Asian lives, stories and perspectives have global implications. This year’s Asianet Conference takes a bottom-up perspective, situating the local Asian daily life in the wider global context.
The conference solicits perspectives that are sensitised to the local and contextual, but at the same time considers what this means in a new globalised context. The aim is to get a view at what is happening on the ground in Asia; to understand the role of local knowledges and understandings in Asian worldviews, and how these interact and interrelate with global knowledge circulations, value chains and trade networks. This conference highlights fragmentation and coming together in ongoing negotiations, relations, combinations, and enmeshments that constantly destabilise, reproduce, and reshape worlds. Fragmentation is a productive perspective that allows us to discuss how new things come together: some relations are silenced, or backgrounded, some are foregrounded.
How do large-scale phenomena, such as a destabilising pandemic, play out in ongoing developments? How do we make sense of the MeToo movements that have swept throughout Asia? What impact has the climate crisis had on the local communities caught in its deadly grip? How has increased international mobility of people, capital, information, and cultural products affected the political changes in Asia that are on the front pages of major news outlets worldwide? Does it still make sense to talk about the ‘particular’ and the ‘specific’ when local cultural production trends in all parts of the world?
These and many more questions are explored in the 2022 Asianet Conference held in Trondheim 16th and 17th of June 2022.
Registration
We welcome participation in the conference without paper presentations. There is no conference fee, but we will ask you for a small fee for the conference dinner on June 16th if you wish to participate. We will send you information regarding payment.
Please note that the conference will be held in person in Trondheim and thus not streamed.
Participation in this conference is open for everyone. Participation is free of charge, but we will not cover travel expenses. There will be a conference dinner on June 16th, and we ask participants who wish to participate to let us know. There will be a small fee for the dinner, which we will let you know in due time.
Keynote
Xiangming Chen: "China’s (Re)turn to Eurasia: The Drive Toward Regional Development Pathways"
Xiangming Chen is the founding Dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College and the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, as well as a distinguished guest professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. He received his B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University and his Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University.