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

12:30 pm–2:00 pm
PANEL 9: PLACE AND MEMORY

Indigeneity and Ethnicity of Suverna Bhumi (Burma): A View from Colonisers
          Sumit Mondal, Central University of Gujarat and Sampayan Chakravarty, Delhi University 
A Local View from Northeastern Taiwan to Understand Intercultural Encounters between Europe and Asia and their Indirect Effects
          Li-Ying Wang, University of Washington 
From Remembrance to Recreation: Memory of European Houses in Urban Landscape Manila (Philippines) and Saigon (Vietnam) during the Colonial Period
           Nguyet Thi Minh Nguyen, Faculty of History, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University