Colloquia and Conferences

range from speaker's series to international research or working conferences, and are selected for support based on their crossdisciplinary and interdisciplinary focus.

New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia, and the World

Wu Mali, Secret Garden, 1999, installation view. Photographed by Leo Lee. © Wu Mali -

New Geographies of Feminist Art is an international conference that addresses the practice, circulation, and cross-cultural significance of feminist art from Asia.

Spaces of Possibility: Korea and Japan, In, Between, and Beyond the Nation

Spaces of Possibility is a working conference on contemporary Korea and Japan that seeks to closely consider new kinds of cultural and social spaces that have begun to appear in the wake of the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s. 

Politics of Story Telling in Island Imperial Formations

This international invitational workshop seeks to build a distinct theoretical language about the form and function of storytelling in the historical creation and recreation of modern island formations across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.

Transatlantic Dialogues on the Environment

This symposium brings together scholars to address environmental issues in a global and collaborative cross-disciplinary framework that highlights the humanistic dimension of environmental study. 

Rethinking Marxism Conference: Stranger Economies

This conference interrogates the nature of the economic by elucidating the workings of economy and imaginations of the economic in its strangeness and alterity. It invites participants to contemplate the strange in relation to economy in all its forms. 

Information Ethics and Policy: Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Freedom of Speech

This conference brings together researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of academic disciplines including law, philosophy, communications, information studies, and social policy to consider questions on information technology, intellectual property, privacy, and freedom of speech.

Convergence on Poetics

Convergence on Poetics queries the current understanding and practice of poetics within writing communities and the academy. The conference consists of keynote panels, poetics postings, and author performances. All events will be scheduled singularly, so that a conversation of the whole can address, in the words of George Oppen, “the meaning / Of being numerous.”

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