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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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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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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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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: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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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130317
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SUMMARY:Authority\, Community\, Identity I
DESCRIPTION:The goal of the first consultation on Authority\, Community\, and Identity was to explore themes\, methods\, and possible participants for a working group that will spend three years examining the ways that modern Catholic\, Muslim and secular actors understand and navigate interactions among these three defining elements of associational life and public presence. In keeping with Contending Modernities’ constructive agenda\, the meeting aimed to provide guidance for the potential working group as it attempted to identify creative responses to the challenges facing communities.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/authority-community-identity-i/
LOCATION:Social Science Research Council\, 300 Cadman Plaza West\, 15 Fl\, New York\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130513T080000
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SUMMARY:Conference: Towards Coordinated Responses to Conflict (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
DESCRIPTION:A conference to discuss perspectives on United Nations peacemaking\, peacekeeping\, and peacebuilding with scholars and policymakers from Africa\, China\, and the West. Hosted at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)\, the two-day conference was convened by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)\, the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)\, and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). The conference sought to share perspectives and explore changes in peacekeeping\, peacemaking\, and peacebuilding theory and practice\, specifically aiming to develop new and constructive linkages between UN efforts and China on matters of conflict response as China continues to enhance its contributions in this area. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/conference-towards-coordinated-responses-to-conflict-beijing-foreign-studies-university/
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