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SUMMARY:Asian Crossings\, 1789–1914
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nRoss Forman\nNational University of Singapore\nellrgf@nus.edu.sg \nJulia Kuehn\nThe University of Hong Kong\njkuehn@hku.hk \nWorkshop Participant\nElizabeth Chang\, Assistant Professor\, Department of English\, University of Missouri\n“On Empire’s Frontier: Personal Narrative from the Asian Borderlands” \nLawrence Chua\, Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian Studies\, History of Art Department\, Hamilton College\n“Chinks in the Works: Race\, Architecture\, and Nationalism In Early 20th Century Bangkok” \nJames Cook\, Associate Director\, Asian Studies Center\, University of Pittsburgh\n“Concrete Transnationalism: Urban Development and Identity within Hokkien China” \nSuzanne Daly\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Massachusetts Amherst\n“Beggary and Philanthropy in South Asia\, 1800-1913: The Real and Imagined Poor” \nJen Hill\, Director of the Gender\, Race\, and Identity program and Associate Professor of English\, University of Nevada\, Reno\n“Extraterritorial Logic: The Chronicle and Directory for China\, Corea\, Japan\, and the Philippines\, Its “Chronology of Remarkable Events\,” and the 1883 Trial of James Henry Logan” \nJohn Kleinen\, Associate Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology\, University of Amsterdam\n“Side streets of History: A Dutchman’s stereoscopic views on colonial Vietnam at the end of the long 19th century” \nMichael Christopher Low\, Ph.D. Candidate\, International and Global History\, Columbia University\n“From Pilgrimage to Plantation: Indentured Labor\, Muslim Capital\, and the Making of the Colonial Hajj\, 1860-1900” \nDavid Porter\, Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, University of Michigan\n“Historicizing the History of Chinese Literature” \nRonit Ricci\, Senior Lecturer\, School of Culture\, History and Language\, Australian National University\n“South and Southeast Asian Crossings in the Newspaper Age: the case of Alamat Langkapuri” \nNurfadzilah Yahaya\, Ph.D. Candidate\, History\, Princeton University\n“Powers that Bind –Tracing the Impact of Powers of Attorney in the Indian Ocean from 1880 to 1970” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe long nineteenth century was a period of major social\, economic\, and cultural shifts in Asia that were often spurred by colonialism\, even when not specifically linked to it. Some of the most noteworthy drives and effects of these shifts include: competition between European imperial projects (French\, British\, Russian\, Dutch\, Portuguese); the growth of intra-Asian imperialist projects (in Korea\, Taiwan\, Manchuria and elsewhere); changes to historical trade routes in the Indian Ocean and between China and her neighbors; large-scale labor movements both within the region (from China to Southeast Asia\, for instance) and beyond (from India to Mauritius\, Southern Africa and the Caribbean or from Japan to Brazil and Peru); and the development of multicultural urban spaces as a product of these and other forces. These larger concerns also had a significant impact on local geographies. For example\, the East India Company’s opium trade with China altered the lives of peasants in Bengal and Bihar and\, in many cases\, drove them to emigration. Similarly\, the foreign presence in Shanghai had a direct impact on the development of the Chinese periodical press. \nOur workshop proceeds from the premise that textual artifacts—be they maps\, travel narratives\, account ledgers\, novels\, newspapers\, or personal papers—offer a privileged means to assess what some of the effects of “Asian Crossings” were and how they manifested themselves. \nWe invite participants from the humanities and social sciences to join us in investigating how “Asian Crossings” reshaped the real and imaginative geography of the region. Our aim is to bring together scholars in a range of disciplines—including literary studies\, history\, geography\, South Asian Studies\, and East and Southeast Asian Studies—to map some of the ways in which the direct and indirect impact of imperialisms during the long nineteenth century gave rise to contemporary Asian modernities. We also welcome the participation of writers\, artists\, and filmmakers whose work engages with Asian pasts. We hope to attract scholars not only from different disciplinary backgrounds\, but also from different linguistic traditions. In our own field of literature\, for instance\, it is rare that specialists working on Francophone literature\, culture\, and history in Asia speak to those working on Anglophone traditions—and equally rare that scholars of literature in English dialogue with scholars of Chinese\, Hindi\, or Arabic. Thus an important goal of “Asian Crossings” is not just to explore old geographies\, but also to create new conceptual geographies of exchange for scholars working on a variety of Asia-centered topics. \nThe initial research questions for the project are as follows: \n\nHow can postcolonial methodologies be revisited so that they take into account relationships other than those between colonizers and colonizeds? How can a better understanding of the multiple exchanges between different Asian locations help us to imagine alternative ways of studying Asia?\nIn what ways has the area studies model interfered with our ability to see the interconnectedness of different Asian spaces to each other and to other parts of the world during the long nineteenth century?\nTo what degree can imperialism be considered a process common to different Asian societies during the long nineteenth century? To what degree did it create new “crossings” within Asia and beyond? The workshop is just the beginning of our deliberations. We hope that participants will work with us to produce an edited special issue and/or anthology and will collaborate with us on further inter-institutional and web-based projects on the theme of “Asian Crossings.”
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/asian-crossings-1789-1914/
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SUMMARY:Anatomies of Knowledge: Medicine\, Science\, and Health in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nAngela Ki Che Leung\nHong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences\, The University of Hong Kong\nkcleung7@hku.hk \nIzumi Nakayama\nThe University of Hong Kong\nnakayama@hku.hk \nWorkshop Participants\nAnthony Cerulli\, Assistant Professor\, Religious Studies and Asian Studies\, Hobart & William Smith Colleges\n“Curriculum Samskrtam: Tradition(s) in the Gurukula and Ayurvedic College” \nJung-Ok Ha\, Senior Researcher\, Institute for Gender Research\, Seoul National University\n“Global Disparity on the ‘Risks’ of Technology: ART in Asia” \nSandra Khor Manickam\, Junior Professor\, Department of Southeast Asian Studies\, Goethe University at Frankfurt Am Main\, Germany\n“Practices of Science and Knowledge of the Indigenous in British Malaya and Malaysia” \nAihwa Ong\, Professor of Anthropology & Asian Studies\, Department of Anthropology\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“Asian Cancers: Genetic Exceptionalism & Ethical Ownership in a Biocapital Frontier” \nJae-Mahn Shim\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Sociology\, the University of Chicago\n“Traditional\, Complementary and Alternative Medical (TCAM) in Asian Countries as Represented in Medical Journals” \nHarris Solomon\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Cultural Anthropology\, Duke University\n“Fat territories: ‘Globesity’ and the bodily politics of comparison in India” \nWayne Soon\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Princeton University\n“Beyond Asian Medicine: The First Chinese Blood Bank\, its Transnational Nature\, and the Question of Wartime Medical Ethics” \nTheresa Ventura (in absentia)\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, Concordia University\n“The Malnourished Tropics: Beriberi\, Nutrition\, and the Remapping of Monsoon Asia” \nSungwon Yoon\, Post-doctoral Fellow\, Department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine\, The University of Hong Kong\n“Pathogens\, Global Discourses and Local Narratives: Exploring Asia’s Response to Avian and Pandemic Influenza” \nCall for Workshop Papers\n“Asia” is still used as shorthand to refer to a large\, nebulous region\, traditionally defined in opposition to “Western/modern”. Can “Asia” be a new constructive category of analysis\, then\, if the idea is taken out of oppositional and dichotomous relationships with the “West\,” and used as a fluid\, plural\, maybe unique\, and continuous process in the building of the contemporary global? This workshop aims to explore these ideas by focusing on the issues of medicine\, science\, and health. Does knowledge generated by new technologies and disease studies reinscribe “traditional” beliefs about race\, ethnicity and nation\, or does it contribute to a new and larger collective\, broadly imagined as “Asia”? \nRecent research uses the ideas of medicine\, science\, and health to engage the larger “Asian” identities. Leung and Furth (2010)\, for instance\, identify the porous and interconnected relationships of the local and the global to reconceptualize East Asia. Ong and Chen (2010) use the term “Asian Biotech” to address a growing regional focus on the pursuit of biotechnology as national interest\, with Asian players positioning themselves as key global actors to surpass the “West.” This workshop will examine such and other ongoing processes of redefining and reconfiguring “Asia” by focusing on three broad themes\, and encourages applications from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. \nChanging ideas/ideals\, Changing Asia(s) – Since the mid nineteenth century\, “modern” science and medicine\, via the “West” and sometimes via Japan\, had been interacting with the historically-specific local\, socio-cultural perspectives and practices on the “Asian” body. How have these knowledges interfaced in the colonial/postcolonial periods\, transforming and impacting the present discourse? How do the “global genealogies of scientific practices in highly local situations” (Leung and Furth\, 2010) translate from the past? How are the legacies and genealogies\, preserved in policies and institutions\, adjusting to the shifting narratives of the rapidly transforming biotechnologies and ethics of medicine\, science\, and health? How are old and new ethical reasoning informed by\, and forming\, new modes of capitalism\, nationalism\, sovereignty\, and the notion of “Asia”? \nBiosecurity: Crises\, Risks\, Reactions – The insecurities and risks associated with the modern pandemics results from the continual global movements of peoples\, goods\, and diseases\, with political\, economic\, and social impact. Are new diseases such as SARS\, Bird Flu\, H1N1 etc. considered and managed as “Asian” diseases the way cholera\, plague\, and leprosy were in the 19th century\, or differently? How does post-colonial manipulation of international quarantine impact the notions of borders\, sovereignty\, citizenship\, civil rights and identities in “Asia” and in individual Asian states? How does global or “Asian” economics inform quarantine politics and quarantine impact trade? How is the “Asian” element in such institutional setup integrated and interpreted? \nTrials and tribulations? New and “experimental” sciences and technologies – In an age where new technologies outpace legal adaptation and ethical discourse\, how do governments\, corporations\, academics\, or other agents provide ethical\, legal\, political\, economic oversight and protection and what are the consequences? How do indigenous medicines fit in? What kinds of historical legacies\, cultural capital\, religious traditions\, and other value systems inform\, shape and formulate shifting narratives to test and incorporate new technologies\, which may transform previously-held ideas of nutrition\, well-being\, and reproduction of individuals\, families\, and communities? Genomic and stem cell research\, organ farming\, new reproductive technologies and birth controls\, genetically-modified foods—how do these new technologies impact “Asian” identities and policies? \nThe three themes are not mutually exclusive\, as common issues are intertwined through the broad topics of medicine\, science\, and health. They also point to the “Asian” historicity of knowledge\, and the constantly shifting factors shaping them.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/anatomies-of-knowledge-medicine-science-and-health-in-asia/
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SUMMARY:Finalists' Symposium
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/finalists-symposium/
LOCATION:Desmond Tutu Conference Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111103T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111103T170000
DTSTAMP:20211018T160810Z
CREATED:20210910T214955Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Powers and the United Nations (New York)
DESCRIPTION:An informal meeting in New York to discuss the emergent global powers and the United Nations. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/emerging-powers-and-the-united-nations-new-york/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111104
DTSTAMP:20211007T165004Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Powers and the UN (New York)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nTwo 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.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/emerging-powers-and-the-un-new-york-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111104
DTSTAMP:20210910T214554Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Powers and the UN (New York)
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/emerging-powers-and-the-un-new-york/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110220
DTSTAMP:20200827T195328Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200827T195328Z
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SUMMARY:"Doing transnational migration research" seminar
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/doing-transnational-migration-research-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Havana\, Cuba
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110220
DTSTAMP:20200827T195129Z
CREATED:20200827T195019Z
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SUMMARY:"Doing transnational migration research" seminar
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/doing-transnational-migration-research-seminar/
LOCATION:Havana\, Cuba
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T170000
DTSTAMP:20201028T155202Z
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SUMMARY:Reproduction Mobility in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nBiao Xiang\nUniversity of Oxford\nbiao.xiang@compas.ox.ac.uk \nMika Toyota\nNational University of Singapore\nmikatoyota@nus.edu.sg \nWorkshop Participants\nSneha Banerjee\, M.Phil Student\, Centre for International Politics\, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD)\, School of International Studies Jawahaharlal Nehru University\n“Globalization and Women’s Remunerative Word: the Curious Case of Commercial Surrogacy in India” \nSara Friedman\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology and Gender Studies\, Indiana University\n“Reproducing the Taiwanese Nation: Population Anxieties in an Age of Marital Migration” \nZeynep Gürtin-Broadbent\, Research Fellow and Ph.D. Student\, Centre for Family Research\, University of Cambridge\n“Conceiving the Nation: Reproductive Migration and the Negotiation of Trans/nationalism in Turkey” \nMarcia C. Inhorn\, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University and Chair\, Council on Middle East Studies\, Yale University\n“Reproductive Exile in Global Dubai: Stories from South Asia” \nOlivia Killias\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Institute for Social Anthropology\, University of Bern\n“The Making of ‘Quality Maids’: Managing Reproduction Migration between Indonesia and Malaysia” \nAra Wilson\, Associate Professor\, Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the program in the study of sexualities\, Duke University\n“Inter-Asian Medicine\, National Economies\, And Transnational Embodiments” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe rise of “reproduction migration”-movements of people for the purpose of maintaining and reproducing people on a daily and generational basis-is a significant social development in Asia\, especially after the 1997 financial crisis. In many parts of the region\, international migrations for marriage\, the provision as well as the receipt of care\, and education are increasing faster than conventional labor mobility. Built on a wide-range of existent but largely discrete case studies\, this workshop seeks integrative frameworks in order to theorize the migrations of care workers\, domestic maids\, students\, spouses\, entertainers\, medical tourists and others. The concept of “social reproduction”-how society is organized structurally and over time surrounding the everyday production of life-will be central to our discussion. While the notion of social reproduction has a long history\, our discussion will be informed by two specific new developments. First\, the rise of “anthropogenetic capitalism” that concerns how men produce men\, instead of how men produce goods\, as evidenced by the fact that health care\, education and entertainment are among the fastest growing industries\, brings social reproduction to the core of the economy. Second\, the processes of social reproduction are transnationalized with increasing reproduction migration. Thus\, the distinctions between the productive and the reproductive\, and between the national and the transnational\, are profoundly blurred. \nThe workshop will focus\, by no means exclusively\, on the following sets of questions: \n\nFirst\, how should we understand the increase of reproduction migration in the context of crises in conventional material accumulation (e.g. 1997\, 2008\, and numerous other local crises)? How does reproduction migration enable the commodification of social reproduction and at the same time exacerbate the moral anxiety about it?\nSecond\, what is the relationship between reproduction migration and the nation-state? Reproduction migration helps sustain national social reproduction\, but is also seen as disruptive of established patterns and ideologies of reproduction. For example\, how are international marriages facilitated and regulated to reconcile this tension? What are the implications of student migration on education institutions’ function as a reproducer of the national culture?\nThird\, how should we rethink about gender\, social difference and intimate labor? Reproduction migration brings people of different categories into intimate contacts. Why do employers prefer migrants who are supposedly different from themselves\, often in primordial terms\, for providing intimate labor? How are difference and intimacy transmuted to each other? Why does women’s reproductive labor have to be “denaturalized” (by looking after non-relatives) in order to be socially valued\, while “natural” intimate labor remains morally desirable?\n\nThe prospective participants must have worked on reproduction migration empirically and the paper must be conceptually oriented towards the notion of social reproduction. We especially welcome contributions that integrate ethnographic investigation into political economy analysis. The workshop will also reflect on general strategies of theorization in social research in Asia.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/reproduction-mobility-in-asia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T170000
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SUMMARY:Regional Knowledge Hubs in Asia: the Social Sciences and Humanities in Science and Technology Human Capital (STHC)
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nV.V. Krishna\nNational University of Singapore\narivvk@nus.edu.sg \nTim Turpin\nUniversity of Western Sydney\nt.turpin@uws.edu.au \nWorkshop Participants\nMohan 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\n“Inter-Organisational Networks emerging in a Greenfield Cluster – A Study in Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor Cluster” \nChuanxing Wang\, Associate Professor School of Political Science and International Relations and Vice Director of Center for America Studies\, Tongji University\n“The Structural Power Based on Innovation Systems and the Comeback of East Asia” \nSam Garrett-Jones\, Associate Professor and Acting Head of School (Management)\, School of Management and Marketing\, University of Wollongong\n“The Role of Collective Learning in the Development of Innovative Local Organizations and Regions” \nMei-Chih Hu\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Technology Management\, National Tsing Hua University\n“Knowledge Flows in Taiwan’s Hsinchu Regional Innovation System” \nKathryn Ibata-Arens\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, DePaul University\n“University Incubators as Hubs of Innovative Ecosystems: Bamboo Networks and Best Practice in Start-Up Business Incubation Management” \nSangeeta Kamat\, Associate Professor\, Education Policy Studies/International Education\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst\n“Neoliberalism\, Urbanism and the Competition State: Producing Hyderabad as a ‘knowledge city’” \nTae-Ho Kim\, D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for History of Science and Technology in East Asia\, Center for Korean Research and Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University\n“A Tale of Two Cities: Comparison of Two Industrial Knowledge Hubs in 1960s’ North and 1980s’ South Korea” \nBalaji Parthasarathy\, Associate Professor\, International Institute of Information Technology\, Bangalore\n“The Emergence and Transformation of Bangalore\, India\, as a ‘Knowledge Hub’” \nNaubahar Sharif\, Assistant Professor\, Division of Social Science\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Erik Baark (in absentia)\, Professor of Social Science and Environment\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\n“From trade hub to knowledge hub: The role of Hong Kong’s innovation system in linking southern China to global markets” \nMark Wilson\, Associate Director\, School of Planning\, Design and Construction and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning\, Michigan State University and Kenneth E. Corey (in absentia)\, Professor\, Department of Geography\, Michigan State University\n“Planning and Policy Action for Knowledge Hubs in Asia” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nGlobal competitiveness is dependent on the capacity of economies to acquire knowledge capital and to apply new knowledge through a highly trained and specialised workforce. The term ‘knowledge-based’ or ‘learning economy’ has emerged to describe those economies in which the production\, distribution and use of knowledge are the main drivers of growth\, wealth creation and employment across all industrial sectors. The concept of a knowledge-based economy has sometimes been used to make a contrast between so called ‘new’ economies based on new technologies\, from ‘old’ economies based on long established products and process. \nHowever\, a knowledge-based economy is not simply one that emphasises new technologies or even new knowledge. A knowledge-based economy is one in which all sectors are knowledge intensive\, are responsive to new ideas and technological change\, are innovative\, and employ highly skilled personnel engaged in on-going learning. In short\, knowledge and skills have to be useable and used in the production of all manner of goods and services. \nOur conceptualization of a knowledge hub is that it comprises an ensemble of knowledge-intensive organisations located in both public and private sectors. Some are research-intensive knowledge producers\, such as research institutes or universities. Others are demanding knowledge users\, including firms but also service providers such as hospitals. The knowledge-users provide a focus for knowledge-generation\, transmission and diffusion. Producers and users are closely connected and\, while spatial proximity is important\, they do not have to be physically co-located. Moreover\, because of their social and economic characteristics\, knowledge hubs draw on the social sciences and humanities in the course of their development. \nKnowledge hubs have three key functions. They generate new basic knowledge of relevance to many industries\, both old and new. The impact of this knowledge is not necessarily direct\, nor immediate. But it is influential. In addition\, they also generate applied knowledge that is directly and immediately relevant to local industries. Secondly\, knowledge hubs capture (and participate in creating) knowledge generated elsewhere\, nationally or internationally\, and develop this further to meet specific local needs. A third function is to transmit knowledge through educational institutions such as universities and schools but also through life-long learning processing that involve firms\, community based institutions and a variety of government agencies and services including hospitals\, clinics and professional associations. \nWith the rapid economic development of the Chinese and Indian economies and the growth of the newly industrialized Asia economies\, there is evidence of newly emerging knowledge hubs across the Asia region. In some cases these are concentrated in specific fields such as biotechnology or ICT in Singapore. In others there is evidence of a relocation of existing knowledge hubs in areas such as mining technologies moving from North America to Australia and South Africa. However\, we understand very little about the dynamics behind this process\, or the way different disciplines\, especially the social sciences and humanities\, intersect through the process and the implications for national innovation systems. \nThis gives rise to four key questions to be addressed by the workshop. (1)Does the movement of science and technology human capital precede or follow such developments? (2.) What is the role of social science and humanities researchers in STHC? (3) How important is the local availability of personnel in anchoring a newly emerging knowledge hub? (4) What are the institutional imperatives for supporting such development? (and (5) in what ways are newly emerging hubs remaining linked to other global centres of knowledge?
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/regional-knowledge-hubs-in-asia-the-social-sciences-and-humanities-in-science-and-technology-human-capital-sthc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T170000
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SUMMARY:Old Histories\, New Geographies: Contrapuntal Mobilities of Trade and State across Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nEngseng Ho\nDuke University\nengseng.ho@duke.edu \nLakshmi Subramanian\nJamia Millia Islamia\nnilgiri98@gmail.com \nWorkshop Participants\nJacqueline Armijo\, Associate Professor\, Department of International Affairs\, Qatar University\n“Silk Roads Redux: The Social\, Economic\, and Political Implications of the Revival of China – Gulf Trade Relations” \nSurajit Chakravarty\, Urban Planning Faculty\, Al Hosn University\n“Insurgence of another kind: Practiced Citizenship as Inverted Resistance” \nKubanychbek Chymbaev\, Senior Lecturer\, Oriental Studies and International Relations\, Bishkek Humanities University\n“Trade as a Political and Economic Resource of Kyrgyzstan” \nMax Hirsh\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Architecture and Urban Planning\, Harvard University\n“Airport Urbanism: Mapping Mobility in the Pearl River Delta” \nWilson Chacko Jacob\, Assistant Professor of History\, Concordia University\n“Of Angels and Men: Sayyid Fadl bin Alawi and the Form-of-Life” \nLamia Karim\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Oregon – Eugene and Manzurul Mannan\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Liberal Arts and Social Studies\, Independent University\, Bangladesh (IUB)\n“The New Silk Road: Perspectives on the Asian Highway from Bangladesh” \nSimon Layton\, Ph.D. Candidate\, St. Catharine’s College\, Faculty of History\, University of Cambridge\n“Suppressing ‘the Gift of Krishna’: India\, Piracy\, and the Littoral Politics of Empire” \nJason Lim\, Lecturer\, School of History and Politics at the University of Wollongong\n“Vicissitudes of the China Trade for the Chinese Merchants in Malaya and Singapore\, 1912-1982” \nNisha Mary Mathew\, Mellon Doctoral Fellow\, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA)\, University of Witwatersrand\n“New Geopolitical Imaginaries in South India: Contributions of the Gold Trade\, Gulf Migration and Liberalization” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThis workshop aims to foster dialogue between past connections and contemporary ones which are changing the social shape of Asia. We seek to plumb the historical resonances that lend excitement and confidence (and at times concern) to new exchanges with old acquaintances across Asia. Such dialogue necessarily revisits the idea of the region\, one of the most vibrant areas of study to emerge in recent years. If imperialism created new geographies and indeed new histories\, recent global currents are reworking older regional connections and generating new relationships. We invite papers which study historical or contemporary inter-Asian exchanges\, or that reflect on both. \nThe different ways in which business/labour and government interact provide a rich empirical base and theoretical frame for thinking about how such new connections are reshaping Asia. While the British empire provided a common administrative and security frame for new connections across the Indian Ocean\, the connections being remade across Asia today do not share such a common frame. States often lag behind their mobile citizens: labour-exporting Philippines\, Indonesia and India are challenged to construct inter-governmental labour regulations with their counterparts in Saudi Arabia/the Persian Gulf and Malaysia/Singapore. In industry\, chip foundry makers of Taiwan have completely relocated to the PRC despite a lack of diplomatic and regulatory protections agreed between their governments. How are labour and capital able to make such leaps out of their national spaces\, where they have little recourse to national rights and legal protection? In other ways\, states are being entrepreneurial ahead of their populations. Saudi King Abdullah headed east—to China\, India\, Malaysia\, Pakistan rather than Washington—on his inaugural overseas trip\, with businessmen and women and tow; Singapore’s foreign minister in turn went west in a historic first visit to Yemen\, with businessmen and Singaporean members of the Yemeni diaspora in tow. Across Eurasia\, former Soviet bloc states delicately renegotiate their mutual relations as oil pipelines snake across new borders\, while their Central Asian subjects seek new silk routes of trade as soviet industrial jobs disappear. \nThe concrete social shapes of these new exchanges seldom correspond to globalization’s classic liberal conditions of free-flowing trade and finance\, alienable property and legal protection for foreigners. Instead\, they subsist on a broader range of social relations. We invite papers that explore what these broader relations look like. Such a paper might be one that examines old associations like Chinese lineage temples\, once stigmatized under communist rule\, but now revivified in bringing together clansmen who are national communist party officials\, local landholders\, and overseas Chinese investors\, to transform paddy fields into export zones. Others may look at ways in which older connections—of culture\, language\, education\, kinship\, religion\, trade—are being reworked to engage with more contemporary concerns of circulation in South and Southeast Asia. Yet others may attempt new theorizations of space that offer very new challenges to notions of entitlement and citizenship. Such concerns may help break the older limits of regions be it Asia or Eurasia\, and allow us to ask whether new modalities of circulation of capital and labour are being created\, that will drive the reconfiguration of the regions. \nThrough the papers and discussion\, we plan to collectively theorize how long distance connections based on reciprocal ritual and economic transactions\, and their retrospective reflections\, may be producing new\, expanded notions of space and subjectivity\, reprising older ones\, or transforming them. We hope to understand how such spaces and subjectivities interpenetrate with those of national and transnational states\, and their constituent categories of citizenship and subject-hood.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/old-histories-new-geographies-contrapuntal-mobilities-of-trade-and-state-across-asia/
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SUMMARY:Inter-Asian temple and trust networks within and out of Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nKenneth Dean\nEast Asian Studies\, McGill University\nkenneth.dean@mcgill.ca \nWorkshop Participants\nChi-cheung Choi\, Professor\, History Department\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\n“Between Ancestor and Ghost: Grand Universal Salvation Rituals (Wan Yuan sheng Hui) in South East Asia” \nJean DeBernardi\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of Alberta\n“Spirit Mediums\, Local History\, and Daoist Networks” \nC. Julia Huang\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Anthropology\, National Tsing Hua University; Visiting Senior Research Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Buddhism and its Trust Networks between Taiwan\, Malaysia\, and the United States” \nHui Kian Kwee\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of Toronto\n“Sanction through Divinity: the Chinese Council (gongtang) and Guanyinting Temple in Batavia\, 1780s-1870s” \nHilary Lim\, Principal Lecturer in Law\, School of Law\, University of East London and Raj Brown\, Emeritus Professor in International Business\, Royal Holloway College\, London\n“Flying Money: Legal Pluralism\, the Cash Waqf and the Tong” \nThien-Huong Ninh\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Sociology\, University of Southern California\n“Roots\, Ruptures\, and Renovations: Transnational and Homeland Ties Between Caodai Temples in Cambodia and Vietnam” \nPrista Ratanapruck\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, University of Virginia\n“Gompa: Tibetan Buddhist Monastery and Manangi Trade Networks in South and Southeast Asia” \nJeffrey Samuels\, Associate Professor\, Department of Philosophy and Religion\, and Coordinator of Asian Studies\, Western Kentucky University\n“Buddhist Temple Networks Across the Indian Ocean: Capital\, Resources\, and Minority Identity Formation” \nVineeta Sinha\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National University of Singapore\n“Producing and Sustaining Agamic-Style Hindu Temples in Singapore” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAlthough considerable empirical research has been done on Southeast Asian trading networks\, so far less attention has focused on the role of Chinese and Indian temples and Islamic institutions in fostering\, facilitating\, and shaping the flow of people\, capital\, and cultural resources within these trust networks. With some notable exceptions\, so far there has been little examination of the historical role of these temples and community networks in the spread of the Chinese\, Indian\, and Islamic communities into Southeast Asia. Nor has their current role in reviving connections between Overseas Chinese\, Indian\, and Islamic communities\, and their ancestral temples\, communities\, and holy sites in China\, India\, and the Middle East been explored. \nThe study of these intricate\, overlapping networks is one way to prevent local history from falling into the trap of endless recuperation by national history. In that model\, local history can be nothing more than an endless series of minor variations on a theme\, with the underlying issue being the process of cultural unification of the locale with the state. A focus on trans-national\, and even global networks\, works against the prevalent model of hierarchical encompassment and state control of local society by introducing multiple planes of reference\, alternative and transversal sources of cultural invention and investment\, and the possibility of local cultural self-definition drawing creatively from multiple sources. \nStudy of the historical development and recent renewal of these networks—whether through ritual or other socio-cultural processes—should reveal essential aspects of the process of globalization and its impact on specific locales. This workshop will raise important questions about the ability of local cultures to negotiate the forces of capitalism\, ethnic identity and cultural nationalism sweeping through Asia today. For instance\, ritual practices among Chinese networks show extraordinary versatility and flexibility in creatively engaging with these forces without losing relevance to their participants. This in turn raises broader questions about the impact of modernity on contemporary Asia and the value of theories of alternative modernity for the study of these developments. \nThis workshop will examine and compare a number of specific temple networks or parallel trust networks that operate within and out of Southeast Asia. Papers will trace the spread of specific cults of regional deities and particular ritual practices (local Daoist traditions\, collective spirit medium training and group trance dance) out of China\, across Southeast Asia into Malaysia\, Singapore\, Indonesia\, and into a wider inter-Asian region\, where they often evolved new ritual forms. We will also explore the return flow of ritual knowledge and economic support within these networks during the massive revival of popular religion in Southeast China over the past 30 years. Papers will be presented on Islamic trust networks and networks of Indian temples and their links to trade and other cultural networks. The workshop can also showcase new technologies for the mapping and analysis of religious networks (GIS and spatial network analysis). Case studies of specific sites (Malacca\, Penang\, Singapore\, Semarang\, Kuching\, etc.) will examine the complex interactions between different temple communities\, and their interactions with other ethnic and religious communities.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/inter-asian-temple-and-trust-networks-within-and-out-of-southeast-asia/
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SUMMARY:How Asia Became Territorial
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nItty Abraham\nUniversity of Texas at Austin\nittya@austin.utexas.edu \nSee Seng Tan\nS. Rajaratnam School of International Studies\, Nanyang Technological University\nissstan@ntu.edu.sg \nWorkshop Participants\nCarolyn Cartier\, Professor of Human Geography and China Studies\, China Research Centre\, University of Technology\, Sydney\n“Regional Governmentalities or Territorializaton with/out Boundaries” \nMichele Ford\, Chair\, Department of Indonesian Studies\, University of Sydney and Lenore Lyons (in absentia)\, Research Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia\n“Sovereignty\, territory and citizenship: The production of subaltern cosmopolitans in Indonesia’s maritime borderlands” \nSiba N. Grovogui\, Professor Department of Political Science\, The Johns Hopkins University and Hitomi Koyama\, Ph.D. candidate\, The John Hopkins University\n“Continental Drifts: Imperial Cartography\, Sovereignty\, and Postcolonial Conflicts” \nTuran Kayoaglu\, Professor\, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington\, Tacoma\n“How Asia Ended Extraterritoriality” \nL. H. M. Ling\, Associate Professor\, Graduate Program in International Affairs\, The New School\n“‘ASIA IS A WOMAN’: Episteme and Territorialization” \nDavid Ludden\, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization in the History Department\, New York University\n“Uneven Development\, Spatial Inequity\, and Territorial Politics: Remapping 1905 in Bengal and Assam” \nKen MacLean\, Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change (IDSC)\, Clark University\n“The Cultural Politics of Lines: Performing Sovereignty in the Greater South China/ Eastern Sea” \nTorsten Weber\, Research Associate\, History Department\, School of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Jacobs University Bremen\n“Utopias of ‘One Asia’: Visual Portrayals of ‘Asia’ in the Age of Nationalism” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAsia today has more inter-state disputes over territory than any other continent in the world. The majority of its states—Japan\, Korea\, China\, Taiwan\, Philippines\, Vietnam\, Indonesia\, Malaysia\, Cambodia\, Thailand\, Pakistan\, India\, Bangladesh\, Afghanistan\, etc.—find themselves embroiled in deeply contentious and long-standing disputes with neighbors and others over bits of land and/or in the maritime domain. What is most alarming is that these disputes are not merely historical legacies of imperial cartography that can be resolved in the well-tempered meeting rooms of international diplomacy. Struggles over disputed lands repeatedly generate the nationalist ire of domestic Asian populations\, fuelled further by nostalgia for some idealized past\, frustrated economic and political aspirations\, and tensions between the competing yet symbiotic dynamics of globalization and nationalism. Subaltern histories and armed insurgencies seeking self-determination may complicate further the fray of disputed official histories. The net effect is to create a situation where the most likely cause of inter-state conflict in Asia today is a situation emanating from a territorial dispute. However\, we believe that these very practical concerns cannot be fully understood unless scholars look beyond territorial disputes per se. \nTerritorial disputes raise questions of history\, historiography\, conquest\, colonization\, legitimacy\, legality\, nations\, nationalism\, boundaries and borders—issues that invite interrogation by critically minded political scientists\, geographers\, international legal scholars\, historians\, and anthropologists. Disputes\, however\, are not our primary interest. Rather\, this workshop proposes to examine critically the foundational relation underlying disputes\, namely\, the self-reinforcing equivalence between “state” and “territory” that is the unquestioned condition of modern sovereignty. \nAmong the questions we would like to see raised are historical concerns—when and how did the state-territory equivalence emerge in Asia; How are “geo-bodies” (Winichakul 1994) constructed in different Asian countries—as well as theoretical\, spatial\, cultural\, and political issues: How are multiple territorial sovereignties understood\, represented\, contested\, and resolved; How did/do ideas of territory travel within and beyond Asia; What were/are the technologies of territorial sovereignty; how and where do “zomias” (van Schendel 2005)\, SEZ’s\, and utopias emerge; What does state-and-territory do to borderlanders; How can we conceptualize the many relations between territory and citizenship\, involving diasporas\, foreigners\, sojourners\, strangers\, exiles\, minorities\, fifth columnists\, and aliens; How are “real” and “virtual” maps imagined\, produced\, and deconstructed through popular culture and everyday life? \nThe objective of this proposed workshop is an inter-disciplinary discussion that leads to the untangling of the dense historical\, ideological\, and political relations that made Asia territorial.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/how-asia-became-territorial/
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