What is “Asia Plural”? NYCAS 2009-2010 invites scholars to reflect on the theme of plurality and mobility in order to further understanding of historical and contemporary flows of people, materials, images and ideas across physical and virtual boundaries. Do the commonplace tropes of hybridity, borderlands, diaspora and migration serve for understanding contemporary globalization? How do broad-ranging new technologies alter relations of mobility and immobility? Can reconceptualizing temporality transform and revitalize key scholarly and political debates?

• global cosmopolitanisms
• digital culture in relation to migrations
• Asia Plural and deciphering translocal connections
• mobilization of academic theories and conceptual networks of activist practices inside and outside of the academy

Please look above for links to Registration and K-12 Workshop/Teacher Training.

The conference program will be posted on this website by Tuesday, September 29th.

Please address inquiries to NYCAS09@einaudi.cornell.edu