Workshop

Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary

Workshop Directors Alice Jim Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Concordia University alice.jim@concordia.ca Henry Tsang Associate Professor, Faculty of Culture + Community emily carr university of art + design htsang@ecuad.ca Workshop Participants Rachel Amtzis, Research Division, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore “Canvassing the City: Street Art, Protest, and Counter-Politics in Kathmandu” Jacqueline Armijo, Associate Professor, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University “Qatar, Cai Guo-qiang and Reimagining Historical and Cultural Transmissions” Gay Breyley, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2013-15), Faculty of Arts, Monash University “Uninvited Artistic Connections: From Iranian to Inter-Asian Imaginaries” Manuela Ciotti, Assistant Professor, Global …

Asian Early Modernities: Empires, Bureaucrats, Confessions, Borders, Merchants

Workshop Directors Kaya Sahin Assistant Professor, Department of History Indiana University iksahin@indiana.edu Hendrik Spruyt Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations; Director, Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies Northwestern University h-spruyt@northwestern.edu Workshop Participants Christopher P. Atwood, Professor of Mongolian Studies, Central Eurasian Studies Department and adjunct professor of History at Indiana University (Bloomington) “Partners in Profit: Empires, Merchants, and Local Governments in the Mongol Empire and Qing Mongolia” Cemil Aydin, Associate Professor, History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Transformation of Inter-Asian Regional Connections from Early Modern to Modern Period” Hayden Bellenoit (in absentia), Associate Professor, Department of …

“After Neoliberalism?” The Future of Postneoliberal State and Society in Asia

Workshop Directors Emel Akçali Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and European Studies Central European University AkcaliE@ceu.hu Ho-Fung Hung Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University hofung@jhu.edu Lerna K. Yanik Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Kadir Has University lerna.yanik@khas.edu.tr Workshop Participants Bipasha Baruah, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Western University “NGOs as Intermediaries in Pro-Poor Electrification in India: Urban Development in a Postneoliberal Era?” Thiem Hai Bui, PhD Candidate, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland “In Search of a …

The Social Economy and Alternative Development Models in Asia

Workshop Directors Euiyoung Kim Professor and Director, Political Science and International Relations, Institute for Korean Politics, Seoul National University euiyoungkim@snu.ac.kr Hiroki Miura Researcher, Institute of Korean Political Studies, Seoul National University sugeun@msn.com Workshop Participants Bipasha Baruah, Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Western University “Social Innovation and Gender Equality in India: Moving Beyond the Numbers Game” (Mohammad) Anwar Hossen, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Dhaka “Village as the Model Organization for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh” Yu Huang, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong “‘Get Organized!:’ Contradictions between Capital and Labor …

Mediatized Populism across InterAsia

Organized by InterAsia Transregional Virtual Research Institute, “Media, Activism and the New Political” Workshop Directors Paula Chakravartty Associate Professor, Gallatin School, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University puc1@nyu.edu Zeynep Gambetti Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Bogaziçi University gambetti@boun.edu.tr Srirupa Roy Director and Professor, Centre for Modern Indian Studies and Political Science, University of Göttingen sroy@uni-goettingen.de Workshop Participants Miriyam Aouragh, Leverhulme Fellow, Communication And Media Research Institute, University of Westminster “Mediating the Makhzan: Counter-revolution & populism in the digital age” Ergin Bulut, Assistant Professor, Media and Visual Arts, Koç University and Erdem Yörük, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Koç University “Contentious …

Mecca InterAsia

Organized in association with the Muhammad Alagil Chair in Arabia Asia Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Workshop Directors Cemil Aydin Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill caydin@email.unc.edu Engseng Ho Professor of History and Anthropology, Duke University; Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor in Arabia Asia Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore engseng.ho@duke.edu Workshop Participants Jawaher Al Sudairy, Research Fellow, Evidence for Policy Design, Harvard University “The State Within: The Burmese Community in Makkah” Guy Burak, The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian, Division of Libraries, New York University “Mecca, Its …

Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization: Infrastructure, Software, Labor

Workshop Directors Brett Neilson Research Director, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney b.neilson@uws.edu.au Ranabir Samaddar Director, Calcutta Research Group ranabir@mcrg.ac.in Workshop Participants Majed Akhter, Assistant Professor, Geography, Indiana University Bloomington “An infrastructural approach to region: Corridor controversies, emergent Asias, and the afterlives of the developmental state” Paula Banerjee, Professor, South and Southeast Asian Studies, Calcutta University “Multiplying Insecurity” Giorgio Grappi, Research fellow, Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna “Corridors as political discourse? Decoding the language of logistical governance” Rolien Hoyng, Visiting Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies, Lingnan University “Multiplying logistics: undoing and redoing categorization in e-waste recycling …

Knowledge Mobilities and the Prospects for InterAsian Urbanisation

Workshop Directors Francis Collins Senior Lecturer, Geography, School of Environment, University of Auckland f.collins@auckland.ac.nz Kong Chong Ho Associate Professor, Sociology, National University of Singapore sochokc@nus.edu.sg Workshop Participants Jacqueline Armijo, Associate Professor, International Affairs, Qatar University “Islamic Knowledge Mobilities, DragonMart, and the Growing Chinese Muslim Community in Dubai” Sujin Eom, PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley “The Idea of Chinatown: Policy Mobilities and the Making of New Economic Imaginations in South Korea” Maureen Hickey, Instructor, International and Global Studies Program, Portland State University “‘English Fever,’ Migrant Teachers, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations in an Interconnected Asia” Nithila Kanagasabai, Junior Research Fellow, Advanced …

Geo-political Economies of (Post) Developmental Urbanization in East Asia

Workshop Directors Jamie Doucette Lecturer, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester jamie.doucette@manchester.ac.uk Bae-Gyoon Park Professor, Geography Education, Seoul National University geopbg@snu.ac.kr Workshop Participants Carolyn Cartier, Professor of Geography and China Studies, School of International Studies, University of Technology Sydney “‘Cut from the County’: Mao-era Cities and their Territorial Legacies in Contemporary China” Eli Friedman, Assistant Professor, International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University “Just-in-Time Urbanization? Managing migration, citizenship, and schooling in the Chinese city” Jim Glassman, Professor, Geography, University of British Columbia “Developmental Bureaucratic States, Developmental Network States and the Geopolitical Economy of Cold War Industrialization in Ulsan and …

Genealogies of Financialization: Reframing Sovereignty in Asia (1600–present)

Workshop Directors Sankaran Krishna Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa krishna@hawaii.edu Saeyoung Park Assistant Professor, Modern Korean Studies, Leiden University spark34@jhu.edu Workshop Participants Colin Agur, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Law School, Yale University “Communication Technology, Illicit Flows of Capital, and State-Society Tensions” Giulia Dal Maso, PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies, Institute for Culture and Society “Past and present mass financialization: continuity in state legitimation” Laura Elder, Assistant Professor, Global Studies, Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame “Banking Like a State: An alternative genealogy of Islamic finance” Harald Fuess, Professor, Cultural Economic History, Heidelberg University “Undermining the Sovereignty of Korea? Capital …

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