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, 9 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
THE CONVENERS
TINA S. CLEMENTE, Ph.D.
Tina S. Clemente is a Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman. She earned her Ph.D. at the School of Economics at the same university. Her research interests include development, China Studies in the Philippines, Philippines–China economic relations, and economic history. She co-edited the Volume 2 of Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution: Micro Intellectual History through De-central Lenses (2023, World Scientific) and China Studies in the Philippines: Intellectual Paths and the Formation of a Field (2018, Routledge). Dr. Clemente is a former president of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies and the first editor-in-chief of the Chinese Studies Journal. She received the 2022 Gawad Tsanselor Sa Natatanging Guro, the most prestigious award for UP Diliman faculty that recognizes excellence in teaching, research, and service.
MICHIHIRO OGAWA, Ph.D.
Michihiro Ogawa is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. from University of Pune, India in 2013. He worked as a research fellow at the National Institute for the Humanities (2013-2016) and Institute of Developing Economics (Jetro)(2016) and as an Associate Professor at Kanazawa University (2016-2021). His research interest is on the socio-economic history of Western India in the early modern period. His recent publications in English are “The Spatial Analysis of the Transition of the Land Revenue System in Western India (1761 - 1836), with special reference to Indapur Pargana” in Spaces and Places in Western India -Formations and Delineations (Routledge, 2019) and "Inland Trade Networks under the Marathas in the 18th-19th Century: With Special Reference to Indapur Pargana in Pune Subha," in Connecting the Indian Ocean World, Across Sea and Land (Routledge, 2023).
JAMES A. COOK, Ph.D.
James A. Cook is the Associate Director of the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, a US Department of Education National Resource Center in East Asian Studies. His research focuses on China’s globalization in both the Republican and PRC eras. One aspect of his work looks at the impact of overseas Chinese on the development of southeast coastal China, more specifically, how overseas Chinese have influenced urbanization and economic development within the region. His most recent publication is the co-edited volume Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024). He teaches classes in modern Chinese and modern Southeast Asian histories. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego.
ABOUT THE PRESENTATIONS AND THE SPEAKERS
DAY 1: 10 OCTOBER 2024 9:10 - 11:00 AM | 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
Performed Foreignness: Images of Muslim Migrants in Japanese Entertainment Programs?
YUANHAO ZHAO Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
Family, Commerce, and Society: The Chinese in Bicolandia in the late 19th to early 20th Century
MARCO LAGMAN, Central Bicol State University of Agriculture TINA CLEMENTE, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
12:00 - 2:00 PM | Panel 2: Narratives of Settlement and Socio-economic Forces
Kazakhs in Mongolia: Exploring Origin, Culture, and Identity
SHARAD KUMAR SONI Jawaharlal Nehru University
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
DAY 2: 11 OCTOBER 2024 9:00 - 11:00 AM | 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.
