Schedule
The sessions of AAS-in-Asia 2025 Conference will be held in Hotel Radisson Kathmandu, Hotel Tibet, Hotel Dusit Princess and Hotel Manaslu from Sunday, June 1 to Wednesday, June 4, 2025. The timings of the sessions are 8:30 to 10:00 am, 10:30 to 12 noon, 1:00 to 2:30 pm, 3:00 to 4:30 pm and 5:00 to 6:30 pm. Lunch break is from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Tea/coffee will be served during the breaks. Registration will start at 12 noon on May 31, 2025 and will continue for the duration of the conference.
This is a preliminary schedule. Oversights will be addressed as they are discovered.
Dangerous Pleasures: Senses, Emotions and Bodily Practices in Early Modern Chinese Writings
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Wenting Ji, Xiaoqian Ji
Chair: Shengqing Wu
Discussant: Yinzong Wei
Presentations: Wenting Ji, Xiaoqian Ziyun Liu, Mengling Wang
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy:
Evaluating India’s Response Post-Liberalization
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Shweta Deshpande, Sulakshana Sen
Chair: Shweta Deshpande
Discussants: Shweta Deshpande, Neeta Inamdar, Zafar Iqbal, S. Irudaya Rajan, Sulakshana Sen
Dynamics, Complexities and Agencies: Rethinking the Center-Margin Relations in Ancient China
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Fanghan Wang
Chair: Fanghan Wang
Discussant: Bo Xie
Presentations: Mariana Castro, Lin Jiao, Fanghan Wang, Dongming Wu
Faith in Flux: Religion and Identity Politics in Asian Local and Migrant Communities
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Minhang Du, Xinyi Yuan
Chair: Yuqing Du
Discussants: Xinyi Yuan, Jingyang Zhao
Presentations: Minhang Du, Yuqing Ruo Lin, Zixuan Wang, Ye Yuan
Leveraging the Margins of the “Middle Kingdom”: Frontier China in East Asia’s Hot and Cold Wars
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Hao Chen
Chair: Noriko Unno
Discussant: Peng Hai
Presentations: Hao Chen, Junyi Han, Anran Wang, Benno Weiner
Mediated Margins: Articulating Immigrant Experiences in Global Asias
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Tzu-Chi Ou
Chair: Ting-Fai Yu
Presentations: Wan-Ci Jiang, Qiqi Jin, Tzu-Chi Ou, Ting-Fai Yu
Modernity, Marginality and Mobility in a Demographically Changing Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Melanie Tolentino
Chair: Melanie Tolentino
Discussants: Yoshihide Obayashi, Jay Santos, Kailash Timilsina
Navigating Displacement: Gender, Violence and Resilience in Indian Refugee Camps
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sudha Rawat
Chair: Sudha Rawat
Discussant: Samanwita Paul
Presentations: Ali Johar, Nikita Gehlot, Samanwita Paul, Sudha Rawat
Negotiation, Agency and Hegemonic Discourses in Northeast India
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Pranab Kumar Pegu, Ng Sourav Singha
Chair: Pranab Kumar Pegu
Presentations: Roshni Brahma, Hare Krishna Doley, Pranab Kumar Pegu, Ng Sourav Singha
Nepal’s Peace Process: Issues and Challenges
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Chiranjibi Bhandari
Chair: Prakash Bhattrai
Discussants: Ram Bhandari, Machala Jha, Raunak Mainali
New Spaces of Borderlands Studies
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Gregory Goulding, Ayesha Sheth
Chair: Gregory Goulding
Presentations: Gregory Goulding, Tanuja Kothiyal, Daniel Lapinski, Ayesha Sheth
Off-modern Topographies: Rural-Nuclear Landscapes, Literary Bodyscapes and Counter-Linguistic Sites Toward a Remapping of East Asian Modernity
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Serena Di Maria
Chair: Ya-hsun Chan
Discussant: Yi-Ting Chang
Presentations: Serena Di Maria, Tatsuya Kageki, Masato Kurosawa, I-Ying WEI, Akemi Yamauchi
Outside/In: Reframing Asia Through Decentralized Curatorial Practices
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ellen Larson
Chair: Ellen Larson
Discussant: Abby Chen, Naz Cuguoglu, Min-hyung Kang, Cheng Xu
Reframing Cultural Boundaries between China and Japan in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Wendong Cui
Chair: Shuo-win Chen
Discussant: Yin Lu
Presentations: Jiayin Cai, Huilin Chang, Wendong Cui, Yin Lu
Security in Asia: Looking in, Looking out
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Pramod Jaiswal, Yoichiro Sato
Chair: Yoichiro Sato
Discussant: Barbara Kratiuk
Presentations: Soumya Awasthi, Beata Bochorodycz, Shahbaaz Manzoor, Hidekazu Sakai
Wonders of Transformation: Technology and Cultural Imaginations in (Pre)Modern China
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jiayi Chen
Chair: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu
Discussant: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu
Presentations: Jiayi Chen, Xinyi Fu, Huijun Mai, Dankun Zhao
Building Borderworlds: Migration, Labor and Social Reproduction in and from Southeast Asia
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Khin Thazin, Nicole Venker
Chair: Jasnea Sarma
Discussant: Shae Frydenlund
Presentations: Shae Frydenlund, Jasnea Sarma, Khin Thazin, Nicole Venker
Calligraphic Asia: Rewriting Tradition in the Anthropocene
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Krisna Uk
Chair: Kamran Ali
Discussants: Noman Baig, Kashif Khan, Lalima Shrestha
Cultural Imagination in Motion: Computational Perspectives on Chinese Heritage, Literature and Iconography
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Maciej Kurzynski
Chair: Zongqi Cai
Discussant: Lin Du
Presentations: Jing Chen, Qiuzi Guo, Maciej Kurzynski, Paul Vierthaler
Democratic Decline and Population Migration: Looking for the Connections
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: AKM Ahsan Ullah
Chair: AKM Ahsan Ullah
Presentations: Diotima Chattoraj, Jannatul Ferdous, Tahseen Jahan
Digital Humanities Meets Print Culture Studies: New Perspectives on Modern Japan and China
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yoshitaka Hibi
Chair: Yoshitaka Hibi
Discussant: Ha-kyoung Shin
Presentations: Yoshitaka Hibi, Chinatsu Maki, Ayumi Mitsuishi, Zhixi Yin
Fandom, Media and Popular Cultures in Global Asias II: Gender, Belonging and Urban Spaces
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Sneha Annavarapu, Michelle Ho
Chair: Michelle Ho
Presentations: Sneha Annavarapu, Michelle Ho, Maggie Leung, Nemo Martin, Mayadevi Murthy
Food (Im)Mobilities and Multiple Global-Asian Futures
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Venus Viana
Chair: Sau-Wah Mak
Discussant: Chen Song-Chuan
Presentations: Shuk-Ying Lo, Sau-Wah Mak, Emiko Takei, Venus Viana
Identity Transitions in Life Passages: Translating and Interpreting Rites and Rituals in Sinitic Contexts
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Chun Chen, Yuqing Luo
Chair: Yuqing Luo
Discussant: Fei Deng
Presentations: Chun Chen, Yunyang Liu, Yuqing Luo, Sze Yap
Memory, Movement, Montage: Engaging with the Pluralities of Migrant Narratives
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Rituparna Rana
Chair: Nida Sajid
Discussants: Diditi Mitra, Muhammad Numan, Pawan Sharma, Shashwati Talukdar
Mobility in South Asian Ports and Port Cities
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Joshua Ehrlich
Chair: Joshua Ehrlich
Presentations: Joshua Ehrlich, Alastair McClure, Devika Shankar, Leilah Vevaina
Place-Making in Tibetan Buddhist Societies: (Re)Constructions of Sacred Spaces through Pilgrimage, Text and Image
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Mufei He, Yuyuan (Victoria) Liu
Chair: Weirong Shen
Discussant: Patrick Dowd
Presentations: Mufei He, Yuyuan (Victoria) Liu, Rufei Luo, Yuewei Wang, Shuang Yao
Producing and Exporting Gender Narratives: Chinese Games, Platforms, Reality TV and Films
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yimeng Xu
Chair: Bingchun Meng
Discussant: Bingchun Meng
Presentations: Yalan Huang, Mengyun He, Tingting Liu, Xianyu Wu, Ran Xi, Yimeng Xu
Rethinking the Political Geography of Nineteenth Century South Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jon Wilson
Chair: Jon Wilson
Presentations: Mortaza Hassani, Iftekhar Iqbal, Shubhanga Pandey, Jon Wilson
The Possibilities and Limits of Agrarian Accumulation: Institutions and Climate-Change in Contemporary India
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Nilotpal Kumar, Ashwin Subramanian
Chair: Ria Gyawali
Discussant: Ria Gyawali
Presentations: Nilotpal Kumar, Gopi Sankar, Ashwin Subramanian, Anna Thottappilly
Transnationalizing Three Body: Negotiating China, Futurity and Global Media
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Shan Mu Zhao
Chair: Ying Zhu
Discussant: Hua Li
Presentations: Kaby Kung, Shuwen Yang, Shan Mu Zhao, Shiyi Zhao
Affective Echoes: Gender, Resistance and Identity in Contemporary East Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Xinran Wang, Xiaoyu Xiong
Chair: Jannis Jizhou Chen
Discussant: Chuanhui Meng
Presentations: Jiapei Li, Qianhui Ma, Xinran Wang, Xiaoyu Xiong
Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marginal Spaces in South Asia – Part I
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Camellia Biswas, Sharada Channarayapatna
Chair: Sharada Channarayapatna
Discussants: Camellia Biswas, Debankita Das, Saurabh Mishra, Sameen A. Mohsin Ali, Ashra Wickramathilaka
China’s Expanding Influence on Southeast Asia: Infrastructure, Mobility and Socio-political Dynamics
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Tianlong You, Ding Yuan
Chair: Min Zhou
Discussants: AKM Ahsan Ullah, Di Wu
Presentations: Xiaoxu Chen, Xinrong Ma, Zhongsi Nie, Xu Peng, Kaili Zhao
Community, Space and Everyday Socio-political Negotiations in India: Historical and Ethnographic Inquiries
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sarthak Bagchi, Dyotana Banerjee
Chair: Dyotana Banerjee
Presentations: Sarthak Bagchi, Dyotana Banerjee, Jahnu Bharadwaj, Abhijit Dasgupta, Saurabh Saikia, Atmadeep Sengupta, Madhumita Sengupta
Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity and Labor in East Asian Socio-Political Landscapes
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Kazue Harada
Chair: Kazue Harada
Presentations: Kazue Harada, Fang-Yu Li, Naaborle Sackeyfio
Dancing ‘Global Asia’ and Inter-Asian Cultural Exchanges in the Cold War
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Soo Ryon Yoon
Chair: Soo Ryon Yoon
Discussant: Yu Tao
Presentations: Darlene Machell Espena, Soo Ryon Yoon, Beiyu Zhang
Feminine Metamorphosis: Re-situating Women in the Emerging China from Needlework, Columns, to Inter-species Writing
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yunyi Wang
Chair: Shuhui Yin
Discussant: Linshan Jiang
Presentations: Hoi Yan Chu, Yunyi Wang, Trista Ching Yeung, Shuhui Yin
India and the Asian Arc: Enhancing Partnerships in South and Southeast Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 14:30:00
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Pramod Jaiswal
Chair: Pramod Jaiswal
Discussant: Astha Chadha
Presentations: Tomasz Lukaszuk, Shreesh Pathak, Bhawna Sharma, Amit Singh, Neha Sinha
Inequality of Aspiration in Contemporary Urban Indonesia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Anders Møller, Anindya Tamara
Chair: Wenjing Qiu
Discussant: Rita Padawangi
Presentations: Aireen Grace Andal, Anders Møller, Wenjing Qiu, Anindya Tamara
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women and Mobilities in Modern Japan
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Andrew Elliott
Chair: Edward Boyle
Discussant: Edward Boyle
Presentations: Maria Correa, Ivan Díaz Sancho, Andrew Elliott, Isabel Fassbender, Ryōta Nishino
Modernity in the Making: Rethinking and Reframing Gender Dynamics in Contemporary China
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xi Tian
Chair: Xi Tian
Discussant: Geng Song
Presentations: Fang Yang, Zexun Guan, Chengpang Lee, Xi Tian, Erika Ningxin Wang
Roots, Resistance and Decoloniality: Political Ecology by, of and for Southeast Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jessica DiCarlo
Chair: Huiying Ng
Discussant: Amanda Flaim
Presentations: Amanda Flaim, Stephanie Koning, Dimas Laksmana, Khaing Zar Lwin, Khin Shwe Oo, Christina Sayson, Thaw Htoo, Manapee Khongrakchang, Tin Mar Huiying Ng
Strategically Shaping Narratives of Gender and Sexuality in Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Laurie Marhoefer
Chair: Laurie Marhoefer
Presentations: Rachel Hope Cleves, Laurie Marhoefer, Nayan Prabha, Muhammad Nawfal Saleemi, Aram Sinnreich
Surprise Circuits: Translating Modern Korea and Beyond the Problem of (In)Fidelity
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jae Won Chung
Chair: Sunyoung Park
Discussant: Sunyoung Park
Presentations: Jae Won Chung, Susan Hwang, Haerin Shin
Varieties of Environmentalism in East Asia – Part I: The Asian Anthropocene
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Myung-Ae Choi, Loretta Lou
Chair: Loretta Lou
Presentations: Yijun Gai, Robert Walker, Guanli Zhang, Seung Hee Cho, Myung-Ae Choi, Hideaki Fujiki, Hao-tzu Ho, Lichao Yang
Why Space in Korea, Now? Rethinking Site-Specificity in Contemporary Korea
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Madeleine Han
Chair: T. Yejoo Kim
Discussant: Eleana Kim
Presentations: Madeleine Han, T. Yejoo Kim, Soyoon Ryu
Academic Freedom and Knowledge Production in Southeast Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Stefani Nugroho, Sri Wahyuningroem
Chair: Stefani Nugroho
Presentations: Laurentius Christianto, Nelson Cainghog, Cherian George, Stefani Nugroho, Sri Wahyuningroem
Agrarian Dynamics, Gender and Agroecology Movements in Rural Japan and Nepal
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Takeshi Ito
Chair: Ramesh Sunam
Discussant: Fraser Sugden
Presentations: Lina Baniya, Takeshi Ito, Dinesh Joshi, Ramesh Sunam
AI in Action: Enhancing Asian Studies Education Through Practical Applications
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Chunmei Du
Chair: Chunmei Du
Discussants: Connor Au Yeung, Yu-Chieh Li, Youjia Li, Keyao Pan, Rochelle Y.H. Yang
Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Marginal Spaces in South Asia – Part II
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Camellia Biswas, Debasmita Ghosh
Chair: Camellia Biswas
Discussants: Debasmita Ghosh, Srimanjori Guha, Merose Hwang, Pallavi Narayan, Priyadarshani Premarathne
Climate Change, Urban Political Ecology and Transboundary Environmental Issues in Southeast Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Didid Haryadi
Chair: Phimmaly Thammavong
Discussant: Pratama Yudha Pradheksa
Presentations: Medina Adulyarat, Rattanasiri Kittikongnapang, Phyo Su San
Conciliating Science and Religion: Understanding South Asian Epistemology
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Sanjeev Kumar, Neha Singh
Chair: Rekha Saxena
Discussant: Neha Singh
Presentations: Mayank Chaurasia, Himanshi Kadyan, Sanjeev Kumar, Ritika Mishra, Neha Singh, Pankaj Bharti, Anil Kumar, Rabit Anselam Minj
Culture in Travel: Reframing of Asian Mobilities Through Daily Life
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xinwei Zhang
Chair: Lu Zhang
Discussant: Zezhou Yang
Presentations: Yifei Luo, Ye Tian, lu zhang, Xinwei Zhang
Flowing Boundaries：New Orders on the Yangtze River from Ecological, Economic and Territorial Perspectives
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jiaxin Jiang
Chair: Tomoko Shiroyama
Discussant: Tomoko Shiroyama
Presentations: Ruochen Chen, Hong Jiang, Jiaxin Xi Ma, Zilong Wang
Indigenous Communities and Eurocentric Conservation Models: Reflections from the Eastern Himalayas
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Deki Yangzom
Chair: Pasang Sherpa
Discussant: Pasang Sherpa
Presentations: Raysha Alvir, Noihrit Gogoi, Deki Yangzom
Modernization and Urbanization in China: The Changing Faces of Local Life
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Hongyang Ji
Chair: Yao Li
Discussant: Yao Li
Presentations: Qian Feng, Hongyang Ji, Bingli Liu, Qi Yang, Zhangluyuan Yang
Project Himalayan Art: Resources for Integrating Himalayan Cultures into Teaching on Global Asia
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Karl Debreczeny
Chair: Elena Pakhoutova
Discussants: Karl Debreczeny, Ariana Maki, Elena Pakhoutova, Gautama Vajracharya
Spatial and Social Mobilities in Early Modern Japan
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Chair: Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Discussant: Masafumi Motomura
Presentations: Miyabi Asai, Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Norio Shimizu, Yasuhiro Takahashi
Theater Without Borders: Beyond Gender and into Fantasy in Japanese Cross-Dressing Performances
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Carmen Tamas
Chair: Carmen Tamas
Discussants: Marco Del Din, Emerald King, Afreeda Obreat, Stefana Samfira
Transforming Japanese Studies in a Multicultural Era: Opportunities, Obstacles, Outlooks
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Kazuhiro Takii, Yufei Zhou
Chair: Torsten Weber
Discussant: Mai Kataoka, Nobuko Kayashima, Zahra Moharramipour, Kazuhiro Takii, Yufei Zhou
Varieties of Environmentalism in East Asia – Part II: Environmentalism Revisited
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Myung-Ae Choi, Loretta Lou
Chair: Myung-Ae Choi
Presentations: Yu-ting Ho, Ke Zhu, Young Rae Choi, Eetu Laustela, Loretta Lou, Brian Spivey, Ka Ming Wu
Asian Studies Journal Editors’ Roundtable
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Robert Oppenheim
Chair: Pratyoush Onta
Discussants: Maitrii Aung Thwin, Priya Chacko, Beng Huat Chua, Jieyu Liu, Robert Oppenheim
Bodies in Transit: Biopolitics, Militarization and the Racialized Gaze Across Borders
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Bramsh Khan
Chair: Noor Bakhsh
Discussant: Mona Bhan
Presentations: Noor Bakhsh, Aslam Kakar, Bramsh Khan, Fatemeh Moghaddam
Breaking Barriers: Gender and Work Dynamics in China’s Social and Political Arenas
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ling Han
Chair: Chengpang Lee
Discussant: Yunyun Zhou
Presentations: Nan Lin, Jing Song, Jiangyi Chen, Ling Han, Xinhui Jiang, Stephanie Yingyi Wang
Evolving Narratives of Japanese Sex Work: Memories, Aging Workers and Female-to-Female Services
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Marta Fanasca
Chair: Anna Specchio
Discussant: Michela Riminucci
Presentations: Marta Fanasca, Yoko Kumada, Ayaka Yoshimizu
Generations and Social Movements in Mainland Southeast Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jane Ferguson
Chair: Tyrell Haberkorn
Presentations: Jane Ferguson, Tyrell Haberkorn, Kyaw Min Oo, Khin Zaw Win
Global Visions, Local Encounters: Extraterritoriality, Education and Nationhood in China
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Guanhua Tan
Chair: Chang Xu
Discussant: Qiliang he
Presentations: Chao Lang, Guanhua Tan, Yuan Tian, Tian
Infrastructural Lives on the Margins: Negotiating Modernities in the Asian Uplands
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sarah Turner
Chair: Sarah Turner
Discussant: Sango Mahanty
Presentations: Karine Gagne, Jean Michaud, Sarah Turner
Margins as Loci of Knowledge Production: Border Thinking and Local Knowledges in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Shireen Khan
Chair: Hamayoon Khan
Discussant: Homer Jan
Presentations: Homer Jan, Hamayoon Khan, Shireen Sara Rashid
Margins as Method: Situated Knowledge, Subversive Invisibility and Resilience in Asia
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Cheng Bi, Qihui Wu
Chair: Qihui Wu
Presentations: Cheng Bi, Jocelyn FORD, Qifan Hao, Krystie Ng, Qihui Wu
Material Mobilities and Medleys: Reframing Asian Territories Through Cross-Border Dust, Beef, Relics and Secondhand Clothes
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jakkrit Sangkhamanee
Chair: Jakkrit Sangkhamanee
Presentations: Jiraporn Laocharoenwong, Jakkrit Sangkhamanee, Prakirati Satasut, Chaiyaporn Singdee
Negotiating the Local and the Global in Modern China
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xiaoqing Lin
Chair: Guoqi Xu
Discussant: Guoqi Xu
Presentations: Dan Du, Yat Fung, Xiaoqing Lin, Qiong Zhang
Shaping Security and Governance in the Indo-Pacific: The Intersection of Geopolitics, Technology and Democratic Values
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Pramod Jaiswal
Chair: Yoichiro Sato
Discussant: Pramod Jaiswal
Presentations: Leslie Keerthi Kumar SM, Rob Rabel, Dipannita Maria Bagh, Barbara Kratiuk, Stephen R Nagy, Abhiruchi Ojha, Seohee Ashley Park
The Vanishing Stories of the Mountain Regions
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Nazmeen Hamza
Chair: Arif Hussain
Discussants: Nazmeen Hamza, Arif Hussain, Azra Syed
Tibet Between Film and Fiction: In Memory of Pema Tseden
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Howard Y. F. Choy
Chair: Howard Y. F. Choy
Discussant: Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani
Presentations: Chantal Ying-tung Chau, Howard Y. F. Choy, Christopher Peacock, Yang Xiang
Unraveling the Interplay of Feudal Systems, Gender Inequality, Social Progress and Reproductive Trends in Rural Regions of Pakistan
Date: June 1, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Salma Zahir
Chair: Farhan Ahmed
Discussant: Nazia Aslam
Presentations: Farhan Ahmed, Muhammad Yaseen, Salma Zahir
Anti-Gender Sentiment in China and South Korea
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Kailing Xie
Chair: Ling Tang
Discussant: Stevi Jackson
Presentations: Stevi Jackson, Kailing Xie, Euisol Jeong, Ling Tang, Xie
Borderland Issues: Contextualized Experiences from South and Southeast Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Tabassum Majeed
Chair: Ikram Shah
Discussant: Sayali Shankar
Presentations: Kesone Kanalikham, Hamayun Khan, Tabassum Majeed, Ikram Shah, Sayali Shankar
Breaking and Bridging: Understanding Sino-Philippines Relations Through Shifting Social Mobilities and Transnational Networks
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xuejun Liu
Chair: Xuejun Liu
Discussants: Ma. Regina Agustin, Ella Joy Ponce
Presentations: Ma. Regina Agustin, Xuejun Liu, Ella Joy Ponce
Cities of Modern Bengal
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Nilanjana Paul
Chair: Sandip Munshi
Discussant: Nilanjana Paul
Presentations: Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Aritra De, Sandip Munshi, Nilanjana Paul
Consumption, Resistance or Subversion? Indonesian Women’s Use of East Asian Popular Culture
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Kohki Watabe
Chair: Kohki Watabe
Presentations: Idrus, Fithyani Anwar, Noriko Hiraishi, Mana Kamioka
Cosmos, City and the World: Rethinking Centers and Peripheries in Classical and Modern Contexts
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Weimo Liu
Chair: Youn-mi Kim
Discussant: Laurel Kendall
Presentations: Youn-mi Kim, Weimo Liu, Sophie Ling-chia Wei, Ran Yifan Zheng
From Memorials to Popular Culture: The Processes of Heritage making in China
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xiaochun Ma
Chair: Li Zhang
Presentations: Yapeng Duan, Yujie Zhu, Xiaochun Ma, Liping Peng, Li Zhang
Intimate and Cosmopolitan: Asian Diplomatic Correspondences and their Global Entanglements, c. 1650-1950
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ariel Lopez
Chair: Ariel Lopez
Discussant: Ariel Lopez
Presentations: Tirmizy Abdullah, Norifumi Daito, Annabel Gallop, Midori Kawashima, Ariel Lopez
Listening in the Sub-continent: Sonic Practices and Mobilities of Hindi Cinema
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Pavitra Sundar
Chair: Pavitra Sundar
Presentations: Sebanti Chatterjee, Shikha Jhingan, Ravi Kant, Pavitra Sundar
Locally Made: Reconstructing the Indigenous and Diasporic Knowledge Exchange Networks in Southeast Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Queenie Lin
Chair: Queenie Lin
Discussant: Guo-Quan Seng
Presentations: Muhammad (Louie) Buana, Shaun Yi Xian Lee, Queenie Lin, Guo-Quan Seng
Marginalized Abroad: Students, Writers and Sex Workers Across Asia, Africa, Europe and North America
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Amalia Dragani, Margaret Kuo
Chair: Elizabeth VanderVen
Discussant: Janet Theiss
Presentations: Amalia Dragani, Margaret Kuo, Helen Schneider, Quang Van
Navigating Desire and Resistance: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Global Chinese Digital Media
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Ruoqian Li, Tong Meng
Chair: Ruoqian Li
Presentations: Ruoqian Li, Tong Meng, Zhifan Sheng, Yiming Wang
Reading Publics in Islamicate India
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Steven Vose
Chair: Steven Vose
Discussant: Shalin Jain
Presentations: Kartik Maini, Shakir Ul Hassan, Steven Vose, Hassan
Reframing Asia Through Performance: Negotiating Cultural Mobility and Modernity
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: I-Wen Chang
Chair: Casey Avaunt
Discussant: Sang Woo Ha
Presentations: Casey Avaunt, I-Wen Chang, Sang Woo Ha, Wei-Ying Hsu
Shifting Spaces: Domesticity, Technology and Identity in Global Asian Modernities
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Peijie Mao
Chair: Peijie Mao
Presentations: Hua Li, Peijie Mao, Fei Tan, Ling Zhan
The Work of Heritage: Culture, Conservation, Critique, Life
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Lauren Leve
Chair: Neel Kamal Chapagain
Discussants: Rajan Khatiwoda, Lauren Leve, Monalisa Maharjan, Austin Simoes-Gomes
Agrarian Perspectives on Asian City Futures
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Sangeeta Banerji, Lena Scheen
Chair: Lena Scheen
Discussants: Sangeeta Banerji, Sushmita Pati
Presentations: Thomas Crowley, Zehra Hashmi, Lou Jing, Tang Min, Sweta Xess
Artifacts, Diagrams and Texts: Circulation of Cosmological Knowledge at the Margins in Divination Practice in Early China
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yixin Liang
Chair: Yi-fei You
Discussant: Yantao Kuang
Presentations: Yixin Liang, Li Ni, Flaminia Pischedda, Yunhao Tian
Climate Governance and Carbon Modernities in Southeast Asia’s Margins
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Michelle Miller, David Taylor
Chair: David Taylor
Discussant: David Taylor
Presentations: Dixon Gevana, Danny Marks, Michelle Miller, Yustina Octifanny, Jay Mar Quevedo, Alberto Salvo, Mumahmad Shehryar, David Taylor, Helena Varkkey
Conceptualising the Adivasi Mode of Production in South Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Fraser Sugden
Chair: Xing Li
Discussant: Janak Rai
Presentations: Suresh Dhakal, Kumar Sanjay Singh, Fraser Sugden
Documenting Crises and Disasters: A Transdisciplinarity Tryout for Liberal Arts Communication
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sakura Kudo
Chair: Sakura Kudo
Discussant: Go Ohba
Presentations: Shoko Kawata, Sachi Komai, Kenichi Sawazaki, Akiko Yokoyama
Domesticity as Method: Engaging Materialities and Lived Experiences in Global Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Miguel Antonio Lizada, Juan Miguel Leandro Quizon
Chair: Miguel Antonio Lizada
Presentations: Aileen Del Rosario-Rondilla, Miguel Antonio Lizada, Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Juan Leandro Quizon
From Structure to Sensation: Literary Mapping and Infrastructure Transformation in Cold War Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Chih-Chi Weng
Chair: Chih-Chi Weng
Discussant: Chih-Chi Weng
Presentations: Seongju Lee, Yu Lin, Chieh-Ju Chih-Chi Weng
Killing, Internment and Forced Marches Revisited: New Perspectives on Military and Civilian Prisoners in the Pacific War
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Danny Orbach
Chair: Nissim Otmazgin
Discussant: Nissim Otmazgin
Presentations: Sarah Kovner, Danny Orbach, Paul Taucher, Sandra Wilson
Local Expressive Practices in Global Circulation: Documentation, Archiving, Performance and Sustainability
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Anna Stirr
Chair: Anna Stirr
Presentations: Hikmat Khadka, Rita Thapa Magar, Mason Brown, Lochan Rijal, Rajan Shrestha, Anna Stirr, Dinesh Upadhyaya
Marginality and Violence in Literature: Assessing Role and Impact as Agent of Solution
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Kadambri Gasso, Garima Malik
Chair: Ashok Verma
Discussant: Himanshu Parmar
Presentations: Vrinda Vats, Kadambri Gasso, Sanjeet Kaur, Garima Malik, Mohit Singh, Vikash Singh
Navigating in a Torrent of Time When Promises Are Ceasing: Examining the Emerging Dynamics in the Liminal Stage of Contemporary China’s Future Making
Date: June 2, 2023
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ruize Zu
Chair: Zhan Yang
Discussant: Yukun Zeng
Presentations: Ai Gu, Mengjun Huang, Ruize Xu, Zhan Yang
Negotiating Spaces: A Study of the Periphery, Marginalities and the In-between in Malaysia and Singapore
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sahil Bhagat
Chair: Armand Azra bin Azlira
Discussant: Sharmini Aphrodite
Presentations: Sharmini Aphrodite, Sahil Bhagat, Armand Azra bin Azlira, Alison Fong, Ke Ying Sheryl Lee
Performativities and Alternative Modernities: Case Studies of Religious Practices In East and Southeast Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Kazuo Fukuura
Chair: Kazuo Fukuura
Discussant: Kazuo Fukuura
Presentations: Kazuo Fukuura, Atsuko Fukuura, Ryohei Takamura, Chawarote Valyamedhi
Text, Image, Code: How Digital Media Became “Global” in the Sinosphere
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Anatoly Detwyler
Chair: Anatoly Detwyler
Discussant: Anatoly Detwyler
Presentations: Eliot Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Ulug Kuzuoglu, Angela Xiao Wu
Transcending Margins: (Re)Imagining Women’s Identity in South Asian Performative Space(s)
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Bidisha Chakraborty, Payal Priya
Chair: Bidisha Chakraborty
Discussant: Payal Priya
Presentations: Nisarga Bhattacharjee, Bidisha Chakraborty, Aya Chatterjee, Kuntalika Jharimune, Payal Priya
Asian Digital Nomads in the Post-Pandemic Era: Navigating Identity, Gender, Home and Spatial Practices
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Yinshuang Dong, Yuchen Song
Chair: Xin Yu
Discussant: Xin Yu
Presentations: Qinghan Chen, Yinshuang Dong, Yuchen Song, Yifan Yang
Beyond Audibility: Cultural Soundscapes and Sensory Belonging in Contemporary East Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Fenglin Ju
Chair: Yucong Hao
Discussant: Ka Lee Wong
Presentations: Ziyu Feng, Lei Wang, Yiting Guo, Fenglin Ju, Zixuan Wang
Beyond the Margins: Reframing Marginality and Identity in Taiwan in the Modern Era
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Horng-luen Wang
Chair: Pei-yin Lin
Discussants: Jolan Hsieh, Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Presentations: Jolan Hsieh, Pin-Yi Li, Horng-luen Wang, Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Contested Urbanism: Making Sense of the Spatial Dynamics of Cities in Indonesia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Merlyna Lim, Rita Padawangi
Chair: Merlyna Lim
Presentations: Herlily Herlily, Merlyna Lim, Evi Mariani, Rita Padawangi, Amalinda Savirani
Emergence of New World Imagination in the 19th and 20th Century: Understanding the Asian Colonial Countries through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives, Memoirs And Travelogues
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Barnali Chanda
Chair: Avijit Banerjee
Presentations: Arpita Bose, Barnali Chanda, Jinyun Li, Swati Moitra, Juanjuan Wu
From Bonds to Borders: Exploring Taiwan’s Role in Reframing Asia through Finance, Trade and Diasporic Networks
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yu-wei Huang
Chair: Cheng-heng Lu
Discussant: Kuan-fei Chen, Cheng-heng Lu
Presentations: Kuan-fei Chen, Dylan Tzu-Yi Hsu, Yu-wei Huang, Cheng-heng Lu
Grain, Tobacco and Papermaking: State Building and Rural Economy in Wartime China (1927-45)
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jiayi Li
Chair: Jiayi Li
Discussant: Hanzhi Dai
Presentations: Jiayi Li, Boshen Yan, Yue Yu
Landscapes of Contemporary Resistance and Marginalized Tradition: Reframed Localities, Mediated Heritages and Organized Dissent in China and India
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Thomas Noel
Chair: Nathan Badenoch
Discussants: Nathan Badenoch, Masha Kobzeva
Presentations: Maxwell Carver, Nishaant Choksi, Anusha Hariharan, Thomas Noel
Many Cosmopolitanisms: Memory and Modernity in the South Asian Metropolis
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Zoya Sameen
Chair: Surabhi Pudasaini
Presentations: Navine Murshid, Ahona Panda, Zoya Sameen
Navigating Marginalization: Indigenous Responses to Resource Politics, Urban Mobilities and Transitional Justice in the Context of State Modernization in Taiwan
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Chen Yi-Fong
Chair: Chen Yi-Fong
Presentations: Sera Mika, Hsiang-I Teng, Chen Yi-Fong, Shau-lou Young
Open Reflections on the Developments and Challenges of Southeast Asian Studies in South Korea
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ki-Hyun Bae
Chair: Yoon Hwan Shin
Discussants: Ki-Hyun Bae, Hyung-Jun Kim, Kyunghoon Kim, Eric Tagliacozzo, Woonkyung Yeo
Photography’s Asian Archives: Transforming Memory and Community from the Margins
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Nadine Attewell
Chair: Nadine Attewell
Discussants: Nadine Attewell, Yi Gu, Diwas Kc, Thy Phu
Pluralism and Inclusive Service Delivery: Issues and Challenges Faced by the Malaiyaha Community in Sri Lanka
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ravindra Palliyaguruge
Chair: Deepika Singh
Discussants: Phirmi Bodo, Raktim Patar, Atrayee Saha, Rajendra Sharma
Reflections on the Future of Himalayan Studies – I
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Arjun Guneratne
Chair: Arjun Guneratne
Discussants: Arjun Guneratne, Ariana Maki, Janak Rai, Mark Turin
The Governance of the Forest Carbon Frontier in Southeast Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Lamphay Inthakoun, Yingshan Lau
Chair: Dixon Gevana
Discussants: Lamphay Inthakoun, Yingshan Lau
Presentations: Shakura Nuha Binte Bashir, Yingshan Lau, Rueben Manokara, Michelle Miller, Yunrui Ren, David Taylor, Rob Cole, Dixon Gevana, Lamphay Inthakoun, Ren
Transformations of Memory in South and East Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Shuchi Kapila
Chair: Shuchi Kapila
Discussants: Shuchi Kapila, Avantika Seth, Ekta Shaikh, Wendy Sun
Complex Mobilities Within and from Asia: Shifting Flows, Drivers and Experiences – Part II
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ashika Niraula
Chair: Ashika Niraula
Discussant: Usha George
Presentations: Pushpa Acharya, Mehrunnisa Ali, Yu Huang, Karun K. Karki, Hari KC
Contesting Authority: Protest, Media and Digital Activism in Contemporary Asia
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Stephan Ortmann
Chair: Stephan Ortmann
Discussant: Kenneth Chan
Presentations: Marco Bünte, Kenneth Chan, Lu Wei Rose Luqiu, Stephan Ortmann
Contesting Revolution: Media and Solidarity in the Socialist World
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type:
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yaowen Dong
Chair: Yinyin Xue
Discussant: Yifan Zhang
Presentations: Yaowen Dong, Lin Du, Yucong Hao, Nan Hu
Expanding Horizons: Researching Twentieth-Century China from Within and Without
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Arunabh Ghosh, Yajun Mo
Chair: Arunabh Ghosh
Discussants: Arunabh Ghosh, Yajun Mo, Yasser Nasser, Ke Zhang, Taomo Zhou
Experimental Life-making in the Margins of East Asian Urbanization
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Shan Huang, Min Lee
Chair: Shan Huang
Discussant: Mun Young Cho
Presentations: Shan Huang, Min Lee, Daeun Jinjin Zhang
Food, Community, Kinship: Culinary Intimacies in Global Asias
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Anita Mannur
Chair: Fan Yang
Presentations: Shawn Higgins, Anita Mannur, Krishnendu Ray, Joseph Ruanto-Ramirez
Global South Asians Against Global Empire before 1947
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Zardas Lee
Chair: Iqbal Sevea
Discussant: Iqbal Sevea
Presentations: Zardas Lee, Shatrunjay Mall, Mark Reeves, Samee Siddiqui
Material Matters: The Agency of Objects in Chinese Cinematic Culture
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yuqian Yan
Chair: Paola Iovene
Discussant: Paola Iovene
Presentations: Yiyang Hou, Ting Luo, Hongfeng Tang, Yuqian Yan
Media Aesthetics and Transmedia Practices in Chinese Literature and Culture:
A Long-Durée and Sinophone Perspective
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Pei-yin Lin, Yu Zhang
Chair: Pei-yin Lin, Liang Luo
Discussant: Liang Luo
Presentations: Qiufan Chen, Pei-yin Lin, Tim Shao-Hung Teng, Yu Zhang
Mules, Peacocks, Sheep and Tigers: Indigenous Knowledge, Diplomatic Engagement and Ecological Shifts in a Changing Asian Borderland, 1890s-1990s
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Yin Cao, Yu Yan
Chair: Yin Cao
Discussant: Yucheng Shih
Presentations: Xuexin Cai, Yin Cao, Gyatso Marni, Yu Yan, Yan
Reframing Marginality: The Redefinition of Chinese Elite Women in a Globalized World
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Siyu Li
Chair: Siyu Li
Presentations: Siyu Li, Hanzhang Liu, Di Wang, Yukun Zeng
Reframing Margins and Centres: The Pluralities and Paradoxes Within the Environmental Modernities in InterAsia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yufang Gao
Chair: Yu Luo
Discussants: Yufang Gao, Lav Kanoi, Rundong Ning, Shivangi Pareek
Re-Harkening Her Life Story: Women and Biographical Memory in Early Modern East Asia
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Xu Ma
Chair: Maki Nakai
Discussants: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Xu Ma, Jolan YI
Tradition and Transition: Ideological and Cultural Mobilities Shaping Modernities Across Asia and Beyond
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Zhe Hou
Chair: Sophie Ling-chia Wei
Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei
Presentations: Zhe Hou, Yang Luo, Ran Wei, Shuyang Zhao
Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship – Part II: Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Natsuki Chubachi, Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
Chair: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
Discussant: Ulil Amri
Presentations: Ulil Amri, Natsuki Chubachi, Amalie Dueholm, Devrim Eren, Khathaleeya Liamdee
Voices on the Margins: Contemporary Art and Intersectionality in Hong Kong
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Fong Fong Chen
Chair: Fong Fong Chen
Discussant: Yu-Chieh Li
Presentations: Matthew Cheng, Carol Pui Ha Chow, Queenie Liu, Doris Wai Yin Wong
Adaptation and Resilience in the Time of Conflict: An Inter-disciplinary Investigation in South and Southeast Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Abdul Qadeer
Chair: Huma Imdad
Discussants: Abdul Qadeer, Maria Carolina Rodriguez Bello Dawonlay
Presentations: Abdul Qadeer, Hajra Fazal, Huma Imdad, Therese Nguyen, Maria Carolina Rodriguez Bello Dawonlay
Agency of Host Countries Within China’s BRI
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Bhagya Senaratne
Chair: Bhagya Senaratne
Discussant: Rose Luke
Presentations: Renaud Egreteau, Rose Luke, Bhagya Senaratne, Ruiyi Zhu
Algorithmic Doubt in Contemporary Chinese Culture
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Margaret Hillenbrand
Chair: Christopher Lupke
Discussant: Christopher Lupke
Presentations: William Beswick, Margaret Hillenbrand, Wenzhu Li, Annabella Mei Massey
Contagious Cartographies: Risk, Agency and Belonging in Queer Asias
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen
Chair: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen
Presentations: Paul Michael Atienza, Jih-Fei Cheng, Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen
Contours of Cosmopolitanism: Cityscapes of Belonging and Marginal Modernities in Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Abhimanyu Kumar
Chair: Arun Gupto
Presentations: Jonmani Das, Abhimanyu Kumar, Mayurakshi Pankaj Singh
Digitization and Marketization of Cultural Memory in Contemporary Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Danqi Lu
Chair: Tracy Lee
Discussant: Zhiyi Yang
Presentations: Yihang Yan, Danqi Lu, Paudel Pukar, Bingbing Shi, Geng Song, Tiara Wilson
Engaging Multiculturalism and Pluralism in Island Southeast Asia: Expanding Language and Culture Studies of Indonesia and the Philippines
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Juliana Wijaya
Chair: Juliana Wijaya
Discussants: Pia Arbodela, Richard Fox, G. G. Weix, Kimi Yamoto
From Margins to Center: Rediscovering Peripheral Artifacts in Late Imperial China
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Dingwei Guo, Tianyu Shi
Chair: Ren-Yuan Li
Discussant: Yi-fei You
Presentations: Dingwei Guo, Ren-Yuan Li, Tianyu Shi, Ziwei Ye
Intersections of Identity, Gender and Representation in Modern South Asia
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Saima Arzeen
Chair: Pradip Prakashrao Kapse
Discussants: Aparna Dixit
Presentations: Aung Min Thein, Saima Arzeen, Aparna Dixit, Romana Iftikhar, Pradip Prakashrao Kapse, Ame Khin May-Kyawt
‘Meatways’ in Asia: Health, Cultural Politics and Sustainability
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Assa Doron, Sango Mahanty
Chair: Assa Doron
Discussants: Sango Mahanty, Danny Marks, Eva Nisa, Jin Qian, Sarah Turner
Modernity, Mobility and the Notion of Being a Burden to Others: Aging, Death and End-of-Life Care in Contemporary Japan
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Masafumi Motomura
Chair: Masafumi Motomura
Presentations: Satoshi Kato, Masafumi Motomura, Mayumi Ono
New Perspectives on Culture Under Empire in Modern China Japan Relations
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Craig Smith
Chair: Craig Smith
Presentations: Haiying Hou, Craig Smith, Yun Xia, Liang Yao, Yijia Zhang
Precept Observations in Contemporary Buddhist Communities – Part I
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Melody Tzu-Lung Chiu
Chair: Melody Tzu-Lung Chiu
Discussant: Guanxiong Qi
Presentations: Melody Tzu-Lung Chiu, Qinqin Peng, Rachelle Saruya
Redefining Manchuria: Intercultural Negotiation and Transnational Knowledge Production of Northeast Asia in the Early Twentieth Century
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jingjing Huang
Chair: Ji Li
Discussant: Tomasz Ewertowski
Presentations: Wenhao Guan, Jingjing Huang, Rui Li, Liyao Zhao
Reframing Hinduism in the Global Space: Texts, Traditions and Theopoetics
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: George Pati
Chair: Diana Dimitrova
Presentations: Diana Dimitrova, George Pati, Tracy Pintchman
Toward Ethical Futures: Reframing the Japanese Repatriation vis-à-vis Atomic-bombings, Ethnic Minorities and Museums
Date: June 2, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Nobuko Yamasaki
Chair: Nobuko Yamasaki
Discussant: Nobuko Yamasaki
Presentations: Jonathan Bull, Takayuki Kawaguchi, Wenju Lee
Cross-Border Migration in India and Pakistan: Exploring Contemporary Trends and Challenges
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Rashid Muhammad
Chair: Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely
Discussant: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa
Presentations: Mohamed Ali bin Haniffa, Nor Azlah Sham Binti Rambely, Shahana Maryam, Rashid Muhammad
BRICS as a Strategic Platform? Reconfiguring Global Order Beyond Established Institutions
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Adrian Brona
Chair: Adrian Brona
Presentations: Adrian Brona, Łukasz Fyderek, Fyderek Kuszewska-Bohnert, Michał Lubina, Karolina Wanda Olszowska, Agnieszka Olszowska
China Infrastructural Inc: Cultural Politics of Modernity in the Making on Margins
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Minhua Ling, Jun Zhang
Chair: Jun Zhang
Discussant: Juan Zhang
Presentations: Kevin K. W. Ip, Wendy L.Y. Leung, Jun Zhang, Yi Kang, Minhua Ling, Yu Luo, Shiru Wang
Empowering Health in the Anthropocene: Decolonizing Medical Practice in Southeast Asia Through Re-inventing Traditional Medicines
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Saroja Dorairajoo
Chair: Saroja Dorairajoo
Discussant: Inggrid Tania
Presentations: Linda Bustan, Saroja Dorairajoo , Joanne Lim
Exploring the (In)Flexibility of East Asian Masculinities: Marginality, Border Crossings and the Mobility of Power
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jinbo Yuan
Chair: Ran Ma
Discussant: Tingting Liu
Presentations: Tracy Lee, Hao Wen, Weiying Yu, Jinbo Yuan
Gendered Transformations in Reproduction and Parenting: Ideological Shifts in Motherhood and Fatherhood in Contemporary China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Congwei Zheng
Chair: Yifan Yang
Presentations: Mingxuan Li, Haoyue tan, Xijia You, Congwei Zheng
Mediating Spaces on/of Screen – Part II: Construction, Circulation and Reception in South Asian Media Ecology
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Pritha Chakrabarti
Chair: Neepa Majumdar
Presentations: Mohimarnab Biswas, Pritha Chakrabarti, Rutuja Deshmukh, Neepa Majumdar, Suvadip Sinha
New Frontiers of Politics, Economy and Settlement in Ancient East and Inner Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Maxim Korolkov
Chair: Maxim Korolkov
Presentations: Annie Chan, Yohei Kakinuma, Maxim Korolkov, Yuri Pines
Reframing Ecological Perspectives for a Global Asia: What do Hindu Traditions Offer?
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Deborah de Koning
Chair: Knut Axel Jacobsen
Discussant: Deborah de Koning
Presentations: Deborah de Koning, Knut Axel Jacobsen, Manisha Sheth, Deep Shikha
Reframing Gendered Futures on Digital Platforms and through Transnational Mobility
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Lucetta Kam
Chair: Howard Chiang
Presentations: Katrien Jacobs, Lucetta Kam, Francisca Yuenki Lai, Yuan Jasmine Zhu
Reframing Interspecies Subjectivities in Global Asia: Ethnographic Engagements with Human – Elephant Mobility, Temporality and Intersubjectivity
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Rebecca Winkler
Chair: Anandi Gandhi
Discussant: Wasan Panyagaew
Presentations: Anandi Gandhi, Wasan Panyagaew, Khatijah Rahmat, Rebecca Winkler
Reimagining Indigeneity: Indigenous Alternatives and Nonhuman Companions on the Tibetan Plateau
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Junhan Hu, Jinba Tenzin
Chair: Jinba Tenzin
Discussant: Mark Henderson
Presentations: Drolma Gadou, Junhan Hu, Guangye Qi , Jinba Tenzin, Dan Wu
Taste, Tradition and Transformation: Exploring Food Cultures and Identities in Laos and Thailand
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Malinee Khumsupa
Chair: Ridwan al-Makassary
Discussant: Ridwan al-Makassary
Presentations: Sorayut Aiem-UeaYut, Ruetaitip Chansrakaeo, Phothong Chanthavilay, Malinee Khumsupa
Thai Buddhist Cosmology and Divination in Contemporary Contexts
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Roni Wang
Chair: M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati
Presentations: Bonnie Brereton, M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Natchapol Sirisawad, Roni Wang
Things That Connect: New Approaches to Material Culture and Women in Late Imperial China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yuanfei Wang
Chair: Yulian Wu
Discussant: Yulian Wu
Presentations: Fong Chen, Huan Jin, Yuhang Li, Yuanfei Wang
Violence, Memory and the Politics of Reconciliation in South Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Dinesh Kafle
Chair: Bhushita Vashishtha
Discussant: Bhushita Vashishtha
Presentations: Violina Borah, Fathima M, Ved Prakash
Chinese Global Orders?
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: William Callahan
Chair: William Callahan
Discussants: William Callahan, Hasan H. Karrar, Yongjia Liang, Adhira Mangalagiri, Tansen Sen
Emerging Digital Media Landscape and Civic Imagination in Contemporary China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Winnie Yanjing Wu
Chair: Winnie Yanjing Wu
Discussant: Kai Khiun Liew
Presentations: Lucia Lu Chen, Shuhao Winnie Yanjing Wu, Hong Zeng
Global Chinas, Local Adaptations: Historical Strategies for Cultural Appropriation and Navigation in Sino–West Cultural Interchange
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jianye He
Chair: Weihong Du
Discussant: Giusi Tamburello
Presentations: Weihong Du, Salvatore Giuffrè, Jianye He, Giusi Tamburello
Lighthouses, Labs and Observatories: Glocalizing Infrastructures and Sciences in Modern China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xiaoping Xue
Chair: Yin Cao
Discussant: Ke Zhang
Presentations: Yu Cao, Zhilin Chu, Xiaoping Xue, Xue
Marginalization Within and Beyond the Borders of China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yujia Shi
Chair: Se Hyun Kim
Discussants: Aidong (Eden) Li, Yilong Liu
Presentations: Yilong Liu, SiLang Huang, Se Hyun Kim, Aidong (Eden) Li, Yujia Shi
Moving Bodies: Pigs, Plants and People (1880–1980)
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sudarshana Chanda
Chair: Chien-Wen Kung
Discussant: Chien-Wen Kung
Presentations: Clare Anderson, Sudarshana Chanda, Niuniu Teo
Of Bazar, Town, and City: Indigenous and Mainstream Imagination in Nepal
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Komal Phuyal
Chair: Ammaraj Joshi
Discussant: Ammaraj Joshi
Presentations: Mohan Dangaura, Dipak Lungeli, Komal Phuyal
Reframing Death Through Silence: Deaths at Wartime, Pandemic Time and Frozen Time in China and Taiwan
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: C. Julia Huang
Chair: Robert Weller
Discussant: Robert Weller
Presentations: Jiahui Li, C. Julia Huang, Rebecca Nedostup, Juan Zhang
Reframing Journal Publishing in ‘Asia’
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Edward Boyle, Matthew McMullen
Chair: Matthew McMullen
Discussants: Edward Boyle, Tristan Grunow, Sebastian Maslow, Ellen Van Goethem
Reframing the 1949 Divide: Was the Mao Era an Anomaly?
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yidi Wu
Chair: Yidi Wu
Discussants: Chang Liu, Timothy Weston, Lara Yang
Statelessness, Everyday Violence and Camps in Southern Asia: The Rohingya Question
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Nasreen Chowdhory
Chair: Biswajit Mohanty
Discussant: Biswajit Mohanty
Presentations: Meherun Ahmed, NASREEN CHOWDHORY, Shahana Chowdhury, Biswajit Mohanty
Teaching/Researching IR and Area Studies in Asia and Civilisational Relational Pedagogy/Theory: Challenges and Way Forward
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Rajiv Ranjan
Chair: Rajiv Ranjan
Discussants: Gaurav Bhattarai, Rashed Uz Zaman
Presentations: Sobia Jamil, Qasim Sodhar Muhammad, Rajiv Ranjan, Asantha Senevirathna, Rashed Uz Zaman, Zhaodong Wang
The Dynamics of Performance: Understanding Asia Through Its Rituals
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Archita Banerjee
Chair: Archita Banerjee
Presentations: Archita Banerjee, Priyanka Chakraborty, Prachi Chauhan, Anju Krish
The Intersection of State Power and Subaltern Agency: A Study of Marginality, Resistance and Identity in South Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Abdul Qadeer
Chair: Abdul Qadeer
Discussant: Shumaila Rasheed
Presentations: Abhijit Bhattachatya, Abdul Qadeer, Sehrish Rabbani, Atha Tahir
The Making of Space: Bodies, Borders, Boundaries
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Shahnaz Rouse
Chair: Shahnaz Rouse
Discussant: Shahnaz Rouse
Presentations: Esha De, Zebunnisa Hamid, Gwendolyn Kirk
Urbanization, Marginalization and the Politics of Citizenship – Part I: Perspectives on Cultural Identities
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Natsuki Chubachi, Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
Chair: Ulil Amri
Discussant: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
Presentations: Kazuyo Futaesaku, Lermie Shayne Garcia, John Teodoro, Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
A Transboundary History of Medicine: The Pluralism of Asian’s Local Medical Practices and Scientific Discourses Beyond Geographic Boundaries
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Xiaoyu Chen
Chair: Nancy Chen
Discussant: Nancy Chen
Presentations: Xiaoyu Chen, Waika Kot, Karl Lu, Sijie Ren
Accumulation, Dispossession and the Indigenous Margins: Case Studies from India
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Deepali Aparajita Dungdung, Roluah Puia
Chair: Roluah Puia
Presentations: Gayatri Balu, Sujatha Devarapalli, Deepali Aparajita Dungdung, Thangsiandong Guite, Roluah Puia, Repakaba Tzudir
Artificial Intelligence: Representations, Practices and Implications in Asian Popular Culture
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Keiko Nishimura, Aya Saha
Chair: Keiko Nishimura
Presentations: Patrick Galbraith, Keiko Nishimura, Megan Rose, Aya Saha
Cultural Trans-Asianism: Representations and Geopolitics of Cultural Soft Power Across South and East Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya
Chair: Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya
Discussants: Prachi Aggarwal, Shyam Kumar Anand, Ambika Basu, Vinay Kumar, Ahanthem Romita Devi
Faith Under the Siege of Modernity: The Evolution of State and Popular Religions in Modern China (1750–023)
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Boyi Pang
Chair: Tianshu Zhu
Discussants: Naomi Thurston
Presentations: Wenjin Fang, Yifan Li, Boyi Pang
Heritage and Adaptation in Vietnamese Food Culture: Language, Identity and Influence in a Changing World
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Thúy Tranviet
Chair: Thúy Tranviet
Discussant: Pia Arbodela
Presentations: Minh Thanh Le, Nir Avieli, Phuong-Anh Dang, An Sakach, Thúy Tranviet
Identity, Resistance and Maintenance: Navigating Infrastructures in South and Southeast Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Anto Moshin
Chair: Anto Moshin
Presentations: Lalchhandami Lalchhandami, Harsha Man Mahajan, Anto Moshin, Ratnamala Vaamalai
Immersive Asia: Soundwalk and Noisescape of Asian Cities – Part II
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Iris Haukamp, Miaotong Yuan
Chair: Miaotong Yuan
Discussants: Iris Haukamp
Presentations: Jamil Akhtar, Yang Ding, Pratiti Ketoki, L. Nicole Vaughan
Meaningful Places: Famous Sites in Japanese Cultural Memory
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Matthew Fraleigh, Motoi Katsumata
Chair: Matthew Fraleigh
Presentations: Matthew Fraleigh, Motoi Katsumata, Junfu Li, Bo Zhang
Mobilities in Sinophone Cinema, Performance and Literature
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Tze-lan Sang
Chair: Tze-lan Sang
Discussants: Miaomiao Qi, Jia Tan, Alvin Wong, Hangping Xu, Ling Zhang
Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas – Part II: Contestations and Connections
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Dibyesh Anand
Chair: Nitasha Kaul
Discussants: Swati Chawla, Sanjukta Datta, Sayantani Mukherjee
Organizing Nature: Tracking the Capitalocene in South Asia
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Sandeep Banerjee, Atreyee Majumder
Chair: Sandeep Banerjee
Discussant: Atreyee Majumder
Presentations: Sandeep Banerjee, Suvendu Ghatak, Atreyee Majumder, Elliott Prasse-Freeman
Outside In: When Foreign Became Tradition in East Asian Art
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yu-chih Lai
Chair: Jan Stuart
Discussant: Matthew McKelway
Presentations: Andrew On-Tsun Fung, Yu-chih Lai, Ching Hing-Fei Shih, Ching-Ling Wang
Phantomizing the Modern: New Perspectives on (Post)Colonial Modernities in French Indochina
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Tram Luong
Chair: Anh Le
Discussants: Chi Yen “Ichi” Ha, Sujane Kanparit, Tram Luong, Morragotwong Phumplab
What Gender Means and What Gender Does in Timor-Leste
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Lili Chen, Senhorina Madalena dos Santos
Chair: Joanico Gusmao Alves
Discussant: Mica Barreto Soares
Presentations: Lili Chen, Bernardo Leto, Iram Saeed, Josh Trindade
‘Zaoren (造人)’: Crafting Subjecthood in Premodern China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yuxuan Tay
Chair: Jinchao Zhao
Discussant: Jinchao Zhao
Presentations: Tiantian Cai, Huajie Fan, Yutong Li, Yuxuan Tay
Capital, Migration and (Re)Territorialization: Reconfiguring Borders Across East and Southeast Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ben Fan
Chair: Hsiu-hua Shen
Discussant: Kisho Tsuchiya
Presentations: Ben Fan, Miriam Jaehn, Hsiu-hua Shen, Yunxi Wu
Enlarging the Margins: Struggles and Solidarities Among the Subjugated in Modern Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Aadarsh Chunkath
Chair: Aadarsh Chunkath
Discussant: Rebecca Waxman
Presentations: Aadarsh Chunkath, Mortaza Hassani, Sara Hussein, Muhammad Ashraf T. P., Rebecca Waxman
Fiscal Decentralization as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development: Comparative Insights from China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Farhan Shaikh
Chair: Aamir Aijaz Syed
Presentations: Fahmida Laghari, Farhan Shaikh, Aamir Aijaz Syed, Syofriza Syofyan
Images Worlding: Trans-Asia Visual Media and Filmed History of the 20th Century
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yijiao Guo
Chair: Xiang Fan
Discussant: Xiang Fan
Presentations: Timmy Chih-Ting Chen, Yijiao Guo, Ran Ma, Lu Pan
Knowledge on the Move: Nature, Science and Memory in Modern East Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Aolan Mi
Chair: Kan Li
Discussants: Wenyi Guo, Liangyu Hu
Presentations: Wenyi Guo, Liangyu Hu, Kan Li, Aolan Mi
Mobilities and Barriers in Contraflow Cultures and Media in the Post-pandemic Era
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xiao Yang
Chair: Xiao Yang
Discussant: Ying-kit Chan
Presentations: Jessie Liu, Xiao Yang, Yijia Zhang, Xinyue Luo, Ani Maitra, Anubha Sarkar, Fan Yang
Mobilities of Buddhist Place and Practice in Premodern Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Eloise Wright, Jinchao Zhao
Chair: Sanjukta Datta
Discussant: Elena Pakhoutova
Presentations: Zhiyuan Chen, Mingzhou Chi, Eloise Wright, Jinchao Zhao
Monks, Merchant Networks and Religious Mobility among the Jains
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Eric Villalobos
Chair: Jyoti Agarwal
Discussant: David Silverberg
Presentations: Jyoti Agarwal, Anchit Jain, Eric Villalobos
Moving with the Times: Footpaths, Roadways and Everyday Journeys in the Transnational Himalaya
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Amy Johnson
Chair: Amy Johnson
Discussants: Thomas Bell, Anisa Bhutia, Logan Emlet, Bhoomika Joshi, Nishtha Tewari
Racialized and Gendered Bodies in East Asia: Colonization, Biopolitics and Agency
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Misha Cade, Emi Omuro
Chair: Kazuyo Tsuchiya
Discussant: Kazuyo Tsuchiya
Presentations: Libera Amadiwakama Mochihashi, Misha Cade, Junxiao Leng, Emi Omuro
Reconstructing Identities and Cultural Resistance: Youth Culture in East Asia’s Digital Age
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Zhuyuan Han, Wenxi Hu
Chair: Wenxi Hu
Discussant: Zhuyuan Han
Presentations: Zhuyuan Han, Helena Hiu Yung Chung, Wenxi Hu, Kexuan Li, Xiaodan Wang
Reframing Asian Migration: Space-making, Situated Modernities and Social Mobilities
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sophie Loy-Wilson
Chair: Craig Smith
Discussant: Kesang Youdon
Presentations: Sophie Loy-Wilson, Charlotte Setijadi, Fei Sheng, Yu Tao
Revealing Planetary Wellbeing As Politically Contested Site(s):
Dialogues on Foregrounding ‘Indigenous’ Epistemes Across India
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Mrinal Hembrom, Anwesha Konar
Chair: Ipshita Basu
Discussants: Ekata Bakshi, Bipasa Dutta, Sudheesh R C
Riparian Governmentalities in Urbanising South Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Anubhav Pradhan, Barsha Santra
Chair: Anubhav Pradhan
Presentations: Sheetal Patil, Barsha Santra, Divya Chand, Sivee Chawla, Vaishali Kashyap, Anubhav Pradhan, Ritika Rajput
Transregional Ecological Concerns, Connections and Cooperation
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Wenbing Peng
Chair: Tsering Bum
Discussant: Wenbing Peng
Presentations: Drashi Dondrub, Tsering Bum, Ping Huang, Haimei Shen, Xi Zhang, Yachuan Zhao
War and Its Afterlife: Narratives of Identity and Cultural Memory in Global Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jin Feng
Chair: Jing Jiang
Discussant: Jing Jiang
Presentations: Jin Feng, Xianmin Shen, Jie Zhang, Zhang
Ethnobotany at the Margin: Traditional Healing, Ecological Resilience and Indigenous Ecologies
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Wasinee Topoonyanont
Chair: Wasinee Topoonyanont
Discussant: Nanthanoot Udomlamun
Presentations: Pranab Kumar Mandal, Thianchai Surimas, Areeya Tivasuradej, Wasinee Topoonyanont
Exile Landscapes: Tibetan Refugee Experiences, Survival and Community Resilience in South Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Priyanka Chakraborty
Chair: Priyanka Chakraborty
Presentations: Joanna Coelho, Arnab Mandal, Janhavi Pande, Tashi Phuntsok, Nimu Sherpa
Exploring Tourist Urbanization: Colonial Legacies, Social Tensions and Transformations
in South Asian Mountain Landscapes
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Rémi de Bercegol
Chair: Anthony Goreau Ponceaud
Discussant: Nicolas Bautes
Presentations: Victoire Bertholet, Odile Henry, Akumtong Imchen, Ratoola Kundu Diya Mehra, Tudor Silva
Globalisms and Localisms in Asian Hip Hops
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sarojini Sapru
Chair: Rabani Garg
Presentations: Rabani Garg, Zehra Husain, Sarojini Sapru
Networks, Identities, Place-making in the Himalayas – Part I: The (Non-)Centrality of the State
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Dibyesh Anand
Chair: Dibyesh Anand
Discussant: Kaustabh Deka, Tenzin Desal, Swargajyoti Gohain, Nitasha Kaul
New Ways of Knowing and New Boundaries of Knowledge Production Between Nepal and China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Aneka Rajbhandari, Zezhou Yang
Chair: Zezhou Yang
Discussant: Jiayue Xu
Presentations: Amish Mulmi, Aneka Rajbhandari, Ayushman Baruah, Raunab Khatri, Niraj Lawoju, Shubhanga Pandey, Zezhou Yang
On the Movement of Identity in a Global Asia: A Cross-Media, Decolonial Panel
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Rebecca Ehrenwirth
Chair: Fareed Ben-Youssef
Presentations: Roslynn Ang, Fareed Ben-Youssef, Rebecca Ehrenwirth
Reframing Communities in Post-Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Nepal and Japan
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Paola Cavaliere
Chair: Paola Cavaliere
Discussant: Paola Cavaliere
Presentations: Paola Cavaliere, Sanae Ito, Christie Lam
Revolutionary Narratives: Gender, Trauma and the Rewriting of Identity in Modern Chinese Female Literature
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Heyu Yang
Chair: Heyu Yang
Presentations: Hiu Lam Mak, Zhe Song, Heyu Yang, Yang
Seeing the Silence in Modernity: Reconsidering ‘Death’ in Contemporary China
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Hanqiu Guo
Chair: Linjie Zou
Discussant: Miao He
Presentations: Hanqiu Guo, Miao He, Jiaxin Li, Hechen Liu
Self-reliance Against Scarcity: Medical and Technological Extraction and Appropriation in Wartime China, 1937–1949
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Chao Wang
Chair: Yun Zhang
Discussant: Helen Schneider
Presentations: Linghui Ji, Yuye Kong, Chao Wang, Yun Zhang
Sentiment, Trauma and Fluidity: Marginalized Bodies in Global Asian Cinema
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yayu Zheng
Chair: Yayu Zheng
Presentations: Karen Ren, Jie (Jocelyn) Xu, Yayu Zheng
The Politics of Development and Alternative Modernities in North-East India
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Thomas Malsom
Chair: Pompi Basumatary
Presentations: Pompi Basumatary, Sonjit Chakma, Nakhrai Debbarma, Thomas Malsom, Orenvungi L Ngullie
Under Pressure: Strategies of Knowledge Production in Early Modern and Modern Asia
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Pin-Hua Chou
Chair: Yen-hao Liao
Discussant: Aadarsh Chunkath
Presentations: Pin-Hua Chou, Xiaowen Hao, Yen-hao Liao
Villages and Peasants in a Mobile Era: Coping Strategies and Survival Tactics of Individuals
Date: June 3, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yu Le
Chair: Zhang Manqing
Discussant: Zhou Yuqin
Presentations: Liu Chenyu, Yu Le, Zhang Manqing, Shen Siyuan, Zhou Yuqin
Win-Win-Win Collaborations to Grow – How the Joint Fellowship Programs Create New Opportunities to Researchers, Host Institutions and the Funder
Time: 17:00:00 – 18:30:00
Area: Special Panel
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer(s):
Chair:
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20 Years of Impossible Desires
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Anadi Rao
Chair: Mehak Khan
Discussants: Gayatri Gopinath, Omar Kasmani, Akhil Katyal, Mehak Khan, Anadi Rao
A Passage to Southwest China: Reconsidering Transregionality from an Asian Borderland
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jannis Jizhou Chen
Chair: Mingwei Song
Discussant: Robin Visser
Presentations: Jannis Jizhou Chen, Linshan Jiang, Kevin Ziyu Liu, Dihao Zhou
Art, Archives and Archaeology: New Evidence and Methodology in East Asian Studies
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Kent Cao
Chair: Kent Cao
Presentations: Kent Cao, Sinae Kim, Mai Yamaguchi, Zhuming Yao
Carriers of Belief: The Mobilities of Objects in Mahāyāna Buddhism in the Himalayan Region
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Chi-Lynn Lin
Chair: Wenhua Luo
Discussant: Wenhua Luo
Presentations: James Gentry, Todd Lewis, Chi-Lynn Lin, Christian Luczanits, Yuting Zhang
Challenges and Persistence of LGBTQ+ People in Korea and Japan: Everyday Life, Pride and Backlashes
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Sumi Cho, Tomomi Yamaguchi
Chair: James Welker
Discussant: James Welker
Presentations: Sumi Cho, Jieha Lee, Akiko Shimizu, Tomomi Yamaguchi
Exposed Bodies: Corporeal Imagination in East Asian Media Against Globalism
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jeongon Choi
Chair: Xiangqing Song
Discussant: Jeongon Choi
Presentations: Jeongon Choi, Shenglai Jin, Harim Park, Xiangqing Song
Global Flavors and Local Dynamics: The Interplay of Food Cultures in Southeast Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ridwan al-Makassary
Chair: Malinee Khumsupa
Discussant: Malinee Khumsupa
Presentations: Ridwan al-Makassary, Kwanchewan Buadaeng, Sivilay Keobountham, Atchareeya Saisin
Governance Regimes and Value under Neoliberalism: Interrogating Contemporary Politics of Labor in South Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Ria Gyawali, Ashwin Subramanian
Chair: Ashwin Subramanian
Discussant: Nilotpal Kumar
Presentations: Ahmad Fahim, Ria Gyawali, Vinayak Krish, Marini Thorne
Immersive Asia: Soundwalk and Noisescape of Asian Cities – Part I
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Iris Haukamp, Miaotong Yuan
Chair: Iris Haukamp
Discussant: Miaotong Yuan
Presentations: Benjamin Harris, Masayuki Iwase, Manlin Wang, Zhengming Wang
Media, Discourse and Ideological Construction in Contemporary China
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Haoguang Li
Chair: Haoguang Li
Discussant: Guoguang Wu
Presentations: Weiru Cheng, Haoguang Li, Ming Mo, Jiayue Xu
(Post)colonizing the Body: Transnational Embodiments of Goverce, Space, and Belonging in East and Southeast Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:30 AM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Adrien Gau, Francis Newman
Chair: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice
Discussant: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice
Presentations: Nur Adilla, Adrien Gau, Gideon Lasco, Francis Newman
One Road, Many Outcomes: The Impact of the One Belt One Road Initiative on Three South Asian Countries
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Shabbir Ghulam
Chair: Shabbir Ghulam
Discussant: Saroja Dorairajoo
Presentations: Shabbir Ghulam, Niazi Komal, Mehmood Arfan, Hasan Kamrul
Reversing the Gaze: The Marginalized Representations of Otherized Women in Early Modern China
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yan Ki (Otilie) Leung
Chair: Hui Wang
Discussant: Yuming Yu
Presentations: Ziyue Chen, Zhexin Gao, Weiling (Dolores) Kong, Yan Ki (Otilie) Leung
Transnational Film Co-production in East Asia and Beyond
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Northeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Chonghwa Chung, Suhyun Kim
Chair: Suhyun Kim
Presentations: Chonghwa Chung, Suhyun Kim, Insil Yang
Transnational Therapeutics: Technologies and Landscape of Healing in the Broad Indo-Malay Networks
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 8:30 to 10:00 AM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: EnChieh Chao
Chair: EnChieh Chao
Presentations: Meta Astuti, EnChieh Chao, Tsung-Ren Hung, Fikriyah Winata, Faizah Zakaria
Bridging Migration in Asia: Transnational Perspectives on Asian Migrant Workers in Japan
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yu Saito
Chair: Yu Saito
Presentations: Waode Istiqomah, Jaessadakorn Kalapong, Sham Karki, Meng Luan, Yu Saito
Crossing Gendered Boundaries: ‘Yaoguai (妖怪)’, Monstrosity and Identity in East Asian Narratives
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Lijin Yang
Chair: Lijin Yang
Discussant: Jingyang Zhao
Presentations: Meixi Chen, Ang Li, Qianyi Ma, Chenying Wang, Yingxin Zhang
Decolonizing Methodologies and South Asian Experiences
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Manjusha Nair, Rashmi Sadana
Chair: Kathryn Wellen
Discussant: Rashmi Sadana
Presentations: Debjani Das, Labib Hossain, Manjusha Nair, Sanjay Sharma
Global Ceramics: Interregional Trade and Cultural Interchange in the Early Modern Era
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Chuiki Wan
Chair: Judy Law
Discussants: Chuiki Wan, Guanyu Wang
Presentations: Judy Law, Chuiki Wan, Guanyu Wang, Kunpeng Xiang
Heritage, Modernization and the Marginalization of Japan’s Alternative ‘Capitals’
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Daniel Milne
Chair: Daniel Milne
Discussant: Andrew Elliott
Presentations: Daniel Milne, Jens Sejrup, Ellen Van Goethem
Mediating Spaces on/off Screen – Part 1: Spatiality, Aesthetics and Performance in Cinemas of Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Pritha Chakrabarti
Chair: Meheli Sen
Presentations: Baidurya Chakrabarti, Rudrani Gangopadhyay, Suddhadeep Mukherjee, Meheli Sen
Metaphorical Paradigms in Global Asias: Navigating Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Bairam Khan
Chair: Premlata Vaishnava
Presentations: Mansi Bajaj, Bairam Khan, Shiv Kumar Singh, Premlata Vaishnava
Moving into Place: Struggles of Mobility and the State
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Daungyewa Utarasint
Chair: Budi Hernawan
Presentations: Colum Graham, Budi Hernawan, Qi Li, Daungyewa Utarasint
Performing and Reclaiming the Female Body Through History
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Shuangting Xiong
Chair: Shuangting Xiong
Discussant: Kwan Yin Lee
Presentations: Yu Chih Chou, Xiaoyan Deng, Shuangting Xiong
Queer Lives on Asian-Pacific Margins
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: James Cummings
Chair: James Cummings
Discussant: Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen
Presentations: John Mervin Embate, Jonalou Labor, James Cummings, Jozon Lorenzana, Yujie Xu
Reimagining Environmental Narratives in Asian Margins: Climate Change, Cultural Heritage and Local Mobilities
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Neha Khetrapal, Pawel Piszczatowski
Chair: Pawel Piszczatowski
Discussants: Joanna Jurewicz, Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi
Presentations: Joanna Jurewicz, Neha Khetrapal, Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi, Pawel Piszczatowski
Rethinking Community-led Development in the Anthropocene: New Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Mucahid Bayrak, Keng Hang Frankie Fan
Chair: Bishawjit Mallick
Discussant: Nadzirah Hosen
Presentations: Mucahid Bayrak, Keng Hang Frankie Fan, Nadzirah Hosen, Bishawjit Mallick, Yi-Chin Wu
Tracing Links to Ancestral Lands: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Expressions and Environmental Stewardship in the Philippines
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Eden Terol
Chair: Agnes Silva
Presentations: Agnes Silva, Estrella Dacillo, Maria Zenia Dulce, Marian Gongora, Eden Terol
Transimperial Agents and the Cultural Production of the Global Qing
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sylvia Tongyan Qiu
Chair: Andrea Goldman
Presentations: Yushu Chen, Samuel Cheney, Benji Fleischacker, Albert Kozik, Sylvia Tongyan Qiu
What Does Transdisciplinary Research and Practice Look Like? Landslides, Disaster risk Reduction and Learning Across Difference in Nepal
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sara Shneiderman
Chair: Amy Johnson
Discussants: Jeevan Baniya, Amod Dixit, Tek Dong, Shobhana Gurung Pradhan, Sara Shneiderman
Presentations:
Asian Monarchies in the Modern World
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Kathryn Wellen
Chair: Kazuhiro Takii
Presentations: Astrid Norén-Nilsson, Bill Long, Duncan McCargo, Kittisak Sujittarom, Kathryn Wellen
Democratic Recession and the Potential for Popular Democracy in Indonesia and Timor-Leste
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Lili Chen
Chair: Martinho Pereira
Discussants: Saru Arifin, Lili Chen, Richard Fox, Eunsook Jung, Dettman Sebastian
Encountering Modernity in the Eastern Himalayas
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jigme Lama
Chair: Jigme Lama
Discussants: Dickey Lama, Tenzing Wangdak
Presentations: Jigme Lama, Dickey Tenzing Wangdak
Gendered Realities and Intersecting Identities: Roles of Filipino Women During Crisis in the Context of Language, Work and Caregiving
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Eden Terol
Chair: Florinda Palma Gil
Presentations: Stephanie Cuan, May Desiree Hulipas, Florinda Palma Gil
Global Asia at China’s Edges: Entrepreneurs, Settlement and Security – Part II
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Andrew Grant
Chair: Sonika Gupta
Discussant: Andrew Grant
Presentations: Wandai Ji, Sanggay Tashi, Duojie Zhaxi
In Search for Asian Identities: Globalized Perspectives on East Asian Art and Architecture
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Anton Schweizer, Gloria Yu Yang
Chair: Anton Schweizer
Presentations: Anton Schweizer, Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, Lianming Wang, Gloria Yu Yang
Lives Mobilized by Land and Water: Reconfiguring the Local and Beyond in East and Southeast Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sue Zhou
Chair: Realisa Masardi
Discussant: Realisa Masardi
Presentations: Hazman Baharom, Xiaoxi Zhao, Sue Zhou, Yichi Zhou
‘Nanyang’ Crossings: Worlding Sinophone Southeast Asian Literature and Culture
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Soon Yi Poon
Chair: Chee Lay Tan
Discussant: Chee Lay Tan
Presentations: Qianru He, Soon Yi Poon, Yihan Xie
Negotiate with the Asian Modernity: Gender, Identity and Popular Culture in Transmedia Fandom Practice
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Su Li
Chair: Su Li
Discussant: Kaiwen Zheng
Presentations: Su Li, Jialu Wen, Wenxin Xiao, Kaiwen Zheng
Protocols Versus Praxis: Global Health Goals, Biomedical Standards and Reproductive Realities in South Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jan Brunson
Chair: Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
Discussant: Sita Mademba
Presentations: Jan Brunson, Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Anindita Majumdar, Abdullah All Shakil
Reflections on the Future of Himalayan Studies – Part II
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Arjun Guneratne
Chair: Sara Shneiderman
Discussants: Mona Bhan, Heather Hindman, Tanka Subba, Ather Zia
Self-determination in the Philippines: From Anti-colonialism to City Margins to Decolonial Futures
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: Southeast Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Cla Ruzol, Kristian Karlo Saguin
Chair: Aireen Grace Andal
Discussant: Kristian Karlo Saguin
Presentations: Karminn Daytec Yañgot, Arnisson Andre Ortega, Cla Ruzol
The ‘Margins’ of Chinese Civilization: Subsistence, Economy and Identity Formations of Western China
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yu Dong
Chair: Xuexiang Chen
Discussant: Alice Yao
Presentations: Weidong Chen, Ruilin Mao, Xiaobin Wang, Wei Yang, Chengrui Zhang, Xuexiang Yu Dong, Yue Li, Kuei-chen Lin, Alice Yao
The Right to the Mountains: Ethnicity and Nation in Himalayan Tourism
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Young Hoon Oh
Chair: Young Hoon Oh
Presentations: Ian Bellows, Medhavi Gulati, Young Hoon Oh, Khadga Shrestha
The Rise of ‘Radical Feminism’ in Global Asia: Connecting China, India and South Korea
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: East and Inner Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yunyun Zhou
Chair: Yunyun Zhou
Discussants: Euisol Jeong, Niharika Pandit
Presentations: Ling Tang, Yunyun Zhou, Yaya Ji, Jinyu Sun, Hongkun Wang, Xumeng Xie
Transitioning Gender and Identity: Ethnographies on Education in South Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:30 PM
Area: South Asia
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Yamini Agarwal
Chair: Hem Borker
Presentations: Yamini Agarwal , Hem Borker, Pronita Dutta
Global Queer Asias: New Directions
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Howard Chiang
Chair: Lucetta Kam
Discussants: Howard Chiang, Aniruddha Dutta, James Welker, Shana Ye
Globalising Asians and Mobility: Marginality and Identity Formation of Asian Migrants
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Jerónimo Delgado Caicedo
Chair: Furrukh Khan
Presentations: Jerónimo Delgado Caicedo, Furrukh Khan, Realisa Masardi
Negotiating Marginalized Identities: Cultural Memory, Media Narratives and Resilience in South and East Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Pratikshya Mishra
Chair: Edwin Michielsen
Presentations: Sonalika Chaturvedi, Ting-Yu Chou, Edwin Michielsen, Pratikshya Mishra
Negotiating the Locality and Subjectivity: On the Ethnic Chinese Under Imperial Order and Global Discourse
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Yue Duo, Xin Su
Chair: Chunmei Du
Discussants: Yue Qi, Tianlong You
Presentations: Yue Duo, Qing Shi, Xin Su, Yunjing Yi, Yi
Politics of Recognition and Boundary in Trans-Asian Film Cultures
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Zhen Zhang
Chair: Zhen Zhang
Discussant: Zhen Zhang
Presentations: Kaushik Bhaumik, Shi-yan Chao, Navnidhi Sharma, Yinjie Wang
Reframing Migration and Urban Infrastructures in Global Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Xinyu Guan
Chair: Xinyu Guan
Discussant: Seng Guan Yeoh
Presentations: Anita Ghimire, Katharine Jones, Xinyu Guan, Yvonne Khor, Jing Hao Liong, Teraya Paramehta, Elisa Tamburo
Reframing Politics of Memory in Asia and Beyond: Empowerment, Healing, Flipping the Script
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Kevin Laddapong
Chair: Somrak Chaisingkaont
Presentations: Somrak Chaisingkaont, Pimnara Chanorn, Kevin Laddapong, Sirima Thongsawang, Ravipa Thummachote, Nicole Venker
Reframing Queer Asia: Inter-regional Circulation and Inter-referencing of Boys Love Narratives
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Amporn Jirattikorn
Chair: Amporn Jirattikorn
Discussant: Thomas Baudinette
Presentations: Ying-kit Chan, Masao Imamura, Mingi Jang, Amporn Jirattikorn
Reimagining the Multiplicity of Border Studies in China and the East Asian Region
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Waifung Tam
Chair: Laikwan Pang
Presentations: Hung-chiung Li, Kwai-Cheung LO, Laikwan Pang, Waifung Tam
Re-Peripheralization of Buraku as Discriminated Minority The Dynamics of Outcast Status, Migration, Gendered Subalternity
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Tsutomu Tomotsune
Chair: Wesley Weunten
Discussant: Shahana Bhattacharya
Presentations: Kiyonobu Hirooka, John Porter, Tsutomu Tomotsune
Rituals and Myth: Identity Formation of the Ethnic Minorities in China and Southeast Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Sinae Hyun
Chair: Tatsuki Kataoka
Discussant: Hyun Myingho
Presentations: Tatsuki Kataoka, Jianxiong Ma, Yoichi Nishimoto, Wasan Panyagaew
Rooted in Place: Exploring the Cultural Significance of Plants and Food in Asian Communities
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yoshimi Osawa
Chair: Yoshimi Osawa
Discussant: Greg de St. Maurice
Presentations: Greg de St. Maurice, Putthida Kijdumnern, Sakura Kudo, Yi-tze Lee, Yoshimi Osawa
Talking about the Para-Academic: Global Asia(s) Through Space-making and Decolonial Feminist Praxis
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Pratiti Ketoki, Anushmita Mohanty
Chair: Pratiti Ketoki
Discussants: Majorca Bateman-Coe, Pratiti Ketoki, Anushmita Mohanty, Aratrika Sengupta
Technologies of Desire: Queer Intimacy, Digital Architectures and Fan Practices in and Beyond East Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Norah Chungyan Chow
Chair: Charlie Yi Zhang
Discussant: Charlie Yi Zhang
Presentations: Norah Chungyan Chow, Ziwei Tiffany Tang, Vicky Yongkun Wu, Xinyue Zhang, Kaiwen Zheng
Unsettling Asia: Frameworks for Thinking Alongside, Across and Beyond
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Roundtable
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Nadine Attewell
Chair: Nadine Attewell
Discussants: Fiona Hsiao Yen Lee, Anushay Malik, Tansen Sen, Rupak Shrestha
Women on the Margins: Negotiating Sex, Marriage and Work Across Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Lois (Lu) Hao, Lijun Zhang
Chair: Jolan Yi
Discussants: Huichi Hsu, Lichun Huang
Presentations: Lois (Lu) Hao, Huichi Hsu , Lichun Huang, Lijun Zhang
Complex Mobilities Within and from Asia: Shifting Flows, Drivers and Experiences – Part I
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ashika Niraula
Chair: Ashika Niraula
Presentations: Moumita Sen, Chandana Sharma, Deepa Nagari, Gaurav Lamichhane, Pratiti Roy, Sagar Raj Richa Shivakoti, Luisa Veronis
Eddies and Circulations, New Formations the Confound the Cultural Center
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Ken Ueno
Chair: Ken Ueno
Presentations: Jocelyn Clark, Michael Hurt, Shzr Tan, Ken Ueno
Evolving Developmental Landscapes in Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Dhirendra Nalbo, Jacob Rinck
Chair: Dhirendra Nalbo
Presentations: Harindra Dassanayake, Han Cheng, Rajni Gamage, Selina Ho, Dinesh Paudel, Jacob Rinck
The Flowing ‘China’: Food Writings and Ethnic Identity of Contemporary Ethnic Chinese Writers — Studies of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Junjie Qin
Chair: Junjie Qin
Discussants: Xinying Qi, Si Xing
Presentations: Yi Jin, Xinying Qi, Si Xing, Xing
The Politics of Climate Change and Development in Asia
Date:
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Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizers: Dhirendra Nalbo, Jacob Rinck
Chair: Jacob Rinck
Presentations: Shangrila Joshi, Dhirendra Nalbo, Sarah Rose-Jensen, Sophie Webber
Thinking Along with Moving: Socio-political, Affective and Resistant Dimensions of Mobility Within and Beyond Asia
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Charlie Yi Zhang
Chair: Xiaojia Hou
Presentations: Lia Butanda, Xiaojia Hou, Mao Lin, Lopita Nah, Charlie Yi Zhang
Time and Borders in Flux: Rethinking Temporality Beyond China
Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Yan Yan, Zheng Ying
Chair: Zheng Ying
Discussant: Yan Yan
Presentations: Xiao Liu, Yi Meng , Xinwei Xu, Yan Yan, Zheng Ying Ying
Who is an Artisan? A Question of Margins and Modernity
Date: June 4, 2025
Time:5:00 to 6:30 PM
Area: Inter-Area/Border Crossing
Event Type: Panel
Venue: TBD
Organizer: Hanna Kim
Chair: Laurel Kendall
Presentations: Huy Van Nguyen, Hien Thi Neel Kamal Chapagain, Laurel Kendall, Hanna Kim, Minny Lee, Ming Xue