Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. "The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver
Negotiating Asian Spatialities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mobility, Liminality, and Rootedness | An Online International Conference
Negotiating Asian Spatialities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mobility, Liminality, and Rootedness | An Online International Conference
Details
The UP Asian Center will hold the online international conference "Negotiating Asian Spatialities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Mobility, Liminality, and Rootedness" on 10-11 October 2024, 10 AM, PHT (GMT+8), via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. Online registration is required.
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
This online conference gives due attention to the intricate aspects of Asian communities in various contexts of spatial dynamics. Particularly, as various scholarly orientations approach the notion of Asian diasporas differently, the conference encourages the broadest consideration, drawing on different analytical perspectives from fields such as, but not limited to, economic history, geography, diaspora/migration studies, ethnic studies, and area studies. Three key themes will be explored in the conference papers: movement, the state of transitoriness, and anchoring in socio-economic life. While these themes are intuitively applicable to diaspora experiences in host societies, we also consider implications on viewpoints in the homeland. The event sets out to provoke a critical and constructive interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, shedding light on how these elements have evolved and affected various Asian settings across time, in Asia and beyond. This exploration into Asian diasporas offers insights into the larger transformations in their social, cultural, political, and economic environments. The end-in-mind of this academic exchange is a collaborative volume project comprising the conference papers.
Notwithstanding the inclusive approach to the overarching conference theme, the event seeks to achieve the following specific objectives for both the conference and the publication:
• Appraise historical and contemporary mobilities within Asia, focusing on how the flow of people, goods, and ideas has influenced Asian societies • Interrogate the role of transitory or in-between states of being, emphasizing the importance of liminal spaces and identities • Elucidate the nature of rootedness in communities, highlighting connections to place, tradition, and social groups • Encourage interdisciplinary discussions among scholars in the different fields of the social sciences and humanities
ABOUT THE PRESENTATIONS AND THE SPEAKERS
Panel 1: Navigating Positionalities
A “Technical” Diaspora: Revisiting Notions of Place and Movement Among the Sama Bajau (aka Bajau or Bajo) of Maritime Southeast Asia
MATTHEW SANTAMARIA Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
Performing Foreignness: Images of West Asian Migrants in Japan's Media
YUANHAO ZHAO Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
Kazakhs in Mongolia: Exploring Origin, Culture, and Identity
SHARAD KUMAR SONI Jawaharlal Nehru University
Salafi Influence Among Filipino Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa
NASSEF MANABILANG ADIONG, Ph.D. Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
Panel 2: Narratives of Settlement and Socio-economic Forces
The Chinese in Bicol from the Late 1800s to the Early 1900s
MARCO LAGMAN, Central Bicol State University of Agriculture TINA CLEMENTE, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
The Socio-economic Activities of Jews and Parsis in the Development of Bombay City from the 1860s to the 1910s
MICHIHIRO OGAWA Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
Understanding the Role of Remittances in Vietnam’s Socio-economic Development
VAN HONG THI HA, Vietnam Institute of Economics, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences NGUYEN BANG NONG, Institute of Anthropology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Asians in the Kingdom of Hawai'i, Before and During the American Occupation
LANCE COLLINS Hawai'i Institute for Philippine Studies
Panel 3: Resisting, Consolidating, and Belonging
“Bringing It All Back Home”: Overseas Chinese and the Rebuilding of Southeast Coastal China, 1911-1937
JAMES COOK Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
Despotic Leaders & Cosmopolitan Patriots: ‘Portuguese’ Solidarity Across Modern Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai
CATHERINE CHAN Lingnan University, Hong Kong
From Exclusion to Revolution: The Early 20th-century Journey of the Indian Diaspora from Hong Kong to the USA
KAORI MIZUKAMI Hosei University, Tokyo Japan
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The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. It also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, the Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website.
