2026 CAMEH Conference: Transregional Circuits and Critical Interventions

2026 CAMEH Conference

Transregional Circuits and Critical Interventions

Friday, April 17

10:00–10:15 AM
Breakfast (on-site)

10:15–10:30 AM
Opening Remarks
Carlos Rojas · Ellen McLarney · Eileen Chow · Mbaye Lo

10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Keynote Lecture
Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford)
“The Masked Face in the Theatre of Pandemic and Protest”
Chair: Carlos Rojas

12:00–1:00 PM
Lunch (on-site)

1:00–2:30 PM
Victor Seow (Harvard)
“Give Me a Coal Mine and I Will Raze the World”
Chair: Xingming Wang

2:30–2:45 PM
Coffee Break

2:45–4:15 PM
Engseng Ho (Duke)
“Thinking East and West Asia Together”
Chair: Mbaye Lo

4:15–5:00 PM
Reception

Saturday, April 18

9:00–10:45 AM
Student Panel 1
Chair: Preeti Singh

10:45–11:00 AM
Break

11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Student Panel 2
Chair: Eileen Chow

12:30–1:45 PM
Lunch & Alumni Panel (on-site)
Chair: Kimberly Hassel

1:45–3:15 PM
Student Panel 3
Chair: Ellen McLarney

3:15–3:30 PM
Break

3:30–4:30 PM
Alumni Panel
Chair: Guo-Juin Hong

4:30–5:30 PM
Roundtable Discussion
Participants:
Margaret Hillenbrand · Victor Seow · Engseng Ho
Chair: Erdağ Göknar

5:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Prasenjit Duara

6:30 PM
Conference Dinner (Chez Rojas–Chow, for all participants)

Panel Details

Student Panel 1 (9:00–10:45 AM)

Chair: Preeti Singh

• Yuting Hu, “Back on the Jinggang Mountain in the Postmodern Age: Transnational Socialist Chinese Aesthetics in Japanese Synth-pop Musical Production”
• Peihua Yue, “Imitating the Mother Tongue”
• Xiang Gao, “The Literature of ‘Sound’ and the ‘Sound’ of Literature: Dung Kai-cheung's ‘Hearing and Seeing World’”
• Binlin Sun, “Scripted Subjectivity: Intimacy, Agency, and Desire in Chinese Otome Games”

Student Panel 2 (11:00 AM–12:30 PM)

Chair: Eileen Chow

• Zilong Pan, “Tokenizing the World: AI Language Infrastructure and Transregional Linguistic Hierarchies”
• Yuchen Wang, “‘Urban Villages’: Migrant Workers’ Imagination and Identification of Marginality in Contemporary China”
• Jing Xu, “Loss and Precarity: Re-imagining Nation in the Wartime Writings of Eileen Chang and Zhong Lihe”

Lunch Alumni Panel

Chair: Kimberly Hassel

• Ling Jin, Careers in “Alt-Ac” Fields
• Anisa Khalifa, Careers in Cultural Production

Student Panel 3 (1:45–3:15 PM)

Chair: Ellen McLarney

• Rachel-Beth Acker, “Cowboys and Iranians: Racialized and Gendered Narratives in the 1953 Iranian Coup d’État”
• Wanying Yang, “Daoist Thought and Cross-Cultural Resonance in the Works of Mikhail Naim”
• Yixuan Jiang, “Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Buddhist Turn”

Alumni Panel (3:30–4:30 PM)

Chair: Guo-Juin Hong

• Ziyang Li, “One City-State, Two Spatial Logics: Singapore’s Reclaimed Land and Diasporic Counter-Geographies”
• Chuanhui Meng, “Cyborg Buddhism and the Emptiness of Form: A Buddhist Media Philosophy of Black Myth: Wukong