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Inter-Asian temple and trust networks within and out of Southeast Asia

Workshop Directors Kenneth Dean East Asian Studies, McGill University kenneth.dean@mcgill.ca Workshop Participants Chi-cheung Choi, Professor, History Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong “Between Ancestor and Ghost: Grand Universal Salvation Rituals (Wan Yuan sheng Hui) in South East Asia” Jean DeBernardi, Professor of Anthropology, University of Alberta “Spirit Mediums, Local History, and Daoist Networks” C. Julia Huang, Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University; Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore “Buddhism and its Trust Networks between Taiwan, Malaysia, and the United States” Hui Kian Kwee, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto …

Old Histories, New Geographies: Contrapuntal Mobilities of Trade and State across Asia

Workshop Directors Engseng Ho Duke University engseng.ho@duke.edu Lakshmi Subramanian Jamia Millia Islamia nilgiri98@gmail.com Workshop Participants Jacqueline Armijo, Associate Professor, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University “Silk Roads Redux: The Social, Economic, and Political Implications of the Revival of China – Gulf Trade Relations” Surajit Chakravarty, Urban Planning Faculty, Al Hosn University “Insurgence of another kind: Practiced Citizenship as Inverted Resistance” Kubanychbek Chymbaev, Senior Lecturer, Oriental Studies and International Relations, Bishkek Humanities University “Trade as a Political and Economic Resource of Kyrgyzstan” Max Hirsh, Ph.D. Candidate, Architecture and Urban Planning, Harvard University “Airport Urbanism: Mapping Mobility in the Pearl River Delta” …

Regional Knowledge Hubs in Asia: the Social Sciences and Humanities in Science and Technology Human Capital (STHC)

Workshop Directors V.V. Krishna National University of Singapore arivvk@nus.edu.sg Tim Turpin University of Western Sydney t.turpin@uws.edu.au Workshop Participants Mohan V. Avvari, Associate Professor, Business School, University of Nottingham – Malaysia Campus; Isshamuddin Ismail (in absentia), General Manager of Strategic Planning with Pahang BioScience, Kuala Lumpur; and K. Thiruchelvam (in absentia), Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya “Inter-Organisational Networks emerging in a Greenfield Cluster – A Study in Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor Cluster” Chuanxing Wang, Associate Professor School of Political Science and International Relations and Vice Director of Center for America …

Reproduction Mobility in Asia

Workshop Directors Biao Xiang University of Oxford biao.xiang@compas.ox.ac.uk Mika Toyota National University of Singapore mikatoyota@nus.edu.sg Workshop Participants Sneha Banerjee, M.Phil Student, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies Jawahaharlal Nehru University “Globalization and Women’s Remunerative Word: the Curious Case of Commercial Surrogacy in India” Sara Friedman, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University “Reproducing the Taiwanese Nation: Population Anxieties in an Age of Marital Migration” Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent, Research Fellow and Ph.D. Student, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge “Conceiving the Nation: Reproductive Migration and the Negotiation of Trans/nationalism in Turkey” Marcia C. Inhorn, …

“Doing transnational migration research” seminar

Havana , Cuba

The Cuba Program sponsored a seminar titled “Doing Transnational Migration Research—Epistemological and Methodological Issues” in Havana, Cuba. Luis Guarnizo of the University of California, Davis and Jose Itzigsohn of Brown University led the seminar.

“Doing transnational migration research” seminar

Havana , Cuba

The Cuba Program sponsored a seminar titled “Doing Transnational Migration Research—Epistemological and Methodological Issues” in Havana, Cuba. Luis Guarnizo of the University of California, Davis and Jose Itzigsohn of Brown University led the seminar.

Emerging Powers and the UN (New York)

Two meetings on China's growing participation in multilateral peace operations, and the evolving debate within China on global norms such as the Responsibility to Protect.

Emerging Powers and the UN (New York)

  Two meetings on China's growing participation in multilateral peace operations, and the evolving debate within China on global norms such as the Responsibility to Protect.  

Finalists’ Symposium

Desmond Tutu Conference Center

On March 30 and 31, 2012, a symposium was held in New York City for the finalists in the New Directions in the Study of Prayer Research Initiative. Each finalist project was presented by its respective principal investigator. The symposium provided participants with a unique opportunity to gather feedback on their projects from their peers and fellow finalists, as well as from the advisory committee. This feedback will be instrumental as finalists move forward with their projects and submit full proposals later this year.

Anatomies of Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Health in Asia

Workshop Directors Angela Ki Che Leung Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong kcleung7@hku.hk Izumi Nakayama The University of Hong Kong nakayama@hku.hk Workshop Participants Anthony Cerulli, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and Asian Studies, Hobart & William Smith Colleges “Curriculum Samskrtam: Tradition(s) in the Gurukula and Ayurvedic College” Jung-Ok Ha, Senior Researcher, Institute for Gender Research, Seoul National University “Global Disparity on the ‘Risks’ of Technology: ART in Asia” Sandra Khor Manickam, Junior Professor, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe University at Frankfurt Am Main, Germany “Practices of Science and Knowledge of the Indigenous …

Asian Crossings, 1789–1914

Workshop Directors Ross Forman National University of Singapore ellrgf@nus.edu.sg Julia Kuehn The University of Hong Kong jkuehn@hku.hk Workshop Participant Elizabeth Chang, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri “On Empire’s Frontier: Personal Narrative from the Asian Borderlands” Lawrence Chua, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies, History of Art Department, Hamilton College “Chinks in the Works: Race, Architecture, and Nationalism In Early 20th Century Bangkok” James Cook, Associate Director, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh “Concrete Transnationalism: Urban Development and Identity within Hokkien China” Suzanne Daly, Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Beggary and Philanthropy in South Asia, 1800-1913: …

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