The Inter-Asia Research Group at the Global and Transregional Platform focuses on a wide range of relationships and interconnections between different parts of Asia. We explore frameworks and concepts for reconceptualizing Asia as a dynamic and interconnected formation. Funded by the US-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the GTS Platform is hosting four fellows for summer 2018. In this workshop we will discuss their current research using the conceptual and metaphorical movements of forming ellipses to explore the transregional, transnational and InterAsian articulations of concepts and practices central to their inquiries.

Please register with Michael Dickhardt (mdickha@gwdg.de) by 25 June

Program:

09:30 – 10:00    Introduction

10:00 – 11:00   Sanam Roohi: Between Emancipation and Exploitation: Gulf Migration and Social (Im)mobility in Southern Andhra

11:15 – 12:15    Sarthak Bagchi: Populists in Power: A Comparative Analysis of Trajectories of Populism and Clientelism in India and Turkey

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00    Sze Wei Ang: New Commonwealths: Rethinking Transnational Literature

15:15 – 16:15    William Noseworthy: Gods of the Soil: Comparative Indigenous Hinduisms in 20th Century Southeast Asia

Coffee break

16:45 – 18:15    General discussion