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Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies and New Spatial Imaginaries

Workshop Directors Çağlar Keyder Boğaziçi University keyder@boun.edu.tr Ravi Arvind Palat State University of New York at Binghamton palat@binghamton.edu Workshop Participants Michelle Antoinette, Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Cultural Inquiry, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University “Asian Art and its Shifting Topologies: Creating New Identities for Asia through Contemporary Art Networks: The Asia Art Archive” Ainur Begim, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Yale University “Oil, Geopolitics, and the State in Postsocialist Kazakhstan” Ana Maria Candela, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Cruz “Qiaoxiang on the Silk …

Sustainability and Citizenship in Asian Cities

Workshop Directors Anne M. Rademacher New York University ar131@nyu.edu K. Sivaramakrishnan Yale University k.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu Billy Kee-long So Hong Kong University of Science and Technology billyso@ust.hk Workshop Participants Nikhil Anand, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Haverford College “Leaky States: On Ignorance and Absence in Mumbai’s Water Supply” Debjani Bhattacharyya, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Emory University “From the Maidan to the Wetlands of Kolkata: Reappraising the Aesthetics of Nature and Ideologies of Urban Environmental Sustainability” Cari An Coe, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, Lewis & Clark College “‘Civilized City:’ State-Society Relations and the Emergence of Notions of Environmental Sustainability in Hanoi, Vietnam” Rajib Dasgupta, Associate …

Science and the Human Person: Engaging Tradition and Informing Public Discourse

Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs

Rapid advances in science and technology are raising fundamental questions about human life, flourishing, suffering, and death. When does human life begin and deserve protection? How is deeper knowledge of genetics reshaping our conceptions of the human person? What does it mean to live and die with dignity amid 21st century medical technologies? These and other ethical questions at the intersection of science and the human person have a global character, encompassing all of humanity, cutting across national, cultural, and religious boundaries. The Science and the Human Person working group will advance a global, interreligious and intercultural conversation about science, …

Authority, Community, Identity I

Social Science Research Council 300 Cadman Plaza West, 15 Fl, New York, NY, United States

The goal of the first consultation on Authority, Community, and Identity was to explore themes, methods, and possible participants for a working group that will spend three years examining the ways that modern Catholic, Muslim and secular actors understand and navigate interactions among these three defining elements of associational life and public presence. In keeping with Contending Modernities' constructive agenda, the meeting aimed to provide guidance for the potential working group as it attempted to identify creative responses to the challenges facing communities.

Conference: Towards Coordinated Responses to Conflict (Beijing Foreign Studies University)

A conference to discuss perspectives on United Nations peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding with scholars and policymakers from Africa, China, and the West. Hosted at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), the two-day conference was convened by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). The conference sought to share perspectives and explore changes in peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding theory and practice, specifically aiming to develop new and constructive linkages between UN efforts and China on matters of conflict response as China continues to enhance its contributions in this area. …

Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commision visits SSRC

A delegation from the Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commission visited SSRC for a workshop on preventing ethnic conflict, looking at the cases of South Africa, Myanmar, Bosnia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“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 …

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 …

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 …

Inequalities in Asian Societies: Bringing Back Class Analysis

Workshop Directors Deniz Yükseker Associate Professor, Sociology Department Koç University DYUKSEKER@ku.edu.tr Ching Kwan Lee Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles cklee@soc.ucla.edu Can Nacar Assistant Professor, Department of History Koç University CNACAR@KU.EDU.TR Workshop Participants Dennis Arnold, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam “Class Fragments and Emerging Forms: Political Agency and Economic Transition in Cambodia” Alpkan Birelma, PhD candidate, Ataturk Institute, Bogazici University “Working-class Subjectivities: A View of Capitalism from Below” Hae Yeon Choo, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Mississauga “In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant …

Porous Enclaves: Inter-Asian Residential Projects and the Popular Classes from Istanbul to Seoul

Workshop Directors John Friedmann Honorary Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning University of British Columbia Professor Emeritus, School of Public Policy and Social Research University of California Los Angeles jrpf@exchange.ubc.ca Erik Harms Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International & Area Studies Yale University erik.harms@yale.edu Workshop Participants Lisa Björkman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity “Watering the World Class City: ‘Islands of luxury’ and networked infrastructures in Mumbai” Ryan Centner, Lecturer, Urban Geography, London School of Economics “Neo-Ottomanism Out of the Ashes: Contentions of Cosmopolitan Rebuilding in Beirut & Beyond” Gökçe Günel, …

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