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TRANSIT ASIA RESEARCH NETWORK
Our Vision
TARN is a research network dedicated to examining the profound changes and critical challenges in the complex geopolitical landscape of Asia and the wider world, including conflict, inequity, and the enduring impacts of colonial power relations. Our focus is on understanding these dynamics in the global context and investigating their contemporary significance.
Global Capitalism and Technologies of Governance
Migratory Labor, Unequal Citizens, and Critical Legal Studies
Environmental Crises and Multi-species Equality
Social Engagement and Art Intervention
News and Article
📢 CFP: Cultures of Waste: Bodies and Biodiversity (Oxford Intersections)
CALL FOR PAPERS Bodies and Biodiversity (Oxford Intersections) Oxford Intersections are large, peer-reviewed, digital-only works centered around a broad, multi-faceted, and interdisciplinary topic – Cultures of Waste in this case. Intersections will showcase original,...
📢 CFP ISSH2026 Conference: The Social in the Digital (11-12 June, 2026 HCMC, Vietnam)
The Social in the Digital Date: 11-12 June, 2026.Conference Venue: Ton Duc Thang UniversityAddress: 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamEmail: issh2024@tdtu.edu.vn The 4th International Conference on Innovations in the Social...
📣 FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION: Decolonization in the 21st Century
Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance & Solidarity Publisher: Routledge Series: InterventionsEdited by Joyce C.H. Liu and Brett Neilson, Decolonization in the 21st Century critically interrogates the persistence and mutation of colonial logics amidst rising global...
✨ TARN 2025 HIGHLIGHT
Having established its foundational framework between the 2023 launch and the 2024 meeting on industrial geopolitics, the Transit Asia Research Network (TARN) has intensified its critical interventions throughout 2025. This year, the network rigorously examined...
CRPCS, the TARN Collaborator in Kolkata, goes for Public Launch!
📢 The Transit Asia Research Network (TARN) are pleased to announce the launch of the Centre for Research in Policy, Communication and Society (CRPCS), India.The centre, established under the leadership of Professor Abhijit Roy, officially commenced operations...
Wired Tianxia, Wounded Borders
📝 The following articles are revised from a TARN panel presented at the 2025 CHCI Annual Meeting in Berlin, Germany. The original publications are on the CJD Platform. This panel addresses the rise of authoritarian regimes in our time, while responding to the theme of...
OUR EVENTS
ISSH2026 Conference: The Social in the Digital
The Social in the Digital 11-12 June, 2026 Ton Duc Thang University 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam The 4th International […]
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Synopsis: Digital Deception Surveillance Technologies and Information Manipulation
Digital Deception Surveillance Technologies and Information Manipulation 11-12 June, 2026 The Chip Era and Digital Governance Forum 11 📌Date and Time: January 30, 2026, from 14:00 to 16:30, Taipei Time […]
The Chip Era and Digital Governance Joint-Project Workshop
The Chip Era and Digital Governance Joint-Project Workshop 13–15 November 2025 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan On 13–15 November 2025, the International Center for Culture Studies (ICCS) […]
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Critical Concepts Writing Workshop
Critical Concepts Writing Workshop 24–26 April 2025Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore) The Critical Concepts Writing Workshop is a key event within the project Critical Reorientation in the […]
Singapore, 108934 Singapore
The Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities
The Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities Date：September 20-21, 2024 (GMT+8, Taipei Time) Venue：HC201, HA Building 3, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) & Hybrid event. Language： English Organizer： […]
Book Discussion at TARN Workshop 2024
The Center on Gender and Forced Displacement is excited to invite you to an insightful book discussion in collaboration with the Transit Asia Research Network (TARN), the International Center for […]
TARN 2024 MEETING Industry-led Operations of Capital in the 21st Century
The “Chip War” (Chris Miller, 2023), a battle for the world’s most critical technology and the new Nomos of the earth, has emerged as the contemporary form of the Cold War. Chips, […]
Bangkok, Thailand
The 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSH 2024)
Date: July 26th – 27th, 2024Conference Venue: Ton Duc Thang UniversityAddress: 19 Nguyen Huu Tho Street, Tan Phong Ward, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamEmail: issh2024@tdtu.edu.vn The 3rd International Conference on Innovations in […]
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Critical Curatorial Practices in the 21st Century: Public Space, New Media and Geopolitics
Speakers：Wen-Shu Lai | Professor/Director, Institute of Applied Arts, NYCU, TaiwanKarin G. Oen-Lee | Senior Lecturer, Head of Art History, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shwetal Ashvin Patel | […]
Creating Emancipatory Futures: Filmmaking and Activism
Time： March 11, 2024 1000-1300 Venue ：陽明交通大學新竹光復校區人社二館106室 R106, HA Building 2, NYCUZOOM online meeting room：https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8368......... Speaker: Valerie Soe, Professor, Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University, USA Valerie Soe […]
Hsinchu, 300 Taiwan
