Speakers and Editors of Transpacific, Undisciplined:
Lily Wong, American University
Christopher B. Patterson, University of British Columbia
Chien-ting Lin, National Central University in Taiwan
Moderator: Alvin K. Wong, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
Time: 10:00 am Hong Kong Time (9:00 pm / Feb 6 / Washington DC)
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU and on Zoom
Antinuclear coalitions centering Native survivance from Okinawa to the Dakotas to Micronesia, refugee figures and automated empathy in virtual reality, cross-strait erotic intimacy in Taiwanese teahouses, art illuminating everyday convergences between migrant workers in Hawai‘i’s hospitality industry. By foregrounding such complex entanglements within, across, and beyond the Pacific, Transpacific, Undisciplined (2024, University of Washington Press) activates generative, if obscured, connections against fixed national and methodological boundaries and reveals how an undisciplined approach can reconfigure itself in relation to unequal exchanges among Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas.
With lucid contributions and a rich theoretical framework, this groundbreaking book mobilizes the dynamic energy of the transpacific as an analytic, and brings together seemingly unrelated intellectual fields to trace across empires, local struggles, and inter-imperial intimacies.
Lily Wong is associate professor in the departments of Literature and Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies at American University. She is author of Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness.
Christopher B. Patterson is associate professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia and author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games.
Chien-ting Lin is associate professor in the English Department and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies graduate program at National Central University in Taiwan.
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