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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.
TARN Development Timeline
Milestones
From an international humanities initiative to a growing trans-Asian research network and publishing platform.
Predecessor
Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context
- CHCI–Mellon Global Humanities Institute involving six partner institutes
Launch
- TARN launched at the ACS Institute , with ten founding institutes
- CHCI Membership Activity Fund awarded for 2023–2026
Networking
- 2024 TARN Meeting in Bangkok
- Network expanded to fourteen participating institutions
Deepening
- Critical Concepts Workshop in Singapore
- Chip Era Workshop at ICCS–NYCU in Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Network expanded to nineteen participating institutions
- Decolonization in the 21st Century published
Consolidation
- Critical Concepts volume published
- Transit Asia Dossiers in the Current Conjuncture launched as an online journal
- 2026 TARN Meeting at Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Developing
- Two-volume Chip Era publication
- Completion of the Smart Cities & Submarine Communication Cables online curation
- TARN Meeting with ICS–WSU in Surabaya, Indonesia
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
Survivance and settler-colonialism in Palestine beyond national independence
KWOK Man Yee, Sophie, Master’s student of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Program, National Tsing Hua UniversityIn this talk, Salih brings together a number of strands of her recent work on the reflection upon decolonial politics. Under the framework of decolonizing,...
Decentering automated decision-making and platformization: challenges posed by algorithmic power
KWOK Man Yee, Sophie, Master’s student of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Program, National Tsing Hua UniversityThe plenary consists of three parts, starting with Heather Horst’s remark, followed by the presentations by Cheryl Ruth Soriano and then Adam Sargent. This talk...
“Re-coupling Site” of Social Media and Workplace: Disrupting the Positionality of Female Workers and Recharging New Class and Gendered Digital Subjects
Hei Yuen White PakPhD Student, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University Focusing on digital technologies and spaces as platforms of resistance against social marginalization and job exploitation, Ngai Pun articulates the predicaments confronting...
“One Belt One Road”and Ordinary Lives: Views from Cultural Studies
Speaker: Fan Yang (Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Date: August 12, 2023 Location: ACS Institute, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University,...
Migration, Racial Minorities and Gig Labor: Of “Visibilities” and “Mobilities”
Hei Yuen White PakPhD Student, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal UniversityTaking a social justice perspective and juxtaposing race studies, labor studies and media studies, Lisa Yuk-Ming Leung investigates the struggles confronting racial minority gig...
Labour conditions and its (de)colonisation in Thailand
KWOK Man Yee, Sophie, Master’s student of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Program, National Tsing Hua UniversityThis panel starts with Sirijit Sunanta’s presentation titled “Gendered opportunities and constraints of low-end wellness and recreational tourism workers in...
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
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CEDG Workshop 2025
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