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Week of Events
“After Neoliberalism?” The Future of Postneoliberal State and Society in Asia
Workshop Directors Emel Akçali Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and European Studies Central European University AkcaliE@ceu.hu Ho-Fung Hung Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University hofung@jhu.edu Lerna K. Yanik Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Kadir Has University lerna.yanik@khas.edu.tr Workshop Participants Bipasha Baruah, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research, Western University “NGOs as Intermediaries in Pro-Poor Electrification in India: Urban Development in a Postneoliberal Era?” Thiem Hai Bui, PhD Candidate, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland “In Search of a …
Asian Early Modernities: Empires, Bureaucrats, Confessions, Borders, Merchants
Workshop Directors Kaya Sahin Assistant Professor, Department of History Indiana University iksahin@indiana.edu Hendrik Spruyt Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations; Director, Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies Northwestern University h-spruyt@northwestern.edu Workshop Participants Christopher P. Atwood, Professor of Mongolian Studies, Central Eurasian Studies Department and adjunct professor of History at Indiana University (Bloomington) “Partners in Profit: Empires, Merchants, and Local Governments in the Mongol Empire and Qing Mongolia” Cemil Aydin, Associate Professor, History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Transformation of Inter-Asian Regional Connections from Early Modern to Modern Period” Hayden Bellenoit (in absentia), Associate Professor, Department of …
Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary
Workshop Directors Alice Jim Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Concordia University alice.jim@concordia.ca Henry Tsang Associate Professor, Faculty of Culture + Community emily carr university of art + design htsang@ecuad.ca Workshop Participants Rachel Amtzis, Research Division, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore “Canvassing the City: Street Art, Protest, and Counter-Politics in Kathmandu” Jacqueline Armijo, Associate Professor, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University “Qatar, Cai Guo-qiang and Reimagining Historical and Cultural Transmissions” Gay Breyley, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2013-15), Faculty of Arts, Monash University “Uninvited Artistic Connections: From Iranian to Inter-Asian Imaginaries” Manuela Ciotti, Assistant Professor, Global …
Inequalities in Asian Societies: Bringing Back Class Analysis
Workshop Directors Deniz Yükseker Associate Professor, Sociology Department Koç University DYUKSEKER@ku.edu.tr Ching Kwan Lee Professor of Sociology University of California, Los Angeles cklee@soc.ucla.edu Can Nacar Assistant Professor, Department of History Koç University CNACAR@KU.EDU.TR Workshop Participants Dennis Arnold, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam “Class Fragments and Emerging Forms: Political Agency and Economic Transition in Cambodia” Alpkan Birelma, PhD candidate, Ataturk Institute, Bogazici University “Working-class Subjectivities: A View of Capitalism from Below” Hae Yeon Choo, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Mississauga “In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant …
Porous Enclaves: Inter-Asian Residential Projects and the Popular Classes from Istanbul to Seoul
Workshop Directors John Friedmann Honorary Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning University of British Columbia Professor Emeritus, School of Public Policy and Social Research University of California Los Angeles jrpf@exchange.ubc.ca Erik Harms Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International & Area Studies Yale University erik.harms@yale.edu Workshop Participants Lisa Björkman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity “Watering the World Class City: ‘Islands of luxury’ and networked infrastructures in Mumbai” Ryan Centner, Lecturer, Urban Geography, London School of Economics “Neo-Ottomanism Out of the Ashes: Contentions of Cosmopolitan Rebuilding in Beirut & Beyond” Gökçe Günel, …
Rescuing Taste from the Nation: Oceans, Borders and Culinary Flows
Workshop Directors Krishnendu Ray Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies & Public Health New York University krishnendu.ray@nyu.edu Cecilia Leong-Salobir Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Wollongong cecilias@uow.edu.au Workshop Participants Virginia Brown Keyder, Adjunct Lecturer, Political Science, State University of New York at Binghamton “Olive Oil, Law and Asia” Melissa Caldwell, Professor, Anthropology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz “From Kimchi to Sushi: Training the Russian Palate as a Form of Colonial and Post-Colonial State-Making” May-bo Ching, Professor, History, Sun Yat-sen University “The Flow of Turtle Soup: From the Caribbean via Europe to Canton” Jean Duruz, Adjunct Senior Research …
The Sounds and Scripts of Languages in Motion
Workshop Directors Jing Tsu Professor of Modern Chinese Literature & Culture Yale University jing.tsu@yale.edu Ronit Ricci Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia-Pacific The Australian National University ronit.ricci@anu.edu.au Workshop Participants Raja Adal, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Cincinnati “The Law of the Land: What does it Look Like? An Epigraphic Study of Laws Signed by Heads of State in Japan, Lebanon, and Turkey, 1923-1928” Attiya Ahmad, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University “Difference and Repetition: Plural Languages, Islamic Da’wa and Cosmpolitan Muslim Belongings in Kuwait” Rebecca Gould (in absentia), Assistant Professor, Literature …