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SUMMARY:Science and the Human Person: Engaging Tradition and Informing Public Discourse
DESCRIPTION: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\, ethics\, and the human future. Its activities will foster collaboration among secular scientific communities and the world’s two largest faith traditions\, Islam and Catholicism\, along with other secular and religious voices.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/science-and-the-human-person-engaging-tradition-and-informing-public-discourse/
LOCATION:Berkley Center for Religion\, Peace\, & World Affairs
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SUMMARY:Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commission visits SSRC
DESCRIPTION:A delegation from the Chinese State Ethnic Affairs Commission visited SSRC and met with Tatiana Carayannis and Renata Segura of CPPF for a workshop on preventing ethnic conflict.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/chinese-state-ethnic-affairs-commission-visits-ssrc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
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SUMMARY:Sustainability and Citizenship in Asian Cities
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nAnne M. Rademacher\nNew York University\nar131@nyu.edu \nK. Sivaramakrishnan\nYale University\nk.sivaramakrishnan@yale.edu \nBilly Kee-long So\nHong Kong University of Science and Technology\nbillyso@ust.hk \nWorkshop Participants\nNikhil Anand\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology\, Haverford College\n“Leaky States: On Ignorance and Absence in Mumbai’s Water Supply” \nDebjani Bhattacharyya\, Ph.D. Candidate\, History\, Emory University\n“From the Maidan to the Wetlands of Kolkata: Reappraising the Aesthetics of Nature and Ideologies of Urban Environmental Sustainability” \nCari An Coe\, Assistant Professor of International Affairs\, Lewis & Clark College\n“‘Civilized City:’ State-Society Relations and the Emergence of Notions of Environmental Sustainability in Hanoi\, Vietnam” \nRajib Dasgupta\, Associate Professor\, Centre of Social Medicine & Community Health\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\n“The Multi-Dimensions of Vulnerability to Cholera in Delhi: An Eco-social Exploration” \nEli Elinoff\, C.Phil\, Department of Anthropology\, University of California\, San Diego\n“‘Sufficient’ Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Sustainability and the Redistribution of the Sensible in Northeastern Thailand” \nMax Hirsh\, Post-doc\, ETH Zurich’s Future Cities Laboratory\, Singapore; Ph.D. Candidate\, Harvard University\, Department of Architecture\, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning\n“The ‘Green’ Airport? Rethinking Environmental Sustainability in the Pearl River Delta” \nAshish Nangia\, Indo Global Education Foundation\, India and Anna Nangia\, Graphic Designer\n“Sustainability and the Traditional: Shared Spatial Realms in Hampi\, India” \nAnoma Pieris\, Senior Lecturer\, Faculty of Architecture\, Building and Planning\, University of Melbourne\n“Southern invasions: Post Disaster Tourism in Sri Lanka” \nJerome Whitington\, Research & Teaching Fellow\, Asia Research Institute & Timbusu College\, National University of Singapore\n“Apprehension/Commitment: Infrastructure\, Urbanism and Weather Insurance in the Thai Climate Change Imaginary” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nIn recent decades\, rapid urban growth has stretched the resilience of cities and the ecological integrity of urban forms throughout Asia. Taking new shape\, they leave unprecedented ecological imprints on their hinterlands and the populations they displace or marginalize. As urban sprawl and incessant redevelopment fray urban ecologies\, the environment is strained with pollution\, resource scarcity\, and public health hazards. Despite this\, public sentiment\, government policy\, and social action aspire as never before toward sustainability\, environmental improvement\, and more “livable” cities. Asian cities are witnessing rising conflict from disparate groups seeking a place in an unstable urban ecology. In the process\, ideologies of environmental improvement are becoming increasingly important for producing or reproducing important modes of expertise\, moralities of belonging\, and justifications for social action. \nThis workshop will explore the dynamics of environmental sustainability and citizenship in Asian urban settings by addressing how\, in specific cities\, urban social processes intersect with assessments of urban environmental order and disorder. Participants ask: how are relationships between environments and societies made\, and made meaningful\, in an urban setting? How do biophysical properties\, rules\, and histories of nature matter in contemporary Asian cities? How is the urban environment used to construct social identities and demarcate political spaces? \nCitizenship and environmental sustainability are the key themes through which these questions are explored. Citizenship invokes the question of rights and their formulation and negotiation in law\, government and social conflict. Through this lens we will consider issues of livelihood and residence in cities\, as well as the way people make claims upon\, and experience\, urban forms in historical development and contemporary transformation. Environmental sustainability raises multiple\, sometimes conflicting ideas of nature\, and aspirations for renewal that connect contemporary urban environmental realities to imagined futures. It highlights how environmentally responsible action is defined\, promoted\, and articulated in private and public sectors\, and how logics of green consumption and growth intersect with the politics of urban sustainability. Government and private enterprise work to refashion the city through ideas of sustainability\, affecting both ecological processes and the exercise of citizenship. \nWe anticipate participants in the workshop will focus on several inter-linked questions and topics\, including: \n\nHow claims to natural resources are forged\, appealed\, and mediated in urban contexts.\nHow such claims—be they to ‘open space\,’ water\, or land—resonate with questions of citizenship\, informality\, equity\, and social strife.\nThe changing realms of urban expertise\, such as planning\, architecture\, hazardous waste management\, and public health engineering.\nHistorically-shaped moments of encounter and contest between various urban actors and their impact on the nature\, environmental sustainability\, and political economy in Asia’s diverse but connected urban forms.\n\nThe workshop will draw together scholars of the environment and urban experience from interdisciplinary backgrounds. Building on strong traditions of political ecology research\, it will outline a research agenda for urban environments in East Asia\, Southeast Asia\, South Asia\, and the Middle East\, regions that are deeply connected historically and interlinked in the present through urban ecological processes and circuits of labor\, capital\, and information.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/sustainability-and-citizenship-in-asian-cities/
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SUMMARY:Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies and New Spatial Imaginaries
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nÇağlar Keyder\nBoğaziçi University\nkeyder@boun.edu.tr \nRavi Arvind Palat\nState University of New York at Binghamton\npalat@binghamton.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nMichelle 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\n“Asian Art and its Shifting Topologies: Creating New Identities for Asia through Contemporary Art Networks: The Asia Art Archive” \nAinur Begim\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Anthropology\, Yale University\n“Oil\, Geopolitics\, and the State in Postsocialist Kazakhstan” \nAna Maria Candela\, Ph.D. Candidate in History\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n“Qiaoxiang on the Silk Road: Cultural Imaginaries as Structures of Feeling in the Making of a Global China” \nNora Fisher Onar\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Bahçeşehir University (Turkey); Visiting Fellow\, Centre for International Studies\, University of Oxford\n“Historical Legacies in Rising Powers: Towards an (Eur) Asian Approach” \nSonja Ganseforth\, Research assistant\, Institute of Oriental Studies / Centre for Area Studies\, University of Leipzig\n“Anti-Imperialist Solidarity\, Pan-Asianism and Neo-Colonial Interventions Imagining Japan’s Role in the Middle East” \nRada Ivekovic\, Professor\, Sociology Department\, University Jeran-Monnet at Saint-Etienne\n“Sovereignty\, citizenship and subjectivation in a new context\, as Asia emerges” \nHasan H. Karrar\, Assistant Professor\, Humanities and Social Sciences\, Lahore University of Management Sciences\n“Merchants\, Markets\, and Crony Capitalism: Explaining the Frontier Economy in Chinese Central Asia Today” \nTim Summers\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, Centre for East Asian Studies\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\n“Yunnan and Southern Silk Roads: Provincial history and contemporary Chinese policy formation” \nLerna K. Yanık\, Associate Professor and Chair\, Department of Political Science and Public Administration\, Kadir Has University\, Istanbul\n“Economic Matters\, Geopolitical Outcomes: Politics of Capital\, Place\, and Time in Turkish Foreign Policy\, 1945-1960\, 1970-85 and 2002-2011” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAsia as an area of study was contoured by the geopolitical imperatives of the Cold War – despite a long history of interactions across this geographical expanse\, before the end of the Second World War\, there were few references to Asia as a coherent unit and there is no term for the continent in any indigenous language. This constitution of Asia\, accompanied by the independence of former colonies\, also led West Asia to be restructured as the ‘Middle East’ and separated from ‘South Asia’ to which it had long historical connections. ‘Southeast Asia’ was similarly divorced from both ‘South’ and ‘East’ Asia. These arrangements were framed by U.S.-sponsored alliances (SEATO and CENTO) in which Pakistan played a bridging role as a member of both\, while India\, Indonesia\, and many other regional states joined together to launch the Non-Aligned Movement. \nThe end of the Cold War has created new fractures as the demise and breakup of the Soviet Union rendered Non-Alignment anachronistic\, and new cultural geographies have come into being in material and political practice\, as well as in the imaginary of the elites and the populations involved. The changed geopolitical ecologies reconfigure alliances which parallel earlier historical patterns. \nThis is evident in West and South Asia where deeper American involvement has been accompanied by Turkish and Indian bids for regional prominence\, evoking memories of coeval dominions of Ottoman and Mughal empires. Sited at the confluence of several emerging networks\, this region is crucial in understanding new realities of strategic alliances and interests. The expanded scale of production in China and India has intensified trade relations with the energy-rich states of West Asia. Denser trade in the neighboring seas accompanied by state failures in east Africa has also spurred a rise of piracy inviting new forms of cooperation between global and regional powers. If increased prosperity has made the ‘emerging economies’ more confident in their dealings with the West\, their roles in their ‘near abroad’ has been akin to satrapies vying for greater autonomy. At the same time\, the end of the Cold War has encouraged ethnic groups to tap into and revive their collective memories to challenge their fragmentation across national borders. \nThis workshop examines these realignments in their historical context. It is based on the premise that spatial imaginaries are generated by a broad parallelogram of forces\, but have to resonate successfully with collective historical memories and cultural practices. We invite original contributions from scholars of different disciplinary affiliations and regional interests to situate historical and contemporary spatial imaginaries of Asia within a broader global geopolitical and historical framework. \nPossible themes include: \n\nhistorical roots of emerging alliances;\ncollective memories and new identities;\nchanging self-perceptions of states and their implications for global politics;\nnew patterns of cooperation and conflict; and\nemerging security concerns in finance\, energy\, and other arenas.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/shifting-geopolitical-ecologies-and-new-spatial-imaginaries/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
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SUMMARY:Networks of Religious Learning and the Dissemination of Religious Knowledge across Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nChristophe Jaffrelot\nCentre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales\, Sciences Po\njaffrelot@ceri-sciences-po.org \nMirjam Künkler\nPrinceton University\nkuenkler@princeton.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nAnya Bernstein\, (in absentia) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Michigan\, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows\, and as of fall 2012\, Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Social Studies\, Harvard University\n“Gendered Cosmopolitanisms: Networks Of Buddhist Learning In Postsocialist Eurasia” \nThomas Borchert\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Religion\, University of Vermont\n“Transnational Monastic Education and Buddhist Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Asia” \nElvire Corboz\, Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“Localising Transnational Connections of Learning: Abu al-Qasim Khu’i’s Knowledge Promotion across the Shi’i World” \nFaried Fachruddin Saenong\, Ph.D. Student Anthropology\, Australian National University\n“UPHOLDING SANAD: Indonesian Islam and Egyptian al-Azhar” \nSimon Wolfgang Fuchs\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“This is not Khāliṣtān: The legacy of Muḥammad al-Khāliṣī’s scientific reading of Shīism in South Asia” \nRadhika Gupta\, D.Phil\, University of Oxford\, Institute for Social & Cultural Anthropology\n“Experiments with Khomeini’s revolution in Kargil: Contemporary Shi’a networks between India and West Asia” \nWai-Yip Ho\, Department of Social Sciences\, Hong Kong Institute of Education\n“The Rise of Inter-Asian Madrasah Networks: From British Raj to China’s Hong Kong” \nNur Amali Ibrahim\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, Harvard University\n“The Indonesian Trinity: Islam\, Youths\, and the Nation-State” \nEva F. Nisa\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Anthropology\, The Australian National University\n“Insights into the Lives of Indonesian Female Tablighi Jamā’at in Traditional Muslim Boarding School” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nNetworks of religious learning make up an important part of inter-Asian connections. They account for significant flows of educational migration\, and play a considerable role in defining and re-defining the relations between countries and their people. \nIn this workshop\, we trace the connections of religious learning across Asia\, including West Asia and the Gulf. While well-developed bodies of literatures exist on institutions of religious learning within certain countries\, very few studies thus far take account of the role religious education plays in structuring transnational connections between and within Asia. In addition\, most extant studies on international education\, in particular at the university level\, focus on “secular” education\, whereas little is known about educational migration between institutions of religious learning. Finally\, the fact that networks of religious learning often feature prominently in countries’ cultural foreign policy is yet to be reflected in scholarship – we know very little about the organization and finances states provide to attract foreign students to their institutions of religious learning\, and conversely\, to facilitate or limit the emigration of students to institutions of religious learning outside their purview. \nWe invite papers that focus on the transnational travel of people and religious ideas both with a contemporary or historical focus. Principally\, proposals on any topic relating to the themes outlined above are welcome. Specific paper topics could include\, but are not limited to: \n\nwomen in transnational religious education\nthe diffusion of the Jami’at al-Tabligh and its recruitment methods across Asia\ntransnational Shi‘a networks of religious learning\nAligarh Muslim University and Al-Azhar\, two transnational learning centers?\nthe role of the Pakistani madrassas in the making of the Taliban movement\nthe revival of Najaf and Karbala as international centers of religious learning\nthe Sangh Parivar’s attempts at re-Hinduising the children of the Indian diaspora in South East Asia\nBuddhist educational networks across Asia – the case of Dalit converts studying in South East and East Asia\nQum: reaching out to Central Asia?\nthe teaching of Tibetan Buddhism in India\nthe seminar of Deoband\, a pan-Islamic seminar?\ncomparisons between different state approaches to facilitating or constraining transnational religious education.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/networks-of-religious-learning-and-the-dissemination-of-religious-knowledge-across-asia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
DTSTAMP:20201026T183858Z
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SUMMARY:Just Society at Last? Ideals and Projects of the Common Good across Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nSyed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied\nNational University of Singapore\nmlsasmk@nus.edu.sg \nMorgan Y. Liu\nThe Ohio State University\nliu.737@osu.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nRachana Bhangaokar\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Human Development and Family Studies\, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and Dulari Mehta (in absentia)\, project fellow at the UGC – Center for Advanced Study (CAS) program (Phase II) at Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS)\, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda\n“Journeys of Civically Engaged Indian Youth: Shifts in Moral Perspectives From Self to Just Society” \nJenny Chao\, Associate Research Scholar\, Law Department\, Columbia University (Vale Columbia Center for Sustainable International Investment)\n“Achieving Sustainable Infrastructure Development on the Mekong River” \nChen Chao-ju\, Associate Professor of Law\, National Taiwan University\, College of Law\n“Constituting and Contesting Equality: Feminist Constitutional Activism in Taiwan” \nLynette J. Chua\, Assistant Professor\, Faculty of Law\, National University of Singapore\n“Covert Resistance and Social Movements: The Case of Pragmatic Resistance in Singapore’s Gay and Lesbian Movement” \nJohn Heathershaw\, Senior Lecturer in International Relations\, University of Exeter\n“Non-electoral protest groups in an electoral environment: the ‘new settlements’ of Bishkek and the 2011 presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan” \nSetrag Manoukian\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Islamic Studies and Department of Anthropology\, McGill University\n“Temporality and Disillusionment in Contemporary Iran” \nDaromir Rudnyckyj\, Assistant Professor\, Pacific and Asian Studies\, University of Victoria\n“Justice\, Equality and Calculative Reason in Islamic Economic Action” \nSanjay Ruparelia\, Assistant Professor of Politics and Fellow of the India China Institute\, New School for Social Research\n“The evolving right-to-development in India: origins\, promises\, risks” \nTimothy Shea\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Visual Arts Department (Art History\, Theory\, and Criticism)\, University of California\, San Diego\n“Renewing Revolution\, Renewing Art: Ideals and Realities of The Long March Project in China and Mainland Southeast Asia” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nWhat can address structural inequality in societies? How do various actors in Asia imagine solutions to poverty\, injustice\, or patronage? These are perhaps the most intractable problems\, because they are deeply embedded in the workings of societies\, where the majority perpetuates the deleterious states of affairs through perpetration\, complicity\, or acquiescence\, so that responsibility may not be assignable solely to state leadership or elites. A “culture of corruption” pervades everyday economic and institutional activity that punishes non-compliance and resists efforts at reform. \nIn response to the long history of elite power abuse throughout Asia\, various visions and movements have sought to enact notions of social justice. Some are religious: Islamic revivalisms\, Christian millenarianisms\, Hindu activisms\, Buddhist reformisms\, and other religious-oriented projects across Asia envision transcendental orders for societal problems. Other non-religious conceptions work from varieties of moral reasoning about the common good in opposition to elite exploitation. Environmental movements in Indonesia or Russia\, citizen activisms in China or Iran\, the growing support for socialist parties in South Asia\, the “Color Revolutions” of the 2000s\, and most recently\, the popular uprisings of 2011 in West Asia (the Middle East) are some examples of this. The question is\, can these ideals and projects actually ameliorate systemic injustice and inequalities of wealth or power when other approaches have fallen short? More often than not\, these various efforts appropriate and critique liberal discourses of freedoms and rights\, and Marxian discourses of class and power\, offering compelling alternatives to neoliberal and state socialist conceptions of just society. \nThis workshop convenes scholars and experts that would take stock of ideas and action templates regarding just society across the Asia. We seek studies that examine conceptions about good society or good government\, or movements that attempt to implement them. The workshop invites submissions that attend to how the utopian aspirations and models “catch on\,” as well as in-depth cases of movements from across Asia that localize universal narratives. We welcome research from any time period (with emphasis on the 20th century-present)\, from any part of the Asian space (which we take to include the Middle East and Russia)\, and from diverse disciplinary approaches. Activists and professionals with sufficient conceptual grounding in their paper proposals are encouraged to apply. \nPossible paper topics include: \n\nHow socio-political critiques about inequality and elite excesses are articulated within moral narratives and with respect to class\, ethnic\, sectarian\, and regional interests.\nThe media or venues where such discourses are disseminated and the mobilization of people via internet\, social media\, TV\, pamphlet\, cassette\, gatherings\, etc.\nThe activities or impact of such movements in societies\, in areas such as education\, welfare services\, laws\, politics\, the economy\, the environment\, etc.\n\nWe are keen on proposals that look at actors engaging the specifically structural nature of these problems\, who seek systemic rather than palliative remedies. Together as a workshop\, our goal is to provide historical depth\, geographical synopticism\, and multi-methodological perspectives on novel ways of interpreting and responding to structural inequality and social injustice.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/just-society-at-last-ideals-and-projects-of-the-common-good-across-asia/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
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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/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120606T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120608T170000
DTSTAMP:20201026T183414Z
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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/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120330T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120331T170000
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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
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T160810Z
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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/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111104
DTSTAMP:20211007T165004Z
CREATED:20210913T145528Z
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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/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110220
DTSTAMP:20200827T195328Z
CREATED:20200827T195328Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
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/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T170000
DTSTAMP:20201028T155020Z
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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/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T170000
DTSTAMP:20201028T154814Z
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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/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101210T170000
DTSTAMP:20201028T153355Z
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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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