SI 2024: Involuntary Migration

Discussions about involuntary migration cut across disciplines from social scientific and humanistic inquiry. While the movement of people from one place to another has been happening sincethe beginning of human history, people move for many different reasons and movement does not always signal the freedom of mobility. For example, the conditions of “Asian” and Asian […]

SI 2023: Archipelagic Asias

The study of Asia(s) remains fragmented along the lines of nations, histories, ethnicities, languages, and disciplines—all concepts that are rooted, epistemologically and pragmatically, on terra firma, on the supposedly sound conceptual ground of a continental Enlightenment tradition. What happens, however, when we shift our point of view, and instead adopt an oceanic perspective? How do […]