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Bsky hivemind: I'm proposing a roundtable on #affectivetheory & Hong Kong studies for #AAS2027; the panel is multidisciplinary, incl musicology, geography, queer studies, religion, race & ethnicity. I therefore have difficulty selecting keywords from the list provided. Which one should I go for...?

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Writing about 2019, feeling emotional all over again. Hong Kong artist Ah To reimagined two shy students trying to avoid touching each other's hands when forming a human chain in the style of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam: they were CREATING their own vision of the city & a future of freedom

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How has the rise of Asian popular culture in the twenty-first century expanded our understanding of global Asias? In what ways might media representations empower or disempower Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals, as well as those belonging to other diasporic communities?

Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation
In this panel, we explore the complexities of and intersections between popular culture, identity, and representation across “Global Asias,” broadly defined in terms of geographical regions and discourses as well as larger transnational relations and imaginations. How has the rise of Asian popular culture in the twenty-first century expanded our understanding of global Asias? In what ways might media representations empower or disempower Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) individuals, as well as those belonging to other diasporic communities? Since the second half of the twentieth century, increased and easier exchange of popular culture and media have helped Asian diasporic communities maintain closer ties with communities in their homelands. The emergence of global Asian studies further provided conceptual and methodological possibilities for bridging popular media across transnational Asias. This panel centers how media and popular cultures can enable solidarity, identity formation, and community building through such forms of representations, as well as how the fluidity of popular culture as a field of scholarship intersects with Asia-focused area studies.

This discussion welcomes scholars, activists, and artists to share their latest work (whether in the beginning stages or near completion) that touch upon (multi)media representations of Asian, AAPI, and Asian diasporic bodies that challenge or reaffirm traditional frameworks of area studies.

Possible topics for submission may include but are not limited to:

Feminist embodiment and gendered bodies in media and popular cultures
LGBTQ+ representation and social movements in media and popular cultures
Race/ethnicity and representation in media and popular cultures
Intersectional identities, intimacies, and communities in gaming, dating apps, and social media platforms

How does the framework of Asia contribute to Indigenous Studies, and what does or can Indigeneity mean within Asian contexts? What happens when the concept of Indigeneity travels beyond and does not map neatly onto well-known settler colonial paradigms developed around Western environments?

Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present
North American and Oceanic contexts often dominate our scholarly and popular perceptions of Indigeneity and Indigenous Studies more broadly. Images of colonial dispossession, marginalization, and violence that somehow feel “familiar” or “typical” can color or even limit our understandings of these crucial histories. How does the framework of Asia contribute to Indigenous Studies, and what does or can Indigeneity mean within Asian contexts? This panel invites speakers to consider how Asia and Asian Studies impacts notions of identity, belonging, community, and more. What happens when the concept of Indigeneity travels beyond and does not map neatly onto well-known settler colonial paradigms developed around places like the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other Western environments? What insights can Indigeneity in Asian contexts contribute to scholarship, activism/resistance, the reevaluation of historical narratives, or even the fundamental conceptual vocabulary applied to Indigenous research? We welcome papers that address comparative perspectives within and beyond Asia, historical and transtemporal approaches, and other topics that have bearing on the challenges of our contemporary moment. We welcome submissions on these and related topics:

comparative perspectives on Indigeneity within and beyond Asia
transhistorical and transtemporal approaches that trace how Indigenous identities, communities, and epistemologies transform across multiple ruptures
the conceptual friction that emerges when key concepts in Indigenous studies, such as the idea of land-based sovereignty, are tested in Asian contexts
the political significance of the absence or refusal of the “Indigenous” label
methodological experiments and ethical negotiations with what it means to research, represent, and advocate alongside Indigenous communities in Asian contexts

Two important panels for #AAS2027 by the Diversity and Equity Committee!: 1) Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present 2) Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation!

Dr. Paula R. Curtis@paularcurtis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee is pleased to announce our #AAS2027 sponsored panels! "Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present" and "Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation"! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-pro...

CFP - Following the special forum in the JAS @asianstudies.org entitled ‘‘Religion and Social Movements in Hong Kong,” we are now looking for authors to join us in an edited volume #Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and #Religious Affects in #HongKong! Details below:

Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and Religious Affects in Hong Kong | H-Net

Enchanted Belonging: Everyday Religiosities, Spiritualities, and Religious Affects in Hong Kong

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Guangtian's excellent review of Chiara Formichi's #Islam and #Asia: A History in the JAAR! //...historical contingencies... “area studies” and “Islamic studies,” Asia has not been regarded as central to the understanding of Islam and Muslim histories as it perhaps ought to have been...//

Islam and Asia: A History By Chiara Formichi

No doubt owing a great deal to the historical contingencies that gave rise to “area studies” and “Islamic studies,” Asia has not been regarded as central t

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So glad it's out! "Can the Subaltern Feel?": a postcolonial reading of @feelingtheory.bsky.social’s Wild Experiment, on the felt dimension of state-socialist secularism (r/t scientific secularism/New Atheism), to decolonize the manipulation of #postcolonial affects in inter-imperialisms today, 1/

Can the Subaltern Feel? Socialist Secularism, “Colonial Nostalgia,” and A Double-Decolonial Reading of Cogency Theory

ABSTRACT. This article offers a postcolonial reading of Donovan Schaefer’s Wild Experiment to investigate the felt dimension of another form of secularism:

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The latest hk action blockbuster #coldwar1994 寒戰1994, while paying homage to classic hk cinema Infernal Affairs, A Moment of Romance & of course the Lion Rock, is a vivid example of the neo-colonial+ nationalistic interpretation of postcolonialism…

This. The frustration of working on (women and) Christianity in #HongKong is that most studies simply praise the church for “liberating” Chinese women. The church in early colonial days preached conservative Victorian values that were just as patriarchal as the “Chinese customs” it condemned.

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Beiyin's insightful review of The Oxford Handbook of Lived #Buddhism edited by Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck: //Building on the broader turn toward “ #livedreligion”... “lived Buddhism” offers an overarching framework through which Buddhism in the plural...can be more fully represented//

The Oxford Handbook of Lived Buddhism Edited by Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck

Scholars in Buddhist studies have long engaged in debates over the scope and location of authority within a field in which knowledge production has been de

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Iqbal's brilliant review of Kieko Obuse's #Buddhism and #Islam: Mutual Engagements in Southeast #Asia and #Japan: "In a field often dominated by narratives of conflict and civilizational clash...amplified in recent decades by media coverage of violence in Myanmar, southern Thailand, and elsewhere"

Buddhism and Islam: Mutual Engagements in Southeast Asia and Japan By Kieko Obuse

In a field often dominated by narratives of conflict and civilizational clash, Kieko Obuse’s Buddhism and Islam: Mutual Engagements in Southeast Asia and J

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New PUB👀! This article traces #filialpiety from its origins in ancestor worship, its institutionalization in #legal codes, state examinations, & state-sponsored rewards, its religious dimensions in Daoism & Buddhism, to its incorporation in modern state #governance: Filial Piety in #EastAsia:

Filial Piety in East Asia

Summary. This article offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of filial piety in East Asia and its influence on political, social, legal, cultural

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Journal of the American of Religion March 2026: Stephanie Wong on Scottish Missions to China/ #JamesLegge #理雅各 ‘s legacy, Iqbal Akhtar on Teena Purohit’s Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of #Muslim #Modernism, Nevin Reda on God’s Other Book: The Qur’an between History and Ideology and more:

Issues | Journal of the American Academy of Religion | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Academy of Religion. Publishes research that covers the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which th...

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