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SUMMARY:Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative. \nThe Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative are pleased to present “Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias\,”  a one-day symposium at NYU and a Convergence feature for a special issue of the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. “Moving Objects” examines  the varied modes of conveyance and the material infrastructures that facilitate the movements of people\, cultural objects\, and materials\, by which Global Asias come into existence. \nWhat are the objects\, vehicles\, and vessels of migration\, circulation\, and exchange that connect Asians to one another and to others? What are the platforms and material environments through which Global Asias are built? How do cultural and political representations of such moving objects serve to make diasporic passages possible? How are such passages re-routed with the arrival of new modes and technologies of travel and transit? How do moving objects shape the national\, ethnic\, racial\, and religious subjectivities of those who inhabit Global Asias? What cultural and political meanings attach to the objects of movement and the paths they take? \nOnline registration will close at 9:00 a.m. on Friday\, April 24. Guests will also be able to register onsite.  \nSymposium schedule\n9:45 a.m. Registration \n10:00-10:15 a.m. Opening Remarks\n \nCrystal Parikh\, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\nTina Chen\, Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative \n10:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Objects Moving People \nAnel Rakhimzhanova\, “Performing Transit: Mobility and the Spatial Imagination in Central Asia”\nAnn Ngoc Tran\, “Boat Materialities: The Maritime Objects of Vietnam’s Postwar Exodus”\nChristopher Capozzola\, “Trapik\, or\, How Manila Got Hooked on Cars”\nJulia H. Lee\, “Tracking Global Asias”\nModerated by Junyoung Verónica Kim\, New York University\n \n12:05-2:00 p.m. Break \n2:00-3:40 p.m. People Moving Objects  \nKyoungjin Bae\, “The Crisis of Portable Infrastructure: Tea Chests between Nineteenth-Century China and India”\nEve Oishi\, “Correspondences: Three Missing Letters\, the Postal Service\, and Global Asias”\nAlisha Elizabeth Cherian\, “Kavadis in Motion: Routes of Belonging across Tamil Singapore and Malaysia”\nModerated by Krishnendu Ray\, New York University \n3:45-4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks\n \nCrystal Parikh\, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\nTina Chen\, Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative \n4:00 p.m. Reception \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nCredit: “Kavadi Thaipusam” by hams37 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. \n 
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