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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Elliott Jun
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nElliott Jun (PhD candidate\, CUNY Graduate Center English Department with a certificate in American Studies) presents “‘The Wind Blows From All Directions’: Chinese Settler Labour\, Indigenous Differences\, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. This meeting is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\n“‘The Wind Blows From All Directions’: Chinese Settler Labour\, Indigenous Differences\, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century” \nOn May 5th\, 1789\, an unfamiliar but worrying sight came into view when Esteban José Martinez sailed into the Surgidero de San Lorenzo inlet of the Northwest Las Indias Occidentales; two ships from the newly established United States and a British ship were moored in the sound. Martinez immediately occupied the inlet and arrested William Douglas and the crew of the Iphigenia Nubiana before ordering them to return to Guangzhou. Over the next two months\, several more British ships arrived in short succession and were placed under arrest: the North West America\, the Princess Royal\, and the Argonaut. Each of these ships shared several common characteristics; they primarily bore Portuguese or British names\, flags\, and papers\, had British captains\, contained crews composed primarily of Europeans and Chinese labourers\, and were connected by the same British merchant\, John Meares. In negotiations with the captain of the Argonaut\, James Colnett\, Martinez discovered the British had already claimed the inlet as Nootka Sound in the preceding years with the intent to establish a more fortified settlement called Fort Pitt. Martinez imprisoned Colnett and the crew of the Argonaut and seized the Argonaut and the North West America along with their cargoes on the charge of violating Spanish territorial sovereignty. The competing colonial claims of British and Spanish empires across settler ownership and sovereignty over the unceded lands of the Mowachaht formed the core of the international incident known as the Nootka Crisis. \n“‘The Wind Blows From All Directions’: Chinese Settler Labour\, Indigenous Differences\, and Transpacific Imperialisms in the Eighteenth Century” investigates how Yuquot\, a seasonal fishing village of the Mowachaht\, became a key transpacific site where the multiple scales of racial capitalism and competing empires converged. I show how crises in the royal monopoly system and plantation economy across the increasingly transhemispheric British empire in the late eighteenth century created the opportunity for private free traders like John Meares to look for their own solutions beyond the nation-state. I argue that Meares imagined and employed Chinese wage labour as a liberal solution to form a British settler transpacific that connected Yuquot\, Hawai’i\, Guangzhou\, and Kolkata. While Meares’ experiment failed\, I reflect on the ways in which studying the “failures” of colonial capitalism as method attunes us to pay attention to the fragility\, contradictions\, crisis\, and reinvention that define colonialism\, empire\, and capital without foreclosing the relational possibilities of affinities organized around mutual struggle. \n\n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. 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 available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nImage credit: Meares\, John\, and Giovacchino Pagani. “Carta del Mar Pacifico del nord che comprendela costa nord est d’Asia e la costa-nord ouest d’America riconosciute nel 1778 e79 del Cap. Cook e piu particolarmente ancora nel 1788. e. 89.” Map. Florence/Italy: Pagani\, Giovacchino\, 1796. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center\, https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:vx0273587 (accessed January 06\, 2026).
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-elliott-jun/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, room 372\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Trans Caribbean: Queer and Trans Arts\, Rights\, and Activism
DESCRIPTION:Co-organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and The Latinx Project at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)\, Hemispheric Institute\, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\, and the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD). \nDETAILS & REGISTRATION \nAs trans rights and embodiment are under attack in the United States\, trans activists and legal activists are advancing a broad trans rights agenda across the Caribbean. Colombia’s proposed Ley Integral Trans\, for instance\, aims to protect the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals\, while ensuring their full equality and participation in all areas of society. Meanwhile\, like millions of others\, queer and trans people in the Caribbean have historically lived across and beyond national boundaries. Our invited guests discuss their experiences of advocating for trans rights\, sustaining creative practice\, and convening community while crossing gendered\, legal\, and geographic boundaries. The conversations will be accompanied by two performances that illustrate the complexity of living life across boundaries. \nThe first panel\, focused on the struggle for rights\, recognition\, and equality in Colombia\, stages a conversation between Liga de Salud Trans activists Juli Salamanca Cortés and Yoko Ruiz and their artistic collaborators\, photographer Camila Falquez and author Cesar Vallejo. Moderated by Professor Bel Olid (University of Chicago). \nThe second panel examines the Trans Caribbean through its artistic\, social\, and legal movements through a conversation with advocate and program strategist Dane Lewis\, interdisciplinary artist Edrimael Delgado Reyes (LaBoriVogue)\, installation and performance artist Carlos Martiel\, and Black Trans Liberation activist Qween Jean. Moderated by Professor Leo Douglas (NYU Liberal Studies). This panel threads together experiences that cross Cuba\, Jamaica\, Haiti\, Puerto Rico\, and the United States. \nThe closing reception features performances by poet Suzanne Persard\, poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes\, and artist Edrimael Delgado Reyes. Persard is published in the poetry anthology I Will Not Go: Translations\, Transformations\, and Chutney Fractals (Kaya Press\, 2024)\, and Holnes is published in When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent (University of Arizona Press\, 2023). \nAccessibility note: This event is free and open to the public with RSVP. The building has a wheelchair ramp and elevator. For any questions or to notify us of additional accommodation requests\, please email clacs@nyu.edu at least a week prior to the event. \nPhotograph by Camila Falquez. Featuring Samantha Siagama\, Trans-Indigenous Leader. Shot in Santuario\, Risaralda\, Colombia\, May 2023\, as a part of the Series ” Compañerx” created alongside Stylist Lorena Maza\, writer César Vallejo and trans activists Juli Salamanca and Yoko Ruiz.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/trans-caribbean-queer-and-trans-arts-rights-and-activism/
LOCATION:Espacio de Culturas\, 53 Washington Square South\, New York\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Archival Interregnum: Caste\, Sexuality\, Indenture\," A Lecture by Anjali Arondekar
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Comparative Approaches to the Literatures of Africa\, the Middle East\, and the Global South (CALAMEGS) 2025-26 Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\, NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis\, and Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at NYU. \nRSVP \nWhile Mauritius remains the place from which my questions emerge\, it is also an area impossible\, a geo-epistemology that confounds histories of sexuality and caste in/and South Asia and the broader Indian Ocean world.  Indenture is the archival interregnum—especially in Mauritius—where our attachments to counter-archives\, origin-stories\, run amuck. If archives of indenture are flooded with markers of identification that suture presence to labor\, what happens to the labor of caste and sexuality that lives unaccounted within economies of such enumeration? How do we think histories of indenture outside settled archival forms\, outside technologies of historical recuperation\, where we historicize not to materialize absence\, but to speak to the weight of our historical anchors? How do we couple the abundance of historical reading with the oceanic voyages of indenture\, caste and sexuality? Caste and sexuality here are not tracked through acts/practices that might return us to identitarian forms; rather I read archival records of caste and sexuality against the settlement and lure of reproductive futurities. \nAnjali Arondekar is Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Professor of Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz. She was the founding director\, Center for South Asian Studies\, 2020-24. Her research engages the comparative poetics and politics of sexuality\, caste\, and historiography\, with a focus on South Asia and the broader Indian Ocean world. She is the author of two award-winning monographs: For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press\, 2009\, Orient Blackswan\, India\, 2010); and Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Press\, 2023\, Orient Blackswan\, 2023). Arondekar’s third book-in progress\, entitled\, Oceanic Sex: Archives of Caste and Indenture\, couples the archival forms of indenture with the oceanic voyages of caste and sexuality. \n  \nAccessibility note: This event is free and open to the public with RSVP. The venue is located on the ground level and is accessible with two sets of automatic doors. For any accommodation requests\, please email amb10317@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/archival-interregnum-caste-sexuality-indenture-a-lecture-by-anjali-arondekar/
LOCATION:19 University Place\, Great Room\, 19 University Place\, first floor\, New York\, NY
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