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Conference – Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination

  • Conference – Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias
  • Event Date: 2023-04-06
  • Event Start Time: 12:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 6:00 PM
  • Event Type: Conference
  • Event Location: Alexander Library, Pane Room

Global Asias Events Roundup

Here is an organized summary of several upcoming and recent academic events sponsored or co-sponsored by Rutgers University's Global Asias Initiative and related departments.

1. IRW Distinguished Lecture Series: Possession

  • Title: Possession: Burial of this Order
  • Speakers:
    • Jane Jin Kaisen: School of Media Arts, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
    • Alexandra Chang: Art History, Rutgers-Newark
    • Suzy Kim: Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers-New Brunswick
  • Date & Time: Thursday, October 12, 2023 | 4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Alexander Library Teleconference/Lecture Hall, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  • Admission: Free and open to the public.
  • Note: The 2023–2024 IRW Distinguished Lecture Series is supported by the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick and co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.

2. Global Asias Welcome Event

  • Title: Welcome Event
  • Purpose: Join to meet new co-directors, advisory board members, and colleagues!
  • Date & Time: Wednesday, September 13th | 4:30–6:00 PM
  • Location: Academic Building W Room 6031, 15 Seminary Place

3. Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias (Conference)

  • Title: Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias
  • Dates: Thursday, April 6, 2023 (12pm–6pm) | Friday, April 7, 2023 (9am–4pm)
  • Location: Pane Room, Alexander Library (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
  • Organized by: Jae Won Edward Chung, Jung Joon Lee, and Sohl Lee
  • Keynote Speaker: Thy Phu (University of Toronto)
  • Description: The conference explores photography as a site of onto-epistemological praxis through which we can reconceptualize temporality and compel decolonial imagination, examining photographic encounters in or about Vietnam, India, Armenia, Japan, China, Burma, Hong Kong, and Korea.
  • Sponsors: Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Korean Studies Gift Fund, Center for Cultural Analysis, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literature, Rhode Island School of Design Humanities Fund, Northeast Asia Council Conference Grant, Rutgers SAS Global Asias.

Conference Schedule Highlights (Thursday, April 6)

  • Welcome Remarks (12 pm - 12:15 pm): Introduction by Jae Won Edward Chung (Rutgers) and Paul Schalow (Rutgers).
  • Session I. Imperial Archive Against the Grain (12:30 pm – 3:15 pm): Moderated by Yero Chai (Rutgers). Includes talks on Imperial Empiricism and its Blind Spots, Optical Aphasia and Decolonial Imagination in Burma, and the Making of Armenian Emigrants.
  • Session II. Intermediation, Redirection, Dissemination (3:30 pm – 5:45 pm): Moderated by Minna Lee (Princeton). Includes talks on the Family of Man and the Rethinking of Kinship, Violence, and Sovereignty in 1950s South Korea, and the photographs of Gwangju in 1980.

Conference Schedule Highlights (Friday, April 7)

  • Keynote Speech (9 am – 10:15 am): Introduction by Jung Joon Lee (Rhode Island School of Design). Talk by Thy Phu: "Vietnam: Socialist Futures and Counterfactualities."
  • Session III. Photographic Practice as Epistemic Intervention (10:30 am – 12:45 pm): Moderated by Amy Kahng (Stony Brook University). Includes talks on Anticolonial and Ecological “Vocabularies” in Photography and Writings of Takuma Nakahira, Uyghur and Chinese Examples of Photographic Documentation, and Performative Futility.
  • Lunch Talk (1 pm – 1:30 pm): Introduction by Jae Won Edward Chung. Talk by Young-mee Yu Cho (Rutgers): "Remarks on The William Elliott Griffis Collection."
  • Session IV. Roundtable: Photographic Futurities (2:30 pm – 4 pm): Moderated by Sohl Lee (Stony Brook University).

4. Global Asias Symposium: Asia and the Anthropocene

  • Title: Global Asias: Asia and the Anthropocene: A Symposium
  • Date & Time: Friday, May 5, 2023 | 9:00 AM – 5:45 PM
  • Location: Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051, 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick
  • Agenda Highlights:
    • 8:30: Coffee & Pastries
    • 9:00: Welcome Remarks (Convener: Tamara Sears)
    • 9:15: Processes & Movements (Speakers: Brian Lander, Ashanti Shih, Jeannie Shinozuka)
    • 11:30: Lunch
    • 12:30: Ideas & Imaginations (Speakers: Kathlene Baldanza, Suga Ray, Anna Seastrand)
    • 2:30: Coffee
    • 2:45: Sustainability & Development, Pt 1 (Speakers: Jason Weger, Amy Zhang)
    • 4:00: Coffee
    • 4:10: Sustainability & Development, Pt 2 (Speakers: Jenny Goldstein, Nayanika Mathur)
    • 5:30: Concluding Thoughts
  • Funding: Funded through a Collaborative Multidisciplinary Award from the Rutgers Research Council (EVPAA) and the SAS Deans Office, and Co-Sponsored by the Global Asias Initiative, the Rutgers British Studies Center, the South Asian Studies Program, and the departments of Asian Languages and Cultures, Art History, and AMESALL.

5. 2023 AAMESIG/ACRL/ALA Research Forum (Digital Humanities)

  • Title: DIGITAL HUMANITIES: SOUTH ASIA & BEYOND
  • Event: 2023 AAMESIG/ACRL/ALA Research Forum
  • Date & Time: Date: 25th April 2023 | Time: 11:00 am EST
  • Join via Zoom: go.rutgers.edu/alqfvm9o
  • Focus: A virtual research forum focusing on scholarly projects and digital humanities in and related to South Asia.
  • Presentations:
    1. Resistive Ontologies of DH in/from Majority Worlds (Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy): Focuses on the normative on-tologies of 'global humanities' and how digital humanities practices may challenge the legacies of DH "big tents."
    2. Connecting Threads: What We Learned from the Pilot for a Global South-to-South Connections Digital Humanities Project (Dr. Deepthi Murali): Reports on a collaborative multi-partner digital humanities project on transcultural consumption of Indian and Indian-imitation textiles in the 'Global South' in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on DH tools and global South-focused DH research.
    3. The Indian Princely States Online Legal History Archive (IPSOLHA): Aims, Objectives, Challenges (Dr. Elizabeth Lhost): Describes a digital database designed to bring the legal history of the dozens of princely states that promulgated independent laws during British rule into conversation with their own political, legal, and cultural records.
  • Organized by: Deepa Banerjee, Convener, AAMESIG, South Asian studies librarian, University of Washington & Triveni Kuchi, Incoming Convener, AAMESIG, South Asian studies librarian, Rutgers University New Brunswick.