Verge-sponsored Panels at AAS 2023

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!

 Verge-Sponsored Panels at AAS 2023. Food in/of Conflict (linked panel)
Part I: Resistance and Food Sovereignty
Part II: Claimmaking, Mobility and Transformation
The Politics, Practices, and Spaces of Migrant (In)Visibility
The Material Transpacific: Histories, Mobilities, Agencies

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