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  • Monday, June 2, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Anti-gender Sentiment in China and South Korea
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    Chair: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    Co-Author: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    Paper Presenter: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Stevi Jackson (she/her/hers) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: Euisol Jeong (she/her/hers) – Baekseok University
    Discussant: Stevi Jackson (she/her/hers) – University of York
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Familial Authoritarianism: The Gendered Politics of Sexuality in 21st Century China
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kailing Xie (she/her/hers) – University of Birmingham
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) A Review of Anti-gender Sentiments in China
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ling Tang (they/them/theirs) – University of Melbourne
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) "What If Your Son Becomes a Daughter, Threatening the Family Lineage?": The Anti-gender Discourse Created by Christian Fundamentalist Groups in South Korea
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Euisol Jeong (she/her/hers) – Baekseok University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Border Land Issues: Contextualized Experiences from South and Southeast Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Tabassum Majeed (she/her/hers) – Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar
    Paper Presenter: Kesone Kanhalikham (she/her/hers) – National University of Laos
    Chair: Furrukh Khan (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Discussant: Furrukh Khan (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Amit Gautam – Social Science Baha
    Paper Presenter: Sreang Chheat – Griffith University
    Paper Presenter: Maria Carolina Rodriguez Bello Dawonlay (they/them/theirs) – Lalang Hu Mga Laga Organization Inc.
    Co-Author: Samiksha Neupane – Centre for Social Change
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Border as a Space of Negotiation: Quest for Livelihood Among the Residents of Susta,Nepal
    Paper Presenter: Amit Gautam – Social Science Baha
    Co-Author: Samiksha Neupane – Centre for Social Change
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Dams, Conflicts, and Civil Society in the Mekong Region
    Paper Presenter: Sreang Chheat – Griffith University
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Community-based Participatory Study on Practices That Build Young Moro Women's Economic and Health Resilience in Conflict-affected Areas: Search for Policy Recommendations
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Maria Carolina Rodriguez Bello Dawonlay (they/them/theirs) – Lalang Hu Mga Laga Organization Inc.
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Taliban II and Women of Swat
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Tabassum Majeed (she/her/hers) – Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) The Laos-china Border as a Beautiful Land Special Economic Zone: The City of Exclusion and the Practice of Everyday Life
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kesone Kanhalikham (she/her/hers) – National University of Laos
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Breaking and Bridging: Understanding Sino-philippines Relations Through Shifting Social Mobilities and Transnational Networks
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ma. Regina P. Agustin (she/her/hers) – University of Santo Tomas
    Paper Presenter: Ella Joy A. Ponce (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Discussant: Ma. Regina P. Agustin (she/her/hers) – University of Santo Tomas
    Discussant: Ella Joy A. Ponce (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Philippines' Sub-national Government Relations with China: Evolution and Challenges from Marcos Sr. to Marcos Jr
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xuejun Liu (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Strengthening Linkages Through E-commerce from International Agreements to Local Consumption: The Case of Chinese E-commerce Exports to the Philippines
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ma. Regina P. Agustin (she/her/hers) – University of Santo Tomas
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Hedging in Troubled Waters: The Philippines' Strategy in Sino-philippine Relations Across the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ella Joy A. Ponce (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Cities of Modern Bengal
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    Chair: Sandip Munshi (he/him/his) – BITS Pilani Mumbai
    Paper Presenter: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    Discussant: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    Paper Presenter: Sandip Munshi (he/him/his) – BITS Pilani Mumbai
    Paper Presenter: Suchetana Chattopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Jadavpur University
    Paper Presenter: Aritra De (he/him/his) – Tarleton State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Female Schools of Bengal: An Overview
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nilanjana Paul (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Reframing Asian Marginal Conditionalities and Its Influence on the Global Mobilities: A Case Study of the Eighteenth Century French Colonies of Bengal India
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sandip Munshi (he/him/his) – BITS Pilani Mumbai
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Of Germans and Others: Calcutta During First World War
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Suchetana Chattopadhyay (she/her/hers) – Jadavpur University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Kalimpong in the Cold War: Economic Disruption and Social Tensions in the Eastern Himalayas
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Aritra De (he/him/his) – Tarleton State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Consumption, Resistance, or Subversion? : Indonesian Women's Use of East Asian Popular Culture
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Kohki Watabe (he/him/his) – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Chair: Kohki Watabe (he/him/his) – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Noriko Hiraishi – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Mana Kamioka – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: Fithyani Anwar (she/her/hers) – Hasanuddin University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Tradition and Innovation in Indonesian Superheroine Reboot Comics
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Noriko Hiraishi – University of Tsukuba, Malaysia
    Co-author: Idrus N/A (he/him/his) – Andalas University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) JKT48 as a Japanese Girls Idol: How They Operate It in Indonesia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mana Kamioka – Keio University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Adoption of Korean Fashion Trends Among Female Students: A Case Study on the Influence of K-drama and K-pop in Makassar
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Fithyani Anwar (she/her/hers) – Hasanuddin University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    From Memorials to Popular Culture: The Processes of Heritage Making in China
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Chair: Li Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Li Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Liping Peng – Polytechnic University of Milan
    Co-Author: Yapeng Duan – Jiangxi Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Reinterpreting War Memories: Heritage Education at the Weihsien Concentration Camp Museum in China
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Co-author: Yujie Zhu – Australian National University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Digital Renaissance: Exploring the Popularisation and Commercialisation of Xinjiang Dance Among Han Chinese Elders on Kuaishou
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Li Zhang – University of Edinburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) From Hotel to National Museum: The Top-down Transformation of the Nanchang August 1st Uprising Memorial Hall
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Liping Peng – Polytechnic University of Milan
    Co-author: Yapeng Duan – Jiangxi Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Intimate and Cosmopolitan: Asian Diplomatic Correspondences and Their Global Entanglements, C. 1650-1950
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines, Diliman
    Chair: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines, Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines, Diliman
    Co-Author: Tirmizy Abdullah (he/him/his) – Mindanao State University
    Paper Presenter: Norifumi Daito – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Annabel T. Gallop – British Library
    Paper Presenter: Midori Kawashima (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Discussant: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines, Diliman
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Authority and Autonomy: Diplomatic Letters (Surat Jawi) from the Sultanates of Sulu and Mindanao, C. 1800-1900
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ariel Lopez – University of the Philippines, Diliman
    Co-author: Tirmizy Abdullah (he/him/his) – Mindanao State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Letters from the Persian Gulf to Dutch Batavia
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Norifumi Daito – University of Tokyo
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Neither Too High nor Too Low: The Position of the Seal on Malay Diplomatic Letters
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Annabel T. Gallop – British Library
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Letters from the Maranao People of Mindanao to U.S. Officials, 1902–1930s
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Midori Kawashima (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Kathmandu University Yoga Workshop
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Listening in the Sub-continent: Sonic Practices and Mobilities of Hindi Cinema
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    Chair: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Shikha Jhingan – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Paper Presenter: Sebanti Chatterjee – SRM University-AP
    Paper Presenter: Ravi Kant – CSDS
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) From Acousmetre to Akashvani: Listening to Gender and Voice in the Lunchbox (2013)
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pavitra Sundar – Hamilton College
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Listening to the Biopic of a Musician: Popular Songs Genres and Subaltern Aesthetics
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shikha Jhingan – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Listening as a Refrain: In Search of Anahad nād
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sebanti Chatterjee – SRM University-AP
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Radio Listeners on Hindi Film Screen (C. 1939-1980)
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ravi Kant – CSDS
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Locally Made: Reconstructing the Indigenous and Diasporic Knowledge Exchange Networks in Southeast Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Chair: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Shaun Yi Xian Lee (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad (Louie) Buana (he/him/his) – Leiden University / Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    Paper Presenter: Guo-Quan Seng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Guo-Quan Seng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Tackling the Troubling Tropics: Diasporic Construction Knowledge Networks in Dutch Malacca and VOC Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Queenie Lin (she/her/hers) – Delft University of Technology
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Travelling Teachers: Mandarin Teachers in Singapore in the 1930s
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shaun Yi Xian Lee (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Law Carried by Waves: The Networks and Legacy of Bugis Maritime Customary Law in Southeast Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Muhammad (Louie) Buana (he/him/his) – Leiden University / Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Transnational Hokkien Networks and Mass Market Batik Production in Jakarta (1910s-1970s)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Guo-Quan Seng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    "Marginalized Abroad: Students, Writers, and Sex Workers Across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Margaret Kuo (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    Organizer: Amalia Dragani – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    Chair: Elizabeth VanderVen (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Margaret Kuo (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    Paper Presenter: Amalia Dragani – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    Paper Presenter: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    Paper Presenter: Quang Van (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Discussant: Janet Theiss (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) "Chinese Women and Prostitution: gender, Race, and Law Across the Cantonese Pacific in the Late Nineteenth Century"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Margaret Kuo (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) "Afro-asian Student Mobilities and Circulation: Marginal Saharan Students' S Life Experiences and Mixed Marriages in Chinese Universities"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Amalia Dragani – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) "Chinese Female Students in the in the American South: Learning Through Observation, Practice, and Educational Experience"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) "A Taste of Home Abroad: Nguyễn Tuân's Reflections on Food, Landscape, and the Human Experience"
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Quang Van (he/him/his) – Yale University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Navigating Desire and Resistance: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Global Chinese Digital Media
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    Organizer: Tong Meng (she/her/hers) – Durham University
    Chair: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    Paper Presenter: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    Paper Presenter: Tong Meng (she/her/hers) – Durham University
    Paper Presenter: Yiming Wang (she/her/hers) – Maastricht University
    Paper Presenter: Zhifan Sheng (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Constrained Spaces: Algorithmic Bias and Female Survival Tactics on Chinese Social Media
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ruoqian Li (she/her/hers) – University of Sheffield
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Love in a Transient Sexual Field: Female Chinese International Students' Racialised Desire on Mobile Dating Applications
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tong Meng (she/her/hers) – Durham University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Pure Love and Shadow Desire: Navigating Queer and Censorship in Chinese Boys' Love Erotica
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yiming Wang (she/her/hers) – Maastricht University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Qiu Miaojin and the Remediation of Queer Letters in Sinophone New Media Art
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhifan Sheng (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Asia Through Performance: Negotiating Cultural Mobility and Modernity
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: I-Wen Chang – Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
    Chair: Casey Avaunt – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Casey Avaunt – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: I-Wen Chang – Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
    Paper Presenter: Sang Woo Ha – Universiti Malaya
    Paper Presenter: Wei-Ying Hsu – National Chin-Yi University of Technology
    Discussant: Sang Woo Ha – Universiti Malaya
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) From Chinatown to the Museum: Lion Dance Performance and the Politics of Cultural Visibility
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Casey Avaunt – Hamilton College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Reclaiming the Body, Rewriting Modernity: taiwanese Dance Through Ritual and Intercultural Dialogue
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: I-Wen Chang – Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Cultural Mobility from K-pop to M-pop and Its Limitation
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sang Woo Ha – Universiti Malaya
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Global Influences, Local Innovation: Writing the History of Taiwanese Dance in a Transnational Context
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Wei-Ying Hsu – National Chin-Yi University of Technology
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Shifting Spaces: Domesticity, Technology, and Identity in Global Asian Modernities
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    Chair: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Hua Li – Montana State University
    Paper Presenter: Ling Zhan – Hangzhou Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) From Patriarchal Home to Family Home: Negotiating Domestic Space in Early 20th China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Contaminated Space Within and Without: A Reading of Tang Fei’s "Waste Material"
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Hua Li – Montana State University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Dynamic and Holistic Narrative Space in Lin Zhao's Tide View
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ling Zhan – Hangzhou Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    The Work of Heritage: Culture, Conservation, Critique, Life
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Chair: Neel Kamal Chapagain (he/him/his) – Ahmedabad University
    Discussant: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Discussant: Monalisa Maharjan – South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
    Discussant: Austin Simoes-Gomes – University of Toronto
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Transimperial Agents and the Cultural Production of the Global Qing
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Sylvia Tongyan Qiu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Andrea S. Goldman (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Sylvia Tongyan Qiu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Yushu Chen (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Benji Fleischacker (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Czar's Embassies to Beijing and the Remapping of 'Tartary', 1690-1770
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sylvia Tongyan Qiu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) From 'Mantrim' to 'Man Da ren:' the Evolution of the Notion of the 'Mandarin' from the 16th Century to the Present
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yushu Chen (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) 'As Much Noise in the Night as in the Day': Chinese Soundscapes in Eighteenth-century European Sources
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) Southwestern China's Conservative Innovators (1870 - 1930)
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Benji Fleischacker (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Agrarian Perspectives on Asian City Futures
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Sangeeta Banerji – New York University Shanghai
    Organizer: Lena Scheen – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Lena Scheen – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Tang Min (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Paper Presenter: Lou Jing – Central Academy of Fine Arts
    Paper Presenter: Zehra Hashmi (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Sweta Xess – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Crowley – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Discussant: Sangeeta Banerji – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Sushmita Pati – National Law School of India University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Reimagining 'Urban Village' from Asia: Global Interaction and Entangled Trajectories
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tang Min (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Real Urban Villages: The Positioning, Mis-position, and Re-positioning of Spaces of Faith in Urban Renewal
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Lou Jing – Central Academy of Fine Arts
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Biometric Frontiers: Making Kinship in Urban Pakistan
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zehra Hashmi (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) "Properties of Shit": Subaltern Struggles for Property and Dignity in a Majoritarian North India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sweta Xess – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) The Emperor of Development: Re-ruralization in Small Town India
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Thomas Crowley – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Artifacts, Diagrams and Texts: Circulation of Cosmological Knowledge at the Margins in Divination Practice in Early China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yixin Liang (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University
    Chair: Yi-fei You – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Yunhao Tian – University of Munich
    Paper Presenter: Flaminia Pischedda (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    Paper Presenter: Yixin Liang (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University
    Paper Presenter: Li Ni – Zhejiang University
    Discussant: Yantao Kuang (he/him/his) – University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Cong 琮, a Hallucination：a Critique of the Interpretation Based on Ancient Cosmology
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yunhao Tian – University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Movements and (re)conceptualisations of Textualised Knowledge in the Shuzi Gua 數字卦 Divination Traditions
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Flaminia Pischedda (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Fallen Deities: The Cosmic Diagram of Tsinghua Bamboo Slips Wuji 五紀 and the and Warring States' Divination Culture Shift
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yixin Liang (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) From Techniques of Divination to the Study of Prophecy 讖緯: The Transformation of fengjiao 風角 knowledge During the Han and Wei-jin Periods
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Li Ni – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Climate Governance and Carbon Modernities in Southeast Asia’s Margins
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Helena Varkkey – Universiti Malaya
    Paper Presenter: Yustina Octifanny – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Danny Marks (he/him/his) – Dublin City University
    Co-Author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Jay Mar D. Quevedo – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Are Urban Residents Willing to Pay for Ecosystem Services? Carbon Modernities, Marginal Climate Discourses and Urban-rural Connections in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Mumahmad Shehryar – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Alberto Salvo – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Positioning Southeast Asia in Conversations, Priorities, and Outcomes for Nature-based Solutions Within the UNFCCC
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Helena Varkkey – Universiti Malaya
    Co-author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Marginalization and Feminist Political Ecology Within the Ecosystem Carbon Frontier
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yustina Octifanny – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Polluting the Air to Feed the Animals: Placing Food Production Systems Within a Political Ecology of Carbon Colonialism and Climate Adaptation
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Danny Marks (he/him/his) – Dublin City University
    Co-author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Access vs. Preservation: Examining the Effects of Mangrove Policies on Marginalized Communities
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jay Mar D. Quevedo – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Conceptualising the Adivasi Mode of Production in South Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Fraser Sugden – University of Birmingham
    Paper Presenter: Fraser Sugden – University of Birmingham
    Paper Presenter: Suresh Dhakal – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Kumar Sanjay Singh – Delhi University
    Discussant: Janak Rai (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University, Nepal
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Articulation of the Adivasi Mode of Production with Feudalism and Capitalism in the Kirat Homelands of Eastern Nepal
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Fraser Sugden – University of Birmingham
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) State-adivasi Relations in Retrospect Through the Study of Shifting Cultivation as an Adivasi Mode of Production
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Suresh Dhakal – Tribhuvan University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Situating the Adivasi Mode of Production in Contemporary World
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Kumar Sanjay Singh – Delhi University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Documenting Crises and Disasters: A Transdisciplinarity Tryout for Liberal Arts Communication
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sakura Kudo – National Museum of Ethnology
    Chair: Sakura Kudo – National Museum of Ethnology
    Paper Presenter: Sachi Komai – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Paper Presenter: Akiko Yokoyama – National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
    Paper Presenter: Shoko Kawata – National Institute of Japanese Literature
    Paper Presenter: Kenichi Sawazaki (he/him/his) – Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
    Discussant: Go Ohba (he/him/his) – National Institutes for the Humanities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Narrated Narrators: Reframing Crime in Kirino Natsuo’s Real World
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sachi Komai – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Beyond Documentation: A Community-driven Approach to Endangered Language Preservation in Okinoerabu
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Akiko Yokoyama – National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Waka Literature in a Society in Crisis
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shoko Kawata – National Institute of Japanese Literature
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) A Practical Study on the Use of Visual Arts in Decision-making During Disasters for Sustainable Futures
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kenichi Sawazaki (he/him/his) – Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Domesticity as Method: Engaging Materialities and Lived Experiences in Global Asia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Aileen Del Rosario-Rondilla – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Royal and Queer House of Galang: Philippine Drag and Reconfiguring Queer Domesticity
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Miguel Antonio N. Lizada (he/him/his) – The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) 'We Keep Trained Baboons to Do Housework': Repulsive Animality and the Making of Colonial Domesticity in the Philippines
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Precarious Domesticities: figurations of Filipino Domestic Workers in Cathy Garcia-sampana's Hello, Love, Goodbye
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Domestic Dynamics: Entrepreneurial Class-makings and Economic Strategies of Local Family Businesses in the Philippine Construction Industry
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Aileen Del Rosario-Rondilla – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    From Structure to Sensation: Literary Mapping and Infrastructure Transformation in Cold War Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    Chair: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    Paper Presenter: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    Paper Presenter: Yu Lin (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Seongju Lee – Dongguk University
    Paper Presenter: Chieh-Ju Lin (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    Discussant: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Diffracting Nature and the Sensibility of War: Archipelagos and Landscapes in the Literature of Gongsun Yan
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chih-Chi Weng (she/her/hers) – National Taipei University of Education
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Poetry at a Crossroads: The Factors of Glocalization in Taiwan's Modern Poetry Through Visual Technology
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yu Lin (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Significance of Cracks in Land Reform and Anti-communist Narrative: Focusing on Hwang Sun-won's Descendant of Cain
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Seongju Lee – Dongguk University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Battle of Female/ Taiwanese Ghosts: Exploring Taiwanese Landscape and Local Agency in Li Ang's the Visible Ghosts
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chieh-Ju Lin (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Killing, Internment and Forced Marches Revisited: New Perspectives on Military and Civilian Prisoners in the Pacific War
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Chair: Nissim Otmazgin – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Paul Taucher (he/him/his) – Murdoch University
    Paper Presenter: Sandra Wilson – Morduch University
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Kovner – Columbia University
    Discussant: Nissim Otmazgin – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) A License to Kill? The Principle of Punishment, Chinese Pows and the Roots of the Nanjing Massacre
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Death Marches, Massacres and Mass Deaths in the Asia-pacific War
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Paul Taucher (he/him/his) – Murdoch University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) THE JAPANESE MASSACRE OF Pows ON WAKE ISLAND IN 1943
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sandra Wilson – Morduch University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Captivity of Yoneoka Futoru at Tule Lake
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sarah Kovner – Columbia University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Local Expressive Practices in Global Circulation: Documentation, Archiving, Performance, and Sustainability
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Chair: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Paper Presenter: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Paper Presenter: Mason Brown – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Rajan Shrestha (he/him/his) – Nepal Music Archive
    Paper Presenter: Dinesh Raj Upadhyaya – Kathmandu University
    Co-Author: Rita Thapa Magar (she/her/hers) – Folk and Dohori Song Academy Nepal
    Co-Author: Hikmat Khadka (he/him/his) – US Embassy Nepal
    Paper Presenter: Lochan Rijal (he/him/his) – Kathmandu University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Preserving Sorati: Subi Shah's 1960s Efforts and Contemporary Performers' Desires
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Anna M. Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Co-author: Rita Thapa Magar (she/her/hers) – Folk and Dohori Song Academy Nepal
    Co-author: Hikmat Khadka (he/him/his) – US Embassy Nepal
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Sugar for the Ears: Collaborative Song Collecting in Nubri, Nepal
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mason Brown – Independent Scholar
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Nepal Music Archive: Preserving and Repatriating Nepal's Musical Heritage
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rajan Shrestha (he/him/his) – Nepal Music Archive
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Music Documentation Through Documentary Filmmaking: Ideals and Challenges
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Dinesh Raj Upadhyaya – Kathmandu University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Preserving Tangible and Intangible Heritage Together at Kathmandu University Department of Music's Tripura Sundari Campus
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lochan Rijal (he/him/his) – Kathmandu University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Marginality and Violence in Literature: Assessing Role and Impact as Agent of Solution
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Garima Malik (she/her/hers) – Bhagat Phool Singh Women University
    Organizer: Kadambri Gasso (she/her/hers) – Government College, Amargarh (Malerkotla)
    Chair: Ashok Verma (he/him/his) – Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya
    Paper Presenter: Garima Malik (she/her/hers) – Bhagat Phool Singh Women University
    Paper Presenter: Kadambri Gasso (she/her/hers) – Government College, Amargarh (Malerkotla)
    Paper Presenter: Mohit Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Vikash Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Saru Sachdeva – Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
    Co-Author: Sanjeet Kaur (she/her/hers) – University of Lucknow
    Co-Author: Vrinda Vats (she/her/hers) – PM Shri Jawhar Navodya School
    Discussant: Himanshu Parmar (he/him/his) – Himachal Pradesh University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Language and Literature as Instruments of Resistance: A Comparative Study of Right-wing Propaganda and Counter-narratives in India
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Garima Malik (she/her/hers) – Bhagat Phool Singh Women University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Countering Islamophobia: Studying Sufism as a Solution to the Violence Against Religious Minorities in India
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Kadambri Gasso (she/her/hers) – Government College, Amargarh (Malerkotla)
    Co-author: Vrinda Vats (she/her/hers) – PM Shri Jawhar Navodya School
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Eclipsed Voices: Marginality and Caste Violence in Gurdial Singh's Alms for a Blind Horse
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mohit Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Life on the Burning Ghats: Understanding Caste Disparity in Modern India as Showcased in Rajesh S. Jala's Documentary Children of the Pyre
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Vikash Singh (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) The Complexity of gender and Sexuality: Assessing the Depiction of Marginality and Violence in Sridhar Rangayan's Documentary Purple Skies
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Saru Sachdeva – Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
    Co-Author: Sanjeet Kaur (she/her/hers) – University of Lucknow
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Navigating in a Torrent of Time When Promises Are Ceasing: Examining the Emerging Dynamics in the Liminal Stage of Contemporary China’s Future Making
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Ruize Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Zhan Yang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Ruize Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Zhan Yang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Mengjun Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Ai Gu (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Discussant: Yukun Zeng (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Aidong (Eden) Li (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    The Political Economy of Unfinished Residential Construction: Fiscal Institutions and Financial Regulation in China and India
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Aidong (Eden) Li (she/her/hers) – Brown University
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) "For Every Degree We Weather Together": Electrifying a Haunted Landscape of Chinese Hyper-modernization in Chongqing's Scorching Summers
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ruize Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Constructing Livable Reality Through the Commitment to the near Future in China's Developmental Zones
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zhan Yang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Made in China 2.0: Temporal Encounters and Affective Displacement in Reframing the Promise of China's Globalisation Frontiers
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mengjun Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Temporal Fractures and Repairments: The Nostalgic and Melancholic Practices of Chinese Youth Left-wing Activists
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ai Gu (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Negotiating Spaces: A Study of the Periphery, Marginalities, and the In-between in Malaysia and Singapore
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University
    Chair: Armand Azra bin Azlira – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Sharmini Aphrodite – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Armand Azra bin Azlira – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Ke Ying Sheryl Lee – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Alison Fong (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Sharmini Aphrodite – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Behind Plantation Lines: Cartography and Space on Malayan Rubber Estates in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Ringing the Bells: Christianity and the Kadazan-dusun Identity from 1967-1976
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sharmini Aphrodite – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Radio War Malaysia: Neo-colonial Subjectification Under Konfrontasi and the Ghosts of Kalimantan Utara in 1963-1966
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Armand Azra bin Azlira – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Navigating the In-between: Belief on Singapore's Waterloo Street
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ke Ying Sheryl Lee – Nanyang Technological University
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) From City Streets to Crop Fields: Housewives and the Illicit Economy in Japanese-occupied Singapore
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Alison Fong (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Performativities and Alternative Modernities: Case Studies of Religious Practices in East and Southeast Asia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    Chair: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    Paper Presenter: Ryohei Takamura (he/him/his) – Akita University
    Paper Presenter: Chawarote Valyamedhi – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    Paper Presenter: Atsuko Fukuura (she/her/hers) – Shiga University
    Discussant: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Confucianism and Shamanism on the Epitaphs of Missing in Jeju Island, South Korea
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ryohei Takamura (he/him/his) – Akita University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Phra and the People: Performativity of Buddha Images in Laak Phra Communal Cultural Practice in Southern Thailand
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chawarote Valyamedhi – National Chengchi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Magic and Mobility: Case Study of Northern Thai Ritualism and Its Dissemination
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kazuo Fukuura (he/him/his) – Toin University of Yokohama
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Provoking Social Space: Stories About Rediscovering Ourselves
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Atsuko Fukuura (she/her/hers) – Shiga University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Text, Image, Code: How Digital Media Became "Global" in the Sinosphere
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Ulug Kuzuoglu (he/him/his) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Paper Presenter: Angela Xiao Wu (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Eliot Chen (they/them/theirs) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Discussant: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Film, Bianxiang, and Digital Mediation in Chen Chieh-jen's Video Art
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anatoly Detwyler (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Taxation, Policing, and the Origins of Chinese Data Processing in Taiwan
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ulug Kuzuoglu (he/him/his) – Washington University in St. Louis
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Chinese Platformization: A Genealogy
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Angela Xiao Wu (she/her/hers) – New York University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Edward Yang's Wind: (Un)Folding a Global History of the Digital Neo-baroque
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Eliot Chen (they/them/theirs) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Transcending Margins: (Re)Imagining Women's Identity in South Asian Performative Space(s)
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Organizer: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Chair: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Paper Presenter: Kuntalika Jharimune (she/her/hers) – Vignan's Institute of Information Technology
    Paper Presenter: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Paper Presenter: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    Discussant: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Amidst Opportunity and Exclusion: Urban Jatra and Its Women Performers
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kuntalika Jharimune (she/her/hers) – Vignan's Institute of Information Technology
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Performing Bidaai in the City: Migration, Modernity, and the Reconfiguration of Gender Roles
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bidisha Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Dynamics of Identity and Space in Performing Chhat Puja by Migrant Groups in Urban India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Payal Priya (she/her/hers) – Amity University Jharkhand
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Asian Digital Nomads in the Post-pandemic Era: Navigating Identity, Gender, Home and Spatial Practices
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yuchen Song (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Organizer: Yinshuang Dong – Nanjing University
    Chair: Xin Yu – Shenzhen University
    Discussant: Xin Yu – Shenzhen University
    Paper Presenter: Yuchen Song (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Qinghan Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Yang (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Yinshuang Dong – Nanjing University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Crafting an Aspirational Digital Nomad Identity: Identity Building, Psychological Satisfaction, and Consumerism
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yuchen Song (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Rebuilding Rhythms and Gender Power of the Post-pandemic Scenario: The Movement of Asian Female Digital Nomads in Bali's Workplaces
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Qinghan Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Freedom and Imagined Spaces: Aesthetic Practices and Cultural Landscapes of Digital Nomads in the Post-pandemic Era
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yifan Yang (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) 'The Global Sense of Home' in the Post-pandemic Era: An Examination of the Re-nomadizing Motivations of Chinese Digital Nomads
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yinshuang Dong – Nanjing University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond Audibility: Cultural Soundscapes and Sensory Belonging in Contemporary East Asia
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Fenglin Ju (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Yucong Hao (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Discussant: Ka Lee Wong – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Fenglin Ju (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Paper Presenter: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    Co-Author: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    Paper Presenter: Zixuan Wang – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Yitong Guo (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Does the Tree Make a Sound? Inaudible Sound and Affect in Chinese Otome Games
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Fenglin Ju (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cultural Imagination: A Study on Enhancing the Sense of Belonging Among Asian International Students Through Sound-based Pedagogy
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Co-author: Ziyu Feng – University of Arizona
    Co-author: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Cultural Imagination: A Study on Enhancing the Sense of Belonging Among Asian International Students Through Sound-based Pedagogy
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lei Wang – University of Arizona
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Collective Musicking on Bilibili
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zixuan Wang – University of Texas at Austin
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Animated by Earshot: Podcast Listening, Audio Drama, and Digital Intimacy in Contemporary China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yitong Guo (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Beyond the Margins: Reframing Marginality and Identity in Taiwan in the Modern Era
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Horng-luen Wang (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Chair: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Harry Yi-Jui Wu (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University
    Discussant: Harry Yi-Jui Wu (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University
    Paper Presenter: Horng-luen Wang (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Pin-Yi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Jolan Hsieh (she/her/hers) – National Dong Hwa University
    Discussant: Jolan Hsieh (she/her/hers) – National Dong Hwa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Strengthening the Nation's Body by Mobilizing the Colony's Environment: A Case Study of Onsen Bathing in Transwar Taiwan
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Harry Yi-Jui Wu (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Navigating Through the Edge of Empires: Marginality, External Factors and Taiwan's Search for National Identity
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Horng-luen Wang (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reconstructing National Identity: Exploring Marginalities in Taiwan's National Museums
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pin-Yi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) From Margins to Core: The Path of National Identity for Taiwan's Indigenous Peoples
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jolan Hsieh (she/her/hers) – National Dong Hwa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Contested Urbanism: Making Sense of the Spatial Dynamics of Cities in Indonesia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Organizer: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Chair: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Paper Presenter: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Paper Presenter: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Amalinda Savirani (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    Paper Presenter: Evi Mariani (she/her/hers) – Project Multatuli
    Paper Presenter: Herlily Herlily (she/her/hers) – University of Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Algorithmic Dreamscapes: Navigating Utopian Narratives and Resistance in Nusantara, the New Capital
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Merlyna Lim (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Political Ecology and Spatial Contestations in the Urbanising Pantura
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Geography of Resistance, Labour Union, and Urban Spatial Politics in Bekasi, West Java Indonesia
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Amalinda Savirani (she/her/hers) – Gadjah Mada University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Flooded and Suffocated: Poor Housing Conditions for Workers in Jakarta Amid the Climate Crisis
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Evi Mariani (she/her/hers) – Project Multatuli
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Politicising the Kampung: Narratives of Jakarta's Urban Poor in Gubernatorial Campaigns (2012-2024)
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Herlily Herlily (she/her/hers) – University of Indonesia
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries Through the Lens of Auto-biographical Narratives, Memoirs and Travelogues
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Barnali Chanda (she/her/hers) – Adamas University
    Chair: Avijit Banerjee (he/him/his) – Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal
    Paper Presenter: Barnali Chanda (she/her/hers) – Adamas University
    Paper Presenter: Swati Moitra (she/her/hers) – Gurudas College, University of Calcutta
    Paper Presenter: Arpita Bose (she/her/hers) – Hooghly Mohsin College
    Paper Presenter: Jinyun Li – Fuzhou University
    Paper Presenter: Juanjuan Wu (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Travel as a Means of Cultural Reunion: post-1962 Indi and China Through the Lens of Travelogues
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Barnali Chanda (she/her/hers) – Adamas University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Of History and Hope: Bengali Women's Political Activism and Autobiographical Writing in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Swati Moitra (she/her/hers) – Gurudas College, University of Calcutta
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Journey for New Home : A Study on the Burma Returnee Bengali and the Chinese Indian
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Arpita Bose (she/her/hers) – Hooghly Mohsin College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) A Study of the Fuzhou-london Tea Transportation Race in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jinyun Li – Fuzhou University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Reworlding China from the Below: Affective Mobilities in British Women's Travel Narrative on China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Juanjuan Wu (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    From Bonds to Borders: Exploring Taiwan’s Role in Reframing Asia Through Finance, Trade, and Diasporic Networks
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Yu-wei Huang – National Taiwan University
    Chair: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Paper Presenter: Yu-wei Huang – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Discussant: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Taiwan's Sugar Trade and the Integrating of 18th-century Western Pacific Economic Network
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yu-wei Huang – National Taiwan University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Revisiting Qing's Maritime Frontier: Mapping Southeast Asia onto the Haijiang Structure
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Grain, Tobacco, and Papermaking: State Building and Rural Economy in Wartime China (1927-45)
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Boshen Yan (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Yue Yu (she/her/hers) – Xiamen University
    Discussant: Hanzhi Dai (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Growing US Tobacco in Native Soil: The Agricultural Reform and Rural Governance in Yunnan (1939-45)
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jiayi Li (she/her/hers) – The University of California, San Diego
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Feeding Ten Million Soldiers: Nationalist Army Food Provision in Republican China, 1927-1937
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Boshen Yan (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Fujian Provincial Government's Wartime Economic Control of the Paper Industry (1937–1945)
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yue Yu (she/her/hers) – Xiamen University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Landscapes of Contemporary Resistance and Marginalized Tradition: Reframed Localities, Mediated Heritages, and Organized Dissent in China and India
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Thomas Noel (he/him/his) – Villanova University
    Chair: Nathan Badenoch – Kyoto University
    Discussant: Nathan Badenoch – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Anusha Hariharan – Villanova University
    Paper Presenter: Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Noel (he/him/his) – Villanova University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Landscape(s) of Feminist Activism: Tamil Nadu and Its "Others."
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anusha Hariharan – Villanova University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Sacred and the "Dammed": The Narmada River as a Semiotic Landscape
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Nishaant Choksi – Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Hierological Landscapes and Prosodic Topographies: Onomatology, Pareidolia, and the Many Literary Faces of the Mount Lu Range
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Thomas Noel (he/him/his) – Villanova University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Many Cosmopolitanisms: Memory and Modernity in the South Asian Metropolis
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Zoya Sameen (she/her/hers) – Aga Khan University
    Chair: Surabhi Pudasaini – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Zoya Sameen (she/her/hers) – Aga Khan University
    Paper Presenter: Ahona Panda (she/her/hers) – Claremont McKenna College
    Paper Presenter: Navine Murshid – Colgate University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Cleansing Difference in a Port City: The Many Lives of Cosmopolitan Karachi
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Zoya Sameen (she/her/hers) – Aga Khan University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Armenian Calcutta: Between Memory and History
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ahona Panda (she/her/hers) – Claremont McKenna College
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The past in the Present in Folk Songs and Traditions
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Navine Murshid – Colgate University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Navigating Marginalization: Indigenous Responses to Resource Politics, Urban Mobilities, and Transitional Justice in the Context of State Modernization in Taiwan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    Chair: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    Paper Presenter: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    Paper Presenter: Sera Mika (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Shau-lou Young (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Hsiang-I Teng (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) In Situ Diaspora in the Ancestral Lands: Extractivism, Resource Politics and Multiple Marginalities in an Indigenous Truku Community, Taiwan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Chen Yi-Fong (he/him/his) – National Dong Hwa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Extractivism in National Energy Policy: Negotiation and Resistance of Marginalized Communities
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sera Mika (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Fire Pits on the Move: Dynamically Constructing, Multiplying, and Transforming the Boundaries of Indigenous Tsou Communities in Urban Taiwan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shau-lou Young (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Un/covered Indigeneity: The Indigenous Political Violence and Transitional Justice in Taiwan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hsiang-I Teng (she/her/hers) – Tunghai University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Open Reflections on the Developments and Challenges of Southeast Asian Studies in South Korea
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ki-Hyun Bae (she/her/hers) – Sogang University
    Chair: Yoon Hwan Shin – Sogang University
    Discussant: Ki-Hyun Bae (she/her/hers) – Sogang University
    Discussant: Woonkyung Yeo – Seoul National University
    Discussant: Hyung-Jun Kim – Kangwon National University
    Discussant: Kyunghoon Kim – Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
    Discussant: Eric Tagliacozzo – Cornell University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Photography's Asian Archives: Transforming Memory and Community from the Margins
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Chair: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Nadine Attewell (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Yi Gu (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto, Scarborough
    Discussant: Diwas Kc (he/him/his) – Nepal Picture Library
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Pluralism and Inclusive Service Delivery: Issues and Challenges Faced by the Malaiyaha Community in Sri Lanka
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Ravindra C. Palliyaguruge (he/him/his) – Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
    Chair: Deepika Singh, She (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Raktim Patar, He (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Discussant: Phirmi Bodo, She (she/her/hers) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Discussant: Atrayee Saha, She (she/her/hers) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Discussant: Rajendra Sharma (he/him/his) – Social Science Baha
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Reflections on the Future of Himalayan Studies - I
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Chair: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Discussant: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Discussant: Mark Turin (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Janak Rai (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University, Nepal
    Discussant: Ariana Maki (she/her/hers) – University of Idaho
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    The Governance of the Forest Carbon Frontier in Southeast Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Chair: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Paper Presenter: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Paper Presenter: Rob Cole (he/him/his) – WWF Asia-Pacific and Greater Mekong
    Paper Presenter: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Knowledge Biases in Nature-based Carbon Credits
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Shakura Nuha Binte Bashir – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Shifting the Blame: Upland Swidden Cultivation Practices and Contested Climate Change Discourses in Laos
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lamphay Inthakoun (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Navigating Through Policies and Institutions Towards Developing the National Forest Carbon Program in the Philippines
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dixon T. Gevana (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Los Baños
    Co-author: Yingshan Lau (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Nature-based Carbon Sinks and Agri-food Systems in the Greater Mekong Region: Current Trends, Mitigation Potential and Finance Needs
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rob Cole (he/him/his) – WWF Asia-Pacific and Greater Mekong
    Co-author: Rueben Manokara – WWF Asia Pacific
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Mapping Forest Carbon Markets in Laos: Commodity Chain and Actor Networks in Adaptation to Global Carbon Frameworks
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Michelle A. Miller (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: David Taylor (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Contesting Authority: Protest, Media, and Digital Activism in Contemporary Asia
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Chair: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Kenneth Ka Lok Chan – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Discussant: Kenneth Ka Lok Chan – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Lu Wei Rose Luqiu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Anti-pollution Protests in the Vietnamese Media: A Form of Contentious Authoritarianism?
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Stephan Ortmann – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Protests During the Pandemic in Asia: State vs. Society in Response to a Global Crisis
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kenneth Ka Lok Chan – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Transnational Protests and Digital Feminism: Exploring the Impact of Diasporic Chinese Feminist Collective Activities on Challenging Censorship
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lu Wei Rose Luqiu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Contesting Revolution: Media and Solidarity in the Socialist World
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Yaowen Dong (he/him/his) – University of Memphis
    Chair: Yinyin Xue (she/her/hers) – Rhodes College
    Paper Presenter: Yucong Hao (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Lin Du (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Nan Hu (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Yaowen Dong (he/him/his) – University of Memphis
    Discussant: Yifan Zhang (he/him/his) – Jilin University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Filming Xingxiang: Sino-soviet Documentary Negotiation and the Creation of the Socialist Sensorium in the 1950s
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yucong Hao (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Eva Sandberg Siao: Photographs of the Reconstruction of Tiananmen Square in 1959
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Lin Du (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Jia Zhifang and the Ways of Teaching Soviet Literature in 1950s Chinese Universities
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Nan Hu (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Gazing the West Through a Soviet Lens: Reading Ilya Ehrenburg in Socialist China, 1950-1976
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yaowen Dong (he/him/his) – University of Memphis
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Expanding Horizons: Researching Twentieth-century China from Within and Without
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Yajun Mo – Boston College
    Organizer: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University
    Chair: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University
    Discussant: Yajun Mo – Boston College
    Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh – Harvard University
    Discussant: Taomo Zhou – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Yasser Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Discussant: Gal Gvili – McGill University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Experimental Life-making in the Margins of East Asian Urbanization
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Organizer: Min Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Paper Presenter: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Paper Presenter: Min Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Jinjin Zhang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Daeun Lee (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Mun Young Cho – Yonsei University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Oral History and Community Building at the Urban Edge: A Case from Hong Kong's Land Activism
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shan Huang (he/him/his) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Migration as an Experiment: Urban-to-rural Migration and Creative Life-making in a Bookworm Village in Southwest China
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Min Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Engaging Global Urbanites: Digital Community-making for Rural Revitalization in Japan
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jinjin Zhang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Experiments in Life and Community-making with Digital Nomads in East Asia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Daeun Lee (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Food, Community, Kinship: Culinary Intimacies in Global Asias
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Anita Mannur (she/her/hers) – American University
    Chair: Fan Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Paper Presenter: Anita Mannur (she/her/hers) – American University
    Paper Presenter: Krishnendu Ray (he/him/his) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Joseph Ruanto-Ramirez (he/him/his) – Southwestern University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) From Pandan Donuts to Masala Chai Ice Cream: Infusing Asian Tastes into the Ethno-culinary Imaginary
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anita Mannur (she/her/hers) – American University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Culinary Capital and Cultural Imperialism: Asian Nationalisms in the Aftertaste of Empire
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Krishnendu Ray (he/him/his) – New York University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Feeding the Dead: On Atang and Pitik in the Philippines
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Joseph Ruanto-Ramirez (he/him/his) – Southwestern University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Global South Asians Against Global Empire Before 1947
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College
    Chair: Iqbal Sevea – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Shatrunjay Mall – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Samee Siddiqui – Drury University
    Paper Presenter: Mark Reeves – University of the West of England Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College
    Discussant: Iqbal Sevea – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) An Itinerant Intellectual on a Global Stage: Thakur Gadadhar Singh and Theorizing a Pan-asianism in the South Asian Vernacular
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Shatrunjay Mall – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) A Religious History of Pan-asianism: World Religioning, Indian Anticolonialism, and the Japanese Empire
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Samee Siddiqui – Drury University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Menon on the Move: V. K. Krishna Menon and Mobile Anticolonial Diplomacy
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mark Reeves – University of the West of England Bristol
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Interconnected Anticolonial Movements in British Malaya and India, 1941-1947
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Material Matters: The Agency of Objects in Chinese Cinematic Culture
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Chair: Paola Iovene (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Paola Iovene (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Hongfeng Tang (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Ting Luo – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Yiyang Hou – Lingnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) An Archaeology of "Shadow": From Early Cinematic Experience to Traditional Visual Culture in China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hongfeng Tang (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Film Scenes as Assemblages: Objects, Attraction, and Affect in Early Chinese Cinema
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Voice of Technology and Modernity: Gramophone, Radio and the Making of Talkies in Chinese Cinema (1931-1936)
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ting Luo – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Curating a Film Club in Print: The Editorial Design of Movie Magazines in Post-mao China, 1978-1989
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yiyang Hou – Lingnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Media Aesthetics and Transmedia Practices in Chinese Literature and Culture:
    A Long-durée and Sinophone Perspective
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yu Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Organizer: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Liang Luo (she/her/hers) – The University of Kentucky
    Paper Presenter: Yu Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Tim Shao-Hung Teng – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Qiufan Chen – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Discussant: Liang Luo (she/her/hers) – The University of Kentucky
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Love over the Wires: Representations and Discourses of Early Telephony in Late Qing and Early Republican China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Medial Avant-gardism in 1960s Taiwan: Reconceptualizing Modernism as Transmedia Humanities with Huang Hua-cheng as an Example
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pei-yin Lin – The University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Geological Aesthetics and the Medium of Life: On Wu Xubin's "Bison"
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tim Shao-Hung Teng – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Can AI Dream of Hyperreality?
    the Excessive Present and the Participatory Future of China Digital Media
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Qiufan Chen – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Mules, Peacocks, Sheep, and Tigers: Indigenous Knowledge, Diplomatic Engagement, and Ecological Shifts in a Changing Asian Borderland, 1890s-1990s
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Organizer: Yu Yan (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Chair: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Yan (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Paper Presenter: Gyatso Marni (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Xuexin Cai (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Discussant: Yucheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Indigenous Knowledge in Motion: The Shaanxi Mules, the Militarization of the Sufis, and the Panthay Exploration of Northern Burma
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) From Buddhism to Revolution: The Golden Peacock and Sino-burmese Ties During the Cold War
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yu Yan (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Improving Tibetan Sheep to Counter Imperialism: The Rise and Fall of Wool Trade in Southwest China, 1890–1950
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Gyatso Marni (he/him/his) – Yale University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Elephants, Tigers, and Poachers: Towards a Multispecies History of a Sino-southeast Asian Borderland, 1950s-1990s
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Xuexin Cai (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Marginality: The Redefinition of Chinese Elite Women in a Globalized World
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    Chair: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    Paper Presenter: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    Paper Presenter: Di Wang – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Yukun Zeng (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: hanzhang liu – Pitzer College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Compete Like a Man? The Social Origine of Women Who Succeeded in the First Gaokao After the Cultural Revolution
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Siyu LI (she/her/hers) – Aix-Marseille University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Subversive Nude and the Pioneering Women Artists in Modern China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Di Wang – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Social Contradiction of Intensive Confucian Mothering: Elite Dujing Mothers and the Gentrification of Confucian Revival
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yukun Zeng (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Trusting a Government Without Women? Lack of Female Leadership and Regime Support in China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: hanzhang liu – Pitzer College
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Margins and Centres: The Pluralities and Paradoxes Within the Environmental Modernities in Interasia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yufang Gao (he/him/his) – Yale InterAsia Initiative
    Chair: Yu Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Puget Sound
    Discussant: Yufang Gao (he/him/his) – Yale InterAsia Initiative
    Discussant: Shivangi Pareek (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Discussant: Lav Kanoi (he/him/his) – Yale Institute of Sacred Music
    Discussant: Rundong Ning (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Re-harkening Her Life Story: Women and Biographical Memory in Early Modern East Asia
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Chair: Maki Nakai – School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
    Discussant: Jolan YI (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Discussant: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Tradition and Transition: Ideological and Cultural Mobilities Shaping Modernities Across Asia and Beyond
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Zhe Hou (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
    Chair: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Zhe Hou (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Shuyang Zhao (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yang Luo (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Revolutionizing Education: Labor, Ideology, and Modernization in Maoist China
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Zhe Hou (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Expansion of Book Production and Social Transition Caused by the Buddhist Scriptures' Efficacious Stories in Medieval China
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shuyang Zhao (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Asiatic Mode of Production and Mexico's post-1968 Cultural Movement
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Commenting for Publishing: Zhong Xing's Shijing Theory and Related Commentaries
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yang Luo (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship Part 2: Perspectives on Environmental Justice
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    Organizer: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Chair: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Ulil Amri – Creighton University
    Discussant: Ulil Amri – Creighton University
    Paper Presenter: Amalie Goul Dueholm – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Khathaleeya Liamdee (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Piety and Neglect: An Exploration of Ethics in Indonesia's Waste Alms Movement
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) New Capital City in Flame: Spatial Justice and Digital Environmentalism in Indonesia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ulil Amri – Creighton University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Narratives of Environmental Justice and State-making at the Margins in 2020s Indian Cinema
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Amalie Goul Dueholm – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Landscaping Health Security Along the Thai-myanmar Border: The Question of Citizenship and Rights to Health Care in the Time of Humanitarian Crisis
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Khathaleeya Liamdee (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Voices on the Margins: Contemporary Art and Intersectionality in Hong Kong
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Discussant: Yu-Chieh Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Queenie Liu (she/her/hers) – HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education
    Paper Presenter: Doris Wai Yin Wong (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Carol Pui Ha Chow (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Crafting Connection in Constrained Spaces: The Case of Black Window, Soboring and Printhow
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Queenie Liu (she/her/hers) – HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Artist in the Nights of Labor: Undercover Worker by Luke Ching Chin Wai and the Gift Economy
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Doris Wai Yin Wong (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) When Feminism Meets Hauntology: The Return of the Dead, Trauma, and Justice in Ivy Ma's post-2012 Photo-media Art
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Carol Pui Ha Chow (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Agency of Host Countries Within China’s BRI
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Chair: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Paper Presenter: Rose Luke (she/her/hers) – University of Johannesburg
    Discussant: Rose Luke (she/her/hers) – University of Johannesburg
    Paper Presenter: Renaud Egreteau (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ruiyi Zhu (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Impact of BRI Logistics Projects on African States
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rose Luke (she/her/hers) – University of Johannesburg
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Do Parliaments Constrain Foreign Policy? Evidence from Myanmar's Parliamentary Debates on China and the BRI [2011-2021]
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Renaud Egreteau (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Negotiating Standards in Sino-mongolian Industrial Relations
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ruiyi Zhu (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) BRI Infrastructure in Sri Lanka: Examining Local Discourses
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bhagya Senaratne (she/her/hers) – Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Algorithmic Doubt in Contemporary Chinese Culture
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
    Chair: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Wenzhu Li – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Christopher Lupke – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Annabella Mei Massey – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Paper Presenter: William Beswick – Ashmolean Museum Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Implacable Emotion: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Margaret Hillenbrand – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Reconstructing Gender: How Ai-generated Conversations from Weibo Amplify Gender Biases
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wenzhu Li – University of Alberta
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Chinese Pastoral in the Age of AI: From Cottagecore to New Media Art Experiments
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Annabella Mei Massey – Courtauld Institute of Art
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) A(bstract)i(nk) Painting: A History of Artificial Intelligence-generated Art
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: William Beswick – Ashmolean Museum Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Contagious Cartographies: Risk, Agency, and Belonging in Queer Asias
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Paul Michael L. Atienza (any pronouns) – Cal Poly Humboldt
    Paper Presenter: Jih-Fei Cheng – Scripps College
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Pulse of Gay Asia: Infrastructure, Homophobia, and Neoliberal Agency in HIV Medical Tourism
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen (they/them/theirs) – University of California, San Diego
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Online Worlds in the Multiverse of Queerness: Reimagining Belonging and Queer Identity Subject Formation Among the Global Filipinx/a/o
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Paul Michael L. Atienza (any pronouns) – Cal Poly Humboldt
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Financial Epidemiology: Diseased Ecologies and the Global Risk Economy
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jih-Fei Cheng – Scripps College
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Contours of Cosmopolitanism: Cityscapes of Belonging and Marginal Modernities in Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Abhimanyu Kumar (he/him/his) – Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University
    Chair: Arun Gupto (he/him/his) – Pokhara University
    Paper Presenter: Abhimanyu Kumar (he/him/his) – Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University
    Paper Presenter: Pankaj kumar Singh (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    Paper Presenter: Jonmani Das (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Paper Presenter: Mayurakshi Kumar (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) City of Faith: Religious Identity Formation and Urbanisation in the Kathmandu Valley
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Abhimanyu Kumar (he/him/his) – Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Sacred Urban Space and Cultural Pluralism: The Evolution of Early Modern Banaras as a Cosmopolitan Centre
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Pankaj kumar Singh (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Making of an Early Modern Civic Space: Law and Authority and Everyday Governance in the English East India Company Settlement of Madras (1640s-1750s)
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jonmani Das (he/him/his) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Hierarchies of Belonging: Pluralism and Social Regulation in the Urban Landscape of 18th Century Jaipur
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mayurakshi Kumar (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Engaging Multiculturalism and Pluralism in Island Southeast Asia: Expanding Language and Culture Studies of Indonesia and the Philippines
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Juliana Wijaya (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Juliana Wijaya (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Pia Arbodela (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Discussant: Kimi Yamoto (she/her/hers) – Osaka University
    Discussant: G. G. Weix (she/her/hers) – University of Montana
    Discussant: Richard Fox (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    From Margins to Center: Rediscovering Peripheral Artifacts in Late Imperial China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Tianyu Shi (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
    Organizer: Dingwei Guo (he/him/his) – Free University
    Chair: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Tianyu Shi (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
    Paper Presenter: Dingwei Guo (he/him/his) – Free University
    Paper Presenter: Ziwei Ye – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    Discussant: Yi-fei You – National Chung Hsing University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Unearthed Gems: The Rediscovery and Centralization of Stone Inscriptions from the Margins of the Empire in the 18th Century
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tianyu Shi (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Invisible Tapestry: The Reception and Reconstruction of Confucian Ritual Music by Dongjing Assemblies 洞经会 in Yunnan Jianshui During the Late Qing
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Dingwei Guo (he/him/his) – Free University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Revival of Buddhist Glossaries: Knowledge Flow and Perception in Qing China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ziwei Ye – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Discovering the Frontier from the Center: The Rise of Northwestern Studies and Information Networks in 19th-century China
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Intersections of Identity, Gender, and Representation in Modern South Asia
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar, pakistan
    Chair: Pradip Prakashrao Kapse (he/him/his) – Savitribai Phule Pune University
    Paper Presenter: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar, pakistan
    Paper Presenter: Pradip Prakashrao Kapse (he/him/his) – Savitribai Phule Pune University
    Co-Author: Aung Min Thein (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Anagha Tambe
    Paper Presenter: Abhijit Bhattachatya (he/him/his) – Nabagram Amar Chand Kundu College
    Speaker: Ame Khin May-Kyawt (she/her/hers) – York University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Indigenous Rights, Globalized Regressions: The case of Transgender Protection Act in Pakistan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad Nawfal Saleemi (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Gendered Perspectives on Decolonisation: The Role of Women in Reshaping Psychological Knowledge in Pakistan
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar, pakistan
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Debating Marginal Bodies: Representation of 'Disability' in Hindi Sports Cinema
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pradip Prakashrao Kapse (he/him/his) – Savitribai Phule Pune University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Redefining the Migrant Body: A Study of RBD Settlements in Middle Andaman Island After 1964
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Abhijit Bhattachatya (he/him/his) – Nabagram Amar Chand Kundu College
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Forced Mobility and Marginalized Minorities: A Comparative Study of the Lived Experiences of Forced Displaced Women in Thailand and Canada
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ame Khin May-Kyawt (she/her/hers) – York University
    Co-author: Aung Min Thein (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    'Meatways' in Asia: Health, Cultural Politics, and Sustainability
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sango Mahanty (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Organizer: Assa Doron (he/him/his) – Australian National University
    Chair: Assa Doron (he/him/his) – Australian National University
    Discussant: Sango Mahanty (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Discussant: Danny Marks (he/him/his) – Dublin City University
    Discussant: Sarah Turner (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Discussant: Eva Nisa (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Discussant: Jin Qian (she/her/hers) – Wageningen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Modernity, Mobility, and the Notion of Being a Burden to Others: Aging, Death, and End-of-life Care in Contemporary Japan
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    Chair: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    Paper Presenter: Satoshi Kato – Tohoku University
    Paper Presenter: Mayumi Ono – Ritsumeikan University
    Paper Presenter: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Media Coverage of Respect for the Aged Since the Late 20th Century
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Satoshi Kato – Tohoku University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Notion of Not Being a Burden to Others Among Japanese Retirement Migrants in Malaysia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mayumi Ono – Ritsumeikan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Relationship Between Mobility of Place of Receiving Care and the Notion of Being a Burden to Others in Early Modern Japan
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Masafumi Motomura – Okayama University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    New Perspectives on Culture Under Empire in Modern China Japan Relations
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Chair: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Yun Xia – Shanghai University
    Paper Presenter: Haiying Hou – Shanghai Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Liang Yao – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yijia Zhang – Shanghai University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Inter-asian Translation: Japanese Colonizers Study Chinese and Taiwanese
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Prohibition in China and Japan in the Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Analysis
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yun Xia – Shanghai University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Pioneering Japanese Women Doctors in Early 20th-century China: The Case of Maejima Keiko
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Haiying Hou – Shanghai Normal University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Sino-japanese Rivalry in the Soft Drink Business in Early Twentieth Century Tianjin: A Case Study on Hongxing Soft Drink Company
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Liang Yao – Peking University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) The Shanghai Espionage Incident and the Trilateral Conflicts Among China, Japan and the United States
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yijia Zhang – Shanghai University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Redefining Manchuria: Intercultural Negotiation and Transnational Knowledge Production of Northeast Asia in the Early Twentieth Century
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Tomasz Ewertowski (he/him/his) – Shanghai International Studies University
    Paper Presenter: Wenhao Guan (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Rui Li (he/him/his) – The University of Guelph
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reimagining Landscapes and Shaping Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Manchurian Travel Handbooks in the Early Twentieth Century
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Educating Teachers About Manchuria: Geography Teacher's Guide, Nation-building, and Knowledge Production in Late Qing & Republican China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Wenhao Guan (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Marriage and Family Under the Racial and Gender Hierarchies in Manchukuo: Gender Knowledge From
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Rui Li (he/him/his) – The University of Guelph
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Hinduism in the Global Space: Texts, Traditions, and Theopoetics
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: George Pati – Valparaiso University
    Chair: Diana Dimitrova – University of Montreal
    Paper Presenter: George Pati – Valparaiso University
    Paper Presenter: Diana Dimitrova – University of Montreal
    Paper Presenter: Tracy Pintchman – Loyola University, Chicago
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reframing Bhakti from the Margins in the Global Space of Theopoetics
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: George Pati – Valparaiso University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Reframing the Brahma Kumari Tradition in Global Space
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Diana Dimitrova – University of Montreal
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reframing Kalki for a Global Audience in Kevin Missal's Kalki Trilogy
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Tracy Pintchman – Loyola University, Chicago
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Politics of Memory in Asia and Beyond: Empowerment, Healing, Flipping the Script
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Kevin Laddapong (any pronouns) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    Chair: Somrak Chaisingkananont (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
    Co-Author: Somrak Chaisingkananont (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Laddapong (any pronouns) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    Paper Presenter: Pimnara Chanorn – Mahidol University
    Co-Author: Pimnara Chanorn – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Sirima Thongsawang – Chulalongkorn University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Whiteness Studies as Decolonization and Healing
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Kevin Laddapong (any pronouns) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Negotiating Memory and Modernity: The Case of Samsen, Bangkok
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Pimnara Chanorn – Mahidol University
    Co-Author: Somrak Chaisingkananont (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Sociopolitical Construction of the Wiset Chai Chan Historical Park Royalty Monument: A Case Study of Implications for an Aging Society and Community Development in Angthong Province, Thailand
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sirima Thongsawang – Chulalongkorn University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Toward Ethical Futures: Reframing the Japanese Repatriation Vis-à-vis Atomic-bombings, Ethnic Minorities, and Museums
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Nobuko Yamasaki – Lehigh University
    Chair: Nobuko Yamasaki – Lehigh University
    Discussant: Nobuko Yamasaki – Lehigh University
    Paper Presenter: Takayuki Kawaguchi (he/him/his) – Hiroshima University
    Paper Presenter: Wenju Lee – Tamkang University
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan Bull – Hokkaido University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The "Atomic Bomb" Narrative and the "Repatriation" Narrative: Their convergence or their divergence
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Takayuki Kawaguchi (he/him/his) – Hiroshima University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Landscape of Colonial Taiwan in Repatriate Literature – Sakaguchi Reiko's Post-war Literature
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Wenju Lee – Tamkang University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Incorporating a Cultural History of Margins and Mobilities into Japanese Repatriation Museums
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jonathan Bull – Hokkaido University
    Northeast Asia
  • 6:45 PM – 7:40 PM NPT
    FILM: Bhedako Oon Jasto (Like Sheep’s Wool)
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    South Asia