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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
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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