Asian Connectivities: Infrastructures, Networks, Mobilities
The CAS theme for the 2018-19 academic year will be聽Asian Connectivities.聽 With the idea of 鈥渃onnectivity鈥 we highlight not simply the fact that a dynamic web of connections exists (and has聽long existed) across Asia, but that those connections depend upon specific material infrastructures, media networks, institutions, technologies, policies, and translations in order to occur.聽 Connectivity, then, draws our attention beyond connection as an already-established given, to the聽ability to connect.聽 Engseng Ho recently wrote in聽The Journal of Asian Studies, that the study of Asia can 鈥渟hed light on the social shape of societies that are mobile, spatially expansive, and interactive with one another.鈥 聽Connectivity establishes the basis for such an approach.聽 With聽Asian Connectivities聽we seek to explore the historical, cultural, and social contexts in which connections are made possible.
Activities and Events
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