« All Events

2026 TARN Meeting (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

September 4 - September 6

2026 TARN Meeting

Chip Era: Governance, Infrastructure, Labour, Mobility

Global Campus, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Dates: 4–6 September 2026

The 2026 TARN Meeting will be held from 4th to 6th September 2026 at the Global Campus, Kyung Hee University, Korea. Jointly organised by the Transit Asia Research Network (TARN), the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies (CCCS), Kyung Hee University, and the International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, the Meeting is conceived as a mid-term sharing and commenting session for a collaborative two-volume book project examining how semiconductors, as the foundation of digital infrastructures, are reshaping geopolitics, governance, labour, and capital in the twenty-first century. Participants will present the progress of their respective chapters, with the collective aim of submitting full manuscripts by the end of 2026.

The project comprises two volumes published under the Routledge Studies on Think Asia series:

Volume I: The Chip Era: Digital Governance and the Infrastructural Reordering of Sovereignty in Asia and Beyond

Volume II: Digital Enclosures in the Chip Era: Labour, Mobility, and Infrastructural Precarity

Participants

Name Title Affiliation
Brett Neilson Professor Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia
Sandro Mezzadra Professor Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Italy
Ned Rossiter Professor Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee Professor Department of British and American Culture Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Wei-I Lee Chief Editor Voices of Photography
Joyce C. H. Liu Professor / Director International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Megha Shrivastava Assistant Professor PES University, India
Jagannath Panda Professor Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden
Roger Chi-Feng Liu  Assistant Professor National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Nguyen Thi Trang  Assistant Professor Faculty of History, Thai Nguyen University of Education, Vietnam
Pawan Adhikari Research Fellow Centre for Social Innovation and Foreign Policy (CESIF), Nepal
Lungani Nelson Hlongwa Postdoctoral Fellow International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Jasmin Dall’Agnola Senior Research and Teaching Associate Media and Internet Governance, IKMZ, University of Zurich
Katarzyna Szpargała PhD Candidate Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Lou Mo Artist and Curator n/a
Musquiqui Chihying Artist, Researcher, and Experimental Film Director n/a
Ranabir Samaddar Professor / Director Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India
Monika Verma MSCA Researcher Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
Tzu-Kai Liu Assistant Professor Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Dolma Tsering Postdoctoral Fellow International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Maidul Islam Professor of Political Science Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India
Qi Li PhD Candidate / Researcher Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies / International Centre for Cultural Studies, NYCU, Taiwan
Poonam Sharma Postdoctoral Fellow International Centre for Cultural Studies, NYCU, Taiwan
Nguyen Nu Nguyet Anh Professor Faculty of Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Yu-Fan Chiu Associate Professor School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Lisa Yuk-ming Leung Professor Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Ngai Keung Chan Assistant Professor The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Abhijit Roy Professor / Chair Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University / Centre for Research in Policy, Communication and Society, Kolkata
Rafał Smoczyński Head of Religious Studies Department Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Manuela Bojadzijev Professor / Director Institute for European Ethnology and Berlin Institute for Migration Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Professor Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India
Ko-Lun Chen Postdoctoral Fellow International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

 

Details

  • Start: September 4
  • End: September 6

Venue

  • Global Campus, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Organizers

  • Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies (CCCS), Kyung Hee University, Korea
  • TARN
  • International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan
  • Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), Western Sydney University (WSU), Australia