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This workshop is organised by the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

This iteration of “Connecting Imaginaries” is the second of three workshops that builds on inter-disciplinary research on Arabia-Asia-Africa and draws primarily but not exclusively on the community of scholars at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The mission of the workshop series is to advance sustained, interdisciplinary conversations on transregional studies and publish significant work. Building on the open-ended nature of the initial workshop, this iteration focuses on a shared concept and problem. 

This workshop includes short discussion papers across disciplines that focus on any scale or multiple scales – from the transregional to the local – and consider interconnectedness beyond national and regional boundaries in Arabia-Asia-Africa. Contributors ask historical and contemporary questions on a broad range of topics, including gender, ethnicity, class, migration, politics, economics, laws, ideas, faiths, heritage, organisations, infrastructures, cities, and the environment. 

Arabia-Asia-Africa serves as a huge scale that allows for meaningful interaction between scholars working on different areas as well as the challenge of coming up with insights on a planetary scale. Contributors consider how their work helps us better understand transregional interconnectedness and its architectures in a time of the rewriting of national histories through forms of reterritorialisation based on ethno-religious claims to space. The purpose is to map the state of research on the topic and contribute to the larger conversation on global and planetary interdependence.

WORKSHOP CONVENOR

Assoc Prof Sumit Mandal | Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore 

REGISTRATION

This event will be held in person and is intended primarily for the NUS community. 
Registration is closed, and registered attendees have been given instructions on participating in the workshop.
Please write to valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg if you would like to attend the event.