“MATERIALISMS & INFRASTRUCTURES OF THE TRANSPACIFIC”

JOIN US FOR A ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2025

KAP 445, 4-5:30PM

Joanne Leow is Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair of Transnational and Decolonial Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. Her first academic monograph is Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool University Press, 2024). Her creative work and research lie at the intersections of the environmental humanities, transnational and diasporic cultural production, global Asia studies, autotheory, and decoloniality. Her ecocritical SSHRC-funded project Intertidal Polyphonies includes videography, photography, audio field recordings, and interviews with writers and artists from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vancouver.

Wesley Attewell is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. He works at the intersection of human geography, American studies, and Asian diaspora studies to map the transnational geographies of US empire-building from the Cold War into the present. His work seeks to better understand how the US has combined military, development, and capitalist interventions to pacify colonized subjects across Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East. His book, The Quiet Violence of Empire: How USAID Waged Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in Spring 2023.

Eleana Kim is a cultural anthropologist and award-winning author whose research and writing are organized around core anthropological concerns with nature and culture and the biological and the social in the production of personhood and social value. Her books, Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoption and the Politics of Belonging (2010) and Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (2022), were both published by Duke University Press. She is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Paul Nadal is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. He is completing a book on the relationship between remittances and novels in the Philippine diaspora, a chapter of which was published in the September 2021 issue of American Literature and awarded the Best Essay Prize by the American Literature Society. He currently serves as the Elected Delegate Representative for Literary Theory and Method for the MLA.

 

Hosted by the Transpacific Research Cluster
Sponsored by the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, the Center for Transpacific Studies, the East Asian Studies Center, and the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life

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