Verge is delighted to be sponsoring the following panels at the upcoming Association for Asian Studies conference (Boston, MA, Mar. 16–19). We hope you’ll join us for some of these events!
Food in/of Conflict – Part I: Resistance and Food Sovereignty
Session D022
Friday, March 17, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Boston Sheraton Hotel – Boston Common (5th Floor)
Frank Uekotter (Chair) | University of Birmingham
Full Thrust Farming: A New Interpretative Framework for the Global Green Revolution
Sarbani Sharma | Azim Premji University
Surviving a Landscape of Violence and Uncertainties: Gendered Labor in Securing Food
Ishita Dey (Discussant) | South Asian University, New Delhi
Food in/of Conflict – Part II: Claimmaking, Mobility and Transformation
Session E024
Friday, March 17, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Boston Sheraton Hotel – Boston Common (5th Floor)
Nicole Freiner | Bryant University
Staple Food Policies and Food Security across Asia
Zobaida Nasreen (Chair) | University of Dhaka
“I Miss Those Chillies”: Remembering Camp Food
Lily Kelting | Flame University
Milk on the Verge: Cows, Trash, and the Politics of Space
Ishita Dey | South Asian University
Avoiding Conflict: Of Smells, Loss and Lives in Transit
Sarbani Sharma (Discussant) | Azim Premji University
The Politics, Practices, and Spaces of Migrant (In)Visibility
Session E018
Friday, March 17, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center – Meeting Room 209 (Second Level)
Carol Chan (Chair) | Universidad Mayor
Invisibilizing Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Worker Migrations to Chile
Venera R. Khalikova | Chinese University of Hong Kong
Intersectional in/Visibilities: The Case of Indian Female Expatriates in Hong Kong
Aditi Mukherjee | GITAM University
Dalit Migrant Discourses on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from West Bengal
Chiara Pavone | University of California, Los Angeles
Out of Sight: Avisuality, Immunity, and the “Toxic Stranger”
Nicole Constable (Discussant) | University of Pittsburgh
The Material Transpacific: Histories, Mobilities, Agencies
Session H018
Saturday, March 18, 2023
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Boston Sheraton Hotel – Jamaica Pond (5th Floor)
Andrea Jung-An Liu (Chair) | University of California, Berkeley
Clara Iwasaki (Discussant) | University of Alberta
Chuck Wooldridge | City University of New York, Herbert Lehman College
The Taiping Movement in the Context of Pacific Iconoclasms
Charles Starks | University of Pennsylvania
Materializing the Chinese Pacific City on False Creek: Chinese Migrants’ Associations in Vancouver, Canada, 1885–1940
Ignatius G.D. Suglo | University of Pennsylvania
Memory and Materiality: Propaganda Posters and Memorialization of Africa in (Mao’s) China
Susan Eberhard | University of California, Berkeley
Heterogenous Medium: Silver’s Asia-Pacific Circulations after 1821