Conference Schedule

Friday, March 7

3:30pm - Sign-in, meet & greet

4:30pm - Keynote address: Andrew C. Willford, Cornell University, Department of Anthropology

6:00pm - Reception

Saturday, March 8

8:30am - Breakfast

9:00am-10:30am - Panel 1: Infrastructure

Jennifer Su, University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology

“Chrysanthemums and Chronotypes: The Techno-politics and Energo-politics of Plant Life in Central Vietnam”

Johann Yamin, NYU Media, Culture, and Communication

“Metagaming on the Move: Mobile eSports in Southeast Asia and the Colonial Topographies of Singapore's Internet Infrastructure”

Alfonse Chiu, Yale School of Architecture

“Fluid, Friction, Flow: Rethinking Infrastructure and Power in the Small Spaces of British Malayan Agro-Commodity Transfers”

Faculty Discussant: Shaoling Ma, Cornell University, Department of Asian Studies                      

10:30am-11:00am - Coffee break

11:00am-12:30pm - Panel 2: Resilience

Wichuta Teeratanabodee, University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies

“Transnational Solidarities and Publishing Houses: Books, Democracy, and Resistance”

Jess Immanuel J. Espina, University of the Philippines Diliman, Department of History 

“Navigating the Signs of the Times: The Beginnings of Prophetic Visions and Landscapes of Resistance among Progressive Christian Human Rights Defenders against the Marcos Dictatorship (1974-1977)”

Emi Donald, Cornell University, Department of History

“Moving with the Past: Mobilizing Queer Aesthetics and Archives of Dissent in the 2020-2021 Thai Protests”

Faculty Discussant: Norhafiza Mohd Hed, Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program

12:30pm-2:00pm - Lunch

2:00pm-3:30pm - Panel 3: Labor

Linh Dang, Yale University, Department of Anthropology 

“Đi lại”: Transnational Migration and Village Mobilities”

Lai Wo, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Department of Anthropology

“Migrant Absence within Transnational Labor Migration between East Java and Hong Kong”

Perdana Roswaldy, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology

“Fascist Ecology: Settler Colonialism and Land Resettlement Policies in Postcolonial Southeast Asia”

Faculty Discussant: Ashawari Chaudhuri, Cornell University, Department of Science & Technology Studies

3:30pm-4:00pm - Break

4:00pm-5:30pm - Panel 4: Identity

Thelma Wang, MIT, Program in History, Anthropology, and STS (HASTS) 

“Displaced Becoming: Trans Chinese Niche of Vaginoplasty in Bangkok”

Danny Widiatmo (Oei Chin-Hao), National Chengchi University, College of Social Science

“Revisiting Chinese-Indonesians in Taiwan: Exodus, Return, and Political Memory in the Post-Suharto Era”

Emma Goh, University of California, Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning

“Border Biopolitics and Interstitial Identities Along the Malaysia-Singapore Causeway”

Faculty Discussant: Viranjini Munasinghe, Cornell University, Department of Anthropology

5:45pm - Dinner

Sunday, March 9

9:00am - Breakfast

9:30am-11:00am - Panel 5: Performance

Sunshine Blanco, University of California, Riverside, Department of Anthropology

“Iraya Weaving: Performing Religion and Indigeneity in the Philippines”

Lijun Zhang, Cornell University, Department of History

“Litigious women, fluid subjects: prosecuting bigamy in British Malaya, 1890s-1930s”

Reginald Kent (Reggie), University of Washington, Department of English

“Dragging the Peranakan: queer Singaporean theatrical subversion of Singapore’s progress narrative”

Faculty Discussant: Durba Ghosh, Cornell University, Department of History

11:00am - Closing remarks