CPEC for Pakistan: An Analysis of the Benefits and Challenges
The changes that CPEC promises to bring to Pakistan, along with the milestones it has achieved in the five years that is has been operational, is the focus of this talk.
The Dublin System and the Migration Crises in Italy and Serbia
This presentation examines and compares systems in countries hosting large numbers of asylum-seekers; particularly, migration crises in Italy and Serbia, integration problems, and day-to-day encounters.
Articulating the Ascetic Body: Locating Disability in South Asian Buddhist Monasticisms
The Buddhist monastery holds in tension a profound ambivalence about the body and body aesthetics. On the one hand, non-normative bodies are denied ordination, and the ascetic body is articulated as beautiful and well-formed. On the other hand, Buddhist meditative practices train the ascetic gaze to dis-articulate and de-form the body in order to realize […]
Affecting Mobility: Consuming Driving and Driving Consumption in Southeast Asian Emerging Markets
This talk examines emergent consumption patterns in Vietnam’s shifting transportation market and then considers them within broader design and marketing infrastructures shaping emerging markets in the Southeast Asian region.
How to Destroy a Neighborhood: Marginalizing Land and People to Build Central Park in Nineteenth Century New York City
The City of New York and its booster waged a campaign to belittle the quality of the land they seized and the character of the people who lived there. Highlighting places like Seneca Village—an African American activist community—my talk will prove the propaganda wrong and illuminate a crucial mechanism and lessons of displacement and redevelopment […]
Urban Planning and Japanese Colonial Vision in Taipei and Changchun
By examining the modern urban layout and architecture of these cities, this talk reconstructs the historical context of their transformations, and from a comparative perspective, discusses what they have in common as exemplary centers of Japanese colonial modernism.