28th Annual Conference
April 16 – 18, 2021
Hyatt Regency Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Seeing Asia:
Visualizing, Envisioning, Reflecting
The 2021 ASIANetwork Conference theme focuses on the visual in scholarship, pedagogy, and artistic expression in and about Asia, and on representations of Asia and Asians in various geographic and historical contexts. The physical and human landscapes of Asia have inspired countless depictions in forms such as objects and texts, and also portrayals in photography, cartography, and scientific data, many of which lend themselves to digital reproduction, dissemination, and analysis. Regional traditions in art and design have influenced aesthetics across Asia and outside of Asia. Today, as in the past, the peoples of Asia and the Asian diasporas strive to see and be seen in their political and cultural distinctiveness. In light of this complex, heterogeneous, fluid imagery, Asianists employ numerous disciplinary and interdisciplinary lenses in their work. Therefore, the conference program committee welcomes panel, paper, and student poster proposals that engage with these notions. Potential areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Official and popular depictions of Asian subjects and experiences
- Mapping and measuring of environments, resources, and populations
- Perspectives on Asian economics, politics, and society
- Spectacle and the spectacular in Asian literary and visual arts
- Views, embodiments, and portrayals of Asian identities
- Exhibitions, architecture, performance, design, social media, traditional crafts
- Cultural encounters within Asia and between Asia and the world