi – University of St Andrews
    Paper Presenter: Danqi Lu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Paudel Pukar – Beijing Normal University
    Co-Author: Yihang Yan – Beijing Normal University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) (Dis)appearance of History in Chinese Digital Entertainment
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Geng Song (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) When Outlaws Speak: Articulations of Chineseness in Sinophone Rap Music Videos
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Tiara Wilson (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Feeling Memory: Adaptation and the Creation of Spy Number One
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bingbing Shi – University of St Andrews
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) How Yue Opera Reinvents New Dragon Gate Inn: Androgynous Stardom, Affective Spatiality, and Sinophone Vernacular Classicism
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Danqi Lu (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Local Narratives and Global Influences in Nepali Video Game
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Paudel Pukar – Beijing Normal University
    Co-Author: Yihang Yan – Beijing Normal University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Evolving Developmental Landscapes in Asia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Organizer: Jacob Rinck – George Washington University
    Chair: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Paper Presenter: Dinesh Paudel
    Paper Presenter: Jacob Rinck – George Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Rajni Gamage – National University of Singapore
    Co-Author: Harindra Dassanayake – Centre for Progressive Politics and Policy.
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 – George Washington University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Global Visions, Local Encounters: Extraterritoriality, Education, and Nationhood in China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Guanhua Tan (he/him/his) – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Chair: Chang Xu – Rice University
    Paper Presenter: Guanhua Tan (he/him/his) – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Discussant: Qiliang He – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Paper Presenter: Chao Lang – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Tian – National University of Singapore
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) In Search of China's Place in the World: Integrating Chinese and World Histories in Twentieth-century Textbooks
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Guanhua Tan (he/him/his) – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Extraterritoriality, First Unequal Treaty and Nation-state Building
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chao Lang – Harvard University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) A Changing Legal World: Christianity and Extraterritoriality in Sichuan Courtroom (1810-1911)
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yuan Tian – National University of Singapore
    East and Inner Asia
  • 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 Nah (she/her/hers) – University of the Incarnate Word
    Paper Presenter: Mao Lin (he/him/his) – Georgia Southern University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Nah (she/her/hers) – University of the Incarnate Word
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Time and Borders in Flux: Rethinking Temporality Beyond China
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Feitian in Thick Time: Imaging the Alternative Time and Agency of Chinese Women
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zheng Ying (she/her/hers) – Utrecht University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Aesthetic Flowing Between Islands: Migrating Loom, Traded Cotton, Mountain of Dye
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yan Yan (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Unfold the Earliest Dated Printed Book: Making Abstract Moving Images Based on Non-linear Temporality
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xinwei Xu (she/her/hers) – Edith Cowan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Transnational Bodies: The Female Form in the Intersection of Modernity and Consumerism
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yi Meng (she/her/hers) – The University of Cologne
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Bodies in Transit: Choreographing Labor Mobility and Border Imagination in Guangzhou
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiao Liu (she/her/hers) – New York University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Transitioning Gender and Identity: Ethnographies on Education in South Asia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yamini Agarwal – Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies
    Chair: Hem Borker – Jamia Millia Islamia University
    Paper Presenter: Yamini Agarwal – Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies
    Paper Presenter: Hem Borker – Jamia Millia Islamia University
    Paper Presenter: Pronita Dutta – University of Oxford
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Being Ideal Sikh in a Religious Minority School: Negotiated Identities, Global Aspirations
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yamini Agarwal – Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Rethinking Gender and Agency : Educational Journeys of Madrasa Students in India
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Hem Borker – Jamia Millia Islamia University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Exploring the Educational Impacts of covid-19 on Hindu Minority Girls in Bangladesh: An Ethnographic Study
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pronita Dutta – University of Oxford
    South Asia
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 6:45 PM – 7:55 PM NPT
    FILM: Diversity Plaza
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    South Asia
  • Thursday, June 5, 2025
  • 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM NPT
    Excursions in and Around Kathmandu