The 64th annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies will be hosted by the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY, on January 24-26, 2025.
Global Asias in a Deglobalizing World?
Conference registration is available at this link.
The dynamically-updated version of the full conference program, including details on the individual papers, speakers, and rooms, is available at this link.
Day 1 - January 24, 2025
Pre-conference workshop, organized by Yujia He and Matthew Zook: “How digital standards and geopolitics shape competition and collaboration in the global economy”
Session 1 (9:35am-11:05am) - Standards and Internet Governance
Keynote by Nanette Levinson, American University (11:15am-12 noon), “Maintaining the Internet: The Complex Spaces and Governance of Digital Protocols and Standards)
Session 2 (1:30pm-3:10pm) - Competition and Collaboration in the Global Economy
SEC-AAS Conference main program
Session 3 (4:30pm-6pm)
1. Queering Popular Culture and Kinship
2. New Book Showcase, Melodi Yunzhi Li, Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States
3. Democratizing Global Asias
4. Sci-fi, Media, and Ideology
5. Labor and Maoism in Global China
Public lecture by Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center (6:15pm-7:15pm), “AI and Data Governance: Going beyond the US-China Arms Race Framing”
Welcome Reception (6pm-8pm)
Day 2 - January 25, 2025
SEC-AAS Conference Keynote
Keynote by Jean C. Oi, AAS Past-President, Stanford University (8am-9am), “A Perfect Storm: Fiscal Discipline, COVID, and Local Government Debt in China”
SEC-AAS Conference main program
Session 1 (9:15am-10:45am)
8. Troubling Coloniality and Imperialism in Southeast Asia
9. Art and Performance in China and the Asian Diaspora (Part I)
10. Digital Economy and Intimacy
11. Debating Authoritarianism and Social Control
12. Cinemas across Asia
Session 2 (11am-12:30pm)
13. Art and Performance in China and in the Asian Diaspora
14. Mediating Japanese Empire
15. Big Data, AI, and Virtual Reality
16. Fashioning Nature and Culture in Pre-Modern China
17. Nation and Globalization
SEC-AAS Sponsored Event
Workshop by Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University (11am-12 noon) “Ghosts in the Machine: Technology and Imperialism in Maritime Asia”
SEC-AAS Luncheon, Business Meeting, and Awards Ceremony
Led by the SEC-AAS leadership, including book prize, article prize, graduate student paper prize, and undergraduate paper prize (12:30pm-1:30pm)
SEC-AAS Conference main program
Session 3 (1:45-3:15pm)
19. Orientalism and Colonialism Reconsidered
20. Organized Panel: Epidemic of Ideas: Invented Ideas and the Making of Imagined Communities in East Asia
21. New Approaches to Tibetan and Mongolian Studies
22. Mapping Geopolitics in the Age of De/Globalization
23. Undergraduate Panel: Challenges in Geopolitical Social Interactions
Session 4 (3:30pm-5pm)
24. Undergraduate panel: Transnational Identity Formations
25. Organized Panel: Gender and Sex in Modern China
26. Geopolitics in Global China
27. Social Integration and Cultural Belonging
28. Cultural Constructions of Nationalism
SEC-AAS Sponsored Event on Pedagogy
Workshop by Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University (5:15pm-6:15pm) “Uplands and Geographical Margins: Southeast Asia and Its ‘Elsewheres’ in Global Context”
Box dinner will be available from 6:15pm
SEC-AAS Sponsored Performance
AppalAsia Musical Performance and workshop, led by Jeff Berman (dulcimer), Mimi Jong (erhu), and Susan Powers (banjo and vocal) (7:30pm-9pm)
Day 3 - January 26, 2025
Session 1 (9am-10:30am)
31. Challenging Exclusion among Asian Diaspora and Beyond
32. UK Global Asias Program-sponsored Undergraduate Panel: Global Asias and Asian Film
33. Globalization and Global Asias
34. History of Medicine and Migration in China and India
35. Nature and Development in Global Asias across Centuries
Session 2 (10:45am-12:15pm)
36. Architecture and History
37. UK Global Asias Program-sponsored Undergraduate Panel: Conflict and Resistance in Global Asias
38. New Book Showcase, Diane Wolf, Cobalt Blue: Marco Polo in Dadu
39. New Book Showcase, The Mongolia Society, No Use of Force: The End of the Marxist Era in Mongolia—The Memoirs of Jambyn Batmonkh
40. Organized Panel: Chinese Negotiations for Modernity and Global Integration
If you have any questions or concerns about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact our local coordinators, Dr. Charlie Yi Zhang (charlie.zhang@uky.edu) and Dr. Liang Luo (llu222@uky.edu).
Sponsors of the annual meeting include:
At the University of Kentucky: The College of Arts and Sciences, the Global Asias Program, the Office of Vice President for Research, UKinSPIRE Grant, the UK International Center, the Gaines Center for Humanities, Appalachia in Bluegrass
Beyond the University of Kentucky: The Association for Asian Studies, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Henry B. Luce Foundation through the East-West Center in Honolulu
The image above, “Gezicht op een straat met riksja's en een pottenbakkerij in China,” is an anonymous photo from around 1903, now held by the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. It is in the public domain and can be accessed at http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.439899 .