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📣 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...
New Publications & Call for Papers | CJD Platform (TARN: ICCS-NYCU)
NEW PUBLICATIONS April 2025 Die Behandlung, Tenderness of the In-between Chia-Ying Shen A poetic reflection on care and transition, this piece delves into the quiet power of liminal spaces — where tenderness, attention, and the in-between become sites of...
TARN Joint Project: Chip Age & Digital Governance
📣 The TARN Joint Project, titled "Chip Age and Digital Governance: Geopolitics, National Strategies, and Capital Manipulation," has received USD 10,000 from the CHCI Membership Activity Fund. Chip Age & Digital Governance: Geopolitics, National Strategies,...
Critical Reorientation in the Age of Digital Technology & Critical Concepts Writing Workshop (CHCI Initiative)
📣 The member collaborative project "Critical Reorientation in the Age of Digital Technology: Intersections between Human Craft, Geopolitics, and Artistic Intervention," along with its inaugural event, the Critical Concepts Writing Workshop, has been awarded USD...
2024 TARN Meeting Report
A TARN workshop titled “Industry-led Operations of Capital in the 21st Century: Geo-Politics,...
Sidenote: “Creating Emancipatory Futures: Filmmaking and Activism”
*written by Sergey Zanchevskiy (Graduate Student of IACS,NYCU) On March 11, 2024, Valerie Soe, a professor in the Asian American Studies Department at the San Francisco State University (USA), film director, and writer, gave a lecture dedicated to the phenomenon of...
CFP: Democracy in Question: Rethinking Democracy and Governance (ICCS-CJD)
CALL FOR PAPERS Democracy in Question: Rethinking Democracy and Governance Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to Conflict, Justice, Decolonization – a student-led project that encourages grad students to act as public intellectuals in...
A Living Museum: Regenerate the Past and Present Meaning of WWII History
The “Sixth Fuel Factory Cultural Park” stands as one of the few remaining WWII relics well-preserved in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is slated for transformation into a Cultural Park and is expected to be fully accessible to the public by 2026 under the auspices of the...
ACADEMY IN EXILE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (DEADLINE 15 April 2024)
ACADEMY IN EXILE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS DEADLINE 15 April 2024 TWELVE RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPSIN GERMANY Academy in Exile invites scholars at risk to apply for 24-month fellowships at TU Dortmund University in Dortmund and the Institute for Advanced Study in the...