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Full Program

Full Program

  • Monday, June 2, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Anti-Gender Sentiment in China and South Korea
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Border Land Issues: Contextualized Experiences from South and Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Breaking and Bridging: Understanding Sino-Philippines Relations Through Shifting Social Mobilities and Transnational Networks
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Cities of Modern Bengal
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Consumption, Resistance, or Subversion? : Indonesian Women's Use of East Asian Popular Culture
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    From Memorials to Popular Culture: The Processes of Heritage making in China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Intimate and Cosmopolitan: Asian Diplomatic Correspondences and their Global Entanglements, c. 1650-1950
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Listening in the Sub-continent: Sonic Practices and Mobilities of Hindi Cinema
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Locally Made: Reconstructing the Indigenous and Diasporic Knowledge Exchange Networks in Southeast Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Marginalized Abroad: Students, Writers, and Sex Workers Across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Asia Through Performance: Negotiating Cultural Mobility and Modernity
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Shifting Spaces: Domesticity, Technology, and Identity in Global Asian Modernities
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    The Work of Heritage: Culture, Conservation, Critique, Life

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

    Chair: Neel Kamal Chapagain – Ahmedabad University

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

    Discussant: Monalisa Maharjan – South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University

    Discussant: Austin Simoes-Gomes – University of Toronto

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM NPT
    Transimperial Agents and the Cultural Production of the Global Qing
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Agrarian Perspectives on Asian City Futures
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Artifacts, Diagrams and Texts: Circulation of Cosmological Knowledge at the Margins in Divination Practice in Early China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Climate Governance and Carbon Modernities in Southeast Asia’s Margins
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Conceptualising the Adivasi Mode of Production in South Asia
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Documenting Crises and Disasters: A Transdisciplinarity Tryout for Liberal Arts Communication
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Domesticity as Method: Engaging Materialities and Lived Experiences in Global Asia
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    From Structure to Sensation: Literary Mapping and Infrastructure Transformation in Cold War Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Killing, Internment and Forced Marches Revisited: New Perspectives on Military and Civilian Prisoners in the Pacific War
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Local Expressive Practices in Global Circulation: Documentation, Archiving, Performance, and Sustainability
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Marginality and Violence in Literature: Assessing Role and Impact as Agent of Solution
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Navigating in a Torrent of Time When Promises Are Ceasing: Examining the Emerging Dynamics in the Liminal Stage of Contemporary China’s Future Making
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Negotiating Spaces: A Study of the Periphery, Marginalities, and the In-Between in Malaysia and Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Performativities and Alternative Modernities: Case Studies of Religious Practices In East and Southeast Asia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Text, Image, Code: How Digital Media Became "Global" in the Sinosphere
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NPT
    Transcending Margins: (Re)Imagining Women's Identity in South Asian Performative Space(s)
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Asian Digital Nomads in the Post-Pandemic Era: Navigating Identity, Gender, Home and Spatial Practices
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond Audibility: Cultural Soundscapes and Sensory Belonging in Contemporary East Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond the Margins: Reframing Marginality and Identity in Taiwan in the Modern Era
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED - Photography's Asian Archives: Transforming Memory and Community from the Margins
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    CANCELED – Landscapes of Contemporary Resistance and Marginalized Tradition: Reframed Localities, Mediated Heritages, and Organized Dissent in China and India
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Contested Urbanism: Making Sense of the Spatial Dynamics of Cities in Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Grain, Tobacco, and Papermaking: State Building and Rural Economy in Wartime China (1927-45)
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Many Cosmopolitanisms: Memory and Modernity in the South Asian Metropolis
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Navigating Desire and Resistance: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Chinese Digital Media
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Navigating Marginalization: Indigenous Responses to Resource Politics, Urban Mobilities, and Transitional Justice in the Context of State Modernization in Taiwan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM NPT
    Open Reflections on the Developments and Challenges of Southeast Asian Studies in South Korea

    Organizer: Ki-Hyun Bae – Sogang University

    Chair: Yoon Hwan Shin – Sogang University

    Discussant: Ki-Hyun Bae – Sogang University

    Discussant: Woonkyung Yeo – Seoul National University

    Discussant: Hyung-Jun Kim – Kangwon National University

    Discussant: Kyunghoon Kim – Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

    Discussant: Eric Tagliacozzo – Cornell University

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

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

    Chair: Deepika Singh, She – University of Delhi

    Discussant: Raktim Patar, He – Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Discussant: Phirmi Bodo, She – Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Discussant: Atrayee Saha, She – Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Discussant: Rajendra Sharma – Social Science Baha

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

    Organizer: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Chair: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Discussant: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Discussant: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Janak Rai – Tribhuvan University, Nepal

    Discussant: Ariana Maki – University of Idaho

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

    Organizer: Yajun Mo – Boston College

    Organizer: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University

    Chair: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University

    Discussant: Yajun Mo – Boston College

    Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University

    Discussant: Taomo Zhou – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: Yasser Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    Discussant: Gal Gvili – McGill University

  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Experimental Life-making in the Margins of East Asian Urbanization
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Food, Community, Kinship: Culinary Intimacies in Global Asias
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Material Matters: The Agency of Objects in Chinese Cinematic Culture
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Media Aesthetics and Transmedia Practices in Chinese Literature and Culture: A Long-Durée and Sinophone Perspective
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Mules, Peacocks, Sheep, and Tigers: Indigenous Knowledge, Diplomatic Engagement, and Ecological Shifts in a Changing Asian Borderland, 1890s-1990s
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Marginality: The Redefinition of Chinese Elite Women in a Globalized World
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Margins and Centres: The Pluralities and Paradoxes within the Environmental Modernities in InterAsia

    Organizer: Yufang Gao – Yale InterAsia Initiative

    Chair: Yu Luo – University of Puget Sound

    Discussant: Yufang Gao – Yale InterAsia Initiative

    Discussant: Shivangi Pareek – Yale University

    Discussant: Lav Kanoi – Yale University

    Discussant: Rundong Ning – University of Hong Kong

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

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

    Discussant: Jolan YI – National Taiwan University

    Discussant: Bettina Gramlich-Oka – Sophia University

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

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

    Organizer: Juliana Wijaya – University of California, Los Angeles

    Chair: Juliana Wijaya – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Pia Arbodela – University of Hawaii at Manoa

    Discussant: Kimi Yamoto – Osaka University

    Discussant: G. G. Weix – University of Montana

    Discussant: Richard Fox – University of Victoria

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

    Organizer: Sango Mahanty – Australian National University

    Organizer: Assa Doron – Australian National University

    Chair: Assa Doron – Australian National University

    Discussant: Sango Mahanty – Australian National University

    Discussant: Danny Marks – Dublin City University

    Discussant: Sarah Turner – McGill University

    Discussant: Jin Qian – Wageningen University

  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Modernity, Mobility, and the Notion of Being a Burden to Others: Aging, Death, and End-of-Life Care in Contemporary Japan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    New Perspectives on Culture under Empire in Modern China Japan Relations
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Redefining Manchuria: Intercultural Negotiation and Transnational Knowledge Production of Northeast Asia in the Early Twentieth Century
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Hinduism in the Global Space: Texts, Traditions, and Theopoetics
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Politics of Memory in Asia and Beyond: Empowerment, Healing, Flipping the Script
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM NPT
    Toward Ethical Futures: Reframing the Japanese Repatriation vis-à-vis Atomic-bombings, Ethnic Minorities, and Museums
    Northeast Asia