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The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is the most inclusive international gathering in the field of Asian Studies. ICAS attracts participants from over 75 countries to engage in global dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and geographic areas. The meeting place for the eleventh edition of ICAS is Leiden, the Netherlands. The historic city of Leiden is home to one of the oldest universities, Leiden University, and several of the most renowned Asia research centers. Leiden University will be the main host of ICAS 11, partnering with the city, research institutions and museums, who share equally rich Asian and global connections.

Below is an overview of all accepted proposal titles per theme per submission type. Participant names are not yet visible. These will be included early April, after the registration and participation confirmation deadline of 15 March.

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ARTS AND CULTURE

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ An Encounter Between Western Modernism and the Japanese House - Villas Designed by Antonin Raymond in 1920s and 1930s ⋅ Engineering Design and Analysis in the art of Wayang Kulit ⋅ Evolving Traditions of the Buddhist Image House. Part II. The world of seduction and generosity between heavenly clouds and hell fires. ⋅ Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj ⋅ Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary . Urbanized Interface.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING ⋅ Rangsa ni Tonun, the film ⋅ Revisiting Home: auto-ethnographic artworks of Law Yuk Mui and Tang Kwok Hin in

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ “A cup of humanity”: the Japanese tea ceremony (the Way of Tea) as portrayed by Tenshin Okakura, and its reception and practice in contemporary Britain ⋅ “Bun-booth books” and urban ballads of commoner women’s sexuality in late Qing China. ⋅ “The Martyr's theater at the 1920 Yongsan seminary, South Korea” ⋅ A Fusion of East and West: The Experimental Performances of Taiwanese Traditional Hand Puppetry ⋅ A Memorial Feast? Preliminary Findings of the Analyzing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research Group ⋅ A necessary condition for the socially-engaged: the socially-aspired art of Hong Kong contemporary artist Kwok-hin Tang ⋅ Afghan Legacy: Celebrating Joseph and Marie Hackin ⋅ An artistic approach to Knowing: Artistic research in ⋅ Ancient sound, modern voices ⋅ Artists Working Reality: Towards the Capability Approach, a Means of Evaluating Art in Action. ⋅ Bakumatsu Yakusha-e: Negotiating the Production of Actor Prints in the late Edo Period ⋅ Between Trauma and Memories in Post-war Cinema: Resisting Womanhood in The Female Sleepwalker ⋅ Body as an imprint of identity: an indigenous cultural transformation of cinematic language ⋅ Bollywood Dance and its Transnational Avatars ⋅ Burka Avenger: The New Asian Feminism of 's Animated Series ⋅ Cao Fei, a new generation, a new approach to globalization ⋅ Danqing (1953-), from painter to writer - key learnings from the phenomenon of Chen Danqing ⋅ China and Europe: Recuperating artistic practices in early nineteenth-century China ⋅ Circulating the Red Cliff Pattern in the Late Ming Chinese Material Culture and the Seventeenth Century Global Trade ⋅ Collecting China: The early collecting history of Chinese art in America using Field Museum Collection of Rubbings as an example ⋅ Connecting conflicts: Ireland and India ⋅ Crafting of Ceremonial Ornaments using Native Plants and its Conservation among the Nagas ⋅ Creating Spectacles in Yimou’s Extra-Cinematic Cultural Productions

2 ⋅ Cultural Diplomacy with : the Roles of European Cultural Centres ⋅ Disaster Risk and the Crucial Need for Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation: The Role of SaliKultura, A Digital Humanities Project For The Province of , ⋅ Dress, Body, and Identity: Reexamining Yongzheng ’s Paintings of Twelve Beauties ⋅ Environmental Aesthetics in : Revival through Social Art Practices ⋅ Escaping the black legend - the Asian collection of Adolphe Thiers at the Louvre reassessed ⋅ European Art Cinema of/in 1960s' East Pakistan: De/Europeanizing the Bengal Delta? ⋅ European colonial Borders connecting Asia. The case of Diu, India. ⋅ Examining the Essences of Wayang Purwa in the works of Malaysian Visual Arts ⋅ Exploring the Panji/Inao culture in contemporary : How does cultural heritage survive in the modern Context? ⋅ Females in Thai Films: Nationalisation of the Body as a Form of Visual Pleasure ⋅ Finding Local in Global: Dangdut Hip-hop Practice in Middle ⋅ Fire in My Heart: Smoldering Pornographies on the Chinese Internet ⋅ Folk Theatres of India: A Study of Shadow Puppetry in Odisa ⋅ Forgotten minorities in :The ⋅ Fostering Civic Engagement through Community Arts in Hong Kong ⋅ Framing Indian Modern image: from Pre- to Post-Independent Art ⋅ From a Space of Repression to a Place of Subversion: Reclaiming Freedom Through Art of Political Detainees in the Philippines ⋅ Gold polyhedral beads: early contacts between East and West ⋅ Han Thuyen in the process of Vietnamese literature and culture from 1930 to 1945 ⋅ Hero No. 1: Performance and Embodiment of Feminine Identity in the Work of Contemporary South Asian Photographers ⋅ Hundred Birds Fly Westward: The Journey of Chinese Coromandel Kuancai Screens to Europe in the 17th Century ⋅ Imagery Reborn: The Visual Art and Theatrical Time-space of the 1/2 Q Theatre ⋅ Imagining a nascent market: a case of the contemporary art market in China ⋅ Imagining the long partitions: comparative perspectives from South Asia and South-East Asia ⋅ Imperial mindscapes; OR how Javanese craft journeyed to the Dutch huiskamer ⋅ Interactive art of Kalchuris of Dahalmandala ⋅ Interrogating 'Doremi-nization': Theoretical Reflection on Modernization of Indigenous Music Heritage in the Philippines ⋅ Introduction of Shantarakshita Library ⋅ Japanese Tea Culture in Transition: From Playful Gatherings to Ritualistic Art of the Nation ⋅ Jesuit Perception of Chinese Art since the 17th c., and The Single Masterpiece by Giuseppe Castiglione in Russian Museums as a Projection of Sino-European Style ⋅ Kabuki and Europe/Kabuki in Europe ⋅ Kalighat Pata Painting: Reflection of European Culture in Socio-Religious life of Bengal in 19th- 20th Century ⋅ Kalamandalam and the Institutionalization of Performing Arts Education in Early Twentieth Century Kerala, South India. ⋅ Kneading With The Tradition To The Creation—From Lacquer Art To The Experience Economy ⋅ Lacquered Tea Boxes in the Eurasian Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries ⋅ Lahore Fort’s Picture Wall: Mughal History Recorded in Faience Mosaic ⋅ Landscape and Memory: Cultural Traumas in Films about in Colonial Period (Through the Cases of Indochine and The lover) ⋅ Landscape of Ancient Balinese Rock-Cut Achitectures in Gianyar

3 ⋅ LGBT Cultural Flourishing in Vietnam: the Rising of a Queer Voice ⋅ Looting in the Netherlands Indies, 1942-1945. Art and jewellery ⋅ MADURESE IDENTITY AS REFLECTED IN THE GOLDEN LETTERS ⋅ Malay Dance as Co-Curricular Activity: Evolving Transmission Pedagogies of a 'Traditional' Dance Form in ⋅ Material Modification of Chinese Painting in Timurid, Turkmen, and Safavid Workshops ⋅ Mikado Bazaar in Sunderland and Japanese Shop in Darlington: presence of Japanese articles in North-East of England shops, 1862-1894 ⋅ Moving on… Japanese Movement Forms for ‘people yet to come’. ⋅ Mu Xin as Icarus: a case study of Chinese artist subject formation ⋅ Name or Aesthetic: The Problematic of Collecting East Asian Performative Work ⋅ Narrative and History of Culture in Rajasthani Folk Theater: The Khyal of Amar Singh Rathore ⋅ Negotiating National Identity and Cultural Hybridity: The Songs in Namewee’s Films. ⋅ , land of Sherpas and Gurkha-Warriors - René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz‘s role in representing the Nepalese culture to a European audience. ⋅ New Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising China ⋅ New Evolving Islamic Styles of Dressing in the , Pakistan ⋅ Of Shrine and Stage: A Study of Huizhou Temple Theatre in Late Imperial China ⋅ Performing Corporate Bodies: Multinational Theatre in Global India ⋅ Perso-French Connectivity: Molière’s The Misanthrope in Iran ⋅ Porcelain Reconsidered: Contemporary Blue and White ⋅ Positioning Wayang Kulit 'Properly' – Uncovering Perfectly Concealed Ethnocentricity in Western Museum Conservation Practices – Interdisciplinary / Transcultural Solutions to Decolonise Our Methods ⋅ Post-Human Wilderness: Dystopian Landscapes in China from the Intellectual Crisis of the 1990s to Cao Fei ⋅ Redefining Political Theatre: The Case of Street Theatre in Delhi ⋅ RE-INTEGRATION OF PAINTINGS IN LIVING RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OF SRI LANKA; PRESERVATION OF AESTHETIC VALUES ⋅ Return Home: Photographic Report of a Journey ⋅ Revitalizing Chinese Tradition: Transformations of Chinese Glove Puppet Theatre (Wayang Potehi) in Contemporary ⋅ Riddles in the archives: tools for body modification from Sabahan 'Dayaks' in St Petersburg Kunstkamera ⋅ Self, Female Body, and Others: Propaganda and Adaptation of the White-Haired Girl in Post- Socialist China ⋅ Social impacts of Films in Asia ⋅ Social Life of Qianlong's Lacquer Panels with War Images in 18th-Century China and Beyond ⋅ Southeast Asia in Nineteenth-century European Illustrated Periodicals ⋅ Spaces of Solidarity: The Art of not Being Governed ⋅ Spectres of Batavia in the Stedelijk Museum ⋅ Stolen Ships, Maritime Law, and Eurasian object circulations ⋅ Streets and Everyday Life in Rural India: A Geographical Study ⋅ Taiwanese Graphic Narratives and Their European Connections ⋅ Tang figurines of musicians: a window to the life and times of the Tang society. ⋅ Temples, Towns, and Trade in Sixteenth Century Kanara Coast ⋅ TEXTILES OF (INDIA): PERSPECTIVES FROM HISTORY, EMBELLISHMENT AND ORAL-LORES

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⋅ The adapted movies of Ho Bieu Chanh’s novels in Viet Nam: a popular cultural phenomenon or a decolonizing reading ⋅ The Authority of the Beauty and Formation of the 'Others' in Indian Aesthetics ⋅ The Burial Practices as Social Behavior in Southeast Iran during the Bronze Age (Third Millennium B.C) ⋅ The Cultural Heritage of Mongols : An Urgent Need for Preservation ⋅ The god of the water，Good medicine and Good prediction: The cultural symbol of spiders in the medieval era of Chinese ancient history ⋅ The Influence of Buddhist art on Medieval Christian Icons ⋅ The Investigation of the Chinese Glass in European Countries ⋅ The Legacy of Ernst Arthur Voretzsch as a Diplomat and Collector of Early Chinese Art in Europe, China and Japan ⋅ The mKhar rgyab family mchod khang: a domestic shrine on the Eastern Tibetan margins (15th- 16th centuries). ⋅ The Ordinary Mind in the Practice of Contemporary Southeast Asian Art ⋅ The Political Developments and Their Impact on Folklife and Cultural Identity In India ⋅ The Self in Contemporary Chinese Artists ⋅ The Southeast Asian Zoo Story ⋅ The Uniqueness of Religious Pantun's on Malay Folktales ⋅ The Word as the World: Authority & Oral Tradition among the Gurungs of Nepal ⋅ The Worlds Depicted by Yabu Meizan — Regionality, Continuance & Globalism ⋅ To collect or not to collect: the period prints in the Royal Museums of Art and History (Belgium) ⋅ Tradition and Modernity: Contemporary Theatrical Experience of Bengali Vaishnavism (India, Europe, USA) ⋅ Transitioning of classical performing traditions in Asia-The way forward ⋅ Uncanny Gentrification: Haunted , Transforming Urban Space, and Neoliberal Futures in Bengali Cinema ⋅ Unfamiliar Lands, Familiar Knowledge: Pan-Eurasian Natural History in the Early Modern Period ⋅ Visual representations of women rights struggle in India: an analysis of images and their symbolics ⋅ Walking Far--Pilgrimage in Buddhist and Christian Traditions ⋅ Watching The Walls: 'creativity' and 'responsivity' in publicly-generated wall art in Mumbai ⋅ Weaving Networks through Production, Trade and Heirloom: Reinvestigating production and usage of ceramics in South China from Ethnoarchaeological Perspective ⋅ Why Five-Foot Way: An Ecological Assumption of the Sino-European Cityscape in South China and Southeast Asia ⋅ Xian 闲 and Otium, self and community: Leisure in gardens and landscapes in ancient China and Rome

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PANELS

‘THIRD-WORLDISM’ AND ASIA IN EUROPE: ART, POPULAR CULTURE AND DECOLONIZATION (1940S-1970S)

⋅ Asian Venice: The Art Biennale as stage and market (1950s-1960s) ⋅ Tigers of Mompracem and Victor Charlie: Picturing East Asia in Italian narratives of anti-colonial resistance ⋅ Cross-cultural artistic routes between South Asia and Czechoslovakia

A GLIMPSE OF MODERN CHINESE NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE FICTION FROM TOKYO, SINGAPORE AND BANGKOK

⋅ Female Liberation in the Theme of xiaoshuo Stories in Women's Magazines in the Late Qing ⋅ Some observations on the fiction in Nanyang Zonghui Xinbao, Singapore, from post WWI to 1922 ⋅ Fiction in the Thai-Chinese Monthly Magazine Qizhouyang in the Cold War Era

ART, PHILOSOPHY AND NATURE, AN EAST/WEST PERSPECTIVE: PANEL 1 GARDENS

⋅ Japanese gardens versus European gardens and the sense of nature ⋅ The Indo-Islamic garden, as an expression of an Islamic view of nature ⋅ Some notes on Nature from the Chinese point of view, as exemplified in Chinese gardens ⋅ European animals and Chinese animals in contemporary art ((Maurizio Cattelan, Yong Ping and Cai Guo-Qiang)

ART, PHILOSOPHY AND NATURE, AN EAST/WEST PERSPECTIVE: PANEL 2 MEN AND NATURE

⋅ Trees, bees and birds in Traditional Anatolian Songs ⋅ Tanaka Isson (1908-1977) or how an artist’s vision enligthened local perspectives on the Anthropocene. ⋅ Radioactive cherry blossoms and a new wild. Japanese and Europeans relations with contaminated areas around the Fukushima Daiichi and Chernobyl Power Plant. ⋅ Is a Harmony Between Human and Environment Really Desirable?: Miki Kiyoshi's Notion of Pathos. ⋅ The Shagya Covenant: Perceptions of nature and the environment in northern Nepal

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST. THE ASIAN REVERSE GLASS PAINTING TRADITIONS

⋅ Between East and West: At the Origins of the Reverse Glass Painting Traditions in Southeast Asia ⋅ ‘Sensitive plates’ and ‘sentimental keepsakes’ – Chinese reverse glass paintings in Museum Volkenkunde ⋅ Reflections of Europe in Chinese Glass: Presence and Impact in Nineteenth-Century Bangkok ⋅ Indian Reverse Glass Painting

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COLLECTING AND EXHIBITING ASIAN ART IN IBERO-AMERICA

⋅ Japonisme à la mexicaine. The Japanese art collection of José Juan Tablada ⋅ Collections of Asian Art in Brazil ⋅ Collections of Asian Art in Brazil ⋅ Japanese Art Exhibitions in Spain. The discovery of a material heritage

CRIME, VIOLENCE AND GENRE IN HONG KONG LITERATURE AND FILM

⋅ Wong Fei-hung Was a Gangster? A Blasphemous Reading of a Kung Fu Film Legend ⋅ “Evanescent Isles”: Memory and Violence in Xi Xi and Wong Bik Won’s Stories ⋅ Urban Space in Noir-style Hong Kong Films of the 1950s-60s ⋅ "The Orchid in Flames": Consanguinity, Community, and Criminality in "Father Is Back" (1961)

CULTURAL TRANSMISSION IN MATERIAL CULTURE: ADAPTION AND LOCALISATION IN MEDIEVAL CHINA, JAPAN AND JAVA (8TH – 12TH CENTURIES)

⋅ Revisiting H. W. Woodward’s ‘A Chinese Silk Depicted at Candi Sewu' ⋅ The transformation of nāga in Java during the 8th - 12th centuries ⋅ Phoenix-type motifs from the 8th to 12th century ⋅ The copying of manuscripts – a comparison of Dunhuang music manuscripts and its transmission in medieval Japan

FIBRE, LOOM AND TECHNIQUE I

⋅ Early Weft Ikat Textiles Found in Sumatra ⋅ Bantu Raffia Loom: From the Kingdom of Kongo to the Kuba Confederation, A Conservative Weaving Tradition ⋅ Patterned Textiles & the Metallic Yarn- Symbiotic elements of the Indo-European Textile Relations ⋅ The Origins of Chinese Drawlooms

FIBRE, LOOM AND TECHNIQUE II

⋅ From Ethnography to Archaeology: the Evolution of Patterned Weaving in China ⋅ Understanding Spliced Yarns in : the Light Thrown on the Production of Early Western Yarns of Bast Fibre by Traditional Far Eastern PracticeUnderstanding Spliced Yarns in Ancient Egypt: the Light Thrown on the Production of Early Western Yarns of Bast Fibre by Traditional Far Eastern Practice ⋅ From Khmer to Minangkabau - Technical Analysis of the Weaving Tools and Looms ⋅ The Enigma of the Foot-Braced Loom in Eastern Indonesia

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FIBRE, LOOM AND TECHNIQUE III

⋅ Cloth from Ghana: Transmission of Technology between Europe, West Africa and Asia ⋅ Igorot Life-World According to Textiles in Museums Collections ⋅ Changes in Ethnic Identity Markers in the Medium of Cloth in Xieng Khouang Province, Laos

FIBRE, LOOM AND TECHNIQUE IV

⋅ An ‘Enchanting’ Technique: Twill Weaving in East Kalimantan, Indonesia ⋅ A Bulang by Any Other Loom...Integration of Design, Technique and Loom in the Making of an Indonesian Textile ⋅ Nomenclature and Design in Palu’e Textiles ⋅ Innovation and Adaptation of Textiles from Baguia, Timor-Leste from 1935 to 2014

GLOBAL LOCALITIES OF I

⋅ Islamic Garden Culture and the Global Locality of Yuan Blue-and-White Porcelain ⋅ Dynastic Distinction: Tracing the Geographies of Enameling Pigments and Materials in Qing China, 1700–1735 ⋅ The Dragoon Vases and Locality of Global Monuments

GLOBAL LOCALITIES OF CHINESE CERAMICS II

⋅ Sunken ‘Treasures’?: The Porcelain Cargo of the VOC Ship Geldermalsen ⋅ Panoramic Riverscape in Travel: Representing and Imagining Canton on Eighteenth-century Chinese Punch Bowls ⋅ Chinese Porcelains and the Locality of Global Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France

IMAGES AS USEFUL SITES FOR MAKING HISTORY IN EAST ASIA, 1500-1900

⋅ Forging the Official History of Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) through Paintings of Civil War ⋅ Documenting Famine: Misery, Feelings, and Image Politics in Chinese Paintings (1500-1900) ⋅ Remembering Famine and Appropriating the Legacy of Court Documentary Painting in Japan (1830-1900)

IN THE MAKING: EXPERIMENTATION AND EXPERIMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART I

⋅ Experimentation and Redemptive Intervention ⋅ Listening to Experimental Aesthetics: Sounding Experiments on Postcolonial Democracy ⋅ Exploding Galaxies and Diaspora Spaces: 'Experimentalism' According to Philippine Expatriate Artists of the 1960s and 1970s ⋅ The Early 1990s Experiment and Exploration of Space and Ephemerality in Malaysian Art Exhibitions

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IN THE MAKING: EXPERIMENTATION AND EXPERIMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART II

⋅ ‘Let the Medium Speak’: Gender and the Experimental Art Scene in Indonesia ⋅ Victory’s Abstractions: The ‘ School’ after 1965 ⋅ Flexing Notions: Innovation in Pagoda Paintings in , 1940’s -1960’s

JAPAN IN EUROPE, EUROPE IN JAPAN: ARTISTIC DIALOGUES IN AN AGE OF GLOBAL MODERNISM

⋅ Dispatches from Abroad: Japanese Art Photographers Encounter Europe ⋅ Points of Contact and Disconnect in Cross-Cultural Networks ⋅ The Fyuzankai (Charcoal Sketch Society) and the Burden of Originality ⋅ The Third Force in Modern Japanese Painting: Watercolour Movement and British Art

JAPANESE 2. 5-DIMENSIONAL PERFORMANCE: FANDOM, ADAPTATION, AND INTERMEDIALITY

⋅ Constructions of “Community of Preferences” by Intimate Strangers: Female Fans’ Use and Consumption of 2.5-D Theatrical Performances ⋅ How Does Adaptation Work?: A Comparative Study on Broadway & 2.5D Musicals ⋅ Intermediality on the Stage of Japanese 2.5-Dimensional Theater ⋅ Technology and Textuality in 2.5 Dimensions

JAPANESE ARTS IN MOTION: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

⋅ Shoujo Manga in Contemporary China ⋅ Artists in the Field: How Artists Negotiate with Revitalization-oriented Art Festivals of Rural Japan ⋅ Meanings of a School Culture— Cheer Groups (Oendan) in Japanese Universities

JAPANESE-EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF NUCLEARITY. HUMAN TRANSFORMATION, THOUGHT CONTROL, ATOMIC LANDSCAPES

⋅ The Relationless Society and Fukushima’s Trauma: Doris Dörrie’s "Fukushima Mon Amour" and Sion Sono’s "Himizu" ⋅ The language of nuclear obedience in Japan: Henmi Yô’s literary pensées on 'Fukushima' ⋅ Desire for ‘Deterritorialization’. Deconstructing ‘Montages’ of Greek Tragedies and 3/11 in Elfriede Jelinek’s “No Light” ⋅ Fading Enlightenment, History Rolled Back: Questioning Global Humanism in a Post-Nuclear World ⋅ Transformations of youth in post-apocalyptic futures: Two poetico-political blueprints by Tsushima Yûko and Tawada Yôko

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JAPAN-KOREA ARTISTIC RELATIONSHIP IN EUROPE: MADE IN JAPAN

⋅ New Reception of Japanese-Korean Art in France ⋅ Japan as a platform ― The traffic in modern and contemporary art between Korean and Japanese artists ⋅ Artistic relationships between Korea and Japan within university students and teachers

JAPAN-KOREA ARTISTIC RELATIONSHIP IN EUROPE: MADE IN KOREA

⋅ Immateriality through the works of artists Korean living in Paris ⋅ City, space, and identity of Korea young artists in France ⋅ Korean Artists in Paris: Constructing New National Identities

KEY LEARNINGS FROM SOME CULTURAL PHENOMENA IN CHINA

⋅ Laoshu, a scholar-amateur artist of today : from China to France ⋅ Haisu (1896-1994) as a cultural phenomenom : Pioneer of modern Chinese art and art rebel ⋅ From painter to writer - key learnings from the phenomenon of Chen Danqing (1953-) ⋅ Cao Fei, a new generation, a new approach to globalisation

LITTORAL CURRENTS: CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN COLONIAL COASTAL KERALA

⋅ St. Thomas Christian Architecture in Kerala During the 16th and 17th Centuries ⋅ Glocalized Cochin: Dutch and British influence in Early Modern Malabar ⋅ Making Sense of Littoral Arts of Kerala: A Case Study

LOCAL RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN CULTURAL PRACTICES IN INDONESIA

⋅ Hybridity and the global-local dynamics: Evaluating 'authenticity' in Indonesian ethnic food ⋅ Real Madrid C.F. as a global brand and the Indonesian Fans’ localizing strategies ⋅ Identity Formation in Indonesian Films Screened in European Film Festivals ⋅ investment: Challenging the social reproduction in a pesantren

MATERIALITY OF PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPTS – A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH I

⋅ Materiality of lontar Manuscripts from Bali and Lombok ⋅ Transformation of palm-leaf manuscript culture in Luang Prabang, Laos ⋅ Manuscript Circulation and the Dynamics of Codicological Features of Burmese Palm Leaf Manuscripts ⋅ Literacy in the Thai Domains: The Epigraphical Evidence of the 15th-16th Centuries

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MATERIALITY OF PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPTS – A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH II

⋅ Materiality of Palmyra Palm-leaf ⋅ Texts transmission through palm leaf manuscripts in South India ⋅ The palm leaf manuscript culture of Bali ⋅ The palm leaf Manuscript tradition of Lombok ⋅ Heeft wel een title en abstract, maar wordt niet weergeven ⋅ The Afterlives of Manuscripts

MATERIALITY OF PALM LEAF MANUSCRIPTS - A SYSTEMATIC APROACH III

⋅ Towards a typology of South-Indian Palm-Leaf Manuscripts ⋅ Colophon mining: extracting information from the colophons found in palm-leaf manuscripts hailing from ⋅ Colophon mining: extracting information from the colophons found in palm-leaf manuscripts hailing from Tamil Nadu ⋅ Have the material peculiarities of palm-leaf manuscripts shaped South Indian textual transmission?

MODERNITY AND MODERNISM: SOUTH ASIAN ARTS AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS WITH EUROPE (1880-1947) - SESSION 1: MULTITUDE OF MODERN VISUAL SCENARIOS

⋅ Silver Objects as Gifts at the Court of Mewar ⋅ Indian Clay Models as Souvenirs ⋅ and the Lakshminarayan/Birla Mandir in Delhi ⋅ Dispersing the Mainstream: The Bombay School, 1890-1934

MODERNITY AND MODERNISM: SOUTH ASIAN ARTS AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS WITH EUROPE (1880-1947) - SESSION 2: MULTITUDE OF MODERN VISUAL SCENARIOS

⋅ “Blue Blood turns Red”: Modern Art’s Socialist Journeys in Late-colonial India ⋅ “Modernism” in Disguise: Neglected Aspects of the “Revival” of a Classical Dance Form ⋅ Interface and Intermediality: North Indian regional presses and the crossovers between vernacular print, photography and Bombay cinema ⋅ Nation and the New Trade: Compound Identities, Visual Excess and Print Capitalism in Bengal and Britain

MODERNITY AND MODERNISM: SOUTH ASIAN ARTS AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS WITH EUROPE (1880-1947) - SESSION 3: PORTRAITURE BETWEEN EUROPE AND SOUTH ASIA

⋅ Autonomy Under the Shadow of Colonialism: 19th and 20th Century Images of Devotion in Muslim India ⋅ A View from the Margins: Rajasthani Devotional Portraiture Responding to Colonial Photography ⋅ In your Face - Acts of Dissent: The Photographs of Ram Singh II of Jaipur ⋅ Making a Portrait, Making the Empire: Artistic and Intellectual Interactions during Victorian India

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MODERNITY AND MODERNISM: SOUTH ASIAN ARTS AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS WITH EUROPE (1880-1947) - SESSION 4: ON MODERNISM: ART HISTORIOGRAPHY AND OTHER DISCOURSES

⋅ "The Never Believed in Art for Art’s Sake": the Place of A.K. Coomaraswamy in the Formation of Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice of India in the Era of Modernism. ⋅ Debating the ‘Brilliant Cut’: Gemstones and Hindu Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century ⋅ Alponā between ‘High’ Art, Decorative Art, Ornament, and Anthropology ⋅ For a Modernism without Modernity

NEGOTIATING GENDER AND/THROUGH VISUAL IMAGES: FEMALE BODIES IN JAPAN FROM THE EARLY MODERN TO PRESENT

⋅ Give Me a Break: Performing Gender and the Art of Smoking in Edo ⋅ The Spatial Agency of Portraits of Women in Late-Seventeenth Century Japan ⋅ Geisha in the Age of Visual Modernity ⋅ Japanese 'Girl Photography': A Modality of Communication and the Post-war Photo-criticism

NEW DYNAMICS IN YUAN ART: REVISIONING PAINTING AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE MONGOL YUAN PERIOD

⋅ The Curious Case of Yong’s (1291-1361) Colophons on Zhao Mengfu’s (1254-1322) Horse and Groom and Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu ⋅ The Cloud Platform at Juyong Pass: Reconsidering the Significance of Tibetan Buddhist Stupas in the Mongol Capital ⋅ Pictorial Realism and Originality in Painting Subjects of the Yuan Era: A Case Study of Squirrel Painting in 14th-century China and Beyond ⋅ Hua Zuli’s Xuanmen shizi tu (Ten Taoist Masters) and the of Laozi

NEW FILM HISTORY APPROACHES, INDONESIAN CINEMA STYLE (1): NEW FILM HISTORY, FILM COMMUNITIES, FILM FESTIVALS

⋅ New Film History Approaches and Indonesian Cinema Studies: A Preliminary Mapping ⋅ Two Years That Matter: The history of the Women’s Film Festival in Indonesia ⋅ History-Altering Through Film: the Cinematic Practices of “Komunitas Film”

NEW FILM HISTORY APPROACHES, INDONESIAN CINEMA STYLE (2): NEW FILM HISTORY, FILM PRODUCTION, AND SPECTATORSHIP

⋅ Reviving Local Memories: Documentary Practices in Post Conflict Aceh and Ambon ⋅ History of Film Production Systems in ⋅ Truth Claims By Audiences: Emotional Narratives As Public Agenda Against Indonesian Documentary ⋅ Searching For Indonesian Film Audiences in the New Order.

12 NORTH KOREAN REGIMES OF VISUALITY

⋅ Computer Vision and Visual Culture: Leveraging Deep Learning and Metadata for a Quantitative Critical Analysis of North Korean Visual Discourse ⋅ Visual Politics and Narrative art in North Korea ⋅ Changes in the Depiction of Kim Il Sung under Kim Jong Un ⋅ Violence of Anti- and Monument(al) Politics: The Case of North Korea

OUR COMMONING PRACTICES IN TURMOIL: A COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT OF HONG KONG AND TAIWAN

⋅ Acts of Commoning: From Public Space to Public Sphere ⋅ archipiélago: a case study of bottom-up community serving as a minimal hub for commoning in postcolonial Taiwan ⋅ After Commoning ⋅ Revisit: participatory art as the commoning practices

PERFORMING ARTS: THE INFLUENCE OF ASIA-EUROPE ENCOUNTERS IN TRADITIONAL SPECTACULAR FORMS AND CONTEMPORARY CREATIONS'

⋅ Asian-Europe artistic encounters at the heart of the rebirths and emergences of puppets in Laos ⋅ At the crossroads of influences: Tibetan artistic creation ⋅ Brecht and Sichuan ⋅ Imitation and rebirth of Indian dance

PLANETARY INTERCONNECTEDNESS WITH NATURE: TRANSCULTURAL AESTHETICS, ECOLOGIES AND LANDSCAPES

⋅ Material Ecology, Environmental Awareness, and the Limits of Languaging: Thing Agency in Yu Jian’s Poetry ⋅ Making Ecologies: Stories from the Margins of East Asian and European Encounters ⋅ ‘Immaterial Ecology’: Contingencies of Environmental Experience and Ethics through New Media Art

RADIOSCAPES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ Voices of Vietnam: Nationalising the Performing Arts in Post-Independence Hanoi ⋅ Community Education and Radio Broadcasts of National Day Songs in Singapore ⋅ Beyond “Evangelism”: Christian Broadcasting and an Emergent Indigenous Media Production of the Lisu in post-1960 Southeast Asia

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RETHINKING INDIAN OCEAN AND EURASIAN CONNECTIONS: FLUID IDENTITIES, MATERIAL HISTORIES, AND TRANSLOCAL PRACTICES

⋅ Material Manifestations of Sequestered African Pasts in Coastal Kerala, India ⋅ Fluid Ontologies and Performance of Fijian Sikh Cremation Rituals Within the Indian Ocean Context, 1890-1987 ⋅ Talismanic Abstractions: Performative Designs and Thresholds of Danger ⋅ When an African meets Africa(n)s in medieval Asia

REVISITING URBAN SPACES IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA THROUGH VISUALITY AND MATERIALITY

⋅ Picturing Urban Pleasures of Nanjing: Courtesans, Gender, and Representations in ⋅ Framing Suzhou: Landscape, Image, and Local Identity in Ming China ⋅ The Space of Olfaction in Ming Urban Space ⋅ Practising and Visualising Modernity: Domestic Furniture and Living Space in Early Twentieth Century Canton

SOFT POWER OF ASIA IN EUROPE: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON NATIONAL NARRATIVES IN CONTEMPORARY ART, CRAFT AND DESIGN EXHIBITIONS

⋅ Who’s in it?: Global network of exhibition makers ⋅ Genesis of Korean craft and design exhibitions in Europe ⋅ Reviving ‘Cool Japan’ Through Craft and Design: Japan House London as a Case Study ⋅ The Dilemma of ‘Authentic’ Craft: India and the Craftsperson

THE 1960S IN THE CHINESE-SPEAKING WORLD

⋅ Re-periodizing the 60s: From Third-World Internationalism to Maoist Endings ⋅ Whither Taiwan: Literary Star and the Chinese-Western Cultural Debate in the 1960s ⋅ When Hong Kong Screamed: Swinging culture in Hong Kong Cinema (1964-1969) and its implication in Hong Kong culture ⋅ An Examination of the Emergence of Hong Kong Identity through Youth and Student Discourse: A Study of Pan Ku and The Undergrad

THE LANDSCAPE IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN VISUAL ART

⋅ The countryside in Indonesian contemporary art and activism ⋅ Pictorial Landscapes in Singapore ⋅ Witnessing Urban Landscapes ⋅ Taming the Exotic: Landscape Photographs in the ⋅ “Mooi Indie” as a Historical Problem

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THE MEANINGS OF CULTURAL FLOWS: BETWEEN RECEPTION AND PRODUCTION

⋅ Lost in Translation: Language Flows of Translations ⋅ Cross-cultural Hermeneutics: Between Universals and Incommensurability ⋅ The Global Flows of Shunga: From Japan and Back ⋅ Contemporary Chinese Art Perceptions in the West and China

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY IN THE ARTS

⋅ Art Writing on the Margins: The textual record in the Singapore context ⋅ The popularity of Seredau and Matzka: Adaptations by Paiwanese musicians for contemporary knowledge transmission ⋅ Acquiring Habitus in the Theatre Ecology Viewed as a Circuit of Culture

THE THREAT OF THE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: THE INFLUENCE — OR LACK OF —EUROPEAN FEMINISM IN CHINESE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMININE / FEMINISM.

⋅ Fudong and the ambiguities of female power: ⋅ ‘My Body Says’: Performing Vagina Monologues and Enacting Transnational Feminism in Contemporary China. ⋅ Girls who drink human blood”: Lipstick, feminism, and the male gaze in Xiao Hong’s fiction ⋅ The image of the ⋅ The Nude in Chinese women artworks as a subversive game

THE TRANSNATIONAL LANGUAGES OF SOCIALIST FEMINIST INTERNATIONALISM: CHINESE AND GERMAN PERSPECTIVES

⋅ Socialist Feminist Imaginaries in and Berlin in the 1930s ⋅ “Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929“Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929 ⋅ Female Solidarity as Hope: Socialist Feminist Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling

THE TWO FACES OF EXOTICISM : CHINESE, INDIAN AND EUROPEAN CINEMAS IN THE MIRROR OF ORIENTALISM

⋅ How "Shanghai Express" Was Banned from Shanghai: the Ambivalent Reception of a Hollywood Chinese Fantasy in 1932’s China. ⋅ The Sound of Shanghai. Speaking and Hearing Exoticism at the End of the 1920s and the Beginning of the 1930s in American and French movies.The Sound of Shanghai. Speaking and Hearing Exoticism at the End of the 1920s and the Beginning of the 1930s in American and French movies. ⋅ The Stereotypes of an Exotic Europe: from Educational Charts to Contemporary Indian Cinemas ⋅ The Chinese Gaze on India: Another Europe?

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THINGS IN MOTION REVISITED: OBJECTS AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN AND BETWEEN CHINA AND EUROPE

⋅ Ornamental, Exotic, or Practical? Scopic Regimes of Botany in Chinese and European Plant Illustrations and Horticultural Literature ⋅ Chinese Qing Dynasty Lacquer Folding Screens of Europeans Hunting: Reconstructing Reception Contexts ⋅ Van Braam Houckgeest’s Collection of Chinese Art and Its Many Homes ⋅ Bringing the Buddha West: Transforming Icons into Art

TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT IN ASIA I

⋅ Indigenous Navigators’ Knowledge of the waters around Lakshadweep in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario (1596) ⋅ Indigenous Navigators’ Knowledge of the waters around Lakshadweep in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario (1596) ⋅ Imagining Asia: Dutch preparations for travel to Asia, 1594-1595 ⋅ Thrilling fiction and travel guides - Sea voyages in Nineteenth Century novels ⋅ Indigenous Eyes - A Counter Narrative for the Dutch Indies Literature

TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT IN ASIA II

⋅ Travel and Transport in the Dutch East Indies : the Ephemeral Moment ⋅ Civil air transport in the Netherlands East Indies and colonial society, 1928-1942 ⋅ Transport and means of transport over land, water, and in the air - from Ancient Java till Modern Bali. What is driving, sailing and flying there, for whom, by whom and why? ⋅ A Gift from a Trip: Fabricating “local food” in Japan ⋅ When Travelling Europe, One Strikes a Daiqing Coin

UNCONVENTIONAL, UNLIKELY AND UNWANTED? – AN EXPLORATION OF CREATIVE CULTURES AND CLASSES IN CHINA

⋅ Kuaishou: Platformization of the unlikely, the banal and the ubiquitous ⋅ Love, Labour, Lost: Creative Class Mobility, Stories of Loss, Negative Affects ⋅ From political oppression to creative expression: The discursive formation of the independent Chinese filmmaker ⋅ Creative font designers and remediations of the calligraphic sign

PHD PITCH ⋅ Inter-referencing conditions of enablement of sound art practices in Hong Kong and ⋅ Shaping ‘Elite’ in Handwriting: The Multifarious Applications of Ancient Scripts by the Late-Qing Scholar Yu Yue (1821-1907) ⋅ Study of Structure and Function of Jaipong Dance Performance in Tanjung Mekar Village of Karawang and the Utilization of the Result in Drama Teaching. ⋅ White Cubes in China: A Sociological Study of China's Emerging Market for Contemporary Art

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POSTER PRESENTATION ⋅ But Is it Art? A Study of Calligraphy in Chinese Cartoons ⋅ The Imagery of Citizenship ⋅ The Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage from the Perspective of Art Anthropology: Case Study of Jingdezhen’s Folk Ceramic Craft ⋅ Theosophists, artists and the ‘Aura of the Human’ ⋅ Wartime Chengdu - Art during the Second World War in a Global perspective

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Endangered Textile Design: will we make room for it to survive? ⋅ Materiality of Palm Leaf Manuscripts - a Systematic Approach IV Realigning Chinese Independent Cinema (1989-2019): Intersecting Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics ⋅ The Movements of Crazy Rich Asians: Representation, Affect, and Speculative Game Theory from the Local to the Global

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DEVELOPMENT AND URBANIZATION

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ A century of suburbia in Japan, to the paroxism of the consumer society ⋅ How to Get Rich on the Tibetan Plateau: Nomads and Caterpillar Fungus ⋅ Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune ⋅ Shanghai, Kaleidoscopic city

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ “Soon, Northern Laos will be Part of Southern China!” – Local Engagements with Chinese Regional Aspirations in Northern Laos ⋅ A Study on Community Civic Participation from Digital Media Perspective ----A Fieldwork Research Based on Smart Community in Yinchuan city，Ningxia province ⋅ After Putin’s ‘Turn to the East’: in Double Bind ⋅ AN INVESTIGATION OF STAKEHOLDERS’ EXPERIENCES OF GOLF-BASED TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN A PERI-URBAN LANDSCAPE IN VIETNAM ⋅ Analysis of South Korean International Cooperation project in ger district in Darkhan, Mongolia. ⋅ Belt and Road Initiative: Perspectives and Future ⋅ Between Hipster Cafes and Kopitiams: Space, Identity, and Foodscapes in the Coffeehouses of , Malaysia ⋅ Beyond our gardens and forests: organic coconut tappers’ take on global market ⋅ Cardamom production and the 'good life': Agricultural and social change in East Nepal ⋅ Ceremonial consumption of the countryside: Cultural identity and rural development in the Toraja region of Indonesia ⋅ Changing ideas and expectations about intimate relationships among Bangladeshi urban middle class adolescents ⋅ Citizen Participation for Sustainable Mobility in Delhi: Two Cases Highlighting the Society-Space Dilemma ⋅ Citizens, Parties and Brokers; Intermediation in a Post-colonial polity. ⋅ Community as contested social practice: The case of Samdeok Maeul urban regeneration project in Seoul, South Korea ⋅ Connecting the neighbourhood to the wider city: Scale discrepancy in Jakarta and ⋅ Easing access to the resource or producing more harms: A political ecology perspective from Koshi River communities of Nepal ⋅ Enabling Access, Enabling Hydro-hegemony: The Case of Water Kiosks in Resettlement Colonies of Delhi ⋅ Evaluation of urban form facing flood risk. Case study between 1895 et 2010 ⋅ From farmland to server farms: making a big data valley in the mountains of Guizhou ⋅ Gendered experiences of resource exclusion: Case studies from Bunong indigenous villages in Srae Preah Commune, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia ⋅ Inside work: Transformations in the exploitation of rural women in modern China ⋅ Land acquisition for infrastructure projects in post-conflict and fragile states: the Case of Timor- Leste ⋅ Long-lasting disaster, short-time stresses: deep scars, everyday wounds and the daily struggles of Old Bhopal’s metal Workers

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⋅ Making local democracy work for the urban poor: Slum dwellers’ demand for land during elections in India ⋅ Neighbourhood in the city, the region, and the world ⋅ New Trend in Foreign Residents' Concentration in Japan: Formation and Development of Newly Developing Ethnic Community in Tokyo Metropolitan Area ⋅ Prato’s Transformation and the Future of a Contested (Chinese) Urban Space ⋅ Redefining Political Participation of Kampung Dwellers: Political Contract, Civil Law and the Right to the City ⋅ Regional Cultural Industry Policy & Governance in Sichuan Province - Urban To Rural Multi Polar and Networked Strategies duo ji zhanlue wangluo 多极战略网络 ⋅ Rest in Limbo: the Unburied Body and Social Tension in Urban China ⋅ Revisiting the Mukomuko of Dr. Jaquet ⋅ Ruins and China’s Neoliberal Urbanization: Searching for Social Justice through Photography ⋅ Socio-spatial relationship of Malled-Kampung as an urban assemblage in , Indonesia. ⋅ Strategies of regenerating industrial heritage in Chinese coast metropolitans ⋅ Superbugs and Slow Violence in India: an anthropological perspective ⋅ The Eurasian railway corridor: a tool for development? ⋅ The everyday mobility in post-socialist China: the emerging public domain in the infrastructural space of public transport in Shanghai ⋅ The last farmer ? Unmaking a peasantry to fullfile an urban dream, Amaravati, in South India ⋅ The Political Economy of Bangkok’s Underperforming Bus System ⋅ The Rise of Social Rental Housing in East Asia ⋅ Transboundary Water Management between North Korea and China in the Yalu River - a focus on hydropower development ⋅ Turning the Tide: Successes of Rural-Urban Orang Asli Migrants in the Valley, Malaysia. ⋅ Urban Mobility in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Pathways to Development and Modernism ⋅ Urban-biased land development policy and the urban-rural income gap: Evidence from Hubei Province, China

PANELS

CAN PERIURBAN AND SUBALTERN REGIONS OF FAST-INDUSTRIALIZING ASIA FORGE RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS? JUGGLING LOCAL ASSETS AND CONSTRAINTS TO ENGAGE IN GLOBAL COMPETITION 1

⋅ Questioning the sustainability of area-based development policies in India’s metropolitan regions ⋅ At the receiving end: How small cities in India and Indonesia reconcile top-down industrial investments with localised policymakingAt the receiving end: How small cities in India and Indonesia reconcile top-down industrial investments with localised policymaking ⋅ The De-Metropolitisation of Software Services in India. An Institutional Understanding of IT Cluster in , southern India ⋅ What are the local conditions for real estate expansion in the boundaries of metropolitan cities? The case of Dharuhera (Haryana, India)

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CAN PERIURBAN AND SUBALTERN REGIONS OF FAST-INDUSTRIALIZING ASIA FORGE RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS? JUGGLING LOCAL ASSETS AND CONSTRAINTS TO ENGAGE IN GLOBAL COMPETITION 2

⋅ International markets of waste, Green Fences and the waste collection and recycling systems in craft clusters around Hanoi (Vietnam) ⋅ Tension between Macro and Meso Scales of Governance of Industrial Clusters: Some Evidence from Tiruppur, Southern India ⋅ How local responses to global markets shape the physical and social environment. The case of wood furniture ecosystems in and Jepara (, Indonesia) since the late 1980s

NEIGHBOURHOODS AND CITIES IN ASIA (1): EXTERNAL LINKS

⋅ A neighbourhood in the city, the region, and the world: A multi-scalar perspective on an Indian Muslim area ⋅ Korean Resident Enclaves in Hanoi ⋅ A Tale of Three Kampungs: Participation, Negotiation and Socio-Spatial Movement ⋅ Villages as the Building Blocks for Cities – Thingazar Chaung, Mandalay

NEIGHBOURHOODS AND CITIES IN ASIA (2): SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

⋅ Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: From Slogan to Everyday Urban? Neighborhood as the City’s Microcosm in Kampung Peneleh, Surabaya ⋅ Temples and Shared Meanings in the Wua-Lai Neighbourhood: Chiang Mai, Thailand ⋅ Mapping ‘Culture’ with Schools: Place, Imaginations of the ‘Urban’ and Social Marginalisation in

NEIGHBOURHOODS AND CITIES IN ASIA (3): NEIGHBOURHOOD AND LIVELIHOODS

⋅ Wua-Lai Silver Craft Traditions and the Shaping of Neighbourhood Culture and Relations ⋅ A Political Theory of Street Rhythms in Hồ Chí Minh City: Towards a Neighbourhood Rhythm- Analysis ⋅ Dwelling the Streets, Living on Edge: Homelessness and Survival in Manila

NEIGHBOURHOODS AND CITIES IN ASIA (4): NEIGHBOURHOOD ACTIVISM AND THE CITY

⋅ Reconceptualizing the Neighbourhood Capacity in Singapore’s High Rise High Density Estates ⋅ Paralysis by Analysis: Intertwined Aspects of Gentrification in Urban Bangkok ⋅ Construction and deconstruction of the neighbourhood’s idea Kathputli Colony, a ‘slum’ in Delhi, through outsiders’ eyes and as revealed by the ecology of local action ⋅ Seongdae Village: An Energy Transition Village in Seoul

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PANEL ON GENTRIFICATION, HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN INDONESIA AND THE NETHERLANDS

⋅ Gentrification, heritage and community empowerment in Indonesia and the Netherlands I ⋅ Gentrification, heritage and community empowerment in Indonesia and the Netherlands II ⋅ Gentrification, heritage and community empowerment in Indonesia and the Netherlands III

POLITICS AND IMAGINARIES FOR DIFFUSE URBANIZATION IN ASIA AND EUROPE

⋅ Ecological Civilization and Diffuse Urbanization in China: Constructing an Eco-Imaginary in the Lower Yangzi Delta ⋅ “Ghost” Areas in Hanoi: Urban Imaginaries and the Reality of Diffuse Urbanization in Vietnam ⋅ Urban Rural Linkages and Urbanization in Indonesia: Developing an Intraregional Perspective in the Subosukawonosraten Region ⋅ Scale, Space, and the Urban Economy: Building India’s New Manufacturing Cities

SOUTH ASIA IN FLUX: DEVELOPMENT, DISPLACEMENT AND MIGRATION

⋅ Interjecting Gender and Migration: Narratives from Indian Transnational Migrants in Germany ⋅ Vulnerable but Resilient’: the case of the Rohingya refugees in ⋅ Indigenous People in India: Relevance and Consequences of “Progress” and Development ⋅ Migrations, State, and Citizenship: The complicated scenario in Assam

SPATIAL PERFORMANCES OF YOUTH IN URBAN (SOUTH-)EAST ASIA: CASE STUDIES FROM CHINA, LAOS AND VIETNAM

⋅ Two-wheeled revolution: representations and practices of spaces among young people in Ho Chi Minh City ⋅ From homes to parks, shopping malls and theatres: trajectory of spatial swift in Chinese Erciyuan cosplay practices before and after Golden Mask Cosplay Contest (2005-2015)From homes to parks, shopping malls and theatres: trajectory of spatial swift in Chinese Erciyuan cosplay practices before and after Golden Mask Cosplay Contest (2005-2015) ⋅ Performing the self online: young Hmong migrants in Vientiane ⋅ Landscape of aspiration: spaces of young migrants' imagined futures and ambivalence in Shanghai

STATE-SOCIETY ENCOUNTERS AT THE GRASSROOTS: CHINA AND BEYOND

⋅ The Evolving Role of Chinese Hometown Associations in East and Southeast Asia ⋅ Party-building at the grassroots: Social organizations and the governance of urban villages ⋅ Relocated Peasants and the Grassroots State in China ⋅ Corruption, Ethics, and Philanthropy: The Case of Lions Clubs in South China

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THE IDEA OF THE PUBLIC IN ASIA I

⋅ What can we learn from public space in urban China? The example of ’s past and present ⋅ The Mediatization of Hegemonic Nationalist Discourse in Vietnam: Stakes and Limits ⋅ In a vibrant, livable street with no name, where eyes almost never meet....

THE IDEA OF THE PUBLIC IN ASIA II

⋅ Public vs commons: A conceptual vocabulary for open spaces ⋅ Publics vs Customers: mass assembly as political speech in Mumbai ⋅ Uneven and contested publics in an Indian Metropolis: Bombay and the place of the politics

THE MAKING OF ‘OTHER URBAN’: EXPLORATIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF INFORMALITY AND SMALLNESS IN ASIA

⋅ Rethinking the categorization of ‘other urban’ through the lens of informal settlements in Myanmar and India ⋅ Indian Small Cities in the Debate on Making of ‘Other Urban’ ⋅ Analysing the World Class Phenomenon beyond the Global Image Flows in India and Sri Lanka ⋅ It’s complicated! Articulating ‘the urban’ through migrant experiences in small cities in India and Indonesia

THEORIZING RURAL ASIA IN AN ERA OF URBANIZATION SESSION 1

⋅ Intra-household relations of farming families in , Philippines ⋅ Governing the “Man-Made Disaster” – Town-Building and Local Self-Governance in the Peripheries of Amalgamated Municipalities in JapanGoverning the “Man-Made Disaster” – Town- Building and Local Self-Governance in the Peripheries of Amalgamated Municipalities in Japan ⋅ Theorizing Rurality through the Local Newspaper ⋅ Fractal Relations: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia’s Global Ruralities ⋅ Multidimensional Poverty in a rice noodles craft village: a case study of Lo Cuong, Hai Duong province, Vietnam

THEORIZING RURAL ASIA IN AN ERA OF URBANIZATION SESSION 2

⋅ Meeting points of top-down and bottom-up initiatives: A comparative analysis of adapting to climate change and overfishing in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa ⋅ Shuttling Through Sea and Land: Oyster Farmers and the Territorial Politics of Fishery Villages in Taiwan ⋅ What is remote, periphery and edge? Cases from Taiwan, Eastern Europe and Australia ⋅ Power loom Industry: The Backbone of Rural Artisans in Ambedkarnagar District, India ⋅ What makes better village development in traditional agricultural areas of China? Evidence from long-term observation of typical villages

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TRAVELLING IDEAS AND CONCEPTS IN URBAN ASIA

⋅ The 'Singapore-ETH centre' - a challenging knowledge exchange loop between Zurich and Singapore ⋅ Global concepts and local contexts: translation and implementation of sustainable urban development strategies in China, India, and SingaporeGlobal concepts and local contexts: translation and implementation of sustainable urban development strategies in China, India, and Singapore ⋅ Adaptation of low carbon technologies in China: the case of geothermal heat pumps ⋅ Traditionally High Tech – The Urban Transformations of and Tokyo through the

UNDERSTANDING RURAL CHANGE IN ASIA TODAY

⋅ Between Vulnerability and the Good Life: Trajectories of Agrarian Transformation in the Rice lands of Central Java and Aceh ⋅ The persistence, expansion and dynamics of sharecropping in a Javanese village ⋅ Understanding Rural Change in Historical Perspective: 50 years of agrarian studies in Sriharjo ⋅ Aspiring Self-Determined Lives: Rural Transformations as Expressions of Future Making ⋅ Indonesian Rural Dynamics: A reflection from rural Europe

UNDERSTANDING RURAL CHANGE IN ASIA TODAY (PART II)

⋅ Imagine a Post-Plantation? Entangled histories of the Philippine export banana plantation sector ⋅ Securing Food, Reducing Poverty: Agrarian Transformations in Indonesia ⋅ Housing Aspirations. Entanglements and Implications of ʻModern Houses ʼ and Socio-Economic Change in upland Southeast Asia ⋅ Fruits of Peace? The (Un)making of a Banana Plantation in a Frontier Town in Muslim ⋅ Ceremonial consumption of the countryside: Ritual, rural change and livelihoods in the Toraja region of Indonesia

URBAN MYANMAR IN TRANSITION

⋅ The emerging metropolization of Yangon: challenges for the authorities and resilience of the Yangonites ⋅ Towards a mega-city region: Asian lessons for Yangon ⋅ Urban development gone to shit? Sanitation Planning, Urban Political Ecology and Anti-Politics in Myanmar ⋅ Conservation and Certainty for Whom? Examining property and heritage in Yangon’s colonial core ⋅ Migration, Informal Settlement, and Government Response: The Cases of Four Townships in Yangon, Myanmar

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PHD PITCH ⋅ Cemetery: an urban challenge in Jakarta ⋅ Contesting Settlements on the Hills of Guwahati: A Study of Urban Political Ecology in Northeast India ⋅ Crowded with Potential: Bed Space Rentals in China ⋅ Factors influencing farmers turning into tobacco cultivation in the Khulna division of Bangladesh: an empirical study ⋅ Inhabiting ideologies: Accommodating people, ideas and lifeworlds in Mumbai´s redeveloping chawls

POSTER PRESENTATION ⋅ Seven Decades of Transforming Indonesian Cities ⋅ Shanghai Shikumen Lilong, Socio-Spatial Transformations of Human Settlement. Appropriations in Shared spaces Beyond Destruction ⋅ Shelter location allocation for a possible earthquake in Baku, ⋅ The Art of Being Small: Exploring the Transnational World of Lao Small-Scale Traders in the Yunnan-Laos-Thailand Borderland ⋅ The girls from the coffee shop – Anthropology of the making and the empowerment of the dagongmei subject, Kunming Yunnan province, China. ⋅ The Idea of the City in the Chinese Century

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ (Re)structuring Public Space in East Asia: Building towards the Olympic and ⋅ The History of Industry in : Economic Models and Ideas of Progress

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ECONOMY

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ Mobile Asia: Capitalisms, Value Chains and Mobile Telecommunication in Asia

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ A Tale of Two Countries: Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality in China and India ⋅ China, Japan and the regulation of cryptocurrencies ⋅ European Union-Japan Relations: A Business System Overview of the Free Trade Agreements ⋅ Inclusivity, Redistribution and Equality: A Comparative Study of Welfare Systems in South Asia ⋅ Industrial upgrading and innovation in China: Multilevel Institutional Configuration, Industrial Dynamism, and the Evolution of Zhejiang Model ⋅ Making cakes without flour? The politics of economic development in Cambodia ⋅ Making the State Wait: Negotiating Governmentality in a Local Tourism Market in Agra, India ⋅ MONETARY ICONOGRAPHY AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN LAOS, FROM THE INDEPENDENCE TO THE END OF THE 1990s. ⋅ New Inter-regionalism? On EU-East Asian Economic Integration ⋅ Political Economy of the Accelerated Growth in Western China: Lanzhou City in Perspective ⋅ Political Economy of Trade between East Asia and Brazil: strategies, challenges, and limitations ⋅ Resource regimes transformation in rural Cambodia ⋅ Rural Threats and the Distributional Outcomes of Pro-Rural Policies: The Politics of Agricultural Development in Indonesia and Malaysia ⋅ Social Capital as Enabler of Local Economic Development: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective ⋅ The Formation of a Generational Identity and the Emergence of a Tech-based Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Phnom Penh, Cambodia ⋅ The private entrepreneurship in modern Turkmenistan

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EAST JAPAN--ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN JAPAN

⋅ The Economic Autonomy at Bay ⋅ The Social Protection System under Pressure ⋅ The Challenge of an Ageing society ⋅ The Reassessment of the Traditional Roles of Women

MARKETS AND MARKET MORALITIES IN ASIA

⋅ Playing with Reputation. Bisi Circles and the Moralities of Extra-legal Finance in Northern India ⋅ A bowl of rice at the right price: Morality and resistance in a Vietnamese market ⋅ Repositioning the Edge: The Resilience of Wholesale Vegetable Markets in Upland Philippines ⋅ From international market to local market: Kazakh traders’ involvement in trade

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SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN JAPAN II: SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF FAMILY AND GENDER ROLES

⋅ Change in Preference: Focus on Life Event and Workplace Environment ⋅ Occupational Gender Segregation between 1970-2010s in Japanese Labor Market ⋅ The Effect of Education on Women’s Labor Force Participation in Japan ⋅ Informal Care and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Japan ⋅ Housing Equity and Gender Equality in Japan: Who Have Equity for their House?

THE POLITICS OF PLACE: MOBILITIES AND LIVELIHOODS IN INDONESIA

⋅ Migrant Capital and Gendered Labour Processes in Smallholder Oil Palm Investments in Indonesia. ⋅ Young People’s Spatial and Sectoral Mobility: A Life-Course Perspective From Kulonprogo (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) ⋅ Going for Gold: Mobility, Livelihoods and Access to Mines in Bombana District, Southeast Sulawesi ⋅ Middle class livelihoods and urban place-making in a South Jakarta residential complex

PHD PITCH ⋅ China’s Escape from the “Big Bang”: The 1980s Price Reform Debate in Historical Perspective ⋅ Embeddedness and Organizational practices of Japanese subsidiaries in European Union

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INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ ‘Schooling the Mind: A Study of School Textbooks in Colonial Bengal’ ⋅ Alternative Cultural Encounter of East-West: European Painter Giuseppe Castiglione as Special Guest of a Museum Project in Taiwan ⋅ An Ideological Divergence: the Failure of the 1902 Educational System in China ⋅ Art School in Indonesia: The Roles of the Forgotten ⋅ Camera’s Blind Spots --Reflection on Education from the Perspective of Digital Media ⋅ Chinese is a Foreign Language: Translation Society and Chinese Language Study in Tokugawa Japan ⋅ College Transfer in Higher Education in Japan ⋅ Colonialism versus Oriental Nationalism: the Case of History Education in Vietnam during the Colonial Period ⋅ Countering growing educational inequalities in Japan: the stakes and paradoxes of “free supplementary tutoring” ⋅ Critical Pedagogy Approach in Teacher Education in Indonesia ⋅ Early childhood education reform: A critical reflection of policy change and teacher professionalism in Hong Kong ⋅ Educating the Poor: Changing Discourse on Education in Anti-Poverty Policies in Rural China from 1978 to 2018 ⋅ Educational Pilgrims. Transnational Mobility of Music Students between Asia and Europe. ⋅ Everybody Educated? Rural Students in Higher Education in Hubei Province, China ⋅ Factors associated with effectiveness of the Thai border school policy implementation under ASEAN community context ⋅ Filipino Women as Educational Leaders: Widening Windows of Opportunities for ASEAN Integration ⋅ Gender differences in the progress from elementary to secondary education in India: Who are performing better? ⋅ Higher Profits, More Women? How Firm Performance Affects the Proportion of Women Hired in Japan’s Labor Market ⋅ Impact of Missionaries on Empowering Tribal People through Education: Some Observations from Jharkhand ⋅ Indeginization of EFL Teaching Materials in Asia and Students' Response ⋅ Intercultural Communication Competence: New Pedagogical Perspectives ⋅ Intercultural experiences of Asian students in an international engineering program in France: Deconstructing discourses of Othering ⋅ Interrogating Identity and Reframing Social Justice in Indian Higher Education: An Ethnographic accounts from the field. ⋅ Intersection of language, literacy and development in post conflict states A Case Study of Timor- Leste adult literacy/recurrent education programs ⋅ Introducing French philosophical practice and didactic in Taiwan education ⋅ Learning to love the army: The effects of schooling and the Patriotic Education campaign on Chinese youth notions of war and the military ⋅ Literacy Program in School as One Alternative to Reform Education ⋅ Neoliberal subject formation and transforming professional ethics in the education sector: a case of educators' participation in the tuition industry in India

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⋅ Regional Integration of Higher Education in Southeast Asia: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons from the EU Experience ⋅ Returnee Faculty as Change Agents in China’s Higher Education Reform ⋅ Shaping Modern and National Subjects: A Study on Children-aimed Film Education during 1930s in Republican China ⋅ Skills-based Education and Sustainable development: A exploration of life skills education programs for the young people in Nepal ⋅ Social Capital and School Choice among Disadvantaged Groups in an ‘Urban Village’ in Delhi ⋅ State centralism vs. neo-liberalism in Malaysian higher education: the case of African students ⋅ The shift in the higher educational concerns of the Indian woman, particularly the Bengali woman in the first three decades since independence ⋅ The Chinese view of the world through the lenses of school history textbooks of the 2010s. ⋅ The Evolution of Inequality and Inequity in Thailand: Past, Present, and Future ⋅ The Impact of Neoliberalism on Participation in Indian Higher Education: Evidence from NSSO Data ⋅ The Implementation of Higher Order Thinking Skills in the Curriculum ⋅ The Mechanism of Generational Reproduction Mediated by the Major in Secondary Education in Japan: An Analysis of Class Mobility Using the Conditional Multinomial Logistic Regression ⋅ The Pedagogy of South Asian Feminisms ⋅ The role of social class in decision of dropout from university in current Japan ⋅ The use of traditional Chinese Fonts in Hong Kong: A struggle Between Functional and Individuality ⋅ Upward and Outward? Examining Internationalization in the Higher Education in Indonesia ⋅ What drives failed policy at the World Bank? An inside account of new aid modalities to higher education: context, blame, and infallibility

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ASIA ANYWHERE? TEACHING ASIA DESPITE HISTORY, POLITICS AND THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES

⋅ Teaching Tiananmen: Movement, Media, and Memory ⋅ Far from the Pacific Rim: teaching about East Asia in France today ⋅ Inverting the Ignorant-Enlightened Hierarchy in Teaching IR in the non-West

EDUCATION BEYOND SCHOOL, A COMPARATIVE ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH

⋅ High school students and the learning of collective life in Java (Indonesia) ⋅ Comparative approach of school "domestication" in Europe and in China ⋅ Java-Tapajós : Intersecting views on school and non-school learning ⋅ Java-Tapajós : Intersecting views on school and non-school learning

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JAPANESE LANGUAGE, EMPLOYABILITY, AND MOBILITY IN THE ASEAN COMMUNITY AND JAPAN

⋅ How has Japanese as a second foreign language shaped leaners’ employability and mobility in the ASEAN community and Japan? ⋅ The making of “ideal” Japanese language learners and teachers: An analysis of the ’ EPA program for healthcare workers from Southeast AsiaThe making of “ideal” Japanese language learners and teachers: An analysis of the Japans’ EPA program for healthcare workers from Southeast Asia ⋅ Local market and consumer preference in Japanese products in Southeast Asia ⋅ What are ex-Laotian students doing after finishing their studies in Japan?: Japan’s ODA and its approach to human resource development

RETHINKING EDUCATION IN VIETNAM: TROUBLING TRANSFORMATIONS AND GROWING INEQUALITY

⋅ Schooled in Corruption: Trust and Transparency in Education ⋅ Understanding peer relationship and its effect on academic dishonesty in Viet Nam ⋅ Vietnamese teachers’ pedagogies in secondary classrooms: Is quality and equality for all achieved? ⋅ Social Justice Teacher Education for Vietnam: A Study of Pre-service Teachers Learning to Teach for Social Justice in Local Communities

SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN JAPAN I: LIFE COURSE FROM ADOLESCENCE TO ADULTHOOD

⋅ Family Socioeconomic Status and Educational Decision Making: The Effect of Debt Aversion on High School Choices ⋅ Single Parenthood and Children’s Well-being in Japan: Comparing Father’s and Mother’s Absence by Death and Divorce ⋅ Leaving the Parental Home in Contemporary Japan ⋅ Characteristics of Middle-aged Unmarried People Living with their Parents in Japan ⋅ Poverty Risk among the Japanese: Concentration of Risk and the Role of Education

THE DYNAMICS OF “GOOD EDUCATION” IN SOUTH ASIA: EXPERIENCES AMONG CHILDREN, PARENTS, AND CHILDCARE WORKERS

⋅ Politics of Quality of Preschool Education: Female Childcare Workers and Government Supervision in India ⋅ Between Hope and Burden: “Good Education,” a Case of the Everyday Practices of Unschooled Women in Nepal ⋅ The Scope of Education: The Struggles of Nepali Girls for Good Jobs ⋅ Education, aspirations, and gender ideology in the transitional society: An ethnographic study in rural India

29 PHD PITCH ⋅ Formal education from a ‘shadow’ perspective: an ethnographic account of private tutoring in Dehradun, India ⋅ Impact of Human Capital on Employment and Income. A case of Nagaland, India. ⋅ The Role of Cooperative Learning in a Competitive Setting – A Multiple Case Study in a Post- secondary Institution In Hong Kong

POSTER PRESENTATION ⋅ The UP College of Music: Nurturing World-class Musicians and Talented Performers

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Academic freedoms in Asia: Challenges and responsibilities of the academic community, professional associations, and universities ⋅ Anthropologies of Asia at Leiden: Perspectives, Explorations, Collaborations ⋅ Curricular choices Session 1: Africa-Asia Interferences (international relations, postcolonial conditions, nationalisms) and the stakes involved ⋅ Curricular choices Session 2: Africa-Asia Interferences (international relations, postcolonial conditions, nationalisms) and the stakes involved ⋅ Opportunities and Challenges of a Renewed Asia/Europe Academic Partnership in the Social Sciences and Humanities: the French Research Institutes Abroad as New Shared Platforms

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ENVIRONMENT

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ Nomad's land. Herders, their animals and the landscape among the Mongols

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ Hortus Malabaricus: Territorial Expansionism and Botanical Knowledge Transfers in the Context of Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Malabar ⋅ DISASTER RESILIENCE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES ⋅ Ecocriticism not of Place but of Mind: Environmental Discourse in Classical Japan ⋅ Engineering the life aquatic: cybercoral meets hybrid forms of environmental care in Southeast Asia ⋅ Environmental Challenges of International Migration in East Asia ⋅ Environmental Justice and the Ethnic Politics of Legal Mobilisation in Malaysia ⋅ Fish, Subterfuge and Security in North Korean and Soviet Institutional Interactions in the 1970s ⋅ Flood Vulnerability and Coping of Riverside Slum Households in Phnom Penh, Cambodia ⋅ Governing Climate Change in Thailand: A Critical Perspective ⋅ How China turns into an example of environmental city design in Asia thanks to master plan innovation. Case study of in the Province. ⋅ Hunting for jade: interrelations between illegal mining and sacred landscape in Buriatia ⋅ Land Politics in the Age of Development: The and the Casecnan Dam in Northern Philippines ⋅ Nature’s Fury? The political economy of a natural calamity in Kerala, South India ⋅ Pathways of Environmental Activism in Vietnam’s Civil Society ⋅ Rangers, Porters, and Smallholders: Conservation Labour Regime in Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra ⋅ Reconfiguring Chinese vs. local fisheries interactions: Dispossession and adaptation in extractive practices along the West African coast ⋅ Security, Justice, and Oligarchy: Struggles over Hegemony in Indonesian Energy Politics ⋅ Shanghai et Paris: Garbage in the Urban Visions of Yuan Zuzhi (1827-1902) and Victor Segalen (1878-1919) ⋅ The Annam forest during the French colonial period ⋅ The ecological subaltern: Conceptual and methodological remarks for research on marginalized communities in South and Southeast Asia in the era of the Anthropocene. ⋅ The Mekong River Commission, a good vehicle for citizen participation in SE Asia? ⋅ The Risk of Protecting the Environment: Strategic Litigation against Public Participation (SLAPP) in the Post-Authoritarian Indonesia ⋅ Traditional Irrigation in Water Scarcity: A cultural cross-pollination between Asia and Europe ⋅ Waste and Social Mobilisation – Anthropological Explorations beyond Asia and Europe

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CHINA´S ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: DISCOURSES, REPRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIA (19TH – 21ST CENT.)

⋅ How Chinese Actors Influence the Russian Far East´s Environment: Voices in the Russian press (1990s – 2010s) ⋅ “Overcrowded and Unsanitary:” Sinophobic discourses in Vladivostok and Singapore ⋅ Ruling the River and Sea: China’s environmental impacts of its geopolitical and economic interests in Southeast Asia

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ITS DISCONTENTS: SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE, UP TO WHEN? ANALYZING THE MAIN FACTORS AND TRIGGERS FOR SOCIAL RESILIENCE I

⋅ Local governance as social cohesion’s backbone. Lessons learned from Benoa Bay large-scale development project in Bali? ⋅ Remaining in decline. Who lives in Japan’s shrinking suburbs nowadays? ⋅ Living on unstable ground: an ethnographic study on the last residents of mining settlements after urban renewal in Datong (Shanxi, China) ⋅ Urban governance in the making of Bangkok

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ITS DISCONTENTS: SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE, UP TO WHEN? ANALYZING THE MAIN FACTORS AND TRIGGERS FOR SOCIAL RESILIENCE II

⋅ The environmental limits of irrigation-based agricultural growth in South India: A tragedy of commons? ⋅ Social resilience in protected forest areas, Northern Thailand ⋅ Climate change, Emigration, and Women’s labor supply (Thailand, Vietnam) ⋅ Smoky Season: The Political Ecology of the “Haze Crisis” in Northern Thailand ⋅ The death of the rivers in South Indian Deccan context: lack of care and ecosystem destruction

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES OF THE MALAY WORLD: LEGACIES OF PETER BOOMGAARD

⋅ Periodizing Commodities in High Places: The Camphor Tree in North Sumatra ⋅ From Ikan Moedjair to Tilapia Culture: The Strange Career of an African Fish in Asian Waters, 1930s-1950s ⋅ Between Tongues: Medicine and Magic in G.E. Rumphius’ Het Amboinsch Kruydboek and Malay Kitab Tibb/Kitab Obat-Obatan ⋅ Revisiting the Frontier: The Legacy of Peter Boomgaard in Singaporean Environmental History

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MIGRATE OR NOT MIGRATE? CRITICAL NARRATIVES ON CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED MIGRATION IN THE MEKONG AND BENGAL DELTAS.

⋅ Shrimp farming, environmental degradation and mobility in the Bengal delta tidal area ⋅ Reasoning Non-Migration of the People at Environmental Risks ⋅ Living in the Mekong delta: adaptation but until when? ⋅ Trapped? Extreme weather, mobility options and forecasting challenges in the Gangetic Delta

STRIVING FOR SUSTAINABILITY ACROSS THE RURAL-URBAN DIVIDE: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE BOTTOM-UP

⋅ Reinventing the Chinese countryside – Alternative eco-villages ⋅ Growing organic connections: Scaling rural sustainable farming up and out ⋅ Welcome to my cancer village: China’s citizens’ science in movement ⋅ Path-dependent unsustainable agricultural production practices ⋅ Making sustainable urban development… sustainable: the challenges of a Chinese city

PHD PITCH ⋅ Amphibious Anthropology: Engaging with Maritime Worlds in Indonesia ⋅ The Politics of Environmental Protest in China and Malaysia

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ The Bay of Bengal, Perspectives Across the Disciplines 2 - Contested Heritages ⋅ The Bay of Bengal, Perspectives Across the Disciplines 4 - Environment and Littoral Ecologies ⋅ Heritage and neoliberalism: players, policies and mentalities ⋅ Heritage and the Politics of Culture ⋅ Place, Practice and Nature in Experiential Perspective 1 ⋅ Place, Practice and Nature in Experiential Perspective 2

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HERITAGE AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ The Samādhi of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore: A Summation of Sikh Architectural Features and Ornament

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ "Eurasians" in the urban history and architectural heritage of Singapore and Melaka ⋅ (Inter/Sur)facing the layers of the photographic images of the Philippine Igorots in European Expositions ⋅ ‘Photograph on Porcelain’ on Gravestone: A French Invention, an EuroAmerican Practice, a Chinese Cultural Heritage? ⋅ ‘We do good with our hearts’ . The volunteer politics of ritual labour for king and nation in present-day Thailand ⋅ “Maritime Landscapes of Connectivity” Challenges and opportunities to develop more inclusive and sustainable approaches by re-conceptualize UNESCO historic port cities. ⋅ “We are all nomads” – or not? Imagining time and place at the World Nomad Games ⋅ „The Japanese Wife” of Kunal Basu and Aparna Sen or the Adventures of Bengalis in the Indo- Japanese Garden of Fiction ⋅ « The reconstructed heritage and religous Tourism in Sikkim (India) : between tradition and modernity » ⋅ A Diachronic Analysis of the Process of Heritage Management in Cambodia ⋅ Advertising Ayurveda: A Journey in Search of Indigeneity through Bengali Advertisements (1900- 1947) ⋅ – A transcultural history of heritage between Asia and Europe ⋅ Animal Welfare and The Management of Captive Elephants in Northern Thai Society ⋅ Anthropological dilemmas in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage with special reference to UNESCO, armed conflict and Bangladesh ⋅ Appropriation, transformation and cultural identity: Chinese gongfu tea in Brisbane, Australia ⋅ At the Crossroads of Europe and Asia: Kazakh Eurasianism and the Creation of Modern Eurasia ⋅ Balinese customary marriage and inheritance law: disappearance, dilution and adaptation ⋅ Being an “Old Beijinger” from urban residents’ perpetual negotiations of daily livelihoods with the State through heritage field —a case study of Nanluoguxiang neighbourhood, China ⋅ Bencharong – Layered Receptacles of Thai National Heritage ⋅ Chinese Cultural Inaccuracy and the Necessity of Detailed Regulations in Chinese Conservation Practices ⋅ Chinggis Khan, ancient rock art, and identity at a pastoral campsite in the Mongolian Altai Mountains ⋅ Colonial Heritage in Post-colonial India: questions around heritage values, identity and preservation. ⋅ Colonial Heritage Revisited: the Case of Fort Nassau on Banda Neira, Indonesia ⋅ Consolidating national identity through the origin myth of the nation: Hung Vuong myth in Vietnam ⋅ Constructing pan-Asian beauty ideals ⋅ Counter-narratives: religious heritage in Taipei

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⋅ Creating Knowledge for Ancient South Asia: Looking Anew and Askew at Old Data ⋅ Creative City: a Sustainable Path for Cities in Southeast Asia? ⋅ Creative Heritage as a participatory theatre: re-representing and experiencing urban heritage in Beitou ⋅ Crisis in the City: Reading Quotidian Temporality of Postcolonial Spaces. ⋅ Cultural Commodification of : A Case Study on The Comedy of Errors in 2012 London Olympics ⋅ Cultural heritage and identity: A-Ma Temple and the making of Chinese national identity in Postcolonial ⋅ Cultural ties across the Indian Ocean and their role in forming an Indian grand narrative : the Pondichéry/Indochine Experience ⋅ Decolonizing the National Museum Colombo. ⋅ Digging the Past to Deal with Future (Indigenous Tourism within the Millenial Era: A Study on Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, West Java) ⋅ Displaying as Creating: Shaping Community and Memories in Courtyard House Exhibitions ⋅ 's vulnerable temples - protection of critical cultural heritage ⋅ Economic Valuation of Cultural Heritage in a UNESCO Creative City: The Case of City, Philippines ⋅ Entanglement and affective performativity: heritage, curiosity and emotion ⋅ EU-China Cultural Heritage Diplomacy – Bringing Economic Development and Identity In ⋅ Filipinnovation' of the Traditional Script ⋅ Financial Reporting of Cordilleran Heritage Assets ⋅ Folk Knowledge Vernacular: Political Communication Heritage of the “Sandesa Kāvya” ⋅ Food as a Cultural Pedagogy for ‘Inclusions’ and ‘Exclusions’: Analyzing the ‘Authentic’ Identity construction and Gender in the Assamese Foodscape ⋅ From Royal Palace to People's Plaza: Replanning and Rebuilding Tiananmen Square in the 1950s and 1960s ⋅ Gender, Botany and Nation in the Vanda Miss Joaquim ⋅ Geopolitical Claims of ‘Little’ Tribal Communities in Grand Festivals in India ⋅ Goa//Mozambique: The C(art)ography of Vamona Navelcar ⋅ and Compliance Management in Post-Socialist China ⋅ Haunted by the Past, Obsessed by the Future: Urban Preservation and Renewal in Globalizing Shanghai ⋅ Heritage-making in Ho Chi Minh City: history, ideology, and policy instrument ⋅ Historiography of Ayurveda: Methodological Musings ⋅ Imbricated histories Australia, UK and India- the Partition Museum Amritsar ⋅ IN SEARCH OF OPPORTUNITIES: CONSORTIUM FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE ⋅ In the Name and Image of the Europeans: The Portuguese, Dutch and Spanish Musings over Canola and its Natives, 1598-1798 ⋅ Inbetween realities - The Жемчуг in Taschkent - Experimental Building of Soviet Post-Modernism ⋅ Indigenous Water Heritage and Practices of Kathmandu Valley: Paraphernalia for Contemporary Water Engineering ⋅ Industrial Heritage, Labour and Working Class Identity: A Case Study of Textile Town in Xi’an, China ⋅ Involvement of Malay Women in Politics and Election in Malaysia: Challenges and Issue ⋅ Ishiguro as Historical Witness: Memory, Aesthetics and Critique ⋅ José , ‘the Filipino George Washington’: American constructions of Philippine nationalism, 1901-1933 ⋅ Korean Culinary Heritage in Europe

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⋅ Making Ballet Chinese' ⋅ Making Way for Ships: Negotiating Religion and Development ⋅ Material Cultural Heritage of a ‘heathen past’: colonial Ethnographic collections and the Naga of North East India ⋅ Meanings of Water-Land Management and Sustainability: An Indigenous Perspective ⋅ Museums, Memories and Sacred Spaces: The Heritage of the Nalanda Mahavihara ⋅ Nationalism, Commodities and Affect: the European ‘Other’ within the Indian Home ⋅ Nepal: From Hindu Kingdom to Secular State ⋅ New musical geographies in Turkic southern : Re-localising musical heritage – Creating interregional alliances ⋅ Old heroes. New heroes. Public art in the urban environment of India. ⋅ On the relative invisibility of the legal part of ivory trading in Hong Kong ⋅ People and State: Yamal Nenets ⋅ Persian Manuscripts in the Collection of the Scientific Library after N.I.Lobachevsky of Kazan (Volga) Federal University and experience of their cataloguing ⋅ Playing with Fire: Wim Geertman in the Philippines ⋅ POLARIZATION OF CULTURE WAR BETWEEN CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS AMONG INDONESIAN SOCIETY AFTERMATH THE 1st of JOKOWI PRESIDENCY ⋅ Polite Remembering? Displacement, Nostalgia and the Politics of Memory of Singapore’s Southern Islands ⋅ Post Disaster (Re)Construction of Cultural Heritage in Kathmandu Valley ⋅ Protecting Cosmic Healing Practices: No Role for the Sri Lankan Government ⋅ Reconstructing a Palace and Building a Shrine: Emperor, Nation, and Imperial ⋅ Representation of Heritage and National Identities in Postcolonial Sri Lanka ⋅ Revisiting “Syonan Gallery”: Competing Victimhood and Beyond ⋅ Russian simulacra in Northern Chinese cities : (hi)story of Northeast China ⋅ Selling French Colonial Nostalgia: The Preservation of Renovation of the White Town in Pondicherry, India ⋅ Serving Heritage: Cultural Heritage Contact Zones, Private Sector Partnerships, and Stakeholder Interaction in Preservation ⋅ Shaping historical memories in Chongqing: local urban politics and the legacy of the Republican Period ⋅ Shipments and Shards. The Ethical Side of Shipwreck Salvages. ⋅ Small Alleys in Global Tourism: Representation of Nostalgia in Japan's Tourism Media ⋅ The adaptive conservation of historical rural landscapes: from Asian inclusive experiences to newer perspectives in Europe ⋅ The Appropriation of the 'Chinese Jews' into Eurocentric Discourse ⋅ The Churning of the Ocean in Royal Temple Architecture ⋅ THE DEPICTION OF A (NATIONAL) HERO: PANGERAN DIPONEGORO IN PAINTINGS FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TODAY ⋅ The effectiveness of disaster memory transmission in Japan as a tool to reduce disaster risk ⋅ The Heritage of Assam Type House and Modern Assamese Identity in India's Northeast ⋅ The new life of the ancient Philippine oral epics ⋅ The Occurrence of Nearness: A Study on an Essential Value in the Master of Net Garden, Suzhou, China ⋅ The Politics of Remembering Ezir-Kara: Historical Consciousness, Human-Horse Relations, and Song-Based Storytelling in Tes-Xem District, Tyva Republic ⋅ The Politics of Resource Relations in Dalit Women Testimonios of Kerala ⋅ To Share or Not to Share: Contested Heritage in Inner Mongolia, China

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⋅ Translations from Malay-Indonesian into Russian: their present and future ⋅ Transmission of China’s Culture in Belt and Road Countries: A comparative perspective of Sri Lanka and Thailand ⋅ Tricontinental us?' Afroeuropean and Euroasian Allyship: Challenging Third Cinema Geographies ⋅ Venice and the Venetian Macau Resort: A History of the Present ⋅ We Make Antiques While You Wait: Testimonies from Below ⋅ Western cultural influences in the South Korean policies for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage PANELS

A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY JAPANESE STUDIES (1): SEA CHANGE

⋅ Pottery, Shellmounds, and Monuments: Landscape Management of the Jomon Hunter-Gatherer- Fishers ⋅ Crossing the Sea of Change: Japanese Returnees from the Soviet Camps and their Journeys across the Sea of Japan, 1946-1956 ⋅ A Wave of Emotion: ‘The Great Wave’ by Katsushika Hokusai

A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY JAPANESE STUDIES (2): INCOMING TIDES

⋅ Netflix as ‘Black Ship’: Sea Change in Media Consumption in Japan ⋅ Securing the Sea of Japan: How Tokyo has recalibrated risks and expanded military activities in response to North Korea ⋅ The Sea Is Her Story: Rereading the Sea in Sakiyama Tami’s Island Stories

CARTES: A CARTOGRAPHIC CONCEPT TO UNDERSTAND THE DYNAMIC OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S SOCIAL SPACE. THE MOKEN CASE STUDY AND ITS FURTHER APPLICATIONS.

⋅ Mapping the moken corpus: a new perspective for the Moken in the turmoil of development ⋅ Mapping mobility, time and space of the Moken: the Social Space Cartography method ⋅ Museum and nomads, an impossible alliance? ⋅ Oral culture and museography: the challenges of rethinking museographic devices for the Moken sea-nomads ⋅ From Moken’s representation of the territory to human trafficking routes: exploring further applications of the CartES project

CONTESTED HERITAGE AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, TRAUMA AND MOBILITY IN ASIA I

⋅ Coloring Dark with Red: The Reuse of Colonial Prisons in China ⋅ Rising oceans and disappearing nuclear test sites: the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia and Kiribati ⋅ When Pasts Overlap: Cultural Heritage at a Crossroads ⋅ Memory Apparatus in Southeast Asia: Comparative Study on Indonesia 1965 and Cambodia 1975 ⋅ Making of Conflict Heritage in Postwar Japan and Reconfiguring of Transnational Social Activism in East Asia

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CONTESTED HERITAGE AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, TRAUMA AND MOBILITY IN ASIA II

⋅ Mobility and memories of homeland: Korean healthcare “guest workers” in Germany ⋅ Travelling emotions. A 1965’s trauma through generation and space ⋅ Unearthing sites of memory in Phnom Penh ⋅ Narratives of those who had remained: Living Memories of the Exodus of Bắc Kỳ 54, seen by Catholics from Central Vietnam (Vinh) ⋅ Site: The Impossibility of Remembering the Past at Nanjing

EMBODIED EXPERIENCES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND JAPAN

⋅ Transition of Japanese Visitors to World War II Heritage Sites in Singapore ⋅ Audible Memory: Uses of Sound in the Postwar Okinawa Artists’ Films ⋅ History of Community-based Arts and Cultural Activities by Residents’ Committees in Singapore ⋅ Graveyard of Fire and Ocean: Flowing, Turning, and Termination of Japan’s Southward

EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND LOCAL IDENTITY FORMATION IN ASIA: SCRIPTS AND NAMING

⋅ Missionaries, Thomas Barclay and Taiwanese ⋅ Missionaries, Truong Vinh Ky and Vietnamese Romanization ⋅ From the “Red-haired” to Goulden Leeuw and the Dutch Princess: the appropriation and re- interpretation of Dutch cultural heritages in the contemporary local Taiwanese society

EXHIBITING INDIAN ARCHIVES: PUTTING HERITAGE BACK IN PLACE/ ARCHIVES AS ART, ART AS ARCHIVE

⋅ Botanical Art as Ark-ive ⋅ What becomes of the archive, when the archive becomes art? ⋅ Madras School of Art: Archive as Myth ⋅ Performative Archive

FOOD AS CONNECTIVITIES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD. HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES

⋅ The Influence of Migrant Chinese Cooks in Shaping The Global Food Culture of Eighteenth-Century Batavia ⋅ Curry Matters: A Historical Sketch of Curry in Twentieth-Century Singapore and Broome ⋅ More than Colonial Leftover: Afternoon Tea and Other Mimetic Practices in Penang

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HERITAGE ALONG SOUTHEAST ASIA’S 'MARITIME '

⋅ The Melaka Gateway project and the construction of an ersatz heritage landscape ⋅ Reviving the Ancient Maritime Silk Road: A Comparative Study of the Politics of Heritage Instrumentalisation in and MelakaReviving the Ancient Maritime Silk Road: A Comparative Study of the Politics of Heritage Instrumentalisation in Quanzhou and Melaka ⋅ Representing Colonial Heritage in Contemporary Hong Kong

HERITAGE PRESENT AND HERITAGE FUTURE IN ASIA

⋅ Place-Making and Diversified Memory at World Heritage Site Yinxu ⋅ Is it heritage if it is not called as such? Conservation Practices Beyond the State in Phnom Penh ⋅ “We Are Victims of Our Own Success!”: Authorizing Unauthorized Heritage Discourses in a Malaysian World Heritage City ⋅ When UNESCO Meets Religion: The Cultural Politics of Transforming Religious Sites into UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Quanzhou, China ⋅ Erasing or embracing the inglorious past? The politics of considering gambling buildings and culture as heritage in Macau

HERITAGE, ART AND AGENCY

⋅ The Mosques of Samarqand: Colonizing and re-appropriating architectural heritage through art ⋅ Reconnecting-Recollecting Cultural Memory: The perception and Expression of Vietnamese Cultural Heritage by French Viet Kieu Artists in SaigonReconnecting-Recollecting Cultural Memory: The perception and Expression of Vietnamese Cultural Heritage by French Viet Kieu Artists in Saigon ⋅ Filling the voids of memory: Collecting, researching and archiving in the works of Sim Chin Yin and Lynn Lu

HERITAGE, IDENTITY AND POSTCOLONIAL URBANIZATION IN INDIA

⋅ The Power of Plastic Localities: Populist Politics in Indian Cities ⋅ Governance through Conservation: A Study of Heritage Restoration Projects in Jaipur ⋅ River’s passage: Land, Beauty and Capital on the banks of Hooghly ⋅ The Moniker of Music City: Kolkata as a Habitat of Musical Heritage

LOGICS, STAKES AND LIMITS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE TRANSMISSION IN EURASIA

⋅ The Usage of Fishskins among the Hezhe in China and the Nanais in : a comparative Study of Heritagisation Processes ⋅ “The Mummy Returns”: Cultural Heritage Management in the Altay Republic ⋅ Enhancing Popular Creativity, organizing Representations of Localness in the Asian Arctic ⋅ Festivities for Identity Negotiations. How is cultural Heritage at Work among the Mosuo of China?

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NORTHERN ASIA PART III: CENTRE AND PERIPHERY

⋅ Ecological Migrants Reclaiming the Forest: The Dilemmas of Life and Culture of the Ewenki Reindeer Herders in Aoluguya (Inner Mongolia) ⋅ Soviet women and Japanese interned: from the history of the convergence of cultures in the context of post-war everyday life (1945-56)Soviet women and Japanese interned: from the history of the convergence of cultures in the context of post-war everyday life (1945-56) ⋅ “Back to Traditional Roots” – Mongolian Ways of Overcoming the Past and Constructing the Future ⋅ New Debates on the Mongolian Revolution of 1921: History as a Political Resource

SAIL/CANVAS/SCREEN: HERITAGE PRESERVATION AND RECOVERY ACROSS GEOGRAPHIES AND MEDIA

⋅ “Maritime Landscape of Connectivity” Challenges and opportunities to develop more inclusive and sustainable approaches by re-conceptualize UNESCO historic port cities. ⋅ Cinema Without Camels ⋅ Managing Asian Heritage on African Shores ⋅ Goa/Portugal/Mozambique: The C(art)ography of Vamona

SENSORY, MEMORY AND IDENTITY I

⋅ Cultural Leakage and Transformation: A comparative study of Japanese kodo and Chinese incense tradition in the 21st century. ⋅ Sensory and texture: How to appreciate whale meat foodways in Japan as a local dish ⋅ Curating the Dead: Sensory Relations in a Private Museum in Vietnam ⋅ Memory of Ethnic Taste and Cultural Reproduction in China: A Case study of the Yi of Southwest China

SENSORY, MEMORY AND IDENTITY II

⋅ Performing elegance in Taiwan’s “literati tea” ritual ⋅ A Changing Chinese Representation of Taste? ⋅ Taiwanese Rice, Japanese Flavor? Changing Sensory Evaluation, Rice Breeding and Identity in Modern Taiwan ⋅ Painful Touch: Pain and Its Metaphor to Prosthesis Users in China

THE ETHICS OF COLLECTING

⋅ Collecting, Restitution and Emotional Property ⋅ Collections after colonial engagement in Bali ⋅ From Private to Public. A New Context of Display

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THE IMAGE OF JAPAN IN THE EUROPEAN MIRROR: NEW TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES

⋅ European reception of the commemorative celebration of the 150th anniversaries of the establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the European countries ⋅ A Computational Approach to the Study of representations of Japan in the Spanish press between 1976 and 2016 ⋅ Transcultural interactions in the Japanese avant-garde cinema: Antonio Gaudi (HiroshiTeshigahara, 1984)

THE MAKINGS OF MODERN AYURVEDA IN INDIA AND THE WEST: SYNDICATES AND TRANSLOCALITY

⋅ Increasing Modern Ayurveda’s Acceptability while Safeguarding its Identity: The case of Transdisciplinary University, Bengaluru ⋅ Cyber Ayurveda: Technologies for the Body-Mind-Spirit in America ⋅ India’s National Health Policy and the dilemmas of pluralism and positivism ⋅ Epistemic and social innovations in medical traditions. Ayurvedic surgical procedures in the Indian public health services. ⋅ Health, Spirituality and Yogic Consciousness: The Yoga-Ayurveda Nexus in Modern Anglophone Ayurvedic Discourse

THE POLITICAL-CULTURAL ECONOMY OF COMMODITY PRODUCTION-CONSUMPTION IN ASIAN- EUROPEAN SPACE: AN INTEGRATED AND INTER-SECTIONAL APPROACH

⋅ Tobacco: A Most Democratic or Most Complex Commodity in Colonial India? ⋅ The political economy of consumption: the case of coffee in India in the 20th century. ⋅ Producing a Tea Consumption Culture in Colonial India

THE RIGHT TO CONSERVE CULTURAL MATERIAL (?): DECISION MAKING, VALUES AND PROCESS

⋅ Collections, Communities and Projects in and Nepal ⋅ Co-Creative Cultural Conservation is on the Move ⋅ Intercultural concepts and practices in cultural materials conservation

THE RIGHT TO CONSERVE CULTURAL MATERIAL (?): MATERIALITY

⋅ Capacity building, collaboration and conservation science ⋅ The ecology of conservation practices: Knowledge systems, communities of practice and embodied values ⋅ The Continuous Struggle of the Conservation of Canvas-based Oil Paintings in Indonesia ⋅ Authenticity, the artist record and the right to know ⋅

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TRANSITIONS OF KERALA: NARRATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS

⋅ A Political Journey of Translation: Socio-political Discourses of ‘Padappaattu’ in Malabar ⋅ The Cultural Expressions and Internal Contradictions in India’s Extremist Left Streams: A Study based on Kerala experience. ⋅ The Construct of Family and Social Reform Movements: A Study Based on the History of Development of the Keralite Family ⋅ Dramaturgy in the colonial era and the conception of political sentience of Malabar ⋅ Decolonizing imaginations: A linguistic analysis of "Dars Malayalam" (religious instructional language) of Malabar Muslims

UNLOCKING THE WOR(L)D: SYMBOL, SOUND AND SENSATION IN POST-DISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGIES

⋅ Worlding the word in colonial pedagogy: Object lessons in Theosophical panchama schools, Madras ⋅ Reciting history, singing identity : Sonic atmospheres of place and community on the Andaman Islands ⋅ Talking with and about fish: Group fishing, sound and knowledge in small Eastern Indonesian islands. ⋅ Floating or pinned: Transistor, cassette recorder and the traveling wor(l)d ⋅ Taking humour seriously: Foregrounding the sensorial associations of words in non-western texts

UNPACKING THE ASIAN LIBRARY: COLLECTING HISTORIES, AND COLLECTING NETWORKS FROM ASIA TO EUROPE I

⋅ Histories and collecting histories of a Javanese manuscript: the treasures of Rouffaer. ⋅ The Manuscripts of Al-Misri: The Journey from the Malay World to the Leiden Asia Library ⋅ A book for a Book; Malay Manuscript Transactions in a Malay-European Network in a Mid-19th- Century West Sumatran Port Town ⋅ The Life of the Cakranagara Lontar Collection ⋅ When the East becomes the South, What Happens to the Orient(al Collections)?

UNPACKING THE ASIAN LIBRARY: COLLECTING HISTORIES, AND COLLECTING NETWORKS FROM ASIA TO EUROPE II

⋅ The Society and the Library: Comparing collection-building and knowledge formation in British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies ⋅ The formation of the Indonesian manuscript collections in the British Library ⋅ Circles of initiation. Philological and spiritual knowledge networks, ancient manuscripts and the roads to Javanese knowledge , 1930s-1970s ⋅ Scholars, Filmers, Fixers: The Making of Local Knowledge in “Recording the Future.”

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PHD PITCH ⋅ Maritime Distribution of Chinese Ceramics. Shipments of porcelain and the Dutch East India Company, first half seventeenth century. ⋅ Politics and management of cultural landscape-Val de Loire as reference for the Grand Canal of China ⋅ Thailand: New Museology in Practice (A Case Study of Baan Hollanda, An Information Center of Thai-Dutch Relation in Ayutthaya)

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HISTORY

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini ⋅ Sanitized Sex: Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945- 1952 ⋅ Realistic Revolution: Contesting Chinese History, Culture, and Politics after 1989 ⋅ Monsoon : Trade & Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast ⋅ Mapping Japan: Enduring Encounters ⋅ Life as the River Flows - Oral History of Women in the Malayan Anti-Colonial Struggle ⋅ Japan's Pre-War Perspective of Southeast Asia: Focusing on Ethnologist Matsumoto Nobuhiro's Works During 1919–1945 ⋅ Colonialism, Semicolonialism and the Universalization of International Law ⋅ Andre Wink ,The Making of the Indo-Islamic World (Cambridge, 2019)

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ GLEANED FROM THE IMAGE OF THE HOLY INFANT JESUS, A CULTURAL HISTORY OF POST-WAR CEBU, PHILIPPINES ⋅ IMPRENTA DE RAMÍREZ Y GIRAUDIER AND THE PHILIPPINE RENAISSANCE (1858-1888) ⋅ "Philippine-Belgian Relations: 'Developmental Diplomacy' during the Ferdinand E. Marcos Presidency, 1965-1986" ⋅ ‘A Worldwide Popular Front’?: Chinese Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 ⋅ ‘What war ever won a better Treaty?’ The Bowring Treaty and Siam’s interactions with the West compared to those of China and Japan. ⋅ “Almost the same, but not quite”: Dress, Power, and Mimicry in British India ⋅ “Astronomical Interpretation” of Angkor Wat and Transmission of Knowledge ⋅ “Bread and Circuses”: How not to Live War Correctly in WWII Macao ⋅ “Of Great Benefit to the Human Race:” Saiki Tadasu and Japan in the Global History of Nutrition Science, 1919-1939 ⋅ “Older” to “Younger Brother”: Aristocratic Restoration in the Governance of the Greater Netherlands ⋅ “Subversiva de Todos los Principios Religiosos y Politicos”("Subversive in All Religious and Political Principles") Censorship in thePhilippines Under the Comision Permanente de Censura (1866- 1875) ⋅ “Three Chinese maids”, two internment camps, and a war: civilian internment in British India in the Asia-Pacific War ⋅ “We used to move freely until they fought”: Learning the transformation of Cross-border Mobilities between Cambodia and Thailand from the lived life of Khmer Borderlanders ⋅ A Forgotten Extradition Accord Signed between British India and Tibet in 1854 ⋅ A Golden Age? Chinese Communist Judiciary in the Post Legal Reform Era, 1954-1957 ⋅ A Historical Appraisal of Conflicts of Identities and Failure of Federalism in Pakistan (1947-- 1971) ⋅ A Persuasive Revolutionary Establishing and Expanding Multiple Guanxi and Networks: Wu Tiecheng Between the Two Revolutions Period, 1911-1913 ⋅ A Traitor or Patriot: Yang Yinyu and Her Struggling in Masculine Society and Nationalism in China ⋅ Ahmadiyya and the Muslim Media in Colonial Indonesia ⋅ Anarchist Communalism in Theory and Practice in Imperial Japan, c. 1920-1930 ⋅ ASIA AND EUROPE: MAKING RACE SCIENCE AND RELIGIOUS MINORITY

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⋅ Baguio City in Metaphors: Language in the History of a Twentieth-Century Mountain Resort, Northern Philippines ⋅ Belonging in the Empire: Imperial Citizenship and the Peranakan Chinese of the Straits Settlements, 1912-1937 ⋅ Beware of the ‘Cat’s Eyes’! Spain’s Militaristic Approach to China and its Consequences (Late-16th Century) ⋅ Bienvenido M. Gonzalez and the Shaping of a College of Agriculture: Its American and European Connection ⋅ Blending Visions from Outside and Inside: Some Descriptions of Asia in Chinese Geographical Sources of the Early 19th Century ⋅ Borders and clashes and the making of contemporary maritime Southeast Asia ⋅ Boyhood and Belligerence: Exploring the Birth Pangs of Paramilitarism in Late Colonial Indonesia ⋅ Brāhmaṇas in Ancient and Medieval period of Sri Lanka ⋅ Bridging Gaps, Creating Divides: South Asian Texts, Europe, and the 19th c. Politics of Translation ⋅ Brigandage on Ancient Northern China Tea Road: A Secret Communication Skills As a Peaceful Means of Exchange ⋅ Can Mix Really Match? The European Factor, the eclectic style and the Creation of Monument in Republican China. ⋅ Chinese in Europe (1919-1949) and their later activities In China ⋅ Civilization Envy in “All-Under-Heaven”: The Case of the Legends of “Principal Graduates of the Two Kingdoms” in Vietnam, the 18th-20th Century ⋅ Classical Allusions in the Tang Public Inscriptions: Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) ⋅ Colliding Trajectories: Governing Drugs in India between US Prohibition, Generic Drugs, and AIDS ⋅ Common Good” within the Euro-Asian intercultural dialogue: the singularity of Macau (16th-17th centuries) ⋅ Corruption and collaboration: The emergence of moral bureaucracy in colonial South Asia. ⋅ Covering Up Colonialism: Britain’s Destruction of Inconvenient Records across Asia ⋅ Currency, Mints, and Financial Agents: Instruments of War and State Making in Eighteenth- Century India ⋅ Diaries as a source for colonial history of North-East India ⋅ Disaster Imperialism: Interpreting and Utilizing Hazards for Empire Building in Colonial Southeast Asia ⋅ Drinking Milk, Changing Attitude: The Evolution of Human-Cattle Relationship in Modern China, 1870s-1937 ⋅ Economic thought in early 20th century Japan and Poland: a joint study and Marxian influence ⋅ Edouard Chavannes and Tang Zaifu : Did Chavannes traslate the Sima Qian's Shiji under the certain person? ⋅ Edouard Chavannes’s studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris and his scientific preparation for sinological research ⋅ ENCOUNTER BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE: WOMEN’S QUESTION IN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLONIAL INDIA ⋅ Eurasian Route of Diplomacy: Foreign Envoys to China through Offering Tributes and Pilgrims in the Northern Wei Dynasty (CE 386-584) ⋅ Europe in Chinese History textbooks - What is told in Chinese Schools about Europe and Europeans ⋅ European Enlightenment Medical Science and Local Filipino Health Practices in Jose Rizal’s Life and Writings

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⋅ European Experience, Chinese Application: Creating a National Health System of State Medicine, 1920s-1940s ⋅ European History and Confucian Value in Vietnam, 1877-1932 ⋅ Europeans beyond the Rapids: Late Colonialism at the Upper Mahakam, East Borneo ⋅ Exploring Surnames as Local History: The Case of Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines ⋅ Exploring the Scientific Appropriation of Blood-Type Research in Interwar Japan ⋅ Exporting Self-Reliance and Opposing Social Imperialism: Chinese Economic and Ideological Programs in West Africa Before the Cultural Revolution ⋅ Fashioning Self-Identity: Chinese Communities in Early Twentieth Century Singapore ⋅ From Asia to Portugal: Labor, Religiosities and Everyday Life of Asian Populations in Lisbon (16th and 17th centuries) ⋅ From the Arctic to China: The Swedish Role in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Archaeological Advancements ⋅ Frontier experiences: religious heterodoxies at luso-indian Konkan and (16th and 17th century) ⋅ Gender, Nationalism and Citizenship: Experiences and Questions from Colonial India ⋅ George Fernandes: A Life in Indian Politics ⋅ Ghosts of Prohibition Past and Present: History and Alcohol Policy in India ⋅ Global Cold War and China's International Propaganda during the Korean War: The Case of the Germ-Warfare Allegation against the U.S. ⋅ Governmentality of ‘piety’ in Pakistan: The role of state institutions in 1973 constitution ⋅ HANDMADE MODERN - THE NATION IN THE MAKING _ The rise and fall of Thailand’s Architectural Spring 1957-1976 ⋅ Hate Speech or Free Speech?: Muslim Identities in Britain and India in the 1920s-40s ⋅ Historical revisionism of Martial Law in the Philippines: A multimodal analysis of social sciences textbooks ⋅ History-writing and the Democratization of the Past in Japan, 1945-1955 ⋅ Hot off the Press: Printing, Historical Criticism and Factional Discourse in Song China ⋅ Human Nature and Governance -- Politics, Policy and Political Philosophy in Late Northern Song ⋅ Hungarians Talk Homeward from the Celestial Empire: Voices in the Hungarian Press on China and the Chinese ⋅ Ideological Dichotomies in Thai representations of Vietnam during the Cold War Period, 1955- 1977 ⋅ Imagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Woman Fighter in Republican China ⋅ Impact of the Mughal ideas on Military and Courtly culture of Garhwal (1658-1757) ⋅ India and the world : a 19th century perspective from Udaipur ⋅ Indian structures, Sikkimese processes: on being unprepared for the (Indian) Nation'. ⋅ Indonesian National History Books Published during the Japanese Occupation ⋅ Influence of western idea and environmental management over environmental problems in Thailand from late 19th Century to late 20th Century ⋅ Inspiration and Lessons for China: Chen Xujing's View of Siam ⋅ Intellectual Interconnection between Indonesian and Malay Nationalists ⋅ Interactions between Association and the Tourism Industry in Yokohama Chinatown ⋅ Internationalizing Anti-Colonial Networks: Interwar Paris as the Bridge of Indonesian Independence Movement ⋅ Is the word ‘Brazil' Asian? A dialogue between Latin American scholarship and French Orientalism on Asian history in the 19th century ⋅ Jacobean Travel and Visions of the , 1600-1620

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⋅ Japan in South Manchuria in the 20th of the XX century ⋅ Japanese Blood in the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese Border War: Isao Takano and Vietnam ⋅ Japanese slavery through the lenses of European theologians ⋅ Kinship-based Interlocal Polity and the Deconstruction of Colonial Archives: A Study of Garo- Goalpara Borderland ⋅ Kuomintang Invasion of the Shan States: Emergence of the traditional suspicion of Siam (1950- 1963) ⋅ Late Ming Literary Network and Local Politics in Southern Fujian ⋅ LAW AND JUSTICE AT THE SENGOKU DAIMYO COURT (ON THE BASIS OF THE EVIDENCE OF «KOYO GUNKAN») ⋅ Liaquat Ali Khan: A Muslim Leader between East and West ⋅ Longing for Indies: Malay Letters from the Island of Exile (Ceylon) ⋅ Manchuria, Palestine, and Malaya: World View of Malay Nationalists during the 1930s ⋅ Mandala versus Carré: ⋅ Manusmriti and the Position of Shudras in Early India: Some Interpretations ⋅ Mekong Ganga Co-operation: A Giant Step towards Establishing Cultural and Religious Linkages between India and Vietnam ⋅ Migrations and Proprietorship in the Hizpanized Provinces of Northern Mindanao, 1746-1939' ⋅ Modern Russian historiography of the Mongol conquest of Iran and Central Asia: new ideas and approaches ⋅ Modernity and the City: 'Sporting Spirit' and the Portrayal of the 'Modern Malay' in 1930s Singapore ⋅ NEW LIGHT ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE KAIMUR DISTRICT, BIHAR WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS ANCIENT ROUTES ⋅ New Research on the Ancient Ceramics from Ladakh (Northern India) ⋅ Not Only an Agent of the Empire: Thomas Cook & Son and Colonialism in India, 1873-1947 ⋅ Notables, Foreign Concessions, and Modernity in Tianjin, China during the Early Republican Period ⋅ Occupied or colonized? Conceptual issues in studying the Japanese occupation of Malaya ⋅ One document, so many stories: the treasures you can find in libraries ⋅ Party, Ball, and Hostess: The Politics of Gender and Etiquette in Late Qing Diplomacy ⋅ Past and Present- The Traditional Textiles and Costumes of Maring Naga tribe of Manipur, India ⋅ PEAL OF A SPRING THUNDER': EXAMINING ADIVASI NARRATIVES OF THE NAXALBARI MOVEMENT IN NORTH BENGAL,1967-72 ⋅ Penology and criminology between Empires: writings on crime and punishment in the colonial Philippines ⋅ Performing Power in the Nineteenth Century World: The Qing Reaction to European Experiments in Monarchical Rule ⋅ Pippala leaf shape icon decoration on architectural materials in the Northern Vietnam ⋅ Political Strategies and Readers’ Responses in Collective Reading Rituals in Maoist China ⋅ Politics and Emotion in Sino-British Relations, 1901-1958 ⋅ Racialization boundaries in Indonesia during the Japanese Occupation in World War II ⋅ Recent discoveries in Mustang (Nepal): a prehistoric mortuary tradition ⋅ Regionalism and Cold War. The U.S. Involvement in Southeast Asia and the Origins of ASEAN, 1959-1967 ⋅ Re-invention of Hinduism in Colonial Gujarat: A Critical Analysis of Maṇilāl Nabhubhāī Dvivedī's Concept of Advaitism ⋅ Religious Transformation: Muslim Response to British Colonialism in South Asia ⋅ Remembering Chinese in Tjong A Fie Mansion and Tjong Yong Hian Gallery

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⋅ Remembering the Aceh Conflict, 1976-2005: Doing Memories of Violence among Conflict Survivors in Pidie and Gayo Highland ⋅ Repatriating the Indian Nationals Resident in Japan, 1940-1942 ⋅ Responses to and Representations of the Holocaust in India ⋅ Seeing the Capital: Infrastructure, Image, and Economy in Early Capitalist Bangkok ⋅ Seki Nyorai and the 'Good Daughter' of the Meiji Period ⋅ Seng Khasi Movement in North East India : A Cultural Resistance To Colonial Intrusion ⋅ Serving a New Imperial Master? The Catholic , Refugees, and Relief in Cold War Hong Kong ⋅ SHIMIZU YASUZŌ’S TRANSNATIONAL JOURNALISM IN EARLY 1920S BEIJING ⋅ Showcasing Asia to the World: Reviewing Culture, Commerce, Imperialism and Asian participation at the India Exhibitions in late nineteenth and early twentieth century ⋅ Slaves, and pedlars; Adjusting to early colonialism on Kisar Island, Maluku ⋅ Some jewels from documental collection of Russian antiquarian N.P. Likhachev (St. Petersburg) ⋅ Soviet Orientalism and Creating a New Image of Islam and Prophet Mohammad in Iran ⋅ Soviet Stakhanovites in China: Labour Emulations in Northeast China during the Civil War, 1945- 1949 ⋅ Students, Caste and Hindu Nationalism ⋅ Syrian Jacobites in Modern History ⋅ The Asian modernization under the missionary activities in the 19th century: How the Western missionary press influence on modern printing media in China and Siam. ⋅ The Assassination of William Pickering: a Microhistory of the Chinese Protectorate and Jurisdictional Conflict in Colonial Singapore ⋅ The Beginnings of Tourism in Vietnam ⋅ The Changes of Legal Governance for the Mongols in the Qing Dynasty:A study Based on the Livestock Penalty ⋅ The Changing Sailing Routes and Commodities in the US-Japanese Trade ⋅ The Chinese of Macau and the Portuguese Politic (1900-1925) ⋅ The Circulation of Medical and Hygiene Knowledge in Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation: Using Newspaper as the Main Reference ⋅ The conventual economy and the impasse about directors of the Convent of Santa Monica of Goa at the end of the 17th century ⋅ The Cosmopolitanism of Ethics and Place: Observations from the Writings of Korean and Vietnamese Activist Literati ⋅ The Cultural Politics of Crisis and Reform in Qing China, 1780s-1810s ⋅ The debate on the authenticity of Guwen Shangshu (Ancient Version of the Book of Documents) in Yuan and Ming China ⋅ The Discourse of Justice and the Idea of the Political in Iran ⋅ The Dutch and English Travel Writings on the East Indies in the Seventeenth Century: Ethnographical Practice ⋅ The Dutch legacy at Chinsurah in the Hooghly district of ⋅ The Dynamics of the cross-border trades and the traders of Northwestern Thailand, 1950s-2010s ⋅ The Forbidden City, Beijing: A Spatial Analysis ⋅ The Human World in a Pure Land: The Management Strategy of the Canton Buddhist Temple Haichuang in a Century of Sino-Western Contacts, 1770s-1870s ⋅ The Impact of International Law in Northeast Asia in the Middle and Late 19th Century---- an Positive Study Based on the Chinese Translations of Tongwenguan ⋅ The influences of Anarchism in China by Chinese Anarchists in France at the Beginning of the twentieth Century : A Transtextual and Transnational Study ⋅ The Institutionalization and Decolonization of Urban Land Ownership in Java (1906-1965)

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⋅ The International Committee of the Red Cross and Indonesia’s Political Prisoners of 1965: Neutral, Impartial and Independent? ⋅ The Jews of Goa: an under-studied phenomenon ⋅ The Making of Public Order in Late Colonial India: Mawaalis, Hooligans and Extraordinary Laws ⋅ The Mule Caravan Transportation and Development of Mining Industry on the Borderlands in Southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century ⋅ The Netherlands humanitarian aid to Vietnam, 1965-73 ⋅ The Pe̍h-oē-jī Romanization, , Knowledge Transmission, and Print Culture, 1865- 1895 ⋅ The Poor Can’t Save: Social Capital and the Moral Underpinnings of Thrift in Reformist Novels in Colonial north India ⋅ The rhetoric of paintings: Towards a History of Balinese ideas, imaginings and emotions in the period 1800 – 1940. ⋅ The role of student exchanges in the new beginning of the East German-Chinese relations in the 1980s ⋅ The University Oriental Studies in Russia: Its Centers, Development and Legacy (mid-18 th century – the 1930 s ) ⋅ The use of soft Power: Germany and France in Thailand from 1868-1910 ⋅ The Virtue of Politcal Moderation: A Tocquevillean Study on Democracy in Thailand ⋅ The visit of the Siamese embassy to the Dutch Republic (1608-10): impact and consequences ⋅ They Went ‘Native’: The Cases of Catherine Mary Heilemann and Marjorie Sykes ⋅ Town in Okmraccañ - Down Range of Ayeyawady River in Myanmar in the 19th Century ⋅ Translation, Comparative Begriffsgeschichte of “Right,” and the Opium Wars: Beyond Postcolonial Historiography and a New World History ⋅ Transmissions of mathematical knowledge: Reconstructions based on the numerical parameters of mathematical problems ⋅ Tribals in Unexpected Places: Mizo Travellers in the and Beyond (1870s-1930s) ⋅ UNDERSTANDING THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE SUBALTERNS : AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SYNCRETIC CULTURE OF BENGAL ⋅ Was our national hero patriotic? An empirical challenge to character determination in Philippine historical biography ⋅ Was there any Chinese Gandhi? Political pacifist participation and the 1948 National Assembly ⋅ What Does a Dragon Look Like? Appearance Politics in a Time of Usurpation ⋅ Whose ‘nation’ is it anyway? Reflections on the ‘nation’ in postcolonial South Asia ⋅ Women peasants and women’s activism on the Left in the early 1960s in Indonesia ⋅ Women's Criminality in Spanish Colonial Philippines ⋅ Working animals as mere ‘property’ ? Questioning its historical sufficiency: Case of ‘Military Transport Animals’ of colonial India ⋅ Writing the Environmental History of Palm Oil in Asia: Colonial Origins and Prospects

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PANELS

‘RELIGION, POLITICS, AND THE REPRESENTATION OF CHINESE WOMEN: TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES’

⋅ Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China:Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zetian (624-705) ⋅ From Mother Love to Spiritual Communities: The Political Vision in Xuelin’s Jixin ⋅ Mary C.K. Chang, Another Face of Zhang Zhujun? ⋅ Peace activism in the Women’s Movement in Republican China

“CHALLENGING HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF POST-1945 THAILAND AND VIETNAM”

⋅ “Socio-Political Visions and Commercial Realities in Provincial Thailand, late1940s-1970s” ⋅ “Deep Orientations: The Study of Vietnamese History and Literature in Hà Nội (1956-2006)” ⋅ “Sociability and Mutual Aid in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-75” ⋅ "Student Activists meet Underground Diplomats: Intersecting Histories in Thailand’s Democratic Interregnum, 1968-1976"

18TH CENTURY JOSEON, AND ANOTHER TYPE OF ‘MODERNITY’

⋅ Politics and Democracy ⋅ Family and Gender Equality-Dual aspects of the 18th century Joseon families, differences and discriminations- ⋅ Culture and Self-Consciousness -Self perception of one’s own identity-

A CENTURY OF MAY FOURTHS: LEGACIES, QUESTIONS AND REINTERPRETATIONS

⋅ So What Happened to Shandong? ⋅ “Our Responsibility”: Missionary school girls and the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai, 1917- 1929 ⋅ Everyone Says I Love Lu: The Spirit of a May Fourth Icon in 1956-7 ⋅ Challenging the Authorities or Being Loyal to the Party: Reinterpreting the May Fourth Spirit among College Students in 1957

A MEETING OF WORLDS: COLONIAL TOURISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ Tourist Encounters in Java’s Highlands: Race and Hegemony in Colonial Mountain Resorts ⋅ Planning of Colonial Tourism in French Indochina and Worldwide Development of Tourism in the Interwar Years ⋅ Imperial Lessons at Sea: Dutch Passenger Liners as Colonial Classrooms

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BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY IN EARLY POSTWAR JAPAN: NEW PERSPECTIVES

⋅ Soldier Souvenirs: American G.I. Shopping in Japan's Immediate Postwar Economy ⋅ Complicating the “Reverse Course” Narrative of Business Reform in Occupied Japan ⋅ Dissolution and Reorganization: The Case of Yasuda Zaibatsu ⋅ The Unavoidable Collapse of International Monetary Regimes: Postwar Japan and Bretton Woods ⋅ The Transition of Industrial Regimes in Early Postwar Japan

CHINA AT SKIN LEVEL. EUROPEAN CONFRONTATIONS WITH THE CHINESE WORLD (17TH-20TH CENTURY)

⋅ Deciphering the Chinese sphinx. Language and body as claves sinica (19h century) ⋅ The musk and the ginseng ⋅ Taming the Wild: Chinese Immigrant Labour and Rebellious Bodies in Colonial Southeast Asia

COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN PRACTICE: COMMISSIONERS, INTERMEDIARIES AND LOCAL OFFICIALS

⋅ Building Cultures of Legality: Colonial Commissions in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Indonesia ⋅ The Dynamic Registration of People, Property and Services in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka ⋅ Colonial self-legitimization among Dutch colonial officials in Maluku between 1700-1870 ⋅ Regulating Mobility in Eighteenth Century Cochin and Batavia

COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE TRAFFICKING OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS TO CUBA: ‘COOLIES’ IN CUBA, QING POLICIES, AND SPANISH INTERESTS

⋅ The Spanish Network of Interests Behind Chinese Immigration to Cuba ⋅ From Slavery to Freedom in the Lives of Chinese Coolies in Nineteenth Century Cuba ⋅ Spanish Colonial Rule and the forced Chinese migration to Cuba (1850s-1860s) ⋅ “Living Hells: How a late Qing author denounced the tragedy of Chinese coolies in Cuba”

CONFUCIAN APOLOGETICS IN THE WEST BEFORE WWII: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH

⋅ The Agenda of Chinese “Western ”: Some Remarks on a Trajectory ⋅ Defending Confucianism as a Tool for Imperial Japan: the Forgotten Works in the English language of Japanese Sinologists (1890–1945)Defending Confucianism as a Tool for Imperial Japan: the Forgotten Works in the English language of Japanese Sinologists (1890–1945) ⋅ To Keep or Abandon? Perspectives on Confucianism from Francophone Vietnamese Decolonial Thinkers ⋅ Interrogating the Silence of Korean Confucianism

51 CONNECTED THEATRES OF WAR: EARLY MODERN CONFLICT IN ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA AND ITS GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS

⋅ The Great Ambon War (1651-1657): aspects of a wide-reaching regional conflict in the Eastern Archipelago ⋅ Marriage, Tribute, and the Political Economy of Violence in Southern Philippines and Eastern Indonesia, c. 1600-1900 ⋅ The tides and clouded skies drifting over Java: trails and itineraries of warriors in the seventeenth century Southeast Asian archipelago ⋅ Anglo-Dutch Imperial Rivalry in the Banda Islands and Its Impact on Europe, 1609-1667

CONNECTIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STRATEGIES OF OVERSEAS CHINESE BUSINESS CONGLOMERATES IN COLONIAL SOUTHEAST ASIA (I)

⋅ Transnational Entrepreneurship in Contested National Imaginations: A Comparative Study of Tea Merchants in Japanese Taiwan and British Singapore, 1915-1942 ⋅ Tsutsumibayashi Kazue (1873-1938) and Japan’s Southward Advance from Taiwan ⋅ Life and Achievement of the Legendary Merchant Kwik Djoen Eng (Guo Chun-yang) (1860-1935): Based on Oral Interviews with His Descendants

CONNECTIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STRATEGIES OF OVERSEAS CHINESE BUSINESS CONGLOMERATES IN COLONIAL SOUTHEAST ASIA (II)

⋅ The Bank of Taiwan’s Southward Strategy with Overseas Chinese from the 1910s to the 1920s ⋅ Defying racial hierarchies and ethnic sentiments: the pigtail of Oei Tiong Ham ⋅ Turning crisis into opportunity: Aw Boon Haw’s expansion of business in the 1930s-40s

DISCIPLINE AND NOURISH: ON FOOD AND IDENTITY IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

⋅ How to Drink: Heteronormativity and Hierarchy in Wakakozake ⋅ Food, Identity, and Gender in Zainichi Korean Women’s Poetry ⋅ Ingrained Habits: The (Bio)politics of American Wheat Promotion and the Transformation of Japan Diet and Identity, 1956-1960 ⋅ The Making of a National Culinary Heritage: The Food Education Campaign in Japan

DIVIDE: PARTITIONS IN ASIA COMPARED

⋅ India's partition revisited: British motives and Anglo-American plans behind the great divide ⋅ The Kurdish Partition: between Internal Divisions and Geopolitical Influences ⋅ The Empire departs: The partitions of British India, Mandate Palestine, and the dawn of self- determination in the Third World ⋅ “Revisiting 1947 UNGA partition plan and the transformation of Jerusalem within the frame of settler colonialism” ⋅ “Cutting off the head […] to get rid of the headache”: some reflections on the domestic roots of India’s partition.

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DIVIDING THE SEA: MARINE RESOURCES AND FLUID BORDERS IN MODERN EAST ASIA

⋅ The Kuroshio Frontier, or: The Maritime Origins of Japanese Capitalism ⋅ China’s Ocean Reform: The People’s Fisheries and Socialist Reform in Coastal Villages, 1950-1976 ⋅ The "Great Acceleration" and the End of the Ocean as Japan’s "Great Common" (c. 1960s-1970s)

EDUCATIONAL DIVERSITY AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS IN COLONIAL ASIA, C. 1800-1950

⋅ Tracing the far-reaching connections of a reformist Islamic girls’ school in the Netherlands Indies ⋅ Students on a Mission: a global study of Christian higher education in India (1850s-1940s) ⋅ The Crisis in Seminaries and Indigenous in Central Vietnam (1920-1930)

EURASIANS’ MIDDLE GROUND TO POWER: CAPITAL, MOBILITY, AND THE MAKING OF COLONIAL ELITES

⋅ Macanese elites under Portuguese colonial regime: The rise and fall of Montalto de Jesus ⋅ Hong Kong’s ‘Portuguese’: The politics of being ‘not Eurasian,’ 1900-1945 ⋅ In-between worlds: Middlemen, Eurasians and nostalgia in Melaka’s Portuguese Settlement (West Malaysia) ⋅ Macanese and the “Senate”: Claiming ownership over urban governance

EUROPE IN ASIA, ASIA IN EUROPE: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF IMPLEMENTING THE IMPERIAL POLICY OF ACCULTURATION ON THE RUSSIAN-KAZAKH BORDERLANDS (XVIII - XIX CENTURIES)

⋅ Kazakh Steppe and the in the XVIII - XIX centuries: processes of acculturation ⋅ The development of new life strategies by the nomadic Kazakhs in the conditions of being in citizenship of the Russian Empire ⋅ as a means of acculturation: development of “Russian-alien" (inorodcheskie) schools in the Orenburg region in the middle of the XIX century ⋅ Intermediary activities of Armenian traders to strengthen Russian-Kazakh relations as an aspect of the imperial policy of acculturation (first half of the 19th century)

EUROPEAN SHADOWS IN JAPANESE OCCUPIED INDONESIA

⋅ A Europeanized Samurai Goes to Java ⋅ The Experiences of a Japanese Photographer in Jakarta: Indonesia as a Window onto Europe ⋅ Multinational Silver Screen Dreams: Films Screened in Java during the War ⋅ “Djiwa Baroe”: The Press during the Japanese Occupation of Java ⋅ Bilingual (Indonesian-Japanese) dictionaries, 1942-1943: New lexicographic perspectives or repackaging existing traditions?

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EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER COLONIALISM IN SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA (18TH-19TH CENTURIES)

⋅ Introduction. Studying the Everyday in Early Colonial Asian Contexts ⋅ Everyday Realities of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka ⋅ Of Honor and Defamation. Cross-Cultural Stepfamily Feuds in Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka ⋅ The Revolt of an Emancipated Slave. Colombo 1826 ⋅ Navigating Empire. The Mobility of Tamils Migrating to Malaya, 1860-1930

GOVERNANCE, POWER AND BUREAUCRACY IN 18TH -20TH CENTURY ASIA I

⋅ Governance, taxation and paper culture in India, 1760-1860 ⋅ French colonial legacies and communist statecraft in Indochina ⋅ The colonial tax state. Fiscal programming as example of local state development in colonial Indonesia, 1870-1940 ⋅ Mapping Colonial Mongolia in the 19th Century: Territorial Transformations and Shifting Power Structures

HANSEN’S DISEASE IN COLONIAL SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ Re-Picturing Colonial Benevolence: Portraits of Persons Afflicted with Hansen's Disease in British Malaya ⋅ The Peril of Hansen’s Disease: Management of the Disease in French Indochina, 1900-1940 ⋅ Victor Heiser, Hansen’s Disease and the Development of Modern Medicine in the Philippines and Southeast Asia

HISTORICAL RUPTURES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS: THE STUDY OF TAIWANESE INTELLECTUALS AND LOCAL ELITES ACROSS 1945

⋅ Where Have all the People Gone: Social Changes and Social Mobility across 1945 in Taiwan ⋅ The Cultural Nexus of Modern Taiwanese Intellectuals: the Case of Yang Zhaojia（1892－1976) ⋅ Surviving Political Change: Taiwanese Religious Confucians after the Second World War ⋅ Mapping Conceptual Development and Ideological Camps in the Early Post-war Taiwan: Combining Semantic Network Analysis and Social Network Analysis Perspectives

IMAGINING CHINA IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

⋅ Tangible China: material culture and perceptions of China in the seventeenth-century Netherlands ⋅ Just Like Zhou: Four Chinese Visitors to the Netherlands (1600-1705) and their Cultural Representation ⋅ Printing and publishing China in the Dutch Republic 1595-1700

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INDONESIAN MARXISM AND THE FORCES OF GLOBAL EMANCIPATION (I)

⋅ Indonesian localizations of the International Marxist language of class 1918-1933 ⋅ Women in the Rise of Indonesian Communism ⋅ By God’s Grace: Islamic Socialist visions of an Indonesian National Awakening ⋅ Who is the Renegade: The -Alimin-Musso Debate over Trotskyism

INDONESIAN MARXISM AND THE FORCES OF GLOBAL EMANCIPATION (II)

⋅ ‘Untimely resistance’ and the spectre of anarchism in the Dutch Indies, 1914-1926 ⋅ Indonesian Socialists and Political Freedom for the ‘Third World’ at the Asian Socialist Conference, 1947-1957 ⋅ Polycentric Leftist Internationalisms and The Indonesian Left in the 1950s-1960s ⋅ Aidit's ghost: from Indonesian communism to Philippine Maoism

INSTITUTIONS OF IMPERIAL DOMINATION

⋅ Re’constructing’ Labour Relations: Modified Labour Institutions in Famine-Relief-based work in Colonial India c.1870-1914 ⋅ Fighting for Islamic Legitimacy: The People Democratic Party of Afghanistan and the ‘Muslim World’, 1978-1988 ⋅ ‘An anomaly among anomalies’: India in the League of Nations and the Third ⋅ Near East Foundation’s rural education programs in Iran during the Cold War ⋅ The Early History of the Financial Capitalism in Shanghai: The Shanghai Stock Exchange as a New Type of Financial Institution in Late Qing Dynasty

INVENTING EXPERTISE IN CHINA: TASTE, LAW AND FUTURE, 1600 ONWARDS

⋅ Legalizing Customary Rules for Modernity: Native Bankers’ Interpretation of Law and Custom in Early Republican China ⋅ Inventing Expertise for Taste: The Emergence of Gourmets in Early Modern China, 1600-1800 ⋅ Fashioning Newness for Future: Innovative State and Its Governed Modern Professionals

JAVA IN GLOBAL HISTORY

⋅ Javanese Builders and European Architecture: Forgotten Pioneers of Indonesia’s Building History (16th-early 19th c.) ⋅ Mapping Javanese Settlement Agglomerations in Regional and Global Context ⋅ What’s in a śāsana? Discerning religious identities through a group of juridical texts in Sanskrit and Old Javanese ⋅ What Europeans Knew About Java In The Middle Ages

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KNOWLEDGE IN MOTION: GLOBAL CIRCUITS, EVOLVING MEDIASCAPES AND NEW PEDAGOGY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINA

⋅ Everyday Expertise in 1920s China: Creating Common Knowledge in an Era of Global Manufacturing ⋅ Please Don’t Laugh: Learning to speak a “Common Language” in 1950s China ⋅ Interrogating “Knowledge” in Mao’s China: The Strange History of the Knowledge Series ⋅ Itinerant Knowledge: Common Reading and Mass Politics in China’s Long Republic

LITERATURE AND THE ECONOMIC IN CHINA: ARTICULATING MORAL AND MARKET RECKONINGS

⋅ Pirated Identities and Oceanic Encounters on the Late Imperial Stage ⋅ The Decline and Tenacity of Official Status in Late Qing Exposé Novels ⋅ Unmasking the Market: 1920s Stock Exchange Exposé Fiction in the Failed Republic ⋅ “San Mao Studies Business” during the High Tide of Socialism

MAKING OF HINDU IDENTITY, IN AND AROUND

⋅ Defying Hindu Identity: Discourse of Twentieth-Century Dalit Intellectuals ⋅ An abuse of archaeology: A Case Study of B. B. Lal ⋅ Formation of Hindu-Muslim Identity among Indian Businessmen in the 1930-1940s ⋅ The Politics of Architecture under the Modi Government: Focused on Religious Buildings ⋅ Refinement of Hindu Identity in Hindi Satirical Drama in the Late 19th Century North India

NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN QING CHINA

⋅ Qing language primers on banner identity: Balancing between the Manchu Way and ? ⋅ Meanings of Frontiers to the Qing Travelers in Eighteenth-Century China ⋅ From Soldiers to Civilians: Finding Solutions for the Economic Crisis of Manchuria’s Bannermen ⋅ Rewriting Borderlands and Reconstructing Identity in Late Qing China: History Textbooks in Manchuria during the New Policies

NEW INSIGHTS INTO TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN EAST ASIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE

⋅ Collective Memory and Propaganda as Transitional Justice in the Process of De-Maoization ⋅ Investigation of cannibalism as a War Crime after World War II in the Asian-Pacific region ⋅ Collaboration or war crimes? The trial of Taiwanese in Rabaul, April 1946 ⋅ Crimes against humanity: a neglected concept within the Asian War Crimes Trials? ⋅ “As a soldier I am having fully clear conscience!” – The Singapore War Crimes Trials and the mind- set of a Japanese officer accused of responsibility for the Sook Ching Massacre

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NORTHERN ASIA PART I: HISTORY, ENVIRONMENT, AND CULTURAL RESOURCES IN NORTHERN ASIA

⋅ From Geography to Ethnography in Eighteenth-Century Northern Asia ⋅ Russian Academic Expansion in the Far East: Richard Maack’s Expedition to the River (1855- 56) ⋅ The Unmixing of Peoples in the Russian Far East: Colonialism, Environment, and Empire, 1860- 1940 ⋅ The Land of the Future: Ethnographic Knowledge and Transcultural Cooperation in the Yakut Region, 1894-1919 ⋅ Historical Data on Languages in Witsen’s Noord en Oost Tartarye and Comparison with Present- Day Endangered Languages

OLD ISSUES, NEW CHALLENGES: SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL MANAGEMENT IN EARLY IMPERIAL CHINA

⋅ Individual Responsibility in the Qin and Early Han Empires ⋅ Number and Eco-political Discourse in Early Imperial China ⋅ Demographic War during the Western Han Empire

PALAEOGRAPHIC DIMENSIONS OF SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIAN INSCRIPTIONS

⋅ Palaeography of Ritual Siddham inscriptions in China ⋅ Doorframes and Stelas: Physical Features of Cambodian Inscriptions ⋅ Irregularities in the Lists of Subjects, Peasant Communities and Taxes in Pāla Copper-Plate Grants ⋅ A Study on Truong Han Sieu, a Confucian Scholar's Inscriptions in Buddhist Sites

POLITICAL ECONOMY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS IN INDIAN HISTORY

⋅ Property Rights in Inscriptions and Literary Sources of Ancient and Early Medieval India ⋅ Losing Customary Rights, Losing Life: Adivasis’ encounter with colonial modernity in Hyderabad State ⋅ DECLINE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS AND PEASANT INSECURITY IN COLONIAL ANDHRA ⋅ Nature of Land Assignments and Property Relations in Nizam’s Dominions during Colonial India

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PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND EURO-ASIAN CONNECTIVITIES IN THE 18TH-CENTURY PHILIPPINES: REVISITING COLONIAL STATE CONSOLIDATION

⋅ Serving an imperial agenda? Manuel de Agote’s Diarios and the production of Spanish knowledge on the Canton trade ⋅ Viana’s 1765 “Demostración del Miserable estado de las islas Filipinas”: An economic report on the Philippines as an example of knowledge production for colonial governance?Viana’s 1765 “Demostración del Miserable estado de las islas Filipinas”: An economic report on the Philippines as an example of knowledge production for colonial governance? ⋅ A Threatened Colony: The Discursive Construction of the Philippines in the Writings of 18th- Century Friars ⋅ Pedro Murillo Velarde and East Asian Perceptions of the Spanish Philippines

PROVINCIALIZING DISABILITY RIGHTS. TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES OF DISABILITY IN ASIA

⋅ Localising the social model – The contestation for disability rights in Singapore, 1981-1989 ⋅ Taking their rightful place in society – Swedish development projects and disability in Asia ⋅ From welfare to rights? The Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities 1993 – 2002 ⋅ Tracing Asian Influences of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

REIMAGINING THE ASIA-PACIFIC WAR: COMPETING VIEWS FROM JAPAN, AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA

⋅ Japanese medical personnel in the Papua New Guinean campaign of the Asia-Pacific War ⋅ Standing together as one? The role of in relationships during the Pacific War ⋅ WWII and global mobilities: Solders as mobile subjects through the ATIS Interrogation Reports ⋅ A Journey to the Archipelago: Shimao Toshio and Transnational Imagination of Place in Cold War Japan

RETHINKING THE PROCESS OF : TRANSFORMATION OF RELIGION AS REFLECTED IN JAVANESE TEXTS

⋅ Sunan Bonang’s teaching: Theology and Sufism in 16th century Java ⋅ Two Perceptions of Royal Response to the Introduction of Islam in Malay and Javanese Literary Narratives ⋅ Not by the Sword? The grand narrative of Java’s Peaceful Islamization in Contemporary Comics ⋅ Religious change in Java as reflected in the Suluk Panĕpen

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REVISITING THE ARCHIVAL VESTIGES OF THE COLD WAR IN EAST ASIA

⋅ The traces of Cold War Broadcasting in East Asia: The potential and limits of the VOA Chinese broadcast scripts ⋅ Contested Chineseness and the Musical Third Sister Liu in Hong Kong and Singapore: Landscape, Folk Songs and the Cold War Politics in AsiaContested Chineseness and the Musical Third Sister Liu in Hong Kong and Singapore: Landscape, Folk Songs and the Cold War Politics in Asia ⋅ Escaping from the Communists and then from the Anti-Communists: A Prisoner’s Journey from Southwest China to Korea, India, and Argentina ⋅ The Hidden War Between the ROC and the PRC; Mainland Operations of the ROC’s Military Intelligence Bureau

RITES AND COSMOLOGY, EAST AND WEST: A STUDY OF CROSS-CULTURAL TRANSMISSIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF RELIGIOUS AND COSMOLOGICAL TRADITIONS

⋅ “Rites” or “religion”? Chinese traditional ceremonies regarded by European missionaries and by ⋅ A Case of Transmission of Cartographic Knowledge: Japanese World Maps of late 18th and early 19th Century ⋅ Who were Chinese “Catholics” in Qing China? A study on the consideration of European missionaries, Qing government and Chinese converts

RIVALRY AND COMMUNICATION: NEW APPROACHES TO GLOBAL ASIAN MISSIONARY LINKS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

⋅ Diego Collado’s Prospects and Projects : Dominican-Jesuit Disputes over the "Vineyards of Japan" in 1620s ⋅ Consequential Information Clusters Visible in Jesuit Reports on Martyrs and Apostates in the Fading Japanese Mission ⋅ Achieving Unity?: Catechisms by Missionaries among Orders in 17th Century China ⋅ Varo’s Shengjiao mingzheng: Its Appearance and Reappearance in East Asia from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

SEARCHING FOR MODERNITY - REINTERPRETING THE EUROPEAN CULTURE IN THE CHINESE CONTEXT

⋅ On the Role of the French Revolution in the Debate between Constitutionalists and Revolutionaries in Late Qing China ⋅ The Passage to Europe and the Chinese Perspective of Zheng Zhenduo: A Case Study of the Travel Writings of the Republican PeriodThe Passage to Europe and the Chinese Perspective of Zheng Zhenduo: A Case Study of the Travel Writings of the Republican Period ⋅ The Wonderful World of Jules Verne before the Dazzled Eyes of Chinese Translators ⋅ ‘Transplanted Terms’ Lost in Translation: A Reflection on Contemporary Philosophy in China

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SOCIAL MEMORY AND WAR COMMEMORATION DURING THE OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, 1945- 1952

⋅ Public statuary during the occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 ⋅ Remembering the Japanese War Dead under SCAP: Consent and Censure ⋅ Hiroshima Protests, Nagasaki Prays: Rebirth vs. Continuity in Early Postwar Atomic Bombing Memorialization Discourse ⋅ Kojima Nobuo’s The American School and Postwar Education

SPATIAL VIGNETTES: COMMUNITY, NATION, GEOGRAPHY

⋅ The Manuscript Economy and the Reading Community in Early Modern India ⋅ Image Publics in Late-Colonial India ⋅ Geographies of Buddhist Relics in post second World War Asia ⋅ The Indian Constitution and the Ellipsis of the Nation

SUSTAINING THE PARASOL: THE PREMODERN STATE AND ITS SUPPORTS IN THERAVADA ASIA I

⋅ From Crown-Princeship to Vice-Royalty: An Institutionalist Perspective on the Premodern of Siam ⋅ Challenging the Master Story: King Kakavannatissa and the Southern Kingdom of Sri Lanka ⋅ From the coat of arms of the Cambodian crown (late 19th century) to the administrative structure of the Khmer kingdom (17th century) ⋅ Commercial Implications for Tai Polity-Building during the Pax Mongolica and the Age of Commerce

SUSTAINING THE PARASOL: THE PREMODERN STATE AND ITS SUPPORTS IN THERAVADA ASIA II

⋅ From Peasants to Peoples: The Emergence of New Legal Categories in the Kingdom of Ayutthaya ⋅ Religious Rivalries and Royal Power in Lan Na and Lan Xang ⋅ Technologies of the Buddhist Court - Sri Lanka, 1100-1400 ⋅ The Christian-Buddhist Disputes over Killing Animals in 17th-18th Century Siam: Doctrine, Identity and Violence

THE CHANGING IMAGE OF JAPAN ON THE STAGE AND IN LITERATURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

⋅ Iam fraus liquescit: The Munich Victor Play and Jesuits as Purveyors of Information on Early Modern Japan ⋅ Through the Looking-Glass: Reflecting Models of Catholic Piety in Early Modern Plays about Japan ⋅ Changes in the Image of Japan after the Expulsion of the Catholic Missionaries in the early 17th century.

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THE HISTORY OF INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY - NEW APPROACHES

⋅ Old wine in new skins? Beginnings of ‘Nehruvian’ foreign policy ⋅ Pre-colonial Practices of Diplomacy and their Legacies in Colonial and Post-colonial India ⋅ India and the contested case of sovereignty in Goa, 1947-1961 ⋅ From the Margins to the Frontiers: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri's Public Diplomacy Tour of 1922 ⋅ Enacting India's Postcolonial Borders: Islam and the Establishment of Indian Diplomatic Relations in West Asia

THE KINGDOM’S MIGHTIEST LIMB? THE ROLES OF COURTIERS IN SOUTH INDIA, 15TH-19TH CENTURIES

⋅ State Legitimation in Fifteenth-Century Diplomatic Correspondence between South and West Asia ⋅ Of Monks and Kings: Vyasatirtha as an Agent of Vijayanagara Royalty ⋅ The Powers of Courtiers in the Vijayanagara Successor States ⋅ The Rise and Fall of Hindu Scribal Castes in the Nawabi Carnatic ⋅ The Women of Tipu Sultan’s Court under East India Company Rule

TRACING THE POLITICAL LEGACIES OF TRANSWAR EAST ASIA

⋅ Transwar/Postcolonial Intersectionality: Decolonization and the Legacies of Wartime Colonial Mobilization in South Korea, 1945-1950 ⋅ Anticolonial Fascism: Japan and the Making of the Indonesian Army ⋅ The Guomindang’s Transwar Anticommunism: “People’s Livelihood” in 1950s Taiwan ⋅ The Transwar History of Criminal Rehabilitation in Japan, 1920s-1960s.

TRANSNATIONAL ADVOCACY SCHOLARSHIP: NGO KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ASIA

⋅ The Death of Chut Wutty: The Emergence of a New Cultural and Political Protagonist of 21st Century Cambodia ⋅ Biodiversity Conservation, NGO and Philippine Environmental Knowledge ⋅ Advocacy, Human-Rights NGOs, and the Making of Anglophone East Timor Studies ⋅ NGOs, Sharia, and Marriage in Bangladesh

TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS HISTORY IN CHINA: BANKING, SHIPPING, TRADING

⋅ Rice Shipping Trade in (1880s-1914) ⋅ One Belt, One River’: Maritime and Inland River Trade in and Guangxi Provinces (1900s-1920s) ⋅ Keeping China Out of the War: German Bankers, Political Risk and the First World War in China

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VISUAL MATERIALS IN CHINESE LOCAL GAZETTEERS.

⋅ Urban transformation and visual representation in Chinese local gazetteers. ⋅ Frontier Settlements and Modern State-Building in Late Imperial and Republican China ⋅ Images of rituals and ritual objects in local gazetteers. ⋅ Technology, information and application: Western technology in gazetteer maps from late Qing and Republican China

WARSCAPES' IN MEMORY FRAMES: ENGAGING WAR THROUGH ORAL NARRATIVES

⋅ The Polyphony of Remembrance and the Challenges of Internationalizing Experience ⋅ Japan's Lost War: Capturing ⋅ Sharing Le Japon en guerre 1931-1945 with France and the World

PHD PITCH ⋅ Chinese incorporation process into the capitalist world-economy 1780s-1890s ⋅ Colonial drug policies in the Philippines, 1800-1935 ⋅ Constructing East Timor: History, Identity, and Place, 1850-1999 ⋅ Elements of Continuity between Chinese Mathematical Writings from the 13th Century to the 15th Century: Comparing Mathematical Methods (1261 CE) and Great Compendium (1450 CE) ⋅ GOVERNMENTALITY IN PAKISTAN: A STUDY OF COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY (1956-1988) ⋅ History of the foundation of Japanese language school in postwar Japan ⋅ Negotiating Development through AIDS: Contesting the Post-Liberalisation Indian State in Disease Control and Health, 1983 to 2017

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Governance, power and bureaucracy in 18th -20th century Asia II ⋅ The Bay of Bengal, Perspectives Across the Disciplines 1 - Cosmopolitan Connections

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KNOWLEDGE AND PHILOSOPHY

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ A ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN FORMING ‘SOCIAL PLACE’. CASE: KAMPUNG ALLEY IN SURABAYA, INDONESIA ⋅ Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty ⋅ Japanese Culture in Words & Images

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ Between Han and Song Learning: The Integrative Approach of Jiao Xun ⋅ Censorship and the Making Literary Canons in 18th century Korea ⋅ Comparative Study on Human Nature: Kantism and Korean Neo-Confucianism ⋅ Dialogic Anthropology of Japan: The Wagatsuma Legacy ⋅ Globalization's 'Labour alienation' of Asian women ⋅ Integrating Buddhist thought into the reading of the Daode jing: Cheng Xuanying’s Daode jing kaiti xujue yishu (7th century CE) ⋅ Intercultural Humanism in Eurasia ⋅ Learning in Confucian pedagogy: A defense of the “Chinese learner” ⋅ Lesson from the Past, Knowledge for the Future: Mythical Narratives of Earthquake and Tsunami in Mentawai - Indonesia ⋅ Methodologies in Research on Chinese ‘Face’: Significance and Future Perspectives ⋅ Moral Questions: Human Nature and Moral Agency in Chinese Traditions ⋅ Natural philosophy and the popularization of knowledge in late seventeenth and early eighteenth- century Japan ⋅ Philosophy and encyclopedism in nineteenth-century Spain: losses and caesuras in the Spanish translation of Diderot’s “Philosophie Des Japonois” ⋅ Realism, Pluralism, Incommensurability: a Jain Perspective on the Problem of Truth in Contemporary Realist Philosophy ⋅ Relating to Heaven: Philosophical Lifestyles in Early Chinese Thought ⋅ Rethinking the law: lessons from Gross National Happiness - Bhutan ⋅ Vedic sabda and contemporary scientific approaches ⋅ What's Tort Got to Do with It? The Imprint of Confucian Thought into Chinese Tort Law ⋅ Zhuangzi 莊子 and Descartes on aesthetic knowledge

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‘CONTESTING PHILOSOPHY: ASIAN ARGUMENTS’

⋅ Digging Up the Roots of the World: Jīva’s Bhedābheda Vedānta and the Quest for Hindu 'Metaphysics' ⋅ Past and Future of Jain Philosophy in Europe ⋅ Philosophy and Religion: Buddhist Arguments and Agreements ⋅ "The State of Chinese Philosophy in Europe and the Future of Global Knowledge Production"

PHD PITCH ⋅ Acceptance and situations beyond human control in the Zhuangzi ⋅ Forms of the Wind: Air and Atmosphere in modern Japanese Aesthetics (PhD Pitch)

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Indonesian-Dutch scientific cooperation: Results from the SPIN programme ⋅ Interdisciplinary futures in Indonesian - Dutch Scientific Cooperation: Projects from the ANGIN programme ⋅ Transformation of Higher Education and its Challenges in Asia and Europe

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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902-1910

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ “Desire does not become his noble head” – The Indian Trope of Switching Heads in the Works of Thomas Mann and Marguerite Yourcenar. ⋅ Ethnography of Speaking and Digital Humanities with the Pala’wan, an Animist Culture in Islands Southeast Asia ⋅ European Cities in Indonesian Popular Fictions ⋅ (re)Reading Muslim in Philippine “Canonical” Short Fiction ⋅ ‘A Good Interpreter’: King Vajiravudh’s bilingual translations from ‘L'Anglais Tel Qu'on Le Parle’ and the Thai monarchy’s cultural project in the colonial era ⋅ ‘We did not adopt but adapt Hangeul’: The Cia-Cia’s Ongoing Challenges and Expanding Potential ⋅ “Race”, “surroundings” and “epoch” in Zhou Zuoren’s History of European literature and The Origin of new Chinese literature - Taine and Zhou Zuoren’s historiographical writings ⋅ “Words Expressed in Ideal Forms”: William Stukeley (1687-1765) on the Chinese Language ⋅ A Genre of Importance: Revisiting Tang Fu-poetry ⋅ A reinterpretation of Iki : An analysis of the Heart of Iki’s representations in Tōri Sanjin’s 'Tokaku ukiyo ha kokoro iki' ⋅ A Study of the Biographies written by Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff in the Perspective of 'World- China' ⋅ ANALYZING DISASTER CAMP MANAGERS’ REPORT NARRATIVES: FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE ON CONFLICT-INDUCED DISASTER DISPLACEMENT ⋅ Asia and Europe (via Africa). Asia in Europe (via Africa): Identifying Taiwan in the Spanish and Catalan Translations of San Mao’s 'Stories of the Sahara' ⋅ Auto-theory: “Languaging” in Rey Chow’s Not like a Native Speaker ⋅ Capitalism, Materialism, and Convenient Store: Murata Sayaka's Konbini Ningen ⋅ Children’s Republic: Chinese Bildungsroman as National Allegory ⋅ China regain Freedom: Art-Literature for the People, by the People, of the People ⋅ Chinese “regular” xiēhòuyǔ: the true elegant yǎ-type idiomatic expressions ⋅ Chinese Martial Arts Fiction Translation in Thai Society: the pervasiveness of the genre ⋅ Chinese Science Fiction Literature: An Aftermath of Historical Traumas ⋅ Chineseness and DeChinalisation in Literature ⋅ Church Sanskrit' Literature and John Muir (1810-1882)' ⋅ City daughters, female monsters: Noir and the Female Body in Contemporary Philippine Dark Fiction ⋅ Constructing patriotism and imaging the enemy: The Cold War propaganda in literature of Kuomintang Newspapers ⋅ Cosmopolitanism and world literature during the Chinese Cultural Revolution ⋅ Counter Discourses to Sex Binarism in May Fourth Literary Feminism ⋅ Cultural Encounters: Delinking from Modernity/ Coloniality in A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers ⋅ Dialogue and exchange in Jose Maria Sison’s The , The Leader’s View ⋅ Different Translation Strategies between Chinese and Foreign Translators in Chinese Drama Classics Translation

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⋅ Dueling Discourse: Roland Barthes and Eroticized Male Rivalry in Abe Kazushige's 'Amerika no yoru' ⋅ Engaging Europe: Appropriation of European Thought Structures and Aesthetic Regimes in the “Progressive-Modernist” Phase of Modern of South Asian Poetry ⋅ Ethnicity and Imagined Indonesia in Literature and Political Discourse ⋅ Europe in Contemporary Vietnamese Literature ⋅ Feminist Approaches to Reflecting on the Cultural Revolution – Contextual and Textual Study on Literary Works by Chinese Female Writers in 1990s ⋅ From Commercial Purposes to the Reconstruction of Reading Taste: A Case Study of Vietnamese Feuilletons in the Early 20th Century ⋅ From Desk to Stage—the Dissemination of Honglou meng in the Case of Tanci Kaipian ⋅ From yuefu to gexing, study of the nature of a Chinese musical poetry from 3rd to 7th centuries ⋅ Globalization and Colonial Memory: Indonesian Travel Literature on Europe since the Reform Era ⋅ History and Epics in “Kitab-i dedem Korkut”: Oghuz conquest of Anatolia as a heroic memory ⋅ Identity and Nostalgia: Ha Jin and the Importance of Exile ⋅ Imaginary Hometowns: Exile and Nostalgia in Selected Anglophone Literature about Calcutta ⋅ Interaction between Western Translations of Book of Changes and Exegetical Traditions in China ⋅ Kagerō Diary: Poetry as an Emotional Practice of a Medieval Japanese Noblewoman ⋅ Language Ideology and Language Maintenance in Taiwanese Families ⋅ Language Reform and the Making of Journalistic Prose in Malayalam ⋅ Local Advaita Vedānta Monastic Tradition in the Topographies of Keralan Hagiographies ⋅ Los misterios de ciudad: Unfolding the mystery of a European classic through the rubric of an Asian translator ⋅ Mediating “Interior Landscapes”: The Shadow of Poetry and Chinese Photography ⋅ Men in/and the Feminist Movement in Vietnam in the Early 20th Century ⋅ Monster Tales: The Abnormal in Imperial China ⋅ , Urbanisation and Migration: Signs of nativism in policies of the Chinese state ⋅ Negotiating Identity in European Shores: A Post-hybrid Reading of In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri ⋅ Negotiating the “Fatalities of Existence”: Rajbanshi Poetry and the Contours of Memory, History and Identity ⋅ New aspects of the quotation in Character Type Kwukyel with Interpretation in the “Merciful Bodhimanda: Buddhist Teaching for Repentance” ⋅ New Pedagogies for Lifelong Learning in Multicultural Society: A Case Study of Urdu Literature in Pakistan ⋅ Overcoming a Literary Bias to Activate a Sensorial Urban Public: Eileen Chang’s Textual Remediation of Theatrical and Cinematic Spaces ⋅ Portrait of a city through its people – Unravelling colonial & postcolonial Calcutta in the fiction of Sunil Gangopadhyay ⋅ Post-1975: Franco-Cambodian and Franco-Vietnamese Identities ⋅ Postfeminism, Love and the Working Girl in Hayashi Mariko’s Novel Anego ⋅ Reading and Hearing from Badai’s novel: the language politics and the accent of narrating a story ⋅ Reading Subaltern Voices: Dalit Narratives vs. Australian Aboriginal Narratives ⋅ Remembering Nagaland in Easterine Kire’s Fictions ⋅ Remo's Quest for Identity : A Study of Bonda, Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group ⋅ Reverse Colonialism and the Post-Colonial Spaces ⋅ Rhyme & Reason in Classical Chinese Prosody: Restructuring “Middle Chinese” Rhymes ⋅ Sanskrit at CASS ⋅ Self-expression through Poetry in the work of Yu (1611-1680)

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⋅ Sinitic Brushtalk: Classical Chinese as a Written Lingua Franca in Premodern East Asia ⋅ Studied in Social Realism: Decoding the Truth and an Aura of Reality in Select Indian Poets writing in English ⋅ Sufi Cosmopolitan and Malay Poetics: Exploring Prior Text in the Vernacularized Poems of Hamzah Fansuri, c. 16th c. Malay World ⋅ The interpretation of Rām Kathā in the sociocultural perspective of Hindī mārxsvādī ālocnā (Hindī Marxist literary criticism) ⋅ The ‘Eastern Passage’ of ‘Western Learning’: Japanese Influence on Modern Chinese Culture and the New Intelligentsia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ⋅ The Complex of “Lu Xun” in Manchukuo's Literary Works: To Overcome Collaboration or Overcome by Modernity --A Case Study on GU Ding’ New Life ⋅ The Functions of the Wu Dialect in The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai ⋅ The Methods and Practice of Multiple Approach in Teaching Tones of Chinese ⋅ The Monkey Who Tears Down the Old Stronghold of Love: A Reexamination of the Image of Wukong in the novel Xiyou ji ⋅ The Performability of Opera in English through Translation ⋅ The Question of Identity in Literary Translation ⋅ The Stage of Yuan Zaju: questions of performing arts in some Yuan Zaju through the viewpoints of Western theatres ⋅ The Story of Antistory: South Asian fiction and the dismantling of the historical narrative ⋅ The symbol of female ghost in Vietnamese medieval literature as a discourse of morality and free love. ⋅ The Transcultural Negotiation of the concept of “Revolutionary Literature” in Russia, Japan and China in the late 1920s ⋅ The Utopian Image of Latin America in Japanese Literature: Sensual Idealizations of Brazil by Yukio Mishima ⋅ The Weakening of "Yin": The Suicide and the Unpunished Endings of Wanton Women in Ming- Qing Fiction ⋅ Tragicomedy: Modern Love and New Women in Yang Jiang’s Translated “Comedy of Manners” ⋅ Training of Japanese linguists for Allied military intelligence during the Pacific War ⋅ Trouble Women，Trouble comedy：Li Jianwu’s Adaption of Lysistrata in Shanghai (1946) ⋅ Understanding Exegetical Dynamics: Measuring the Impact of Chinese Commentarial Traditions ⋅ Vulung and Palji: Paiwan symbols of values, resilience, and global cultural transference ⋅ What do we read when we laugh? A study of Kim Ae-ran’s work in translation ⋅ Wolf Totem and 21st-Century Chinese Ecological Fiction ⋅ Writing the History of Chinese Theater: Where and How to Begin? ⋅ Yan Lianke: Mythorealism as hermeneutics of nowadays Chinese absurd reality ⋅ Yu Hua and Kafka

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EAST-ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT: ON CULTURAL- LINGUAL INTERPRETATION AND LITERARY ADAPTATION

⋅ Language Ideologies in Gao Xingjian’s Literature: a Linguistic Anthropological Study of Chinese Diaspora Literature in Europe ⋅ Researching on The Story of the Stone in the English Speaking World— Metaphorical and Critical Discourse Analysis ⋅ The Value of Vagueness: Haruki Murakami and the European Canon

ESCAPING THE NORM(S): GENTLEMAN-THIEF, SOCIAL MOBILITY, AND RESHAPING HISTORIOGRAPHY IN MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE

⋅ "Race," "surroundings" and "epoch" in Zhou Zuoren's History of European Literature and The Origin of New Chinese Literature: Hippolyte Taine and Zhou Zuoren's historiographical writings ⋅ The Extraordinary Adventure of Arsene Lupin in China ⋅ From Le Mariage de Figaro to the Chinese adaptation of Li Jianwu: Case Study of the comedy Hao Shi Jin

FICTIONAL SENTIMENT AND SENTIMENTAL FICTION: EMOTION, PERFORMATIVITY AND ADAPTATION IN CHINESE AND JAPANESE FICTIONAL WRITINGS, 17TH - 20TH CENTURY

⋅ Feigning Jealousy: Performing and Regulating Emotion for Domestic Harmony ⋅ Presenting Qing in Male-Male Erotic Relationships — Reading the Illustrated Fiction Collection, Bian er Chai (Caps and Hairpins)Presenting Qing in Male-Male Erotic Relationships — Reading the Illustrated Fiction Collection, Bian er Chai (Caps and Hairpins) ⋅ Sentimental Subjectivity as Performance: Su Manshu’s Autobiographical Novella, “Duanhong lingyan ji” (The Lone Swan, 1912) ⋅ History, Memory and Sentimentality in Nakajima Atsushi’s (1909-1942) historical fiction, “Riryō”

FROM POEMS AND PLAYS TO PUBLISHING AND PEDAGOGY: TRANSLATION AS SOCIAL ACTION FOR BUILDING COMMON GROUND

⋅ Translating Feminist Writing in Local, National, and Transnational Contexts ⋅ Re-framing the Transnational Imagination: Code-Switching and the Ghazal Form in Paisley ⋅ Identity, Scholarship, and Translation: The case of Japanese Shakespeare and its Anglophone reception ⋅ Teaching with translation: Pedagogical implications of Sapir’s two-part definition of language ⋅ No Two-Way Current: Challenges in the Translation of Non-Mainstream Languages

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GENDER AND GENRE: TYPOLOGIES OF THE ARTIFICIAL HUMAN IN JAPAN

⋅ The Alchemy of Man-Made Babies: Artificial Reproduction as Origin Myth ⋅ Flesh, Unlimited? The Boundaries of Sentience and Artificial Life in Japanese Popular Science and Science Fiction, 1900-1937 ⋅ Illusions of Mastery, or Why Did Japanese Amateur Futurologists Dream of Synthetic Women? ⋅ ‘Nostalgic future?’ Techno-Animism and the Spiritual Intellectuals of the late 20th century

LOCATION OF COSMOPOLITANISM: INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS AND CULTURAL INNOVATIONS ACROSS ASIA AND EUROPE

⋅ The Temptation of Revolutionary China: Leftwing Cosmopolitanism of André Malraux, Mao Dun, and Riichi Yokomitsu ⋅ Life as Flowing: On Qu Qiubai and Li Dazhao’s Reception of Bergsonism ⋅ Technologies of Sound: Telephone and the Writing Experiment of Shanghai New-sensation School ⋅ Not at Home: City Spaces and Hong Kong Writers’ Self-Portrayals in the 1920s–1930s ⋅ Cross-border Encounters in the 1960s: Hong Kong Action Films by Japanese Directors

MAPPING THE AESTHETICS OF THE EMPIRE’S WATER WORKS: RIVERS, CANALS, DIKES, AND DAMS IN EARLY-MODERN AND MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE

⋅ The Global Aesthetics of an Early-modern Chinese Network: The Grand Canal in late-Ming Fiction, Dutch Mercantile Reports, and Jesuit Enlightenment Histories ⋅ The Great Flood： Sentiment and Water Management in The Travels of Lao Can ⋅ River Medium: On the Political Channels of Literature in Wartime China

UTOPIA TROUBLE IN SINOPHONE LITERATURE AND ART

⋅ A Touch of Toxicity: Eco-dystopianism in post-Mao science fiction ⋅ Is love and poetry all we need? Utopia troubles in Sheng Keyi’s Death Fugue ⋅ Coming of Age in Utopianism: De-worlding and Re-worlding in Ge Fei’s Peach Blossom Beauty ⋅ Deconstructing Utopia in Sinophone Malaysian Art ⋅ A Weeping Prophet: the Work of Mourning for the Troubled Utopia in Ling Yu’s Poetry

PHD PITCH ⋅ In the globalization process the influence of scientific and technical terms on the vocabulary of national languages ⋅ Postmodern Traces and Recent Hindi Novels

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MEDIA, COMMUNICATION, DIGITALIZATION

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ New Indian Nuttahs: Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ #ChangeisComing, The Silent Majority, Laban Leni (Fight Leni!) and #TayoangBukas (We are the Future): Social (media) movements in the 2016 Philippine Elections ⋅ “Great Life, Infinite Technology”: Xiaomi, China and the World ⋅ “Han Teacher in the Uyghur School”: Nation, Muslim, and Military Wives in Chinese State Propaganda ⋅ After Emmanuelle: Thailand in Contemporary European Film ⋅ An Imagined China: An Interpretive Anaysis of Five Chinese Documentaries ⋅ Calling Out Koreaboos: Policing the Desire and Ethnicity of Foreign 'K-Fans' ⋅ Celebrity Humanitarianism in Asia: Aadmir Khan’s Cosmopolitical Persona in Transmedia Space ⋅ Chinese Documentary as Cosmopolitan Narrative in Transnational Circulation: A Study of Two Documentary Films China's Van Goghs and Plastic China ⋅ Christianity and Chinese Media: the Inception of Chinese-English Daily Newspaper (1906-1909, Vancouver) ⋅ Consolidating, Negotiating or Undermining Legitimacy- Coverage of Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign in Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong Media ⋅ Conversations on connectivity in the Balkans. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” versus European initiative in the media ⋅ Cyberfeminism in the Arab Gulf States ⋅ Digital Campaigns: The role of social media in Indian elections ⋅ DIGITAL PENETRATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT: CASE STUDY "JOGJA ORA DIDOL" YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA ⋅ From Europe to Asia: Disinformation in an imported disinformation debate ⋅ Gender and Privacy on Locative Social Media Applications: How Do Young Women and Men Navigate Social Encounters with Strangers on WeChat in Urban China? ⋅ Home Space, Piracy and the Rise of Cinephilia in China ⋅ Importing the '': The Formation of the Anti-Refugee Discourse in South Korean Internet Space and the Role of German Far-Right Propaganda ⋅ Indonesian Digital Activism for Civic and Political Participation: The case of The Save KPK Movement and The ForBali Movement ⋅ Islamophobia on Indonesian Online Media: A Discourse Analysis ⋅ Malaysian Election Shock and its Framing in Online International Newspapers. ⋅ Mobile Rumoring as Civil Disobedience in contemporary China ⋅ Modality Analysis Focusing on the Utterance Form of Interview in 1970’s Japanese Television Documentaries ⋅ New Model of Transnational East Asian Cinemas: The Recent Cases of Japan-Taiwan Film Co- productions ⋅ Pakistani Cult Cinema: Genre, Reception, and Transnationalism ⋅ Performing fear – An ethnography of television production practices in Singapore ⋅ Piracy Culture in China: Manga as Transnational Art between Japan and China ⋅ Portrayals from the West and East Ends of Asia -- How China is represented by Al Jazeera English and China Global Television Network

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⋅ Producing South Asian Indigeneity: Media Infrastructures, Cultural Criticism and Everyday Romance through the Lens of a Santali Music Video ⋅ Rethinking Social Movements in the Digital Age: A Case Study of Digital Media Campaigns Shaping Feminist Movements in Bangladesh ⋅ Strategic Narratives in Sino-Japanese relations: the Chinese and Japanese media coverage of the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute ⋅ The brand-new theory of Information Society based on the case study of Bhutan ⋅ The Fourth Race with Supreme Power: The Interpretation of “Fourth Estate” in Late Imperial China ⋅ The Interaction Between the Indigenous Music and the Media in Contemporary Taiwan ⋅ The social media landscape in India: towards assessing its complexities and contradictions ⋅ Voicing the public demand? Exploring the political implication of expression, distribution and interaction of Chinese online public opinion during the Tianjin Explosion Case

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AFFECTIVE PUBLICS IN SOUTH ASIA

⋅ Fantasies of Justice: Unruly Women and Affect in Indian Social Media Space ⋅ and the Tourist Gaze: Affective Saffronisation in the Realm of the Visual ⋅ Online bhakti: Devotional Affect and Digital Publics in Contemporary India ⋅ Live Publics between Television and Social Media: Conjectures from India

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND DIGITAL DEMOCRACY IN ASIA AND EUROPE

⋅ Identity Perspective Citizen’s Participation in Print Media in Asia and Europe ⋅ Comparative Study of Citizen Participation in Digital Communication on Health Tourism in Asia and Europe ⋅ Social Media and Citizen Participation in Political Communication in Asia and Europe- a Content Analysis Study ⋅ Citizen Participation in Political Communication in Newspaper Dailies of Asia and Europe- a Content Analysis Study ⋅ A Health Communication Framework to Reduce Stigma Associated With Mental Health Care through Public Participation in Asia & Europe

DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN VIETNAM: TRENDS, POTENTIALS AND PROSPECTS

⋅ A Different Mode of Knowing for a Nuanced Digital Anthropology in Vietnam - Catching the World through Individual Empowerment ⋅ A Netnography of the Intellectual’s Digital Life: Intellectuals, Cyber Communication and Social Movements in Vietnam ⋅ Digital Anthropology in Vietnam - From Theory to Practice ⋅ Doing Digital Anthropology in Vietnam: An Option for Awaiting Projects ⋅ Digital Empowerment of the Socially and Culturally Disadvantaged in Ethnic Tourism in Vietnam

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EUROPE IN BOLLYWOODSCAPE: TRANSNATIONALISM, MEDIATED IDENTITIES AND NEW “OTHERS”

⋅ Bollywood's 'New women' ⋅ The return of the Non-Resident Indian (NRI): Changing representations of South Asian Diaspora in Europe in Bollywood Cinema ⋅ The Taming of the Gori? Tracing the Evolving Representation of White Femininity in Popular Hindi Cinema ⋅ Bollywood-Novels as Representations of Asia in Europe ⋅ Euro-Bollywood geomapping: decoding European cities in Bollywood films

MEDIASCAPES IN ASIA

⋅ Bali Imagined: The Tourist Gaze Over Time ⋅ Archaistic Aesthetics in a New Chinese Mediascape ⋅ Imaging the Islanders of Ogasawara: Changing Dynamics of the Photographic Encounter ⋅ Constructing a New Chinese Future: An Analysis of Asia One (2018) by Cao Fei ⋅ Yamashiro Chikako's "Woman in the Butcher Shop": Okinawa Between Japan and the USA

NEGOTIATING MEMORY THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ASIAN FILM AND MEDIA

⋅ An Animated Revolution: Remembering the Battle of Surabaya through Indonesian animated cinema ⋅ Haunted memories in nonlinear Chinese cinemas ⋅ Remembering/Rethinking Communism in Philippine Martial Law Cinema ⋅ Searching for ‘K-drama place’: expertise and autonomy in tracing and sharing media tourism locations

ONLINE TOOLS AND PERFORMANCE IN ASIA

⋅ Sustainable multimedia scholarship on Asian performance ⋅ Devotion, humour, violence: studying affect in performance ⋅ One Click at a Time: Researching and teaching traditional Japanese theater in the digital age ⋅ Caught in the Net: Performers/Audiences/Scholars of Javanese Puppet Theatre

PHD PITCH ⋅ Contemporary Islamic Discourse in Print Media: Study of Radicalism in popular articles in Kompas and Republika 2013-2017 ⋅ Mapping out the Persian Twitter: Networked practices and political field in 2017 Iranian presidential election. ⋅ Regulating e-entertainment? An ethno-corporative approach to the governance frames for videogame and eSports industries

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POSTER PRESENTATION ⋅ Nation, Ethnicity, and Identity: Mongol Ethnic Presentation in Post 1990 Inner Mongolian Film ⋅ Need for Mapping: Digital Interactive Map for the Banda Islands, Indonesia ⋅ Riding the New Wave of Hallyu: how Vietnamese young adults can appropriate Korean popular music (K-pop) via social media networks ⋅ The Digital Asian Library of Leiden University Libraries: digitized and digital born collections for education and research

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ A Digital Storytelling Workshop 1: Humanities across Borders Archive in the Making ⋅ Aesthetic Encounters: Re-imagining contemporary Asia through artistic and humanistic crossovers ⋅ Digital Storytelling Workshop 2: A Humanities across Borders Archive in the Making

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MIGRATION AND DIASPORAS

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ Illusions and Suffering: Chinese migrants in Paris ⋅ Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration and Re-migration Across China's Borders ⋅ Gold, Migration and Modernity: 'The Poison of Polygamy' ⋅ Marrying for a Future ⋅ The Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ Migration, Memory, Madness : Emotional Geographies of Coolie in the Circuitous Networks of the Empire ⋅ ‘Tenggara Jauh’ or ‘Selatan Daya’: diaspora Southwest Moluccas islanders in diaspora in Ambon city, Province of the Moluccas ⋅ “Inclusion” during the Chinese Exclusion Era (1882-1943): Chinese Migrants in the U.S. Midwest ⋅ A Journey of Self-Transformation: The Politics of Self of Young Taiwanese Middle-Class Migrant Workers in Singapore ⋅ A minority within a minority: Korean Chinese (Joseonjok) immigrants in Buenos Aires ⋅ A Part, Yet Apart: The Story of Migrant Indian Cooks in Japan ⋅ Adopted Diasporas: Cinematic Explorations of Transnational Korean Adoptees ⋅ Ageing-in-Place: Filipinas at Work in Hong Kong ⋅ An Eurasian New Guinea? The attempt to build a common homeland for people of mixed ancestry in the 1930s unraveled. ⋅ Analyzing the tension between Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh ⋅ Baghdadi Jewish Merchants and Shanghai's Rubber Company Boom - A Study of the Kadoorie Enterprise, 1890-1960 ⋅ Border crossing stories: human rights practice, mediation, and life narrative in the ⋅ China's Plan to Settle Persecuted European Jews in Remote Part of the Country (1939) ⋅ Cross-border recruitment: mobilities of migrant workers and intermediaries from a case-study of transnational labor market of skilled workers between Japan and Vietnam ⋅ De-constructing Chineseness in Diaspora Journey: A Study on Identity Negotiation of the Chinese Peranakan in Thailand ⋅ Emotional Geographies, Hyper-mobility and Transnationalism: Migrant Women's Circulations between China and Taiwan ⋅ Engaging social capital within the Vietnamese diaspora in New Zealand for community development ⋅ Entrapment by Consent: the Co-ethnic Brokerage System of Ethnic Yi Labor Migrants in China ⋅ Ethnic Cleansing and Forced Migration of the Rohingya: Biopolitics of otherness and beyond ⋅ European Tourists and Tibetan Refugees. Making Tourism Matter in India ⋅ Feeling at Home' in Paris: Migration and Family Supports of Indonesian Gays ⋅ Feminism or Marketability: The “Beauty Writer” and “Body Writing” Phenomenon in China and the World ⋅ From Hong Kong with Love (Sweat and Tears): Migrant Remittances and the Migration as Development Paradigm. ⋅ Gender analysis of migration in Cambodia

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⋅ Gendered Migration in Asia: A Study of Low-Wage Female Migrant Workers from China to Singapore ⋅ Genealogy of “tabunka kyosei”: the formation and change of multicultural coexistence discourse in Japan ⋅ Global Indian, Nubile Indian ⋅ Going Global and Back Again: The Transformation of Chinese Christian Networks between Southeast Asia and China ⋅ Hearing Nation: Malaysia, Foreign Workers, and the Noise ⋅ In Search of History and Identity: The Gurkha Diaspora in Hong Kong ⋅ India/Asia in Israel/Europe: Recounting 'Racism' in Ruby Daniel's Memoir, _Ruby of Cochin_ ⋅ Indigenous solidarities in the Tibetan diaspora – an exploratory case in Australia ⋅ Islam and queer travels in Indonesia: The Muslim waria migrants of Yogyakarta ⋅ Ito Okei: Daughter of Aizu, Pioneer of Gold Hill (1870-1920) ⋅ Japan in the experience of Japanese Brazilians: strategies and trends in a longitudinal perspective 2005-2019 ⋅ Japanese responses to refugees and perceptions of Islam in Japan ⋅ Japanese transborder migration across United States-Mexico border in the 1910s: Fraudulent land sales and the movement of a Japanese person from Colorado to Mexico ⋅ Labour migration and shifting rural economy in the south of Laos ⋅ Making Legible a Multicultural Society: Efforts Towards and Challenges of Managing Migration in Singapore ⋅ Middle East in China' Once Again?: Belt and Road Initiative, Reviving of Middle Eastern Communities in China ⋅ Migrants and Creative Popular Arts Participation: A Critical Cultural Indicator Study in Hong Kong ⋅ Migrants’ livelihood at slums and the determinants of the success of migration decision ⋅ Migration, Identity and Representation of Vietnamese Nhạc Vàng and Bolêro Music ⋅ Mutual Fashion Adaptation in the Context of Chinese Migration to Mozambique ⋅ Oscillatory identity of Korean immigrants in Chile: Between national superiority and European- oriented classism ⋅ Overseas Education, Social Mobility, and Ethnic Positioning: The Experiences of Overseas- Educated Malaysian Chinese Returnees ⋅ Peruvian students between Japan and Peru: circular migration and the capability approach ⋅ Policies and Practices of (Non)involvement: Tajikistan and its Labor Emigrants ⋅ Racialization of the Servant: The Role of Racism in Perpetuating National/Ethnic Hierarchies in Households with Foreign Domestic Workers ⋅ Reconstructing Urban Identity: Migration, Aspirations and New Urbanism in Contemporary China ⋅ Refugees and shifting boundaries of a nation-state: Yemeni refugee case in South Korea ⋅ Remembering and Re-membering Koryo Saram: Tracing the Erasure and the Restoration of Koryo Saram in Korea ⋅ Segregation within the Healthcare Industry: The Minority Nurses ⋅ Sikh converts in Latin America: An overview of the history of Sikh presence in the subcontinent ⋅ Spousal (Family) Migration in Ageing Society: The Politics of Migration Policies in Germany and South Korea ⋅ Strangers in Their Imagined Motherland: North Korean Refugees in South Korea ⋅ Struggling to find ‘home,’ struggling to find ourselves: Korean return migrants’ identity and adaptation experiences in Namhae German Village ‘Deoguilmaeoul’, South Korea ⋅ Student Guides and ‘insider knowledge’: A shift in the industry facilitating student migration from India ⋅ Thai Women’s narratives of love and intimacy in marriage migration processes

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⋅ The ‘Maquista’ in me: negotiating belonging in the Macanese Diaspora ⋅ The Impacts of International Migration on Regional Transformation and Local Dynamic in Wonosobo, Central Java, Indonesia ⋅ THE REGIME OF VIETNAMESE MARRIAGE MIGRATION IN SOUTH KOREA: A binational cooperation between Governments, brokers and marriage migrants ⋅ To Be Connected or Not to Be? ICTs and Transnational Families in the Case of Turkish Transnational Famil ies in Japan ⋅ Tradition as a tool of discrimination? The two dimensions of citizenship rights among internal migrants in Indonesia ⋅ Transmigrant Familial Practices in Chinese Immigrant Families in Canada ⋅ Unravelling Japan’s Elusive Immigration Policy: An Political Analysis of the Development of the Multilayered Immigration Control Regime from a Comparative Perspective ⋅ Vietnamese workers and Japanese local industries: Backgrounds and trends ⋅ Waiting: The Journey of South Asian Refugees, from India to Europe and North America ⋅ Wife or Maid? Chinese Marriage Migrants’ Lives in Taiwanese Households

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“TOO FOREIGN FOR HERE, TOO FOREIGN FOR HOME”: MIGRATION, DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONALISM OF ASIAN MIGRANTS

⋅ Walking a Thousand Ri: Living as a Zainichi Korean in Japan ⋅ Young British Pakistani Muslims ; Dynamics of Their Identities and Images in Contemporary British Writings ⋅ The Transnational Anti-caste Movement and the “Confused” Identity of the Dalit Diaspora in the UK ⋅ Vietnamese in Australia in Transition

ASIA IN EUROPE: IDEOLOGIES, PUBLIC PERCEPTION, AND ASIAN COMMUNITIES' PRACTICES IN ENGLAND, GERMANY, AND SPAIN

⋅ Asian Migrants’ Language Maintenance in the Context of Host Country Language Ideology and Public Perception: The Case of Chinese and Japanese Communities in Germany ⋅ Heritage Language Transmission in Japanese Community in Catalonia: From the Perspective of Family Language Policy ⋅ Heterogeneity and Translanguaging: The Case of Japanese as a Heritage Language Schools (JHL Schools) in England

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CHINESE AND SOUTH-EAST ASIAN POPULATIONS IN FRANCE (1) : WORK, MEDIA AND POLITISATION BETWEEN LOCAL AND GLOBAL

⋅ How Chinese qualified newcomers voice their own opinions regarding French politics: An ethnographic study in Paris ⋅ Institutional discrimination and workplace racism: The ethnic penalty in the career paths of Chinese graduates in France ⋅ The role of Chinese diaspora media in France in the construction of identity: the case of the two Chinese press organs in Paris

CHINESE AND SOUTH-EAST ASIAN POPULATIONS IN FRANCE (2): MOBILIZATIONS AGAINST RACISM AND INSECURITY

⋅ Chinese populations in the Paris region: From a common sense of insecurity to a feeling of ethnic community? ⋅ Can proletarian chinese migrants speak ? ⋅ Insecurity and violence towards Chinese migrants in France: a comparative study of two Parisian suburbs ⋅ Mobilizing against anti-Asian everyday racism: the case of descendants of Chinese and South-East Asian migrants in France ⋅ Protecting the Overseas Chinese in France: A Multidimensional Approach to State-Diaspora Relations

CONTEXTUALIZING NETHERLANDS-INDONESIA TRANSNATIONALISM I

⋅ Ethnic soldiers don’t fade away ⋅ The diaspora element in colonial reparation claims ⋅ The Denial of Citizenship: Indonesians in Post-1965 Forced Exile

CONTEXTUALIZING NETHERLANDS-INDONESIA TRANSNATIONALISM II

⋅ Sharing a past ⋅ The postcolonial bonus revised. Three generations of Indo-Europeans and their relationship with Indonesia ⋅ Javanese-Surinamese diaspora. The force of the imaginary in (re)creating transnational ties

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DIVERSITY IN MIGRATION TO JAPAN AND PACIFIC REGION – THEORETICAL AND POLICY CHALLENGES

⋅ ‘Super-Diversity’ in Japan and Its Challenges for the Integration Programs: Case Studies on Policy Implementations in Public Service Institutions ⋅ Diversity in Migrants from the Philippines in Japan: Focusing on Mixed Motivations for Migration ⋅ Stateless by Blood: The Case of Children of Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Japan ⋅ The Role of Whiteness, Gender and Cultural Capital in the Integration – The Case of Europeans in Japan ⋅ Historic Legacy and Diversity of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Asian Immigrant Relations

EMOTION AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION IN ASIA AND EUROPE I

⋅ Emotions and Economics in the Mobility Decision Making among Professional Migrants in Japan and Germany ⋅ The Pleasure of Being Useful: Ageing Japanese Men, Migration and Encore Careers in Dalian, China ⋅ Function of Anxiety in the Process of Migration: Youth Mobility in Asia ⋅ “Paperboats on a Small Stream”: Korean migrants in Malaysia in search of self-actualisation

EMOTION AND TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION IN ASIA AND EUROPE II

⋅ Exploring the emotional kaleidoscope in Japanese-Filipino youth’s transnational mobilities ⋅ Generative power of anxiety and gender resilience among Japanese transnational families post Fukushima disaster ⋅ Emotive Festival Foodwork among Kodavathee Immigrant Mothers in the Asia-Pacific ⋅ Approximating citizenship: affective practices of Chinese diasporic descendants in Myanmar

INTERNATIONAL NURSE MIGRATION IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION I: MIGRATION PATTERNS AND RETENTION BEHAVIOR OF NURSES FROM ASIAN SOURCE COUNTRIES

⋅ Why do Asian healthcare workers to Japan return home soon?: A case of Indonesian nurses and care workers ⋅ Planning for the future? Philippine-educated nurses in Japan’s long-term care sector ⋅ Perceptions of nurses in Myanmar regarding job retention and international migration: An exploratory study ⋅ International nurse migration from Nepal

INTERNATIONAL NURSE MIGRATION IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION II: PHILIPPINE- AND INDIA- EDUCATED NURSES WORKING IN NON-NURSING SETTINGS IN ASIA-PACIFIC DESTINATIONS

⋅ The role of foreign-trained nurses in the elderly care sector of New Zealand ⋅ Deskilling of foreign-trained nurses: A study of Indian nurses in Singapore and Malaysia ⋅ Employment of foreign nurses in Thailand: Filling the gaps

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MIGRATION EXPERIENCES, VOICES AND REPRESENTATIONS THROUGH TIME AND SPACE

⋅ To Become Taiwanese? Museums as Subject Formation Sites for Immigrants ⋅ Labor, Construction and Revolt: The Rise and Fall of Dutch V.O.C Formosan City and its Spatial Governance ⋅ Immigrants' Media Participation in a Multicultural Context: A Case Study of the Radio Program "Happiness United Nations" in Taiwan ⋅ Are there Language Wars? Taiwanese Migrants' Metalinguistic Discourse of Singlish

MOBILITY IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY I

⋅ Resilience in uncertain times? Serial migration, relay migration and homecoming migration among Indonesian and Filipino families ⋅ Middling migrants in Australia and Singapore: choosing uncertainty ⋅ Internship-Irregular Migration Nexus: Mainland Chinese Students as Clandestine Migrant Labourers in Macau ⋅ Uncertainty as Precarity or Hope? Migrant Mothers in Non-normative Cross-border Families between and Hong Kong

MOBILITY IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY II

⋅ Vietnamese transient migrants in Moscow: uncertainty, (im)mobility, and belonging ⋅ The “platform economy” and migrant uncertainties: The case of Uber drivers in Brisbane, Australia ⋅ Precarious desires: (im)mobility and the imagery of volunteer tourism marketing

STUDENT AND SKILLED MOBILITIES ACROSS ASIA AND BEYOND I ASIAN STUDENT MOBILITIES

⋅ Educational mobility and citizenship: a comparison of the experiences of Chinese “foreign talent” students in Singapore and Indian medical students in China ⋅ Global Aspirations and Institutional Mechanisms: Korean Students in the California Public Higher Education System ⋅ Negotiating mothers' dreams and children's successes: Korean women in the U.S. and Mongolian women in Korea ⋅ An uneasy return: Korean returnee students at English-language college in Korea ⋅ Minority student mobility and bottom-up regionalism in East Asia: Through a study of ethnic Korean Chinese with Asian university degrees

STUDENT AND SKILLED MOBILITIES ACROSS ASIA AND BEYOND II ASIAN ACADEMIC MOBILITIES

⋅ Asian Women Scientists on the Move: Privilege, Prejudice and Pressure ⋅ Transnational Middleman Intellectuals: Korean Academics with US Doctoral Degree Holders ⋅ Marginalised transformation and transforming marginalisation: Chinese rural academics crossing borders

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STUDENT AND SKILLED MOBILITIES ACROSS ASIA AND BEYOND III ASIAN SKILLED MOBILITIES IN GLOBAL CITIES

⋅ Drifting between global cities?: Taiwanese young skilled migrants in Hong Kong and Tokyo ⋅ Global Mobility Options and Singapore as a Choice: Korean Young Adult Professional and Semi- Professional Workers in Singapore ⋅ The Grass Is Not Always Greener on the Other Side: in Jakarta and Dongguan ⋅ Upward Mobility and Sexual Freedom: Professional Chinese Immigrants in San Francisco and New York

THE BELT ROAD INITIATIVE AND CHINESE OVERSEAS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 1

⋅ Multi-Identities of Chinese Diaspora and China’s Belt and Road Initiative ⋅ Political Preference and Support for BRI: A Case Study with Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia ⋅ Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) in Southeast Asia: a new dynamic of China’s soft power? ⋅ Get on the Train: A Transnational Perspective on Talent Mobility alongside the Belt and Road Initiative ⋅ Get on the Train: A Transnational Perspective on Talent Mobility alongside the Belt and Road Initiative

THE BELT ROAD INITIATIVE AND CHINESE OVERSEAS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 2

⋅ Transnationalising the Herbal Tea Industry in Chinese Communities along the Southeast Asian Belt Road Corridor ⋅ Stepping into the local community: the relational work practices of old-time brand business in Guangzhou, China ⋅ Facing Rising China: Strategy, Identity and Obstacles of Sino-Thai Business Elites ⋅ Institutionalized Transnationalism, networks and State: Ethnic Chinese business associations in Malaysia and the Philippines

THE BELT ROAD INITIATIVE AND CHINESE OVERSEAS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 3

⋅ Credit cultures and the conversation ⋅ A Spectral Double of Chinatown?: China Town Malls in South Africa and Global (Re-)imaginings of Ethnic Chinatowns in the 21st CenturyA Spectral Double of Chinatown?: China Town Malls in South Africa and Global (Re-)imaginings of Ethnic Chinatowns in the 21st Century ⋅ BRI and its implications to the Chinese Filipino: Opportunities and challenges

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THE POLITICS OF MISCEGENATION, MIXEDNESS AND MULTICULTURALISM : NARRATIVES AND TRAJECTORIES

⋅ Militancy and the Category of "Mixed-Race" Children in Japanese Women's Magazines Between the Late 1940s and the 1960s ⋅ Narrating the enigmatic other: ideas on mixedness in personal documents of Dutch conscripted soldiers in Indonesia (1945-1950) ⋅ The representation of the Japanese and Nippo-Brazilians in the Brazilian media space ⋅ Mixed Marriage, Gender and The South Korean State: Two Female Migration Trajectories

THE SRI LANKAN TAMIL DIASPORA IN EUROPE AFTER 2009: POLITICS OF MEMORY, NATIONALIST MOBILIZATION AND ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

⋅ In search of recognition. The demobilization and exile of Tamil Tiger fighters in Paris. ⋅ Tamil Eelamist groups in Paris: Political mobilization and identity ⋅ Exploring the possibility of pan-Tamil diasporic identification in the post-war decade ⋅ Mobilizing here and there: Tamil transnational mobilizations and integration in host-country politics

TRANSLOCAL CHINESE: EAST ASIAN PERSPECTIVES I: OBOR AND ETHNIC RELATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ Overseas Chinese Enterprises response to the One Belt and One Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: a Case Study of enterprises (2015-2018) ⋅ Discovering the Xin Yimin in Jakarta: A Preliminary Study on people from Mainland China and Taiwan ⋅ Ethnic relation and the attitude of Overseas Chinese toward China’s Belt and Road in Southeast Asia: the case of Singapore and Malaysia ⋅ Malaysia’s Changing Ethno politics and China’s “One Belt, One Road” Strategy ⋅ China, OBOR, and the Question of Empire

TRANSLOCAL CHINESE: EAST ASIAN PERSPECTIVES II: STUDENT MOBILITY AND THE CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE

⋅ Competing for Privilege –Transnational Mobility, Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Class Reproduction in China’s Post-industrial Turn ⋅ Popular culture research and student mobility between Taiwan and Southeast Asia ⋅ The flow of Chinese Students to Indonesia under the Belt and Road initiative: Status and Trends ⋅ The Circle of Knowledge: Contemporary East Asian Alchemical Practices Returning to the West

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YOUNG PEOPLE’S ASPIRATIONS, UTOPIA VISIONS, AND THE SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES IN BANGLADESH AND ITS MIGRATORY CONTEXTS

⋅ (Un)typical Utopias – Theoretical and Methodological Reflections on a Comparative Research Project ⋅ Coming to terms with modernity: hopes and visions of the future in an Italian-Bangladeshi madrasah ⋅ The MoonStars Studio Project: singing nostalgia, migration and aspiration of young Bangladeshis in Rome ⋅ Indigenous youth activism between existing life-world and future aspirations ⋅ Local Youth, Global Aspirations Experiences, A and Citizenship P of Young Cricketers of Migrant Origin in Italy

PHD PITCH ⋅ Anxious Intimacy: Negotiating Gender, Value and Belonging among Japanese Retirees in Malaysia ⋅ Migration Aspirations and Transnational Experiences in Global Cities: Taiwanese Skilled Migrants in Shanghai and Singapore ⋅ Nation in Action: Making Chinese in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture ⋅ Sharing cultural values across generations in Australian Vietnamese families

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Migration Futures in Asia ⋅ Refugees/Asylum Seekers/Migrants: Considerations in their Relationship between Asia and Europe/Global North ⋅ The Bay of Bengal, Perspectives Across the Disciplines 3 - Displaced Livelihoods

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POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ China Steps Out: Beijing's Major Power Engagement with the Developing World ⋅ China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative and Armenia ⋅ Glocal Manchuria ⋅ Japan’s Armed Forces and the U.S. Policy vis-à-vis Asia: Moving toward a New Posture? ⋅ Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas ⋅ The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the changing contours of Islamic discourse in Azerbaijan: Toward a resacralisation of public space ⋅ The political participation of the Chinese from China and elsewhere – Online political expression and commitment in authoritarian context

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ (Re-)Thinking Relations between India and Pakistan: Everyday Economic Practices in the Punjab Borderland ⋅ A European middle-power in the Indo-Pacific: understanding the French strategic approach of the region ⋅ A Kiss or a Bite?: Sedition and feedom of speech in Malaysia after the general election of 2018 ⋅ A latecomer to the rescue: From GDP to alternative measures of economic development in China ⋅ A United Nations Conception of Democracy and its Diffusion and Contestation in Contemporary Thailand ⋅ Africa-Asia Relations and its implications for Europe - China-Ghana Relations as a case study ⋅ Arrested Development – Ending Taiwan’s Nuclear weapons Programme ⋅ Belt and Road Initiative : looks at a global expansion project of China-power ⋅ China and the Arctic: Implications for Europe ⋅ China in the World: Territory and the Sacred ⋅ China’s Approach towards Institutionalizing the ASEAN Regional Forum ⋅ China’s Cultural Deployment: The Entanglement of Three Goals ⋅ China’s New Transregional Mechanisms and Guanxi: The Case of the “16+1 Cooperation” ⋅ China's Vietnam War: A Domestic Politics Perspective ⋅ Choosing Sides: Cyber-Islamophobia in China ⋅ Contending and Convergence of Populisms and Identity-politics in Indonesia and Malaysia ⋅ Contesting Global Governance in “Weak” States: a New Research Agenda on “post-Soviet” Central Asia ⋅ Contesting transitional justice in Nepal ⋅ Continuity and Change in Police Use of Deadly Force from the Pre-Duterte to the Duterte Philippines ⋅ Critical events and Chinese labor movement: The occurrence and mobilization of union-led protest in China ⋅ Dispossessed of Power: Women's contributions to party politics in India ⋅ Euroscepticism and Nagarjuna's concept of emptiness ⋅ Evaluating the Efficiency of Confidence Building Measures in the Context of Post-Doklam Sino- Indian Relations ⋅ Exploring the nexus of participation, civil society, and state accountability: The discourses and performances of external development agencies in Vietnam ⋅ From NIMBY to Phase-out: the Development of Anti-nuclear Power Activism in South Korea

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⋅ Gender, patronage and rural resistance against land grabs in Cambodia ⋅ Greater Mekong Subregion versus One Belt One Road : Comparing Geopolitics of multilateral development banks in Asia ⋅ Green Techno-nationalism: Japan's use of Green Technology as a National Asset ⋅ How the US presidents talk about the rise of China: A critical discourse analysis framework ⋅ Human Security of the Displaced Citizen due to Riverbank Erosion in Assam, India ⋅ Images of fundamentalism in a newly democratizing state: The emergence of in Indonesia 1998-2019 ⋅ Impunity as an impediment to Indonesia's democratic process ⋅ India’s use of Social Media in Public Diplomacy ⋅ Internalization of International Human Rights Law ―A case study of Racial Discrimination and Anti-Hate Speech Movement in Japan ⋅ Islamic Nationalism: The Armed Resistance of Contemporary Patani Malays in Southern Thailand ⋅ Japanese new parties’ legislative behaviour and its implications ⋅ Local State Adhocracy as a Form of Infrastructural Power: Stability Maintenance in Grassroots China ⋅ Making China Great Again: Chinese nationalist discourse in the prism of the relations with the Sub-Saharan Region ⋅ Mapping Human Rights in ASEAN A Systematic Literature Review ⋅ Media and Gender Politics in East Asia: A Text Analysis of Newspaper Articles on Legislative Activities ⋅ Modernity as Conflict: Development, Nationalisms and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar’s Shrinking Borderlands ⋅ Negotiating Religious Rights: Christian Minorities in India and Malaysia and their use of Transnational Advocacy Networks ⋅ Neoliberal nationalism and competitive citizenship: the reconfiguration of national belonging in post- developmental Korea ⋅ Normative powers in Asia: How the EU and Japan diffuse norms and values in Central Asia (tentative) ⋅ Oil Royalty Matters: The Politics of Governing Black Gold in Malaysia ⋅ On the Initial Steps of Russia's New Far Eastern Policy in Late 19th Century ⋅ On the Legacy of Asma Jahangir (1952-2018) – Insights on Political Power Mechanisms in Pakistan and Beyond ⋅ Perception of Economic Inequality and Political Support in China ⋅ Perceptions of Anti-corruption Effectiveness: Varieties, Causes, and Impacts ⋅ Political Conduct and Moral Performance. Chinese Communist Party Cadres Under Xi Jinping ⋅ Politicization of Psychology: The Role of Psychologists in Indonesia’s Detention Camps during New Order Era ⋅ Politics and Islam in Regional Electoral Democracy 2018 in Indonesia ⋅ Portuguese enclaves in India and the 1961 invasion: the worst possible context for Portugal? ⋅ Post-Mumbai Attack Pakistan-India Relations: A Comprehensive Analysis ⋅ Pro-China Conservatives in Japan and the Establishment of Sino-Japanese Relations, 1958-1972 ⋅ Production Networks, Conflict and Cooperation in East Asia ⋅ Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Legal Approach towards the South China Sea Dispute in Xi Jinping’s Era ⋅ Success Factors of the China Studies in Poland in the 21st Century: Behind the Belt and Road Initiative ⋅ Territorial Disputes Related Activism in Japan, Korea and Taiwan: Questioning the 'national consciousness' paradigm

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⋅ The application of East Timor to ASEAN: challenges to the organization ⋅ The effects of norm variation in the EU and ASEAN: the ‘vulnerabilisation’ of the transnationally trafficked child ⋅ The Center or the Periphery of Pacific Fisheries? : The Dialogue over Japanese Fisheries in Hawai‘i during the mid-20th Century ⋅ The connectivity approach of China and Japan in East Africa ⋅ The Eurasian Economic Union and the ASEAN: Problems and Prospects for Interaction ⋅ The impact of emotional appraisals in Japan's international relations with China - the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute case-study ⋅ The Roles of External Actors in Myanmar’s Democratization: Challenges and Prospects ⋅ The social formation of contentious leadership in an authoritarian state: how migrant workers turned into labor NGO activists in China ⋅ The State and International Labour Migration: How do sending and receiving states interact in shaping migrants’ rights? ⋅ The State and the Internationalization of Oligarchy in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia ⋅ Too Big To Fail? An Examination of Cancelled Belt and Road Initiative Projects ⋅ Twenty years of ASEAN and Cambodia partnership – a holistic perspective. ⋅ Understanding participatory budgeting experiments in China ⋅ Who Becomes a Nationalist? A Tocquevillian Analysis of Ethnic Conflict in Xinjiang

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BELT AND ROAD IN DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE

⋅ The politics of moving goods between China and Kazakhstan ⋅ The Belt and Road as discourse ⋅ Industrializing with Chinese capital and local embeddedness: Comparative perspectives of Southeast Asia and Africa ⋅ The Belt and Road Initiative in Indonesia: from vision to reality ⋅ Winners and Losers: Chinese investments under the BRI framework in Kazakhstan and

CHALLENGES AND NEW DYNAMICS OF STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN CHINA

⋅ From outsiders to insiders: the rise of China ENGOs as new experts in the law-making process ⋅ Deepening Hidden Transcripts in Chinese Internet ⋅ Do hub-style organizations respond to the state or social organizations? The changing dynamics of state–society relations in China ⋅ Re-Penetrating the Society in Chinese Cities: Social Construction Projects in Shenzhen ⋅ Re-Penetrating the Society in Chinese Cities: Social Construction Projects in Shenzhen

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CHINA’S RISE AND THE FUTURE OF THE LIBERAL WORLD ORDER

⋅ Chinese Leadership in Post-American Globalization: Hope or Hot Air? ⋅ China Inc. Goes Global! The transnationalizing networks of Chinese firms and business elites ⋅ The Great Mélange: Neo-liberalism and Neo-statism in the Age of Sino-Capitalism ⋅ Towards a Minimalist WTO: China’s Rise and the Liberal Trade Order ⋅ China and Global Internet Governance

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY UNITED FRONT & INFLUENCE WORK - PAST & PRESENT 1

⋅ Foreigner-Management in the Xi era ⋅ Rallying Friends, Isolating Enemies with the Hidden Hand: Exploring the Nexus of Intelligence and United Front Work ⋅ How united is the United Front when overseas? ⋅ United Front work and China’s military modernisation

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY UNITED FRONT & INFLUENCE WORK - PAST & PRESENT 2

⋅ Seeing Red in Malaya: The British Perspective on Chinese During the Insurgency, 1948 to 1960 ⋅ How to Make Friends and Influence Tibetan Pastoral Elites: The United Front as Institutional Ethos and Practice in 1950s Qinghai

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY UNITED FRONT & INFLUENCE WORK PAST & PRESENT 3

⋅ PRC Influence Activities in Australia and the Australian Push Back ⋅ United-Front Operations of the Chinese Communist Party-State and Chinese Communities in Australia ⋅ China’s United Front Strategies Preceding Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement ⋅ China’s New United Front Work in Hong Kong: A Comparison of Xu Jiatun’s Years and Post-1997 Developments

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY UNITED FRONT & INFLUENCE WORK PAST & PRESENT 4

⋅ Unifying the Hearts and Minds of Arabia: A Look into CPC United Front Activities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ⋅ United Front work in the “16+1” grouping: Elite capture and the role of the International Department ⋅ Ancilla Factionis: Global Religion as a United Front Domain ⋅ Managing the Far Frontier: the UFWD in the Pacific ⋅ The Chinese Communist Party and the Line Between Influence & Interference in the

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CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY UNITED FRONT & INFLUENCE WORK PAST & PRESENT 5

⋅ The Evolution of the CCP’s United Front Work Under Xi Jinping ⋅ State Revisited: A comparative study of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and the All-China of Trade UnionsState Corporatism Revisited: A comparative study of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and the All-China of Trade Unions ⋅ When United Front Targets are 'Not United': The Makings and Transformations of Religious Activism in China ⋅ State Corporatism Revisited: A comparative study of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce & the All-China of Trade Unions

COAST-GUARD DIPLOMACY IN CHINA SEAS: RISING CHALLENGES… AND OPPORTUNITIES!

⋅ The role of China Coast Guard in the East and South China Seas ⋅ Rise of the White Hulls in Southeast Asia: the role of Japan ⋅ French Coast-guard Diplomacy: Japanese and Indonesian Cases

COMPETING CONNECTIVITY STRATEGIES: GEOPOLITICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA AND BEYOND

⋅ The Time is Ripe! Articulating Temporality in Japan’s Developmental Strategy towards Myanmar ⋅ The Dream of ASEAN Connectivity: Imagining Infrastructure in Southeast Asia ⋅ Connecting Iran: Sino-Japanese Rivalry and the Azadegan Legacy ⋅ The Paradox of Competing Connectivity Strategies in Asia ⋅ Eastern European Countries’ Contested Role in Connecting Europe and Asia

CONNECTIVITY, MOBILITY AND BORDERS: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN NORTHEAST INDIA

⋅ Blind spots and blank spaces: legibility and liminality after global war in the Indo-Burma frontiers ⋅ A community as borderland: the Limbu in Sikkim - Cultural bordering, trans-border mobility and national belonging ⋅ ‘Pickled’ Connectivity through ‘Pickled’ Roads: Understanding the Dynamics of Infrastructuring Northeast India ⋅ New connectivity, old connections: facilitating and obstructing cross-border mobility at the Bangladesh border

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: STRONG STATES, MINORITY EXCLUSION AND DEMOCRACY IN ASIA

⋅ The Crisis of Indian Democracy: Strong State and Vigilante Justice ⋅ Political Trust and Muslim Minority in India ⋅ Three Levels of Muslim Politics and the Transformation of Kashmiri Political Consciousness, 1960s- 1980s ⋅ War on Drugs and State of Exception in the Philippines: When a Bandit Grabbed the State

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DEMOCRATIC IDEALISM AND POLITICAL REALISM :THE PRESENT FACE OF REFORM IN INDONESIA

⋅ Slow Reform of Indonesian Public Service ⋅ The Effect of Electoral System on Party System in Indonesia ⋅ Democratisation and Indonesia’s Foreign Policy

FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE INDO-PACIFIC AND ASEAN: SHIFTING DYNAMICS AND EMERGING TENSIONS AMID GREAT POWER RIVALRIES

⋅ Order-building by Other Means: Asia's Security Order and ASEAN's Strategic Use of Political Legitimacy ⋅ The Indo-Pacific as a Strategic Construct: Examining its Evolution, Objectives, Promises and Pitfalls ⋅ Navigating the New Indo-Pacific Paradigm: The Regional Collaboration Struggle for Middle and Major Powers

GEO-POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND ITS REFLECTIONS (1)

⋅ Towards Theorizing and Conceptualization of the Belt and Road Initiative ⋅ The Belt and Road Initiative, Global Governance, and China ⋅ Case study on the Political and Economic Impact of Chinese Investments in Ethiopia ⋅ Facts and Risks of China’s Outward Energy Investment Under BRI

GEO-POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND ITS REFLECTIONS (2)

⋅ The Trilateral Relations among China, the U.S. and Europe under the Framework of Global Governance ⋅ Evaluating the Hungarian Partnership in the Chinese BRI Project ⋅ West Balkans: How to Coordinate the Belt and Road Initiative with the EU’s Neighborhood Policy

GEO-POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND ITS REFLECTIONS (3)

⋅ Afghan-Chinese Relations: Another Quagmire? ⋅ China’s Belt & Road Projects in Iran: Environment and Labor Rights ⋅ The Chinese are Coming! BRI and Geopolitical Shifts in South and Central Asia

GEO-POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND ITS REFLECTIONS (4)

⋅ The Role and Position of Resource-Rich Countries in the BRI: The cases of Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan ⋅ The Political Economy of the Belt and Road Initiative ⋅ The Belt and Road Initiative and Russia in Eurasia ⋅ Industrial Structural Change in China and Industry Incentives to Participate in BRI—— From the Perspective of the Supply Side

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HEGEMONIC STABILITY, NEOLIBERALISM AND THE RISE OF CHINA: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

⋅ Chinese Capital: Strategic Investment of Hunting for Returns? ⋅ Between the West and the East: Will Africa Embrace China's Development Model? ⋅ BRIC's Countervailing Financial Mechanisms: A New Counter Hegemonic Balance ⋅ The Rise of China: Implications for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

HOW DOES CHINA RELATE TO INTERNATIONAL NORMS: EVIDENCE FROM THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE

⋅ Arbitration courts in the Belt and Road Initiative. Will China change the rules? ⋅ The internationalization of the renminbi through the Belt and Road Initiative: An infringement of the norms of the international monetary system?The internationalization of the renminbi through the Belt and Road Initiative: An infringement of the norms of the international monetary system? ⋅ Chinese development financing throughout the New Silk Road and the DAC aid efectiveness agenda ⋅ The impact of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Implementation of the Paris Agreement ⋅ How far is China’s corporate governance from OECD/G20 Principles? Some evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative

IN THE SHADOW OF THE NEW SILK ROAD I: GEOPOLITICS AND CONNECTIVITY

⋅ New Silk Roads and non-Western IR ⋅ The Belt and Road Initiative: geopolitical considerations and business development in the South Caucasus countries ⋅ Securitizing ethnicity in Xinjiang: China’s transnational security arrangements in the context of OBOR ⋅ OBOR and Hamburg-Athens Corridor ⋅ A Dark Shadow? Pakistan and China's Benevolence

IN THE SHADOW OF THE NEW SILK ROAD II: INTERACTION AND DOMESTIC AGENCY

⋅ Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Belarus: Playing by the Rules? ⋅ China’s communication with the CEE political elites: lessons from the Czech Republic ⋅ ‘Small’ Powers Embracing ‘Great’ Projects: Central Asian Republics as Actors with Agency on China’s OBOR ⋅ Impact of China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Sri Lanka

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IN THE SHADOW OF THE NEW SILK ROAD III: INFORMALITY AND TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS

⋅ One Gateway, Two Checkpoints, Three Networks: Organizing Shadow Trade at the China- Kazakhstan Border ⋅ Face-to-face encounters at Caucasian crossroads: BRI and Chinese investments in Georgia ⋅ Institutions and mechanisms of the transborder flow of Chinese industrial capital under BRI ⋅ Mapping on Transnational Crime Routes in the Greater Mekong Sub-region in the New Silk Road

IN THE SHADOW OF THE NEW SILK ROAD IV: INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONAL IMPACT/BOOK LAUNCH

⋅ Central Asia: Borders, Peoples and Connections ⋅ Shadow regimes encroach on the European Union: China’s institution-building in the Arctic, Eastern Europe, and Africa ⋅ Roads as Chesspieces ⋅ Book Launch: Outcome of the workshop “Shadow Silk Road: Non-state Flow of Commodity, Capital, and People across Eurasia” (Hong Kong, May 2017) by members of the panel

INTERCONNECTIVITIES BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE AND EAST ASIA

⋅ The 1950-1960s North Korean Literary Representations of War via Two Lenses of Eastern Europe and North Korea ⋅ Public Sphere and Practice of East Germany and China in 1989 ⋅ Making a “Socialist State”: Media and Global Imaginary in North Korea

INTERROGATING THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL IN EAST ASIA (I)

⋅ Japanese Buddhist Temporality and the Question of Plurality: A Critical Investigation into the Pluralist IR Discourse ⋅ Nurturing a Worldly World Politics: L.H.M. Ling and Imagining an IR Capable of Learning from Asian Studies ⋅ Self and Other in the Chinese School of International Relations ⋅ The Politics of Right-Wing Women in Post-colonial Korea

INTERROGATING THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL IN EAST ASIA (II)

⋅ National Identity Imaginary in Abe Shinzō’s Narratives: A Hidden Pedigree? ⋅ After the ‘Gold Rush’: Challenging Britain and Japan’s ‘rehabilitation’ of Myanmar and the (Im)possibility of a Postcolonial Ethics.After the ‘Gold Rush’: Challenging Britain and Japan’s ‘rehabilitation’ of Myanmar and the (Im)possibility of a Postcolonial Ethics. ⋅ Know Your Proper Place': Orientalizing North Korea in American and Chinese Non-Proliferation Discourses ⋅ Disappearing the Woman: Reading Snow Falling on Cedar with the State of Art in the Endeavor to Think of the Other in International Relations

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ISRAEL IN ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC DEBATES: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM THE WEST AND THE EAST

⋅ Asian Academia's Attitude to Modern Israel – New Perspectives ⋅ Israel as the Discussion Tool and the Subject Matter in the East European Academic Discourse ⋅ The Picture of Israel through the Eyes of Czech Theological Academe ⋅ Current Views of Russian Pilgrims on Israel (Whether or Not Christian is Possible in Russia) ⋅ The Balfour Declaration According to the Records of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society

MAPPING THE “CHINESE DREAM”: THE NEW SILK ROADS AND ITS DISCONTENTS

⋅ New Silk Roads and new debt traps? ⋅ One or many silk roads? Existing Chinese trading routes to Europe, or the prehistory of Belt and Road Initiative ⋅ Chinese railway construction in Africa: “connectivity” in context ⋅ Beyond the Effects of Belt and Road in Central Eastern Europe ⋅ Belt and Road and the Space between: the Transnational Social Space of Chinese Entrepreneurship in Southern Europe in Times of Economic Crisis

NORMATIVE COMPETITION: CREATION, CHANGE, AND DIFFUSION OF NORMS WITHIN THE SINO-JAPANESE RIVALRY

⋅ Chinese Norm Diffusion in the Belt and Road Initiative and the Japanese Reaction ⋅ The Normative Dimension in China and Japan’s Presence in Africa: A Comparative Study ⋅ Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum? The Impact of the Communicative Dimension in the New Japanese Security Policy

RESISTANCE: ANTI-CORPORATE ACTIVISM IN ASIA 1

⋅ Complicity or coercion? Dalit resistance and India’s new land wars ⋅ Deploying Indigeneity for Anti-Corporate Activism: Countering Land Grabbing in Indonesia. ⋅ Profits or Justice: objects and relations of resistance in the struggle against resource extractive corporations ⋅ Labour geographies of debt: The shifting sands of activism in Continental Southeast Asia

RESISTANCE: ANTI-CORPORATE ACTIVISM IN ASIA 2

⋅ Contention and Collusion: Protesting Palm Oil Expansion in Central Kalimantan ⋅ Resistance against oil palm companies: experiences from West Kalimantan ⋅ Citizen lawsuits as a means to resist corporations? Experiences from Indonesia

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TAKING STOCK OF CHINA-LATIN AMERICA RELATIONS IN THE 21ST. CENTURY

⋅ Is China the New Center to Latin America's Continued Periphery? ⋅ From energetic ally to timid partner: the evolution of China-Venezuela relations and scenarios for the future ⋅ CELAC-China Forum: Challenges in the Compliance of the 2019-2021 Action Plan ⋅ The Pacific Alliance: Vision of Regional Integration facing to Asia-Pacific and its Cooperation with China

THE GLOBAL REACH OF CHINA'S BRI: RESPONSES TO BRI IN ASIA, EUROPE AND RUSSIA

⋅ BRI in the Midst of Malaysia’s New Policies ⋅ China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Views from Central Europe ⋅ Competition or cooperation: Russia and China in Central Asia ⋅ The Indo-Pacific Strategy as US Response to China's BRI ⋅ China’s Belt & Road Initiative: evolving and adapting to host countries’ responses

THE HEISEI STATE IN QUESTION: STATE REFORM, CONTINUITY AND THE FUTURE OF GOVERNANCE IN JAPAN

⋅ The Japanese Politics of Decentralization: Intergovernmental Relations in an Age of Governance ⋅ The Japanese Central Government Reform: the State as Copilot? ⋅ A partner or subcontractor? Continuity and change in Japanese government's approach to domestic internationally-oriented development NGOs ⋅ Mobilizing civil actors for State security: A comparison of the cases of Tokyo and Osaka

THE ROLE OF ASIAN ACTORS IN TRANSNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGES FOR DEVELOPMENT

⋅ Korean Development Assistance in the post-Park Geun-hye era: Moving beyond Saemaul ODA? ⋅ Humanising Industrialisation? Japanese productivity methods, Ethiopian factories and the changing face of foreign aid ⋅ Modernization through a national prism: Legibility, development, and the public good in China’s global vision. ⋅ The Role of Asian Actors in Transnational Knowledge Exchanges for Development - Exploring views from Africa

U.S. RETREAT FROM MULTILATERALISM AND POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ The end of multilaterlism and security challenges in Southeast Asia ⋅ U.S. retreat from multilateralism as a salvo against collectivism: reverberations in Southeast Asia ⋅ U.S. political disengagement: the impact on Southeast Asia’s democratic development

92 PHD PITCH ⋅ Democracy, Rhetoric, Authoritarianism: Democratic Rhetoric in Authoritarian Thailand ⋅ East Meets West: Development of Mutual Legal Assistance within and between ASEAN and the European Union ⋅ TAMIL NATIONALIST MOVEMENT IN SRI LANKA (A critical analysis, resolution and impacts) ⋅ Towards gender diversity on the boards of listed firms in China and India?

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Central Asia: Lands in between, or a developing power block? ⋅ Disentangling Futures? Academic Freedom and Research Conditions in South Asia and Europe ⋅ Korean Peninsula on the Move: Lessons from Post-socialist and Reunified Countries 1 (Political and Economic Aspects of Transition, Reunification, Integration and the Korean Peninsula) ⋅ Korean Peninsula on the Move: Lessons from Post-socialist and Reunified Countries 2 (Social and Cultural Experiences of Post-socialist Countries and the Korean Peninsula) ⋅ Roundtable Discussions on Indonesia's 2019 Elections

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RELIGION AND BELIEFS

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ DIVINE ENCOUNTERS - Sacred Rituals and Ecstasy in Asia ⋅ New Goddesses on Mt Paektu: Gender, Myth and Transformation in Korean Landscapes ⋅ The Buddha's Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ “I see they are doing a gay-sex…”: A Case Study of Adjudication on liwat by the Sharia Court of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. ⋅ A New Generation of Muslim Intellectuals: Transformation of Islamic Thought and Movement of the INSISTS group in Indonesia ⋅ Aesthetics of Mosques in Contemporary Java ⋅ Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876-1948) and His Private Writings in Early Twentieth-Century Manchuria ⋅ Annotations Still Matter: Biblical Annotations as an Obstacle to the Union in Bible Work in Republican China ⋅ Bridging the Gap between Church and Society: K. H. Ting and the Amity Foundation ⋅ Christian Worship and Gender Practices among the Austronesian-speaking Amis of Taiwan ⋅ Conceptualizing Development and Modernization of Indian and Indonesian Madrasas ⋅ Conflict between Freedom of Expression and Religion in India-– A Case study ⋅ Conversion and Residue: Inter-Religious Marriages and Religious Practice in Contemporary South Asia ⋅ Eco-Cultural Dimensions of Sacred Sites and Conservation - A study across tribal habitats in India. ⋅ Everyday Inter-Religious Negotiation in Southern Philippines : Subsistence, Conversion, and Intermarriage of Muslims and Christians ⋅ From India to Mexico: Yoga and the modern flow of ⋅ Gendered Aspects of Korean Seon/ Zen Rhetoric in Europe and other Accommodations ⋅ God, karma and suffering: Thai Christian receptions of the book of Job ⋅ Haunted Mansions: Homeshare programs coping with the norm of endless parental responsibilities in Japan ⋅ Hindu Ethics and Modernity ⋅ How Buddhism has transformed within the modern society of South Korea ⋅ Immobilized : Migration, Divine Agency and Mediated Manifestations ⋅ International Treaties in Southeast Asia and the question of Gender in Religion ⋅ Issuing Fatwas, Female Ulama Countering Violence against Women from the Grassroots ⋅ Landscapes of : Reading Maududi in Kashmir Conflict ⋅ Meeting Modernity: YMCA Conventions and the Reorientation of Rituals in Early Modern Asia, 1895-1915 ⋅ Migrating with deities: the mobilities and materialities of and Guan Gong in Chinese restaurants of Santiago de Chile ⋅ Myanmar Buddhist in Frankfurt/Germany - how do they practise their religion in diaspora? ⋅ On Monks and Memes: Buddhist Satire in Contemporary Myanmar ⋅ Pluriprax Households in China: Contested Family Rituals in a Shifting Religious Landscape ⋅ Promoting Laughter in an Aging Society ⋅ Propaganda, Persecution, and Organ Harvesting: A Case Study of in China

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⋅ Reconsiderations of interpretation of Buddhist terminology in the light of shifts in Western analytical philosophy in the 19th and 20th century ⋅ Recruiting God: Religions as Propaganda during the years of Guided Democracy in Indonesia ⋅ Religious Thoughts as Reflected in Select Inscriptions during 11th to 13th Centuries CE in Thailand and Cambodia ⋅ Revisit of marapu Belief in Christianizing Sumbanese Society, Eastern Indonesia ⋅ Revitalization of Kingship in Contemporary Indonesiaー The Case of the Ulu Ai’ King in West Kalimantan, Indonesia ⋅ Ritual Performance, Religious Transformation at Śrī Kṛṣṇa Temple, Kerala ⋅ Sacred Sex or Purely Prostitution? The Practice of Seeking Wealth in Kembang Sore Tomb, Tulungagung, East Java, Indonesia ⋅ Secularism, Islam, and the State in contemporary Russia and Southeast Asia ⋅ Spiritual Dissections:'Body Donation' in Japan, Medicine, Religion and New Funeral rites ⋅ Tales of the haunting victims: The commemoration of traumatized memories and religious belief about heritage in Taiwan’s offshore islands ⋅ The Age-Old Ritual Practice of Ohatsuhoage among the Kakure Kirishitan Survivors: Intersection of Identities and Resources ⋅ The case of Nina Bobo: new ghost stories and online enactments of hybridity, spirituality and supernaturalism in Indonesia. ⋅ THE CONCEPT OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACCORDING TO LIBERAL ISLAM NETWORK () IN INDONESIA: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW ⋅ The Confucian and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in China: religious negotiation and contestation in historical and contemporary contexts ⋅ The dark side of animism: ontological predation among the Katu in the uplands of Central Vietnam ⋅ The Division of Confucian Institution and Confucianism Education Management in Indonesia ⋅ The Gontor Connection Effect in the Making of Anti Liberal and 212 Movement in Indonesia: Conservatism and Modernity Always “Mix” ⋅ The Issues Faced By Religious Minorities in Pakistan ⋅ The Jesuit Figurists’ Transformed Dao in Their Written Space ⋅ The meaning of preserving the traditional manuscript of the Cham in Vietnam: Preliminary study of Patar of the Cham Bani ⋅ The Moving Temples ----- A Study on the Religious Associations of Fishermen in the Eastern Part of Tai Lake ⋅ The Radhasoami Tradition between India and Canada: Cultural Identity in a Globalized World ⋅ The role of the slametan in the discourse on Javanese Islam ⋅ The use of rerajahan diagrams in Old Javanese and Balinese medical texts and in modern healing practices ⋅ The writing on the wall: a prayer room that survived the Cultural Revolution ⋅ Theravada Buddhism in Malaysia: focusing on the transnational networks and Chinese lay practitioners ⋅ Therianthropic Yoginis in Pre-modern Saiva Tantric Traditions ⋅ Tiantai Transnationalism: Mobility, Identity, and Lineage Networks in Modern ⋅ Transformation of Recipient into Customer: Case Study of Zakat (Islamic Almsgiving) Management Organisations Using Microfinance Scheme for Distribution in Contemporary Indonesia ⋅ Transformation of Religion and Ethnicity in the World's only Hindu-State Nepal: Investigating the Role of the European Community ⋅ Translating Buddhism in Europe : the First French Translations of Buddhist Texts in 18th-19th centuries

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⋅ Vicious Matters and Virtuous Minds: Revisiting the Colonial Material Culture and its Indigenous Responses ⋅ Whale festivals in Vietnam and Japan: a comparison ⋅ What Tomb Records (muzhiming) Tell Us About Daoist History

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‘CHRISTIANITY CONVERTED’: THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHRISTIANITY THROUGH THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER

⋅ Framing religious compromises to the Dutch ecclesial and missionary constituency between 1700 and 1850 ⋅ Negotiating Marriage: the interaction of Sri Lankan people with the Dutch Reformed Church in eighteenth century colonial Sri LankaNegotiating Marriage: the interaction of Sri Lankan people with the Dutch Reformed Church in eighteenth century colonial Sri Lanka ⋅ Local intermediaries and the Catholic mission in the Dutch East Indies during the late colonial period ⋅ Embodied Christianity? Localising missionising, civilising and colonising practices between the Dutch metropole and Northern New Guinea. ⋅ Writers and readers of Tamil Catholic literature in the 18th century

ASTROLOGICAL AND DIVINATORY KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES IN BURMA : CONTACTS, CONVERGENCES, COPRODUCTIONS.

⋅ Ponnya from Sale (c. 1812- c. 1867) : the life trajectory and posthumous fame of a monk- astrologer in tormented 19th century Burma. ⋅ Min Thein Kha - Biography as a construction of the astrologer persona. ⋅ Planets = Karma? Unpacking the ambivalence of astrology in healing practices in Myanmar. ⋅ The Arakanese Calendar : ways of mastering space ?

BHAKTI, REFORMATION AND THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES

⋅ Christian Missionaries and the Satnamis of Narnaul ⋅ THROUGH A FOREIGN LENS: ROBERT DE NOBLI AND BHAKTI TRADITIONS IN EARY MODERN SOUTH INDIA ⋅ Proselytization through medicine: Christian missions among Savaras under British colonial rule ⋅ Religious Encounters between Christian Missionaries and the Non- Brahmanical Sects of Colonial India; The Case of the Kabirpanthis ⋅ Western Responses to the Indian Bhakti Religion: From H. H. Wilson to Max Weber

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EAST ASIAN NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: INDIGENOUS ROOTS AND GLOBAL ROUTES I

⋅ Caodaism and Indian Spirituality: A Vietnamese “Gandhi” and Contrasting Philosophies of Religious Modernism ⋅ Daesoon Jinrihoe: Korea's Homegrown Gift to the World ⋅ Saint Victor Hugo and Asian Jesus: Korean and Vietnamese New Religions at the Crossroad ⋅ Globalisation and Translation: The primary scripture of the Taiwanese new religion Weixin shengjiao 唯心聖教

EAST ASIAN NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: INDIGENOUS ROOTS AND GLOBAL ROUTES II

⋅ I Ching, Feng Shui, and the World: The Pathway to Globalization of Weixinshengjiao ⋅ The Ethical Characteristics of ‘Guarding Against Self-deception’ in Daesoon Thought: Compared with Western Views ⋅ Independent movements of Korean new religions during Japanese colonial era ⋅ The Mother Goddess Festival of the Cao Dai Religion

ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN EAST TIMOR

⋅ Roman Catholic Religious Networks in East TImor ⋅ Missions, Language, and local beliefs in Central Timor ⋅ Bearing Faith and Wearing Belak: A Study on Belief in Contemporary Timor-Leste.

STATE, SOCIETY AND SHIFTING REALITIES IN SIKKIM HIMALAYA

⋅ Geographies of signs and symbolism in the Himalayan Borderland. ⋅ Religious Transformation and Revivalism in Sikkim ⋅ Understanding Indigenous Episteme: Exploring The Labyrinth of Mutanchi Narratives from Sikkim ⋅ People, place and policies: Pilgrimage tourism and the rediscovery of Sikkim’s old ties

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MOBILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTHEAST ASIAN RELIGION

⋅ “Abraham was a refugee too”: Religion, Mobility and Resettlement in Indonesian West Timor ⋅ Otherness, and Violence: A Thai Buddhist Perspective on an Intimate Relationship ⋅ The Worship of Guardians of the Locality among Diaspora Chinese in Southeast Asia ⋅ Happiness in Concentration: Japanese Practitioners of Burmese “Pa-Auk” Buddhist Meditation

THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF TANTRA: DETEXTUALISING AND DECOLONISING TANTRIC TRADITIONS

⋅ Vaishnava heterodoxy and the everyday ⋅ Notes toward an Ethnography of Bengali Fakiri Yoga and Tantra ⋅ Understanding Bengali Occulture through the rituals of Kali Puja

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THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF TANTRA: DETEXTUALISING AND DECOLONISING TANTRIC TRADITIONS II

⋅ Observing participation – Transgressing Hermeneutics : An ethnographic approach to Bali’s tantric script practices ⋅ Is Sancha Vidya "tantric"? ⋅ Some Elements of Tantrism in Balinese Rituals

THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF TANTRA: DETEXTUALISING AND DECOLONISING TANTRIC TRADITIONS III

⋅ Elements of a Tantric Society: Astrology, Tantric Rituals, and Social Order in Ladakh ⋅ Tantric Practice and its Interplay with Life Worlds and - Events ⋅ Ethnographic Reflections on Embodiment and Lived Tantric Communities ⋅ Connected Vitalities of Language and Religion among the Buddhist Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF TANTRA: DETEXTUALISING AND DECOLONISING TANTRIC TRADITIONS IV

⋅ Some Living Tantrikas: Religious Experience, Ritual, and the Decision to Become a Practitioner. ⋅ “This is not Tantra!”- “I am your tantrik!”. Comparing traditions and self-definitions of Nath Yogis and Indian householders ⋅ Peace with the earth: may Nichiren’s teachings inspire environmental humanities? ⋅ Tantric Dance in the Netherlands

THE JESUITS AND CHOSŎN

⋅ Between Newly Coined Words and Rearranged Meanings of Existing Terms: Translating Tianzhu Shiyi in Korean Vernacular in the Late Chosŏn Dynasty ⋅ Tasan and the Jesuits ⋅ Matteo Ricci’s Method of Inculturation in the Interpretation of Christian Faith among the Early Korean Catholics ⋅ Tamhŏn Hong Taeyong and the Jesuits

VISUAL ASIAN STUDIES: VEDIC RITUAL IN INDIA & NEPAL

⋅ The Nihnava meaningless? a new perspective and analysis through videoregistration ⋅ Filming in order to understand : the Vedic Fire Rituals Performed at Agnimaṭha, Patan, Nepal ⋅ Clarifying confusing details of the Atirātra Agnicayana animal sacrifice through video-registration

PHD PITCH ⋅ Rebuilding Buddhism in a Siberian City: Religious Giving, Agency and Identity in Post-Soviet Ulan- Ude ⋅ Religious Diversity in the Altay Republic: Rivalries and Convergences. A Study of Religious Revival among the Altaians of the Altay Republic (Russian Federation)

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ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Confucian Proselytism and Apologetics in the West: Trajectories and Challenges

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SOCIETY AND IDENTITY

BOOK PRESENTATION ⋅ Dalit Spring: the resistance of Dalits to caste-discrimination and the mirror this creates to 'the West'

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING ⋅ From Phd to cinema: filming the Dalit movement. Film screening of 'Sangharsh' and discussion. ⋅ Lukochuri (hide and seek in English) and follow-up discussion

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ “Love is an Emotion, Marriage is Reality”: Pragmatic Love and Fragile Breadwinner Masculinities in South Korea ⋅ Attitudes, Moral Convictions, and Party Identification in Predicting Patterns of Protest Activity Involvement among University Students in Hong Kong ⋅ Becoming and being a young father in the context of poverty and disaster: an ethnographic study of early fatherhood in a north Lombok village ⋅ Between Business and Morality: Day-to-day Activism in the Independent Bookshop in China ⋅ Between local communities and foreign visitors: Toraja funeral ceremonies ⋅ Between the Law and Sisterhood: Sex Workers and Anti-Trafficking Work in India ⋅ Child marriage in a modernizing Bali ⋅ Civil society in South China Since 2015: Withering or re-embedment? ⋅ Colonial Cartoons; Reading satirical periodicals in Pre-Independence India ⋅ Complex-culturalism vs. multiculturalism: South Korea's marriage transnationalization in perspective ⋅ Conquering Korea – Meiji Period Japan Through the Myth of Jingū Kōgō ⋅ Conversion as a Social Gestus: Distantiation, Identity and Belonging in a Caste Society ⋅ Cultural heritage and identity in early modern Japan and Central Europe – the basis for a „distinct modernity” ⋅ Digital Literacy and Social Network: Its Impact on Political Activism and Participation ⋅ Drawing Koreanness: anthropology of South Korean cartoonists at work ⋅ Euro-American standards, Korean practices: An anthropological approach to the controversial application of Adoption Convention in Korea. ⋅ Exchanges, Gifts and Debts: Social Capital and Resilience in Today’s Vietnam ⋅ Explaining the Belt and Road – The role of social scientists in Chinese globalization debates ⋅ Food and Boundaries: Predicaments and Negotiations While Waiting “In The Field” ⋅ From “grassroots” to “volunteer”: urban citizenship in neoliberal transformation and migrant’s right to the city in China. A case study in Hangzhou. ⋅ Gendered Livelihood Stories of the Munda Indigenous Community in Kalinchi: A Case Study of the Bangladesh Forest ⋅ Gendered Statelessness and Economic Violence: Rethinking human security paradigms and approaches ⋅ Good to Eat, Good to Share: The Value of food in a Contemporary Mentawaian Society ⋅ Herbivorous men' and 'Carnivorous women': Inverting Gender Roles in the Contemporary Japanese 'Marriage Hunting' Market ⋅ Herdsmen as Entrepreneurs: Pastoralism and Family Business in Modern Mongolia

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⋅ Individuals’ Sense of Co-Sharing Experiences in Cambodia: Research on Local Memorial Sites ⋅ Intercultural education from the ground up: A feminist research-in-action project ⋅ It Starts With Sex: The making and remaking of gendered identities through sexual decision- making in Northern Thailand ⋅ Linking Performance, Quality of Governance and Trust in Civil Service: Do Culture Intercede the Relationship? ⋅ Love, Pleasure and Escape: Women’s Viewership of Gay Pornography in China ⋅ Mainland Chinese New Age milieu and the post-Maoist balancing of yin and yang ⋅ Modern Chinese parenthood: Cultural identities in flux ⋅ Muscling in and fighting their way through life using Muay Thai: a case study of Muslim women in North London ⋅ Non-State Actors Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Innovative Efforts to promote Interfaith Harmony and Understanding ⋅ Of contagion and containment: A transnational analysis of black and Dalit women’s bodies in the United States and India ⋅ Of Wives & Witches: Sorcery in Malay Polygyny ⋅ Partner Selection of Chinese migrants in Belgium ⋅ Post-socialist Lifelines: Nutag-councils as multi-local Mongolian networks ⋅ Pretty Strong Women: Ingenious agency, pink gloves and Muay Thai in Thailand ⋅ Reconceptualising notion of honour in relation to honour related violence and killings in South Asia ⋅ Regional identities in Asia and Europe : Case studies on media discourse in Japan and Britain ⋅ Representation and Precarious Heterogeneity: Workers’ movements in Post-authoritarian Indonesia ⋅ SARS as Commemorated National History in Hong Kong's New Democracy Movement ⋅ Selfhood in Contemporary Punjabi Village in Pakistan: Negotiating Categories of Zamindars (land owners) and Kammis (artisan castes) through Gift Exchange Practices ⋅ Situating psychosocial disability: History and current configurations of mad identity politics in Asia ⋅ Social Capital in the Twenty-First Century with Chinese Characteristics ⋅ Social Structures of the Life Course: Fertility, Membership and Care in Late Life ⋅ Socio-Cultural Identities of Chinese in Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia: Changing and Continous Narratives ⋅ Sport Diplomacy and inter-Korean emotion in South Korea during the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics ⋅ State, Family and Women’s Land-Inheritance Disputes in Vietnam ⋅ Stepping aside from public space. “Youth spaces” in an authoritarian context. ⋅ Taiwan indigenous study: the concrete schemes of Tribe public juristic person as self governmental subjectivity ⋅ The Changes in the Representation of 'We Japanese' after Japan Earthquake & Tsunami of 2011 ⋅ The experiences of decline among youth connected to the jade trade between China and Myanmar ⋅ The Subjectivity of the Chinese in Canada in the Formation of Their Hyphenated Identity in the Exclusion Era ⋅ The Tomboy Figure in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Exploring the Idea of the West in the Domain of Sexuality ⋅ Trans-Pacific Flows of Korean Pop Culture and Communities in the Making ⋅ Virtual construction/representation of Sinhalaness on social media in post-war Sri Lanka (2009- 2018) ⋅ Voices from the Margin : Representations of Dalit Lives in Hindi Films

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⋅ Whom do we love? Romantic love and social class ⋅ Work of Dedication: How much is enough?

PANELS

(NO) SEX IN THE CITY. SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON DISCOURSES OF INTIMACY AND SEXUAL HAPPINESS IN JAPAN

⋅ No sex in marriage. Changing couple relationships and well-being in contemporary Japan ⋅ “Talking about sex with my girlfriend? We never did in the first years.” (Conducting) Interviews on sexuality in contemporary Japan“Talking about sex with my girlfriend? We never did in the first years.” (Conducting) Interviews on sexuality in contemporary Japan ⋅ ‘Polarization’ and ‘Inactivation’ of Sexuality in Japan from 2000 onwards: Evidence from Survey- and Interview-data ⋅ Media discourses for women on sexuality in Japan. A look to the past

(RE)CLAIMING SITES FOR EMPOWERMENT ON THE GROUND IN THE CORDILLERA (PHILIPPINES)

⋅ Reclaiming the Community as the Site of Development Planning ⋅ Community Archives as site of Cultural heritage development in the Philippines’ Cordillera ⋅ Village-level Response-Mechanisms for Violence Against Women (VAW) in the Cordillera Region: A Description of Existing Institutional Mechanisms

(RE)SITUATING EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN QUEERNESS IN TRANSNATIONAL FRAMES

⋅ Malaysian Gay Men’s Lived Experiences in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom ⋅ Body, Mind and Spirit: Transwomen in Philippine Cinema ⋅ Walking Up to the Front: Assembling Gay Live Streamers, Reconfiguring Chinese Gay Male Subjectivities on Gay Dating Apps ⋅ Decentering Transnational Chinese Queerness: Trans-Asian Queer Articulations as Method

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND JUDICIAL REFORM IN EAST ASIA

⋅ Empowering Judicial Scriveners As Litigators in Japan: A Critical Look at the Justifiability and Value of the Reform ⋅ Legal Education Reform and New Challenges for Korean Professional Law Schools ⋅ Legal Reform in Korea: Achievements and Criticism of the 2007 Judicial Reform ⋅ The Crossroad of the Taiwanese Legal Profession ⋅ From Litigation to Mediation - The Judicial Reform in Civil Dispute in Taiwan’s Law and Society

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ALTERNATIVE HIERARCHIES

⋅ Followership: Unghosting the hierarchy that preserves intellectual coloniality. ⋅ When Hierarchy No Longer Enchants ⋅ Islam, Hierarchy, and the Temporality of Pious Becoming in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan ⋅ Hierarchical justice for an unequal world ⋅ The Part outside the Whole: Valorizing the foreign in Mainland Southeast Asia

APPRECIATION OR EXCLUSION?—EUROPEAN LEGACY AS MECHANISM FOR SHAPING ASIAN MODERN LIFE

⋅ Complementary Culture and Cultural Complements—Spanish Cultural Legacy on Batanes Islands, Philippines ⋅ European Visual Archives as Island-state’s Collective Memories: John Thomson’s Photography and the Making of Formosan History ⋅ Global “Hakka”: On the Powerfulness of Ethnic Terminology in Asia ⋅ Cuisine Exclusion as Cultural Identity: Burmese-Chinese in Portuguese-shaped Macao

ASIAN MUSLIM BIOGRAPHIES AND ETHICS IN PLURALIST CONTEXTS

⋅ Narratives of the “perfect” Muslim woman: Inter-textual readings of Islamic reform on the Indian subcontinent ⋅ “God knows I am able to bear this”: HIV, Islam, and ethical improvement in Aceh, Indonesia ⋅ The role of emotional and symbolic capital in the co-production of ‘love’ and ‘morality’ in the Malay romance community ⋅ Civilising technology or empowerment? The narration of the effects of sports in the lives of Pakistani women ⋅ Young Moros’ Creative Productions: Self-Making, Self-Representation, and Assertions

BIOGRAPHY IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA

⋅ Modern biography in Vietnam during the 1st half of 20th century ⋅ Indonesian biographies of President ⋅ Mahatama under cross examination

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CONTESTED HIERARCHIES WITHIN BUDDHIST LINEAGES IN NEPAL: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A TAMANG IDENTITY THROUGH RNYINGMAPA RITUAL TEXTS

⋅ Ambiguities in a reconstructed Nepalese ‘Tamang Buddhist’ social identity through Buddhist ritual texts of a mdos type ⋅ Exploring early Buddhist contents in a popular Tamang compilation of Buddhist rnyingmapa teachings for laymen ('Jigs rten tam chos lha chos mi chos bzhug sho)Exploring early Buddhist contents in a popular Tamang compilation of Buddhist rnyingmapa teachings for laymen ('Jigs rten tam chos lha chos mi chos bzhug sho) ⋅ Tracing the lineage history of Karma Chosang, a Tibetan lama popular among the Yolmowas and the Tamangs ⋅ A linguistic, political and literary study about the transcription of Tamang language : discussions between linguists and usagers around the alphabet to use (devanagari versus tibetan scripts) ;

CONTESTING MARGINALITY: EMERGING NARRATIVES AND FRAMEWORKS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ “Others is Not a Race”: Cultural Erasure and Reclamation ⋅ “I gave birth to four children, and I died.” The women in Eka Kuriawan’s Indonesia ⋅ Cooking up Heritage: Representations of Peranakan heritage in Singaporean Cookbooks ⋅ Asymmetries and solidarities amongst Filipino workers in the gig economy ⋅ The Impacts of Structure and Narrative: Recontextualising Malay Marginality in Singapore

DECOLONIZING THE COLONY: GOA THROUGH THE COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTER (I)

⋅ The Conquest of Goa 1510: Pirates, Friars and Spies ⋅ Through Water and Forests: Locating Goa in the Konkan and the Indian Ocean ⋅ Social self-representation in Goa, or as Catholic Brahmins and Chardós built an Identity Discourse around 1700

DECOLONIZING THE COLONY: GOA THROUGH THE COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTER (II)

⋅ From India to Goa: Decolonizing Women ⋅ Goa and India: Understanding “A Special Relationship” ⋅ “We, Indians”, “We, Portuguese”, “We, Goans”: Migration, material culture and postcolonial activation of the cross-cultural encounter

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DISABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE SOCIETY: COMMUNITY, BELONGING, SOCIAL INTEGRATION, AND EDUCATION

⋅ Signing and Selfhood: Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Japanese youth and the Search for Belonging ⋅ No Face, No Name: A Phenomenological Study on Watching the Media Representation of People with Disabilities in Japan ⋅ Community Building on a Journey with Autism ⋅ Better skills for better jobs? Vocational training and access to employment for disabled people in contemporary Japan

ENTERPRISING-SELF IN CHINA’S NEW ECONOMY: THE STATE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDIVIDUAL

⋅ From Apprentice to Entrepreneur: Rural Migrant Women and Affective Labour in the Shanghai Beauty Parlour Industry ⋅ Programmer-Interns’ Enterprising-Self Game: An Ethnographic Work on a Carryout Service Company ⋅ Road to “Common Prosperity?”: Digital Entrepreneurship, Poverty Elimination, and Class Segregation in China ⋅ Wandering Internet Celebrities: Beauty Bloggers and Cross-platform Production

ETHNO-TERRITORIALITY IN NORTH EAST INDIA AND BEYOND ITS BORDERS I

⋅ ‘Naga Uniqueness’: Ethno-Talk, Ethno-Territoriality, and Ethnic Uncertainty among Upland Nagas ⋅ Between the Lines: Governing the tribal state of Meghalaya in Northeast India ⋅ Old settlement, Citizenship, and State Resources in Sikkim ‘Sikkim-Subject’ as a territorial Identity ⋅ Identity and belonging in Northeast India: the case of Nagaland and ⋅ Heeft wel een title en abstract, maar wordt niet weergeven ⋅ Lines and Lineages: the Legalization of Ethno-territorial Assertions in Meghalaya

ETHNO-TERRITORIALITY IN NORTH EAST INDIA AND BEYOND ITS BORDERS II

⋅ ‘The instinctive dislike of mountaineers to the inhabitants of the plains’: highland warriors, welsh missionaries, and the making of ethno-nationalist discourse in Meghalaya ⋅ Ethno-territoriality and state regimes: contentions and connotations. Observations from Assam ⋅ What is Oxymoronic about the Kachin Political Territoriality? ⋅ Heeft wel een title en abstract, maar wordt niet weergeven ⋅ Creating World Heritage at the Margins of the State ⋅ Development boards: Symbolic territoriality, politics, and the quest for recognition in the hills

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GENDER, WORK AND EMPOWERMENT

⋅ Fair trade, an alternative issue for the empowerment of women workers? ⋅ Wasted potential? The gender-specific consequences of women’s labor market status in Indian households. ⋅ Does work participation lead to empowerment of women in rural India?

GENDER-BASED ENGAGEMENTS: GLOBAL NARRATIVES, STATE GOVERNANCE AND LOCAL PRACTICES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ Rhetoric Paints Funding “Pink” in Southeast Asia ⋅ Gender professionals in environment and development: Theory and praxis through feminist political ecology. ⋅ Public Discourses on Sexual Moralities in Real- and Cyber-Spaces

GOVERNANCE, RELIGION AND ETHNIC OTHERS: A VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST CHINA

⋅ Religion and Gender: Yao Female Singers and Their Relation with Panhu ⋅ Measures and Counter-measures: House Kinship and the Evasion of Muli’s Monk-Levy among Eagleback Naxi ⋅ Esoteric Words for Leprosy 痲瘋秘語: The Yao’s Understanding and Treatment for Leprosy ⋅ Religion and Alliance: Prestige Competition among rGyal-rong Tibetan Chieftains in Early Qing Dynasty

HETEROGENEOUS IDENTITIES IN NORTHEAST INDIA: A PANGSAU PANEL

⋅ Char-chaporis: Idenity and everyday life in Assam ⋅ The construction of an ‘insider’: The role of identity in governance of taxis in Shillong, India ⋅ Littoral lives: notes from Loktak lake ⋅ Relative as an employee: negotiation between dual identities for the Ruwatis in Lower Assam, Northeast India

HYBRIDITY IN CULTURE VIEWED FROM THE PERIPHERIES IN VIETNAM

⋅ The Gods Worshiped by the Hoa Nung, an Ethnic Chinese Group Originated on the Northern Border in Vietnam ⋅ Hybridity in the Creation of New Religious Space: A Case Study of Buddhist Temple Construction in a Border Area between Vietnam and ChinaHybridity in the Creation of New Religious Space: A Case Study of Buddhist Temple Construction in a Border Area between Vietnam and China ⋅ Does the ‘traditional custom’ matter?: Integration and in Childbearing Practices among Hmong ethnic minority people in Northern Vietnam ⋅ Vietnamese Traditional Medicine in the South: Diversity and Integration ⋅ Belonging and Religion of the Multi-Ethnic Society in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: Border-Crossing by the Monks of Khmer Theravada Buddhism

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HYPERVISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY OF QUEER LIVES AND POLITICS IN NEOLIBERAL JAPAN

⋅ Conservatism and LGBT Rights Discourses in Japan ⋅ Hyper/visibility and the "LGBT" Boom in Japan ⋅ Images of Happy Couples and the Limits of Assimilative Strategies in LGBT Movements in Japan ⋅ Japan’s Literary Conscience: Renegotiations of Sexual Citizenship in Shono Yoriko’s Uramizumo Dorei Senkyo (The Enslaved Voting to Join Uramizumo, 2018)

IDENTITIES, MOVEMENTS AND COSTRUCTION OF NEW CULTURAL ITINERARIES. SOME STUDY CASES OF ARAB-ISLAMIC ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST IN THE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS.

⋅ The Importance of Modern Arab-Syrian Biographies in the Determination of Membership and the Shared Islamic Cultural Heritage: the Case of al-Arna’uti and al-Kurdi mashahir and ulema in Damascus ⋅ Entanglements with Europe in Contemporary Arabic literature: some case study examples ⋅ In Search of an Identity. The Palestinian ulema and the Debate on the Arab-Islamic Heritage (19th and 20th century). ⋅ The reception of ‘Asian’ Islamic feminism in Europe and in Italy

IN THE FAMILY AND BEYOND: WOMEN’S AGENCY IN TAIWAN

⋅ Leaving Home for Serving the Nation? Women’s Army Corps and Their Families Left Behind ⋅ Gender and Sacrifice: Women’s Knowledge and Domestic Rituals in Patriarchal Society of Jinmen, Taiwan ⋅ Involution, Women’s Rights and Citizenship at the Bad Time: The Case of Jinmen in the Modern Age ⋅ Unmarried Women and Their Alternative “Families”: The Case Studies of ’s Female Believers from a Taiwanese Coastal Village

INDIGENOUS TAIWAN UNDER EUROPEAN PARTICIPATIONS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE TODAY

⋅ European Anthropologists on Taiwan Indigenes: Diachronic Works of Inez de Beauclair and Michael Rudolph ⋅ Outside in and inside out: Italian Catholic Missioner Yzi Ba in His Works on Atayal Culture ⋅ Friends, Ancestors, or Enemies? --When the Tsou Encountered with the Dutch ⋅ Balraka (Westerners) Arriving across the Mountains: Formation of “Central Tribe” in Eastern Taiwan under Dutch Rule

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LIFE IN JAPAN: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

⋅ Life, From Organism to Presence. A Horticultural Glance ⋅ Questioning « Life » in Life Education and Sex Education at Primary Schools in Japan ⋅ Life with a Disability: a “Life that Should Not Exist”? Aoi Shiba no Kai’s Rhetoric of Life as a Political Agenda ⋅ Special Education and Life: Evaluating Human Life and Value in the Context of Providing Education for Disabled Children in Japan

MYTH SCRIPTING OF HERO GANGSTERS IN ASIA

⋅ Gangster Heroes: Myth Scripting in South Asia ⋅ Gangster Heroes: Myth Scripting in South Asia ⋅ Dreams of strongmen: illegality and heroism in urban Pakistan ⋅ From Gangster to . The myth of Paritala Ravi in South India ⋅ The heroic self-made man: the mastaan in Bangladesh

NEW AUTHORITARIANISM: BOTTOM-UP PROCESSES OF VIGILANTISM AND RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN ASIA

⋅ The spectre of the terrorist as a driver of nationalism in Indonesia ⋅ Facebook-based vigilante groups in Thailand and the Philippines and the global rise of new authoritarianism ⋅ Indonesia, a Part of My Village: Understanding New Trend of Out of the State Securitization ⋅ Gender and vigilantism in East Kalimantan, Indonesia ⋅ Against all enemies: Turkish diaspora nationalism in the age of social media

NEW NARRATIVES OF CROSS BORDER REGIONALISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

⋅ Rethinking Integration- Philippine Experience ⋅ From the Fringe to the Center: Regionalism from Below in Southeast Asia ⋅ Food Sovereignty Discourse in Southeast Asia

NORTHERN ASIA PART II: CONTEMPORARY STUDIES

⋅ Environmentalism, Cultural Resilience and Submerged Societies in Northern Eurasia ⋅ Hunters and Traders in a Fluid World: Continuity and Change in a North Asian Borderland ⋅ Hunting for Jade: Interrelations between Illegal Mining and Sacred Landscape in Buriatia ⋅ Oil, Deеr and Film: Traditional Ethnocultural Communities in the Russian North ⋅ Oil Field. Documentary film (2012). 26 min. HD 16:9. English subtitles

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PACKAGING (IM)MATERIALITY: CULTURAL POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

⋅ Packaging Feng Shui as Art: Consuming “superstition” in Urban China ⋅ Packaging Craftwork, Sharing Heritage: Collaborative Brand Promotion in Multiethnic Southwest China ⋅ “They taste similar and familiar”: Consumption of Packaged Convenience Food among Left-behind Children in Rural China ⋅ Packaging NGOs for Government Branding: Local Government’s Innovation Partnership with NGOs in Post-Disaster Sichuan

PARENTING PRACTICES IN PUBLIC POLICY AND MEDIA IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

⋅ Competitive Parenting and Marketization of Education in Contemporary China ⋅ Fatherhood Mediated Through the Unfamiliar: Reception Tactics of Where Are We Going, Dad? ⋅ How do Chinese students choose to study abroad? Parents’ educational strategies and personal motivations. A “turning point” perspective on the French case ⋅ How do “middle class parents” practice the ideal parenting in a highly competitive educational system?

RETHINKING GENDER EQUALITY AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN POST-WAR TAIWAN

⋅ Taiwan and Marriage Equality ⋅ Rethinking Gender Equality and Transitional Justice in Post-War and Postcolonial Taiwan ⋅ CEDAW in Taiwan and the localization of Women's Human Rights ⋅ The Implementation of Taiwan’s Gender Equity Education Act – Current and Future Challenges

RITUALS AND /OF MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA

⋅ Playing Soldiers: Ritual, Recombinant Chinese-ness and intertextuality among young ⋅ Incommensurable Values and Techniques of Commensurability in Contemporary Urban Chinese Funerals ⋅ The Production of Funeral Workers for Urbanizing China ⋅ Games (of distinction) as a masculine ritual - a case study of MOBA gamers at a Chinese university

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND QUEER FAMILY FORMATIONS IN ASIA AND EUROPE

⋅ Sexual Citizenship in a Transnational Frame ⋅ Queer Families in Japan’s Legal System ⋅ Representations of Queer Families in the Vietnamese Sitcom ‘My Monster in Law’ ⋅ Marriage and the Tensions of Normativity, Politics and Performativity

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SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION IN SOUTH ASIA 1: CITIZENSHIP

⋅ Identity Politics, Coalition Politics, and Citizenship: Modi Government and the Citizenship Bill ⋅ Who are the Citizens of Assam? National Register Update of Citizens in Assam, India ⋅ Citizenship under the dual legal system: a case study of Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal ⋅ Marginal Citizens: Being Nepali in India

SOCIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION IN SOUTH ASIA 2: MINORITIES

⋅ For whom the Development tolls?: The Conflict Arises on Accessibility to Sacredness in Wind farm at Thar Desert, India ⋅ Muslim Political Participation in India ⋅ Community policing or Communal policing?: Attacks by Hindutva outfits and the creation of ‘minority’ in South India ⋅ Expanding Identities and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of Dalit Converts to Buddhism in North India ⋅ Quest for a non-exclusive politics: Ram Manohar Lohia and the anti-caste movement in India

SOUNDING CHINESE: EVOLVING NOTIONS OF NATION, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY

⋅ "Serving the people" or else? Dialect preservation movement in Shanghai ⋅ “The Chinese of Tang Poets”: Cantonese and the making of a Chinese ethnicity in late-Qing Guangdong ⋅ Gendered representations of Taiwan Mandarin in online discourse ⋅ Who are You Calling Anomalous? Eurocentric Explanations of the Rise of National Standard Languages and the Chinese Case

TEMPORALITIES AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES IN CHANGING ASIAN RURAL SOCIETIES I

⋅ Temporalities of Marriage in Contemporary Rural China: Harmonization Between Ritual Practices and Life Rhythms ⋅ Facing the Cycle of Life: About a Protective Ritual Preventing Calamities. Transformations Within a Contemporary Naxi Ritual and Social EventFacing the Cycle of Life: About a Protective Ritual Preventing Calamities. Transformations Within a Contemporary Naxi Ritual and Social Event ⋅ The Time Challenges of Beauty Pageant for Gyarong (China)

TEMPORALITIES AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES IN CHANGING ASIAN RURAL SOCIETIES II

⋅ Ritual and Agrarian Activities Calendars' Adaptability in the Age of Tourism Development at the Wa-Paraok Village of Wengding (Yunnan-China) ⋅ Post Disaster Tourism on Merapi Volcano: Adaptation and Transformation of Local Upland Economy After the 2010 Eruption (Java, Indonesia)Post Disaster Tourism on Merapi Volcano: Adaptation and Transformation of Local Upland Economy After the 2010 Eruption (Java, Indonesia) ⋅ Tuktuk Driver, an Economic Alternative for People in Southern Sri Lanka After the 2004 Tsunami? Reconversion and Socio-Professional Transformations After the Disaster.

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THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF GLOBAL STYLE

⋅ America’s gift to the world and the global diffusion of Japanese cool ⋅ Regional, global, and modest: Current influences in Indonesian fashion design ⋅ Materializing Filipino Modernity: Filipino Fashion for Export ⋅ The Roles of Japanese fashion in Taiwan: A Case Study of Uniqlo (co-author) ⋅ The Roles of Japanese fashion in Taiwan: A Case Study of Uniqlo (co-author)

TRANSNATIONAL FOODWAYS: FARMING, FOOD ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN ASIA AND EUROPE

⋅ A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Farming Women in China and ⋅ Faith, Food, and Politics of Visibility: Uighur Restaurants in the Netherlands ⋅ The "Localization" of Ethnic Entrepreneurship and the Case Study of "Chinese" Chips Shops in Belgium

WAYS OF SENSING, WAYS OF BEING: SENSORY ANTHROPOLOGY FROM/AMONG THE “ASIAS”

⋅ An Anthropological Inquiry of Trauma, Affect and Rotten Smells ⋅ The Meaning and Power of the ‘eyesight’ in Indian Performing Arts ⋅ Seeing through Hands: “Nadhi” Diagnosis in Sri Lankan Indigenous Medical Practices. ⋅ Bodily sensations and ethical relations: A reflection on the sensuous interaction between care- givers and dying residents at a home for elders in Sri Lanka

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND FEMALE IMAGES IN ASIA

⋅ Feminine Visibility, The Self and Design in Early Twentieth Century Visual Culture in China ⋅ Revising women’s work: Representing the production of cotton in 18th-century China ⋅ Performativity of Art and Gender Images of Beauties By Keisai Eisen (1791–1848) ⋅ Gender and Identity in Hong Kong Art

WRITING WOMEN’S ROLES IN 5TH-13TH CENTURY CHINA

⋅ Representing Palace Women in Medieval Chinese Literature: The "Zhao Feiyan waizhuan" in Images of the Imperial Harem ⋅ Possession, Revelation, and Identities: Healers, Transcendents, and “Enchanted” Women in Song China ⋅ The Imperial Lineage of Northern Qi (550-577): The Role of Empress Dowager Lou

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PHD PITCH ⋅ ‘A (Moral) Logic of Protest?’ Integrating the Bourdieusian perspective and Moral identity in Hong Kong Student Protests ⋅ Being ‘children’ in India: Constructions of Childhood and Deviance in a postcolonial context ⋅ Healing the Wounds: An Ethnographic Study of Reconciliation and Peace Building Initiatives During and Post 1984 Anti-Sikh Violence in Delhi ⋅ Influences associated with sexual practices among homeless young people in Pakistan ⋅ Literature on the Margin: The Urdu-Speaking Minority in Bangladesh Between Identity and Integration ⋅ Youth in Indo-Nepal ‘Cross-Border’ Crime

POSTER PRESENTATION ⋅ The analysis of Social identity and cultural integration of Chinese students in France

ROUNDTABLES ⋅ Negotiating the Global Identity ⋅ New approaches to “Race” in Asia ⋅ Shaping Asia: Connectivities, Comparisons, Collaborations between Asia and Europe

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WELFARE AND HEALTH

INDIVIDUAL PAPER ⋅ China’s One-Child Policy and Its Demise: A Socio-Ethical Inquiry into Authoritarianism ⋅ Disaster Risk Management in South East Asia ⋅ Health consequences of homeownership in urban China: Benefit or cost? ⋅ Imaginative Travels as Therapeutic Mobilities of Young Adults in Seoul, South Korea ⋅ Indian Romance and Emotional Health ⋅ Mental-E-Healthy: Online counseling and mental health apps in India ⋅ Obstetrical care and maternal mortality: a comparative study of the hospitalization of childbirth in China, 1920s to 1940s ⋅ Re-imagining gender and health: help-seeking and health-seeking practices among three generations of men in Bangladesh ⋅ Traditional Chinese Medicine and a Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Tanzania, 1987 to 2006 ⋅ Transnational Connections and Relations of Care in a South Indian Hopsital ⋅ Understanding middle age in Indonesia: Negotiating demands and resources within family and community networks ⋅ Understanding the Non-Benign Role of External Pressures in Social Protection in Cambodia and the Philippines ⋅ We Are All Disabled': Parents' Perspectives on Children Disability in Yangon (Myanmar) ⋅ When "chicken talks to duck", how to build trust in prenatal genetic counseling? - Ethnographic evidences from Shanghai

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