Co-conveners:
Shoan Yin Cheung (CUHK)
Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Yongwoo Lee (CUHK)
Laikwan Pang (CUHK)
Speakers:
Banu Bargu (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Xuenan Cao (CUHK)
Ting Guo (CUHK)
Shahla Hussain (St. John’s University)
Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago)
Margaret Jack (New York University)
Jane Jin Kaisen (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts)
Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam)
Tri Phuong (University of Victoria)
Naoki Sakai (Cornell University)
Neferti X.M. Tadiar (Barnard College, Columbia University)
“Dialectics of Control: An Inter-Asian Perspective”
Critics have called the 21st century the “Asian Century,” predicting that Asia will lead the cultural and economic development of the world. However, what we have seen across Asia in the last two decades is the rise of authoritarian rule, decoloniality far from complete, modernization extremely uneven, as well as the mutual reinforcement of nationalism and patriarchy. In this workshop, we want to investigate how we can conceptualize and problematize the dialectics of control and freedom in Asia under such circumstances. We want to look back at recent history to explore how power was formed and circulated in different Asian countries. We also want to explore the relationship between governance, cultural production, and knowledge dissemination, and how the people might still be able to negotiate and shape their autonomy. We hope that this workshop could help us fathom the relationship between control and liberation, bringing new insights on nationalism, imperialism and postcolonialism, migration and diaspora, hereditary victimhood nationality, as well as collective trauma and memory.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13683443
Event Page: https://ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk/main/?events=dialectics-of-control-an-inter-asian-perspective
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