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  • Tuesday, June 3, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    China Infrastructural Inc: Cultural Politics of Modernity in the Making on Margins
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Minhua Ling (she/her/hers) – Geneva Graduate Institute
    Organizer: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Minhua Ling (she/her/hers) – Geneva Graduate Institute
    Co-Author: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yu Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Puget Sound
    Paper Presenter: Yi Kang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Shiru Wang (she/her/hers) – Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Juan Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Infra)-structural Disconnect: Modernizing Toilets in Rural China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Minhua Ling (she/her/hers) – Geneva Graduate Institute
    Co-author: Jun Zhang (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Infrastructure in Suspension and the Fetishism of Tourism in Ethnic Rural China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yu Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Puget Sound
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Navigating the Evolving Digital Landscape in Hong Kong
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yi Kang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Co-author: Kevin K. W. Ip – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Co-author: Wendy L.Y. Leung – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Social Media as Infrastructure for Centralizing Nationalist Discourse
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shiru Wang (she/her/hers) – Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Cross-border Migration in India and Pakistan: Exploring Contemporary Trends and Challenges
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Rashid Muhammad – The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan
    Chair: Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely (she/her/hers) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Rashid Muhammad – The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan
    Paper Presenter: Shahana Maryam (she/her/hers) – University of Sargodha
    Paper Presenter: Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely (she/her/hers) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa (he/him/his) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    Discussant: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa (he/him/his) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Cross-border Migration in India and Pakistan: Exploring Contemporary Trends and Challenges
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rashid Muhammad – The Islamia University of Bahwalpur, Pakistan
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Divided Waters, Contested Legacy: Hydro-diplomacy over Indus Basin in the Wake of India's Partition
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shahana Maryam (she/her/hers) – University of Sargodha
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) A Dark Chapter of Muslim Genocide: Partition of India 1947
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely (she/her/hers) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Kashmir: A Partition Story-unraveling the Migration Dynamics
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa (he/him/his) – University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Empowering Health in the Anthropocene: Decolonizing Medical Practice in Southeast Asia Through Re-inventing Traditional Medicines
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Chair: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Paper Presenter: Joanne Lim – University of Nottingham Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Linda Bustan – Petra University
    Discussant: Inggrid Tania (he/him/his) – Indonesian Medical Association for The Development of Traditional Medicine
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) (not)-chinese, (not)-Malay, (not)-Indian: Racialization and Deracialization of Traditional Asian Medicine in Singapore.
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Saroja Devi Dorairajoo – Mahidol University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Understanding (Re)Generative Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Malaysia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Joanne Lim – University of Nottingham Malaysia
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Dynamic Practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Indonesia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Linda Bustan – Petra University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Exploring the (in)Flexibility of East Asian Masculinities: Marginality, Border Crossings, and the Mobility of Power
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jinbo Yuan (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    Chair: Ran Ma – Nagoya University
    Discussant: Tingting Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Tracy Lee (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    Paper Presenter: Jinbo Yuan (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Hao Wen (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Weiying Yu – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Making of Mirror: Cultural Production and Idol Industry in Hong Kong
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tracy Lee (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) When Eunuchs Are Portrayed as the Best Lovers: The Ideal East Asian Masculinity Is the Castrated One?
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jinbo Yuan (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Men Moving (with) the City: Configuring the Cosmopolitan Chinese Masculinity of Xiu Jian in Global City Tokyo
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hao Wen (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Other Possibilities of Infrastructure in East Asia: Counter-masculinity, Counter-aesthetics, and Visual Speculation
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Weiying Yu – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Gendered Transformations in Reproduction and Parenting: Ideological Shifts in Motherhood and Fatherhood in Contemporary China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Congwei Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Glasgow
    Chair: Yifan Yang (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Congwei Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Glasgow
    Paper Presenter: Haoyue tan – University College London
    Paper Presenter: Xijia You, n/a – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Mingxuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) After Surrogacy: Parenting Experiences of Chinese Gay Men
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Congwei Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Glasgow
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Understanding Contemporary Chinese Fatherhood: Cultures and Practices of Urban Middle-class Millennial Fathers
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Haoyue tan – University College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Gendered Temporalities and Shifting Reproductive Norms: A Study of Delaying Childbearing in Shenzhen, China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xijia You, n/a – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Motherhood Before Birth: Navigating Drug Use During Pregnancy in Contemporary China
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mingxuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Mediating Spaces On/of Screen (Part 2): Construction, Circulation and Reception in South Asian Media Ecology
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Pritha Chakrabarti (she/they) – Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University
    Chair: Neepa Majumdar (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Neepa Majumdar (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Suvadip Sinha (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Pritha Chakrabarti (she/they) – Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University
    Paper Presenter: Rutuja Deshmukh (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Veil and the Screen: Purdah in 1930s Bombay Movie Theaters
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Neepa Majumdar (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) When the Lights Go Down: Film Theatres in Indian Cinema
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Suvadip Sinha (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Constructing Spaces of Love and Modernity: Role of Art Direction in Hindi Film Song and Dance
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pritha Chakrabarti (she/they) – Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Rehearsing Resistance: 'Talim' as a Space of Bahujan Assertion in Marathi Cinema
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Rutuja Deshmukh (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    New Frontiers of Politics, Economy, and Settlement in Ancient East and Inner Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    Chair: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Annie Chan (she/her/hers) – University of Munich
    Paper Presenter: Yuri Pines (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Yohei Kakinuma – Waseda University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) China's First Colonial Experience in Inner Asia from a Comparative Perspective
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Maxim Korolkov – University of Heidelberg
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) The Built Environment as Mobility Strategy in the Montane and Desert Steppes of Iron Age Inner Asia
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Annie Chan (she/her/hers) – University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Empire-building on the Margins: The State of Zeng and Chu's "Soft Power"
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yuri Pines (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Gift Exchange in Early China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yohei Kakinuma – Waseda University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Ecological Perspectives for a Global Asia: What Do Hindu Traditions Offer?
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    Chair: Knut Axel Jacobsen (he/him/his) – University of Bergen
    Paper Presenter: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    Discussant: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    Paper Presenter: Knut Axel Jacobsen (he/him/his) – University of Bergen
    Paper Presenter: Manisha Sheth Gutman (she/her/hers) – Ecoexist Foundation
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Krishna's Pastimes Revised: The Intersection of Rural Eco-communal Living and the Hindu Sacred Landscape of the Krishna Valley (Hungary) and Radhadesh (Belgium)
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Deborah D.C de Koning (she/her/hers) – Tilburg University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Some Possible sāṃkhya-yoga Ethical Responses to the Current Ongoing Destruction of the Natural World
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Knut Axel Jacobsen (he/him/his) – University of Bergen
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Circularity in Hindu Belief Systems - A Case Study of the Punaravartan Campaign During the Ganesh Chaturthi Festival
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Manisha Sheth Gutman (she/her/hers) – Ecoexist Foundation
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Gendered Futures on Digital Platforms and Through Transnational Mobility
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Howard Chiang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Katrien Jacobs (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Jasmine Zhu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Francisca Yuenki Lai – National Tsing Hua University
    Paper Presenter: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Affordable Deepfake Russian Wives Amongst Chinese Digital Influencers
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Katrien Jacobs (she/her/hers) – Monash University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) 'You Are so Pretty That You Don't Look Chinese': Cruel Optimism in Overseas Young Chinese Female Influencers' Construction of Transnational Femininity
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yuan Jasmine Zhu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Middle-aged Matters: Transnational Care Among Hong Kong Women Immigrants in the UK
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Francisca Yuenki Lai – National Tsing Hua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Living in and Outside of Hong Kong: The Transnational Mobility of Queer Women Immigrants
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Lucetta Kam (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reframing Interspecies Subjectivities in Global Asia: Ethnographic Engagements with Human-elephant Mobility, Temporality, and Intersubjectivity
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Rebecca S. Winkler (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Chair: Anandi Gandhi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca S. Winkler (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Anandi Gandhi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Reframing Human-elephant Co-laboring, and Cohabitation in Thailand
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rebecca S. Winkler (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Interspecies Tactics of Disruption: Farmer-elephant Sociality in Eastern Thailand
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anandi Gandhi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) The Kui and Their Elephants, a Modern Nomadic Life in Thailand Tourism Landscape
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wasan Panyagaew – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Reimagining Indigeneity: Indigenous Alternatives and Nonhuman Companions on the Tibetan Plateau
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Junhan Hu (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Mark Henderson (he/him/his) – Mills College at Northeastern University
    Paper Presenter: Junhan Hu (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Drolma Gadou (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado, Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Dan WU (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Guangye Qi (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Seeing Like a 'Child of Heaven': Alienation and Cultural Survival in the Yugur Pastoral Community of Northwest China
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Jinba Tenzin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Toward an Indigenous Mimetic Conservation: Emerging Attentiveness and Multispecies Relations Around Invasive Pika, Upland Buzzard, and Tibetan Herders in the Ganjia Grassland
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Junhan Hu (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Collison of Capitalist Value Regimes and Indigenous Practices: Through the Lens of Yak Wool Commodity Chain
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Drolma Gadou (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado, Boulder
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Geographical Abstraction in Caterpillar Fungus Commodification: Interactions Between Urban Markets and Rural Frontier Tibet
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Dan WU (she/her/hers) – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (5) “Connecting Objects” of the Sino-Tibetan Cultural Zone: The Inter-ethnic Commercial Network in the Huarui Tibetan Area During the Republican Period
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Guangye Qi (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Taste, Tradition, and Transformation: Exploring Food Cultures and Identities in Laos and Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Malinee Khumsupa (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Malinee Khumsupa (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Sorayut Aiem-UeaYut (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Phothong Chanthavilay (he/him/his) – National University of Laos
    Paper Presenter: Ruetaitip Chansrakaeo (she/her/hers) – Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Nourishing Identity: Exploring Gastronomy, Food Sovereignty, and Sustainability in Chiang Mai, Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Malinee Khumsupa (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Multicultural Roti Societythe Myth of Flavors and the Immigrational Taste in Chiang Mai, Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sorayut Aiem-UeaYut (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) The Cultural Politics of Food in Laos: Sustainability, Ethics, and New Styles of Taste and Consumption
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Phothong Chanthavilay (he/him/his) – National University of Laos
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) The Mala Hotpot and the New Chinese Migrants in Thailand
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ruetaitip Chansrakaeo (she/her/hers) – Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Thai Buddhist Cosmology and Divination in Contemporary Contexts
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Roni N. Wang (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Chair: M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Paper Presenter: Roni N. Wang (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Paper Presenter: Bonnie Pacala Brereton (she/her/hers) – Khon Kaen University
    Paper Presenter: Natchapol Sirisawad (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) Oh My Ghost: Pret and Phi Representations in Thai Cosmological Parks
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Roni N. Wang (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Why Do Contemporary Murals in Thai Temples Include Divination Subject Matter? reflections on Mural Paintings at Wat Sisudharam and Wat Sunthorn Thammatan
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Thai Buddhist Cosmology: Descriptions of the Human Realm
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Bonnie Pacala Brereton (she/her/hers) – Khon Kaen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Interpreting the Three Worlds Cosmology or Tribhūmi: A Case of buddhist Art at Wat Sutthiwararam, Bangkok
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Natchapol Sirisawad (he/him/his) – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    Things That Connect: New Approaches to Material Culture and Women in Late Imperial China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yuanfei Wang (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Chair: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuanfei Wang (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Huan Jin – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Yuhang Li – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (1) The Supernatural Hairpin in Three Late Ming Chuanqi Plays
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuanfei Wang (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (2) Paper Bodies: Letter and Gender in Jin Ping Mei
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Huan Jin – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (3) Sensuous Plum Blossoms: Jin Liying (1772-1807) and the Paintings of “Luofu Dream”
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Fong Fong Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM NPT
    (4) Wandering on Water: Empress Dowager Cixi and Her Boats
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yuhang Li – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Chinese Global Orders?
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Discussant: Adhira Mangalagiri (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Discussant: Tansen Sen (he/him/his) – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Tansen Sen (he/him/his) – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Selina Ho – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Shigeto Sonoda, University of Tokyo
    Organizer: Adhira Mangalagiri (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Discussant: Sarvani Gooptu, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Cosmos, City and the World: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Classical and Modern Contexts
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Weimo Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Chair: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Weimo Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Zheng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Laurel Kendall (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) From Periphery to the Center: Reimagining the Sacred Geography in the Liao Dynasty
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Youn-mi Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Cosmology and the Ideal State-city in Plato's Magnesia and Yuan Beijing: Text and Practice
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Weimo Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) From Canton to the World: The Journey of Chinese Medicinal Plants
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Hispanic Genealogy of Imagining Asia: The Distinction Between Civilization and Barbarism in Juan Cobo's Testimony of the True Religion
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ran Wei (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (5) Shifting Capitals and Migrating Powers: Excavating the Ancient Kingdom of Chu Between Legend and History
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yifan Zheng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Emerging Digital Media Landscape and Civic Imagination in Contemporary China
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Chair: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Lucia Lu Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Shuhao Chen (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Hong Zeng (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Digital Diaspora in China: Internet Citizenship and the Emergence of Runology
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Winnie Yanjing Wu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) “Too Tired to Sleep”: ASMR, Self-Care, and the Contested Rest in China’s Digital Landscape
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lucia Lu Chen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Reimagining Identity through Short Video: Chinese Internal Return Migrants as Digital Creators
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Shuhao Chen (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Techno-cultural Nationalism in China's Gaming Industry: The Case of Black Myth: Wukong
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Hong Zeng (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Global Chinas, Local Adaptations: Historical Strategies for Cultural Appropriation and Navigation in Sino-west Cultural Interchange
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Jianye He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Weihong Du (she/her/hers) – Knox College
    Paper Presenter: Jianye He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Weihong Du (she/her/hers) – Knox College
    Paper Presenter: Giusi Tamburello (she/her/hers) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
    Discussant: Giusi Tamburello (she/her/hers) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
    Paper Presenter: Salvatore Giuffrè (he/him/his) – King's College London
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) A Transnational Community for Social Education and Mobilization: The Role of the San Francisco Chinatown YMCA in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jianye He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Intercultural Linchpins: Mimetic Authenticity and Foreign Perception in Sino-western Constructions of Peking Opera in the 1930s
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Weihong Du (she/her/hers) – Knox College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Transcultural Dimension of the "Palazzina Cinese" in Palermo, Italy
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Giusi Tamburello (she/her/hers) – Università degli Studi di Palermo
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Greek Prose, Chinese Philosophy: An Intertextual and Transcultural Analysis of Kazantzakis's Writings
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Salvatore Giuffrè (he/him/his) – King's College London
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Lighthouses, Labs, and Observatories: Glocalizing Infrastructures and Sciences in Modern China
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Xiaoping Xue (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Chair: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Discussant: Ke Zhang – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Cao (she/her/hers) – University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Zhilin Chu (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoping Xue (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Making a Trade and Transport Revolution: Global Infrastructure in Coastal China, 1921-1923
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Cao (she/her/hers) – University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Vaccinate Your Dogs: Japanese-led Dog Vaccination Programmes in Modern China, 1915-1945
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Zhilin Chu (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Towards the "Chinese-japanese Sea": Qingdao Observatory and the Transnational Meteorology in Modern China, 1898-1937
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaoping Xue (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Of Bazar, Town, and City: Indigenous and Mainstream Imagination in Nepal
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Komal Phuyal (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Chair: Ammaraj Joshi (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Komal Phuyal (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Discussant: Ammaraj Joshi (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Dipak Lungeli (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Mohan Dangaura (he/him/his) – Nepal Sanskrit University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Modern Awakenings: Ruminations on Modern Asian Cities in Nepali Literature
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Komal Phuyal (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Indigenous Urabnism: Modernity of Its Own in Limbu Urban Spaces
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Dipak Lungeli (he/him/his) – Tribhuvan University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Cultural Memory of Tharu Dance Songs: Modernism and Urban Spectacle
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Mohan Dangaura (he/him/his) – Nepal Sanskrit University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing Death Through Silence: Deaths at Wartime, Pandemic Time, and Frozen Time in China and Taiwan
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: C. Julia Huang (she/her/hers) – National Tsing Hua University
    Chair: Robert Weller – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: C. Julia Huang (she/her/hers) – National Tsing Hua University
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Nedostup – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Juan Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Co-Author: Jiahui Li – University of Bristol
    Discussant: Robert Weller – Boston University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Moral Career of a Dead Body: Whole-body Donations for Medical Education in Taiwan
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: C. Julia Huang (she/her/hers) – National Tsing Hua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) How to Silence a Body
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Rebecca Nedostup – Brown University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Zero-covid in China and Its Necropolitics
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Juan Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Co-author: Jiahui Li – University of Bristol
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing Journal Publishing in ‘asia’
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Edward Boyle (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Organizer: Matthew D. McMullen (he/him/his) – Nanzan University
    Chair: Matthew D. McMullen (he/him/his) – Nanzan University
    Discussant: Edward Boyle (he/him/his) – Nichibunken
    Discussant: Ellen Van Goethem (she/her/hers) – Kyushu University
    Discussant: Sebastian Maslow (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Discussant: Tristan Grunow (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Reframing the 1949 Divide: Was the Mao Era an Anomaly?
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yidi Wu (she/her/hers) – Elon University
    Chair: Yidi Wu (she/her/hers) – Elon University
    Discussant: Timothy Weston (he/him/his) – University of Colorado, Boulder
    Discussant: Lara Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Heidelberg
    Discussant: Chang Liu (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Statelessness, Everyday Violence and Camps in Southern Asia: The Rohingya Question
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Nasreen Chowdhory, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Chair: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Nasreen Chowdhory, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Meherun Ahmed (she/her/hers) – Asian University for Women
    Paper Presenter: Shahana Chowdhury (she/her/hers) – University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) The Figure of the 'Refugee' in Camps in Southern Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Nasreen Chowdhory, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Rohingya and Everyday Violence
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Biswajit Mohanty (he/him/his) – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Selective Relocation to Bashan Char and the Vulnerability of young Rohingya Women
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Meherun Ahmed (she/her/hers) – Asian University for Women
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) Social Integration and Security Challenges of Rohingya Women in Bangladesh
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shahana Chowdhury (she/her/hers) – University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    The Dynamics of Performance: Understanding Asia Through Its Rituals
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Chair: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Paper Presenter: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Paper Presenter: Prachi Chauhan (she/her/hers) – Tezpur University
    Paper Presenter: Anju Orkkatteri Krishnan (she/her/hers) – NAM College Kallikkandy, Kannur University
    Paper Presenter: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Performing Itu Pujo: Becoming the Agency Through Ritual Performances
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Archita Banerjee (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Calling the Cosmic: Jeen Mata of Rajasthan and Her Possession as Cultural Reality
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Prachi Chauhan (she/her/hers) – Tezpur University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Sacred Feminine: A Study of the Representation of the Feminine in Theyyam
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anju Orkkatteri Krishnan (she/her/hers) – NAM College Kallikkandy, Kannur University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) The Dance of Mind: Transformation, Identification and Consciousness in the Tibetan Ling Dro Dechen Rolmo Dance
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    The Making of Space: Bodies, Borders, Boundaries
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Shahnaz T. Rouse (she/her/hers) – Sarah Lawrence College
    Chair: Shahnaz T. Rouse (she/her/hers) – Sarah Lawrence College
    Discussant: Shahnaz T. Rouse (she/her/hers) – Sarah Lawrence College
    Paper Presenter: Esha Niyogi De (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Zebunnisa Hamid (she/her/hers) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Gwendolyn Sarah Kirk (she/her/hers) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Fighters and Monsters in Pakistani Women's Cinema: Feminocentric Heroism in Urdu and Pashto Genres, 1980/90s
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Esha Niyogi De (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Alternative and Counter Screen Cultures: Independent Filmmaking in Pakistan
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zebunnisa Hamid (she/her/hers) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) The Other Punjab: Pakistani Hauntings in Indian Punjabi Cinema
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Gwendolyn Sarah Kirk (she/her/hers) – Indiana University-Bloomington
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship Part 1: Perspectives on Cultural Identities
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Natsuki Chubachi – Kyoto University
    Organizer: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Chair: Ulil Amri – Creighton University
    Paper Presenter: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Discussant: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Kazuyo Futaesaku (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: John Iremil Teodoro – De La Salle University
    Paper Presenter: Lermie Shayne S. Garcia (she/her/hers) – Ateneo De Manila University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (1) Urbanising Marginality and the Failure of Modernity Project
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo (he/him/his) – Boston University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (2) Ethnic and Cultural Reconstruction in Local Society: The Case of Belitung Island in Indonesia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kazuyo Futaesaku (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (3) Writing from the Center, Writing from the Island: The Politics of National Literature and National Language in the Philippines
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: John Iremil Teodoro – De La Salle University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM NPT
    (4) "Feeling Seen": The Impact of "Tangible Leadership" on Marginalized Localities in the Philippines and Indonesia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lermie Shayne S. Garcia (she/her/hers) – Ateneo De Manila University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    A Transboundary History of Medicine: The Pluralism of Asian’s Local Medical Practices and Scientific Discourses Beyond Geographic Boundaries
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Waika Kot – University of California, Davis
    Paper Presenter: Sijie Ren – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Tianji Lu (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Madness at the Crossroads of Medicine and Religion at Boudhanath, Kathmandu
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Waika Kot – University of California, Davis
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Needle and Revolution: Acupuncture Anaesthesia and Politics During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sijie Ren – University of Bristol
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Scientific Biomedicine Knowledge and Urbanization of Modern Shanghai: The Politics of Water Infrastructure Through the Establishment of the Yangshupu Waterworks in 1883
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Edinburgh
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Yellow Skin, Yellow Mask: The Fluid Identity of Wei Yuk and His Struggles in the 1894 Hong Kong Plague
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Tianji Lu (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Accumulation, Dispossession, and the Indigenous Margins: Case Studies from India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Organizer: Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (she/her/hers) – Ranchi University
    Chair: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Paper Presenter: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Paper Presenter: Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (she/her/hers) – Ranchi University
    Paper Presenter: Repakaba Tzudir (he/him/his) – Nagaland University
    Paper Presenter: Thangsiandong Guite (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali
    Paper Presenter: Sujatha Devarapalli (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    Co-Author: Gayatri Balu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Accumulation by (dis)possession and the Making of New Resource Frontiers in India's Periphery
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Roluah Puia (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Beyond Words: Language, Cultural Dispossession, and Indigenous Citizenship in India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Deepali Aparajita Dungdung (she/her/hers) – Ranchi University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Negotiating Extraction: Indigenous Perspectives on Coal Mining in Nagaland
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Repakaba Tzudir (he/him/his) – Nagaland University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Extractive Institutions and the Mizo Tribes of Northeast India: A Labour Market Perspective
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Thangsiandong Guite (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (5) Land, Law, and Loss: Gendered Dimensions of Tribal Dispossession in India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sujatha Devarapalli (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    Co-Author: Gayatri Balu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Artificial Intelligence: Representations, Practices, and Implications in Asian Popular Culture
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Organizer: Ananya Saha (she/her/hers) – Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
    Chair: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Ananya Saha (she/her/hers) – Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
    Paper Presenter: Patrick W. Galbraith – Senshu University
    Paper Presenter: Megan Catherine Rose (she/her/hers) – University of New South Wales
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Humanlike Robot and Inhumane AI: Comparison of Robot and AI in Tezuka Osamu
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Keiko Nishimura (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Manga- machine-mayhem: AI and the Evolving Culture Industry
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ananya Saha (she/her/hers) – Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) AI as "Ai?" Loving the Machine in Japan
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Patrick W. Galbraith – Senshu University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Taming the Tamagotchi: Neuroqueer Potentials in AI Pet Design
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Megan Catherine Rose (she/her/hers) – University of New South Wales
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Cultural Trans-asianism: Representations and Geopolitics of Cultural Soft Power Across South and East Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Chair: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Ahanthem Romita Devi – Manipur University
    Discussant: Ambika Basu – University of Delhi
    Discussant: Prachi Aggarwal – Delhi University
    Discussant: Shyam Kumar Anand – Academy of Korean Studies
    Discussant: Vinay Kumar – Delhi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Faith Under the Siege of Modernity: The Evolution of State and Popular Religions in Modern China (1750-2023)
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Boyi Pang – The University of Macau
    Chair: Tianshu Zhu – The University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Boyi Pang – The University of Macau
    Discussant: Naomi Elaine Thurston – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Li – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    Paper Presenter: Wenjin Fang – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Chinese Catholic Odyssey: Paul Yu Pin and His Global Journey, 1920-1970
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Boyi Pang – The University of Macau
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Image of God and Ghosts in Mid-qing Dynasty: An Analysis Through the Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Observations
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Yifan Li – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Temple Destruction in Early 20th Century China: A Case Study of the Ba country,1900-1936
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Wenjin Fang – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Heritage and Adaptation in Vietnamese Food Culture: Identity, and Influence in a Changing World
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Chair: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Nir Avieli (he/him/his) – Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    Paper Presenter: Phuong-Anh Dang (she/her/hers) – University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Discussant: Pia Arbodela (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Vietnamese Food Culture in the Age of Media Cooking: Culinary Influencers and Adaptation
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Thúy Tranviet (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Coffee and Cafes in Vietnam: Heritage, Adaptation and Preservation
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nir Avieli (he/him/his) – Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Diversity in Local Culinary: Culturally Vibrant Community Based Tourism in the Mekong Delta
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Phuong-Anh Dang (she/her/hers) – University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam
    Co-author: Minh Thanh Le – Van Lang University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Identity, Resistance, and Maintenance: Navigating Infrastructures in South and Southeast Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Chair: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Paper Presenter: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Paper Presenter: Harsha Man Mahajan (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    Paper Presenter: Ratnamala Vananamalai (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    Co-Author: Lalchhandami Lalchhandami (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Indonesian Energized Powerline Maintainers
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Anto Moshin (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Digital ID Myth Makers: Expert Imaginaries and the National Identification System in Nepal
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Harsha Man Mahajan (he/him/his) – Northwestern University in Qatar
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Resistance to Aadhaar Enrollment in Mizo Hills
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ratnamala Vananamalai (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    Co-author: Lalchhandami Lalchhandami (she/her/hers) – Mizoram University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Immersive Asia: Soundwalk and Noisescape of Asian Cities, Part 2
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Iris Haukamp (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Organizer: Miaotong Yuan (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    Chair: Miaotong Yuan (she/her/hers) – Communication University of China
    Discussant: Iris Haukamp (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: L. Nicole Vaughan (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Pratiti Ketoki (they/them/theirs) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Paper Presenter: Yang Ding (she/her/hers) – China Women's University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Race, Space, and the Regulation of Noise Nuisance in Colonial Hong Kong, from Hawker Cries to Noisy Trades (1865–1910)
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: L. Nicole Vaughan (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Listening on the Move: The Sunday Suspense and Associations with Urban Sound
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pratiti Ketoki (they/them/theirs) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Memory and Resonance - The Sound Writing of 1980s Chinese Cinema: A Case Study of Zhang Nuanxin's Trilogy
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yang Ding (she/her/hers) – China Women's University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Meaningful Places: Famous Sites in Japanese Cultural Memory
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Motoi Katsumata (he/him/his) – Meisei University
    Organizer: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Chair: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Paper Presenter: Bo Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Motoi Katsumata (he/him/his) – Meisei University
    Paper Presenter: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Paper Presenter: Junfu LI (he/him/his) – Osaka University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Representation of Remote Places in Warriors' Waka Poetry of Medieval Japan: Intersections of Geography, Politics, and Literature
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Bo Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Mt. Fuji as a Battlefield
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Motoi Katsumata (he/him/his) – Meisei University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Garden of Poetry Immortals: Ishikawa jōzan's Shisendō in Cultural Memory
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Matthew P. Fraleigh (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Famous Sites and Strange Stories: On "Meika Zuihitsushu", an Unpublished Manuscript by Natsume Seibi
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Junfu LI (he/him/his) – Osaka University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities in Sinophone Cinema, Performance, and Literature
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Tze-lan Sang (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Chair: Tze-lan Sang (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Discussant: Alvin K. Wong (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University
    Discussant: Miaomiao Qi (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ling Zhang (she/her/hers) – State University of New York, Purchase College
    Discussant: Jia Tan (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Hangping Xu (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East and Inner Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas I: The (Non) Centrality of the State
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dibyesh Anand (he/him/his) – University of Westminster
    Chair: Dibyesh Anand (he/him/his) – University of Westminster
    Discussant: Nitasha Kaul (she/her/hers) – University of Westminster
    Discussant: Kaustabh Deka (he/him/his) – Dibrugarh University
    Discussant: Tenzin Desal (he/him/his) – Tibet Policy Institute
    Discussant: Swargajyoti Gohain (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Organizing Nature: Tracking the Capitalocene in South Asia
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    Organizer: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    Chair: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Elliott Prasse-Freeman – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Suvendu Ghatak – University of Florida
    Paper Presenter: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    Discussant: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    Paper Presenter: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Rohingya, Rakhine, and the Capitalocene in Myanmar
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Elliott Prasse-Freeman – National University of Singapore
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) "Pox Britannica": Colonial Capital and Tropical Pathogeny in South Asia
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Suvendu Ghatak – University of Florida
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Futuristic and the Obsolete: "Cheap Times" and the Making of the Contemporary Indian Sacred
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Atreyee Majumder – National Law School of India University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Contradictions of Nature: Capitalocene and the Colonial Himalaya
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sandeep Banerjee – McGill University
    South Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    Outside In: When Foreign Became Tradition in East Asian Art
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Ching-Ling Wang (he/him/his) – Rijksmusem
    Paper Presenter: Ching-Fei Shih (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Discussant: Matthew McKelway (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Andrew On-Tsun Fung (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Ramifications of the Imperial Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan in 18th-century Chinese Export Paintings
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu-chih Lai – Academia Sinica
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) Chinese Ivory Puzzle Ball: Its European Origin and Indigenization
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ching-Ling Wang (he/him/his) – Rijksmusem
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Turning from West to East: The Role of the European Enamel Color Palette in 18th-century Chinese Porcelain and Copper
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ching-Fei Shih (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) Re-examining Kenzan's Cylindrical Tea Bowls via the Obaku Jikishian Temple: A Sencha Perspective
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Andrew On-Tsun Fung (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    What Gender Means and What Gender Does in Timor-leste
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Organizer: Senhorina Madalena dos Santos – UNTL - Human Rights Centre
    Chair: Joanico Gusmao Alves (he/him/his) – UN Women
    Paper Presenter: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Paper Presenter: Josh Trindade (he/him/his) – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Iram Saeed (she/her/hers) – Arcoiris Timor-Leste
    Paper Presenter: Bernardo Leto – UNTL
    Discussant: Mica Barreto Soares – UNTL
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (1) Border-crossing, Gender, and Women: Timorese Women's Complex Life Experiences in Indonesia
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lili Chen (she/her/hers) – UNTL
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (2) “lo Le’a Lo Mata": Marriage and Death Ritual Among the Naueti of Timor-leste
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Josh Trindade (he/him/his) – University of Melbourne
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (3) Wellness Survey of The lgbtiq Community in Timor-leste in 2024
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Iram Saeed (she/her/hers) – Arcoiris Timor-Leste
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Illegal Movement Between Timor Leste and Indonesia and Its Implication for Woman and Children
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Bernardo Leto – UNTL
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Capital, Migration, and (Re)Territorialization: Reconfiguring Borders Across East and Southeast Asia
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Ben Fan (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Chair: Hsiu-hua Shen (she/her/hers) – Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Paper Presenter: Ben Fan (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Hsiu-hua Shen (she/her/hers) – Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Discussant: Kisho Tsuchiya – Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Miriam Jaehn – Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Yunxi Wu (she/her/hers) – Kagawa University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Territorialization of Transnational Enterprises: Land Control and Network Expansion by Small-scale Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ben Fan (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Chinese Maritime Incursions into Kinmen's Waters: Territorial Claims, (Re)Bordering, and Regional Instability
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Hsiu-hua Shen (she/her/hers) – Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Making Money, and Merit? The Business of 'Helping' Rohingya Refugees Across Borders
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Miriam Jaehn – Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Hybrid Territorial Identities and the Blurring of Boundaries in Vietnam's Oolong Tea Industry
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yunxi Wu (she/her/hers) – Kagawa University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Enlarging the Margins: Struggles and Solidarities Among the Subjugated in Modern Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Mortaza Hassani (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Sara Hussein – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Waxman – University of California, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Rebecca Waxman – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad Ashraf T. P. – Humboldt University, Berlin
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Reformer from the Margins: Sree Narayana Guru's Navigation of Colonial Modernity and Caste Mobility
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Aadarsh Chunkath (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Islam, Ethnicity, and Political Movement in Afghanistan: A Study of Sayed Ismael Balkhi's Political Ideas
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Mortaza Hassani (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Afro-asian Sisterhood: AAPSO Women's Bureau Against Empire
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sara Hussein – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Rape, Rule, Resistance: Key Issues of Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in Postcolonial North India
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Rebecca Waxman – University of California, Los Angeles
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Spaces of Daʿwa (religious Work); Mobility, Community and the Everyday Among the Keralite Muslim Groups in Qatar
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Muhammad Ashraf T. P. – Humboldt University, Berlin
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Fiscal Decentralization as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development: Comparative Insights from China, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Farhan Ahmed Shaikh (he/him/his) – NED University of Engineering & Technology
    Chair: Aamir Aijaz Syed (he/him/his) – Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University
    Paper Presenter: Farhan Ahmed Shaikh (he/him/his) – NED University of Engineering & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Fahmida Laghari (she/her/hers) – Xijing University
    Paper Presenter: Aamir Aijaz Syed (he/him/his) – Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University
    Paper Presenter: Syofriza Syofyan – Trisakti Universitas
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Fiscal Decentralization and Digitalization Nexus: Evidence from Pakistan
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Farhan Ahmed Shaikh (he/him/his) – NED University of Engineering & Technology
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Assessing the Role of Fiscal Decentralization in China's Environmental Sustainability
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Fahmida Laghari (she/her/hers) – Xijing University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Fiscal Autonomy and Its Influence on Human Development: Evidence from India
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Aamir Aijaz Syed (he/him/his) – Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Role of Fiscal Decentralization in Fostering Institutional Quality in Indonesia
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Syofriza Syofyan – Trisakti Universitas
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Images Worlding: Trans-asia Visual Media and Filmed History of the 20th Century
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Chair: Xiang Fan (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Lu Pan – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    Paper Presenter: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Ran Ma – Nagoya University
    Discussant: Xiang Fan (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Gaze and Counter-gaze On/from the Island: The Dialectics of Hainan's Documentary Imagery in the Early 20th Century
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Lu Pan – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Hong Kong Amateur Cine Club's 1953 Coronation Film
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen – Hong Kong Metropolitan University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Communist Hair and Xiaohongshu Clay: Remediating History in Digital Things
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Un/bounding the Great Wall—sino-japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980's
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Ran Ma – Nagoya University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Knowledge on the Move: Nature, Science, and Memory in Modern East Asia
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Aolan Mi (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Chair: Kan Li (she/her/hers) – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    Paper Presenter: Kan Li (she/her/hers) – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    Paper Presenter: Wenyi Guo (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    Discussant: Wenyi Guo (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    Paper Presenter: Liangyu Hu (he/him/his) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Discussant: Liangyu Hu (he/him/his) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Paper Presenter: Aolan Mi (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reclassifying Nature: Introduction and Evolution of the Concepts of Pests and Beneficial Animals in Republican China
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Kan Li (she/her/hers) – Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Inscriptions on Historic Sites: The Metropolitan Writings and Cultural Memory of Literati in an Era of Change
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Wenyi Guo (she/her/hers) – Renmin University of China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Beijing Zoo as an Anthropological Apparatus: Cold War Animal Mobility and Knowledge Production (1950s-1970s)
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Liangyu Hu (he/him/his) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Traditional Pastimes for the Railway Age: Railway Sugoroku and Train Games in 1930s China and Japan
    Location: Lumbini (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Aolan Mi (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities and Barriers in Contraflow Cultures and Media in the Post-pandemic Era
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Chair: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Ying-kit Chan (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Anubha Sarkar (she/her/hers) – City University of London
    Paper Presenter: Xinyue Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Fan Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Co-Author: Yijia Zhang (she/her/hers) – The University of British Columbia
    Co-Author: Jessie Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Sydney
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Cultural Policies as Endorsements and Hindrances: The Different Paths of Korean and Chinese Online Television Distribution Overseas
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anubha Sarkar (she/her/hers) – City University of London
    Co-author: Xiao Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) The Relevance of Post-pandemic Herbal Medicine to Contemporary Social Development
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xinyue Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Mobilities of Buddhist Place and Practice in Premodern Asia
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Organizer: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Chair: Sanjukta Datta (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Paper Presenter: Mingzhou Chi – Beijing Science and Technology University
    Paper Presenter: Yan LIU, Associate Professor, Kunming University of Science and Technology
    Discussant: Sanjukta Datta (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Histories of Sacred Space on the Margins: The Three Pagodas of Dali, Yunnan
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Between Pillars and Pagodas: Imagining the Afterlife in Tombs in China, 300-600 CE
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Khadira Wedges and Buddhist Architectural Lore: Re‑examining Materials of Making Vajrakīla in India, 6–8th Century CE
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Mingzhou Chi – Beijing Science and Technology University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Monks, Merchant Networks, and Religious Mobility Among the Jains
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Organizer: Eric Villalobos – Emory University
    Chair: Jyoti Agarwal (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Eric Villalobos – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Jyoti Agarwal (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Anchit Jain – University of Delhi
    Discussant: David Silverberg – Columbia University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Jain Monastic Lineage Dispute During the Migration of the Kutchi Jain Oswals
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Eric Villalobos – Emory University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Pilgrimage, Patron, and Region: Parasnath Hill in a Historical Perspective
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jyoti Agarwal (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Medieval Monks as 'Contested' Caste Creators: Evaluating the Role of Jain Monks in the Proliferation of the Oswal Caste
    Location: Gosaikunda (Radisson)
    Speaker: Anchit Jain – University of Delhi
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Moving with the Times: Footpaths, Roadways, and Everyday Journeys in the Transnational Himalaya
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Amy Johnson (she/her/hers) – Georgia College & State University
    Chair: Amy Johnson (she/her/hers) – Georgia College & State University
    Discussant: Bhoomika Joshi (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Nishtha Tewari (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Anisa Bhutia (she/her/hers) – Aarhus University
    Discussant: Logan M. Emlet (he/him/his) – Yale University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Racialized and Gendered Bodies in East Asia: Colonization, Biopolitics, and Agency
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Emi Omuro (they/them/theirs) – Ochanomizu University
    Organizer: Misha Cade (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Emi Omuro (they/them/theirs) – Ochanomizu University
    Paper Presenter: Libera Amadiwakama Mochihashi (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Paper Presenter: Junxiao Leng (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    Paper Presenter: Misha Cade (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Chair: Junxiao Leng (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The "Body" as a Site of Control: Imperial Male Doctors' Gaze in Colonial Korea
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Emi Omuro (they/them/theirs) – Ochanomizu University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Beneath the Gaze: Multiethnic Body Image and the Impact of Japan's Imperial Gaze
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Libera Amadiwakama Mochihashi (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Reclaiming Autonomy: Menstrual Poverty, Gender Power Imbalances, and Activism in Digital Japan
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Junxiao Leng (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Bodies in the Gray-zone: Sexual Consent Practices Among Japanese Youth
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Speaker: Misha Cade (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Reconstructing Identities and Cultural Resistance: Youth Culture in East Asia's Digital Age
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Zhuyuan Han (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-Author: Zhuyuan Han (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Kexuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Xiaodan Wang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Helena Hiu Yung Chung (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Lijin Yang – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Being out of Social Clock: Understanding Chinese Youth's Decision to Take a Gap Year in Post-socialist China
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Kexuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Escape from Being Abducted by Beauty
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xiaodan Wang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Entanglement Between Digital Nationalism, Naturalized Athletes, and Chinese Fandom Culture in the Paris Olympics
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Helena Hiu Yung Chung (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Negotiated Identity in a Burnout Society: Recontextualizing the Discourse of 'Waste (废)/Trash (垃圾)' in Chinese Youth Culture
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wenxi Hu – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Co-author: Zhuyuan Han (she/her/hers) – The Education University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Reframing Asian Migration: Space-making, Situated Modernities, and Social Mobilities
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Organizer: Sophie D. Loy-Wilson (she/her/hers) – The University of Sydney
    Chair: Craig A. Smith, Dr (he/him/his) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Sophie D. Loy-Wilson (she/her/hers) – The University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Yu Tao – University of Western Australia
    Paper Presenter: Charlotte Setijadi (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Fei sheng, Prof (he/him/his) – Sun Yat-sen University in City of Guangzhou,China.
    Discussant: Kesang Youdon (she/her/hers) – Himachal Pradesh University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Life of Daisy Kwok: Chinese Australian Return Migration to Shanghai 1909-1998
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Sophie D. Loy-Wilson (she/her/hers) – The University of Sydney
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Lion Dance, Space-making, and Global Identities: Reframing Asian Migration in Western Australia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yu Tao – University of Western Australia
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) They Call Us 'Indon': Class Dynamics Among Indonesian Migrants in Malaysia
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Charlotte Setijadi (she/her/hers) – The University of Melbourne
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Across the "Forbidden Land" to the White: Chinese Migration and the Early Development of Tropical Queensland
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
    Speaker: Fei sheng, Prof (he/him/his) – Sun Yat-sen University in City of Guangzhou,China.
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Riparian Governmentalities in Urbanising South Asia
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Organizer: Barsha Santra (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Chair: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Paper Presenter: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Co-Author: Barsha Santra (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Paper Presenter: Sivee Chawla – James Cook University
    Co-Author: Sheetal Patil – Indian Institute for Human Settlements
    Paper Presenter: Ritika Rajput – United Nations University
    Paper Presenter: Divya Chand – Lokal Habitat Labs
    Paper Presenter: Vaishali Kashyap – Birla Institute of Technology Pilani (Goa)
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) Ecological Anxieties, Environmental Jurisprudence, and the Yamuna in Delhi
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Anubhav Pradhan (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    Co-author: Barsha Santra (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Water Use Management, Institutional Support, and Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Bengaluru
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Sivee Chawla – James Cook University
    Co-author: Sheetal Patil – Indian Institute for Human Settlements
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Hydro-anxieties and Agrarian Entanglements in Peri-urban Delhi
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Ritika Rajput – United Nations University
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) From Commons to Commodities :the Changing Landscape of Raipur's Lakes
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Divya Chand – Lokal Habitat Labs
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Governance Paradigms of Guwahati's Beels
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Vaishali Kashyap – Birla Institute of Technology Pilani (Goa)
    South Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    Transregional Ecological Concerns, Connections, and Cooperation
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Wenbin Peng – Sichuan Normal University
    Chair: Tsering Bum – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Paper Presenter: Tsering Bum – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Discussant: Wenbin Peng – Sichuan Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Xi Zhang – Minzu University of China
    Paper Presenter: Ping Huang – Sichuan Film and Television University, Chengdu University of Information Technology
    Paper Presenter: Haimei Shen – Yunnan Minzu University
    Paper Presenter: Yachuan Zhao – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    Co-Author: Drashi Dondrub – Leshan Normal University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Social Life of Rivers: Water Governance, Community Wellbeing, and Climate Change in a Tibetan County in Western China
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tsering Bum – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) Ecology, Environment, and Resources：from the Perspective of the Concept of "Culture"
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Xi Zhang – Minzu University of China
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Research on the Risk Assessment and Collaborative Response and Governance Mechanism of Meteorological Disaster Tourism in the Himalayan Region of China and Nepal
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ping Huang – Sichuan Film and Television University, Chengdu University of Information Technology
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (4) Adaptation to the Drought Climate in the Eastern Himalayas: Gendered Traditional Knowledge of Water and Viticulture in the Meili Tibetan Yunnan of China
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Haimei Shen – Yunnan Minzu University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (5) Ecological Migration and Livelihood Transformation: The Development Trajectory of a Yugu Resettlement Village
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yachuan Zhao – Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
    East and Inner Asia
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    War and Its Afterlife: Narratives of Identity and Cultural Memory in Global Asia
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Jin Feng (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Chair: Jing Jiang (she/her/hers) – Reed College
    Discussant: Jing Jiang (she/her/hers) – Reed College
    Paper Presenter: Jin Feng (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Paper Presenter: Jie Zhang (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Paper Presenter: Xianmin Shen (she/her/hers) – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Chin Siblings During China's War of Resistance (1936-1944)
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jin Feng (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (2) To Distant Shores: The Un-becoming in Eileen Chang's “flowers Adrift, Blossoms Afloat”
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Jie Zhang (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM NPT
    (3) Borrowed Time, Renewed Self: Gender, Race and Writing in a Many-splendored Thing
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Xianmin Shen (she/her/hers) – Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Ethnobotany at the Margin: Traditional Healing, Ecological Resilience, and Indigenous Ecologies
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Organizer: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Chair: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Areeya Tivasuradej (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Paper Presenter: Thianchai Surimas (he/him/his) – Thammasat University
    Paper Presenter: Pranab Kumar Mandal (he/him/his) – Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
    Discussant: Nanthanoot Udomlamun (she/her/hers) – Kasetsart University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Political Ecology of Conventional Medicine over Folk Healing Narratives: A Case Study of Chiang Mai Local Healers
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Wasinee S. Topoonyanont (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Fluid Gardening with Chiang Mai Urban Farm
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Areeya Tivasuradej (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Understanding Wetland Forest-rivers-human Relationship Through Local Practices of the Ing River Basin
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Thianchai Surimas (he/him/his) – Thammasat University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) The Biopiracy of Indigenous Ethnobotanical Knowledge in India: Extractions, Deforestations, and Injustices
    Location: Rara (Radisson)
    Speaker: Pranab Kumar Mandal (he/him/his) – Ramakrishna Mission Residential College
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Exile Landscapes: Tibetan Refugee Experiences, Survival and Community Resilience in South Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Chair: Priyanka Chakraborty (she/her/hers) – Sister Nivedita University
    Paper Presenter: Joanna Pereira Coelho (she/her/hers) – Goa University
    Paper Presenter: Nimu Sherpa (she/her/hers) – Mirik College, University of North Bengal
    Paper Presenter: Tashi Phuntsok (he/him/his) – Vidyasagar College, Calcutta University
    Paper Presenter: Arnab Mandal (he/him/his) – Krishnagar Government College
    Paper Presenter: Janhavi Pande (she/her/hers) – University of Adelaide
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Negotiating Ethnicity, Reimagining Community: The Dialectics of Religious Nationalism Among Tibetans in India
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Joanna Pereira Coelho (she/her/hers) – Goa University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Exile and Existence;tibetan Refugees in Darjeeling Hills
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nimu Sherpa (she/her/hers) – Mirik College, University of North Bengal
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Capability and Well-being of the Tibetan Community in South Asia
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Tashi Phuntsok (he/him/his) – Vidyasagar College, Calcutta University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) An Exploration of the Marginal Narrative of Chushi Gangdruk in the Tibetan Nation in Exile through Jamyang Norbu's Echoes from Forgotten Mountains and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa's "From the Margins of Exile"
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Arnab Mandal (he/him/his) – Krishnagar Government College
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Self-determination in Exile: A Social Movement Analysis of Political Mobilisation Among Tibetan Diaspora Groups
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Janhavi Pande (she/her/hers) – University of Adelaide
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    EXPLORING TOURIST Urbanization.colonial Legacies, Social Tensions, and Transformations in South Asian Mountain Landscapes
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Rémi Mr de Bercegol (he/him/his) – CNRS
    Chair: Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud (he/him/his) – Université de Bordeaux
    Discussant: Nicolas Bautes (he/him/his) – Université de Montpellier
    Paper Presenter: Ratoola Kundu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Diya Mehra (she/her/hers) – South Asia University Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Tudor Silva (he/him/his) – University of Peradeniya
    Paper Presenter: Odile Henry (she/her/hers) – Université de Paris 8/ CSH Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Akumtong Imchen (he/him/his) – Highland Institute
    Co-Author: Victoire Bertholet (she/her/hers) – French Institute of Puducherry
    Discussant: Balasubramanian Dhandapani, French Institute of Puducherry (India)
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Title: Exploring Everyday Environmentalism in Darjeeling, India
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Ratoola Kundu (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Modes of Regulation: The Case of Building, Tourism and Infrastructure in the Kullu Valley:
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Diya Mehra (she/her/hers) – South Asia University Delhi
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Hill Stations, Mountain Resorts and Urbanization in Central Sri Lanka
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Tudor Silva (he/him/his) – University of Peradeniya
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Colonial Educational Heritage and Tourism Urbanisation: The Case of the Mussoorie Region (Uttarakhand, India),
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Odile Henry (she/her/hers) – Université de Paris 8/ CSH Delhi
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Homestays and Urbanization: Integrating Rural Economies into Kohima's Tourism Landscape
    Location: Nepa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Akumtong Imchen (he/him/his) – Highland Institute
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas II: Contestations and Connections
    Location: Begnas (Radisson)
    Organizer: Dibyesh Anand (he/him/his) – University of Westminster
    Chair: Nitasha Kaul (she/her/hers) – University of Westminster
    Discussant: Swati Chawla (she/her/hers) – O. P. Jindal Global University
    Discussant: Sayantani Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Discussant: Sanjukta Datta (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    New Ways of Knowing and New Boundaries of Knowledge Production Between Nepal and China
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Organizer: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Organizer: Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Chair: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Jiayue Xu (she/her/hers) – Sciences-Po Paris
    Paper Presenter: Niraj Lawoju (he/him/his) – Sichuan University
    Co-Author: Amish Mulmi (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    Paper Presenter: Raunab Singh Khatri (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Co-Author: Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Shubhanga Pandey (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Reconsidering Trans-Himalayan Complexity: Modernity, Diplomacy and Knowledge Production between Nepal and China (1930-1940)
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zezhou Yang (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Co-author: Amish Mulmi (he/him/his) – Delhi University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Nepal-chin Matree Sangh-a Pioneer People-level Initiative: Contribution for Nepal-china Diplomatic Relation
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Niraj Lawoju (he/him/his) – Sichuan University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) In the Pursuit of Profit and Eecognition: Of Nepali Entrepreneurs in China
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Raunab Singh Khatri (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Co-author: Aneka Rebecca Rajbhandari (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) The Empirical State? Geographical, Ethnographic and Statistical Knowledge of China in 19th-century Nepal
    Location: Princess Ballroom (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shubhanga Pandey (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    On the Movement of Identity in a Global Asia: A Cross-media, Decolonial Panel
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Organizer: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (she/her/hers) – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    Chair: Fareed Ben-Youssef (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (she/her/hers) – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    Paper Presenter: Fareed Ben-Youssef (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    Paper Presenter: Roslynn Ang (she/her/hers) – NA
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Identity Construction Through Imagined Migration: Translating Sinophone Literature from Thailand
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Rebecca Ehrenwirth (she/her/hers) – University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) "Like Charlie Chan but Real!": Mobility, Mimicry, and Alienation in the Good Asian
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Fareed Ben-Youssef (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) "We Are All Indigenous": Emancipatory Discourse Moving from North to North
    Location: Vista (Dusit)
    Speaker: Roslynn Ang (she/her/hers) – NA
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Revolutionary Narratives: Gender, Trauma and the Rewriting of Identity in Modern Chinese Female Literature
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Organizer: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Chair: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Zhe Song (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Hiu Lam Mak – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Diary Writing as Embodied Practice: Fang Si-chi’s First Love Paradise (2021), and the Negotiation of (Post)trauma
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Heyu Yang (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Social Revolution and the Genesis of Ding Ling's Early Works
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhe Song (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Visual-sensual Intertextuality and the Post-gendered Body in Ling Long Magazine: The Works of Ding Ling and Eileen Chang
    Location: Lumbini I (Dusit)
    Speaker: Hiu Lam Mak – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Seeing the Silence in Modernity: Reconsidering 'Death' in Contemporary China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Organizer: Hanqiu Guo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Hanqiu Guo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Miao He (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Miao He (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Hechen Liu – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Jiaxin Li (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Chair: Hechen Liu – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Too Fast to Say Goodbye: On the Cultural and Political Force of Individual Grief Within Chinese Funeral Reform
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hanqiu Guo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) A Floating Corpse: Death Pollution and Ghost Politics in Modern China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Miao He (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) "It's a City of Death": Dreams, Trauma, and Memories of Out-migrating Youths from Late Industrial Fushun, a Company Town in Northeast China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Hechen Liu – Duke University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Living with Pet Ghosts at Home: Pet Mourning and the Interspecies Relationship in Contemporary China
    Location: Potala (Tibet)
    Speaker: Jiaxin Li (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Self-reliance Against Scarcity: Medical and Technological Extraction and Appropriation in Wartime China, 1937-1949
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Chao Wang (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    Chair: Yun Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Discussant: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuye Kong (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yun Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Linghui Ji (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Chao Wang (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Advancing Handweaving to the Frontline of the Revolution: Technology Dissemination and Women's Labor in Shanxi-hebei-shandong-henan Border Region, 1943-1949
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yuye Kong (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Mobilizing Native Medicines: Local Knowledge, Mass Health Work, and the Environment in the Wartime Shaan-gan-ning, 1937-1947
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Yun Zhang (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Biological Products, Pharmaceuticals, and Epidemic Prevention in Wartime China, 1937-1949
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Linghui Ji (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Broken Bodies of War: Rehabilitation Technology of Disabled Veterans in Wartime China, 1943-1945
    Location: Stupa (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Chao Wang (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Sentiment, Trauma, and Fluidity: Marginalized Bodies in Global Asian Cinema
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Organizer: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Chair: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Paper Presenter: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    Paper Presenter: Karen Ren – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Jie (Jocelyn) Xu – University of York
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) When Queerness Suffuses the Urban Space -- an Analysis of Kissing the Ground You Walked On
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Yayu Zheng (she/her/hers) – Courtauld Institute of Art
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Queer Time and Affective Cinema: Exploring the Intimacy and Solidarity in Inter-asian Queer Cinema
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Karen Ren – University of Toronto
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Sun Rises, Sorrows Unfold: Examining the Representation of Comfort Women in Chinese Documentary Films
    Location: Fewa (Radisson)
    Speaker: Jie (Jocelyn) Xu – University of York
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Climate Change and Development in Asia
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Organizer: Jacob Rinck – George Washington University
    Organizer: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Chair: Jacob Rinck – George Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Rose-Jensen – American University of Phnom Penh
    Paper Presenter: Shangrila Joshi – The Evergreen State College
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Webber – University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Zezhou Yang, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) Climate Change, the Politics of Knowledge and Indigenous Research
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Dhirendra Nalbo – The Open Institute
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Cambodian Buddhism and Environmental Work
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sarah Rose-Jensen – American University of Phnom Penh
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) The Machchhindranath Jatra: A Newa Guthi-based Tradition That Commemorates Climate Resilience
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Shangrila Joshi – The Evergreen State College
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) From 'Gap Talk' to 'Justice' in Climate and Development Finance
    Location: Norbulingka (Tibet)
    Speaker: Sophie Webber – University of Sydney
    InterareaBorderCrossing
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    The Politics of Development and Alternative Modernities in North-east India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Organizer: Thomas Malsom (he/him/his) – North Eastern Hill University
    Chair: Pompi Basumatary (she/her/hers) – The Assam Royal Global University
    Paper Presenter: Nakhrai Debbarma (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    Paper Presenter: Sonjit Chakma (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
    Paper Presenter: Pompi Basumatary (she/her/hers) – The Assam Royal Global University
    Paper Presenter: Orenvungi L Ngullie (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Malsom (he/him/his) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) The Developmental Dilemmas and Its Impact on Minorized Indigenous in Tripura, Northeast India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Nakhrai Debbarma (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) Climate Change and Disaster Resilient Development: The Role of Education in Community Preparedness in Arunachal Pradesh, India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Sonjit Chakma (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Language Policy as an Agent for Development: The Case of Bodos of Assam
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Pompi Basumatary (she/her/hers) – The Assam Royal Global University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Looking into the Plate of Nagaland vs the Unreliable Narratives of Sensational Food Bloggers
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Orenvungi L Ngullie (she/her/hers) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Global Extractive Economies and Its Impact on Indigenous People in Northeast India
    Location: Kailash (Manaslu)
    Speaker: Thomas Malsom (he/him/his) – North Eastern Hill University
    South Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Villages and Peasants in a Mobile Era: Coping Strategies and Survival Tactics of Individuals
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Organizer: Yu Le – Ochanomizu University
    Chair: Zhang Manqing – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Zhou Yuqin – Tohoku University
    Discussant: Zhou Yuqin – Tohoku University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Le – Ochanomizu University
    Paper Presenter: Liu Chenyu – Hitotsubashi University
    Paper Presenter: Shen Siyuan – Kobe University
    Paper Presenter: Zhang Manqing – Kyoto University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (1) A Sociological Study on the Relationship Between Out-migrants, Village, and Their Families: A Case Study on an Inland Rural Area of China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhou Yuqin – Tohoku University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (2) County Migration of the Second-generation Rural Migrants and the Restructuring of Urban-rural Relations: A Case Study of X County in Hubei Province
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Yu Le – Ochanomizu University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (3) Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters' Roles and Positions in Patriarchal Families: Experiences of Three Generations of Daughters in Central Rural China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Liu Chenyu – Hitotsubashi University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (4) Household Maintenance by Domestic Workers During Social Transition: A Case Study from Anhui Province, China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Shen Siyuan – Kobe University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    (5) Maintaining Minor Subsistence Amidst Social Transformation: A Case Study in an Inland Rural Area of China
    Location: Lumbini II (Dusit)
    Speaker: Zhang Manqing – Kyoto University
    East and Inner Asia
  • 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM NPT
    Win-Win-Win Collaborations to Grow – How the Joint Fellowship Programs Create New Opportunities to Researchers, Host Institutions and the Funder
    Location: Dhuku (Radisson)
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  • 6:45 PM – 7:15 PM NPT
    FILM: Blues of Pink
    Location: Hridaya (Manaslu)
    South Asia