Dr. Vennes Cheng
(Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

“Remapping Connections between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia through the Artistic Traces of Modernists Lui Shou-Kwan and Ha Bik-Chuen, 1960s–1980s”

Dr. Aksana Ismailbekova
(Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)

“Embodied Translation: Emotional and Social Labor among Dungans in Facilitating Mobility Across Borders”

Dr. Aditya Kiran Kakati
(Affiliate Research Fellow at International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University; Project Lead, The Highland Institute, Kohima)

“War Residues: Repurposed Objects and Memories of a Global War along the Highland Naga-Myanmar Border”

Dr. Muhammad Khurshid
(Independent Researcher)

“Troubled Mobility, Silenced Voices: Socio-Political and Ecological Stresses on Afghan Pastoralists (Kuchi) in Pakistan”

Ms. Syeda Rumana Mehdi
(Boston University)

“Wishful Devotion, Folded Futures: Gendered Experiences of Temporality and Agency During Pilgrimage in Karbala, Iraq”

Dr. Panitda Saiyarod
(Chiang Mai University)

“Replanting Wealth: Chinese Tea, Transnational Circuits, and Socio-Ecological Change in Northern Thailand”

Ms Khine Thazin Wai
(Tender Shoots Research Group)

“Gender, Land, and Environmental Justice in Indigenous Communities of Southern Shan State, Myanmar”