Day 1: October 12, 2023 | 3pm – 6:15pm
Location: S020, Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
3:00 p.m. Opening Address
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard University
3:20-5:15 p.m.
Diaspora and Identity in Asia-Africa Relations: A Conversation with Authors
Ufrieda Ho, Journalist and Author
Gayatri Sethi, Educator and Author
Moderator: Duncan Yoon, New York University
Reception
Concourse, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge
The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College will be performing at the reception.
Day 2: October 13, 2023 | 8:15am – 5:00pm
Location: S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
8:15-9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:15-10:45 a.m.
Panel 1: Globalization Beyond the West
Moderator: Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
Panelists:
Annette Skovsted Hansen, Aarhus University
Isaac Odoom, Carleton University
Marlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business School
10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Panel 2: Africa-Asia Historical Connections
Moderator: Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard University
Panelists:
Seifudein Adem, Doshisha University
Lina Benabdallah, Wake Forest University
Maria Adele Carrai, New York University Shanghai
Idriss Fofana, Harvard University
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Panel 3: Reconceptualizing Agency
Moderator: Maria Adele Carrai, New York University Shanghai
Panelists:
Kumiko Makino, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
Xiaoyang Tang, Tsinghua University
Veda Vaidyanathan, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
3:00-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 p.m.
Panel 4: The Vernacular of Everyday Infrastructures
Moderator: Annette Lienau, Harvard University
Panelists:
Daniel E. Agbiboa, Harvard University
Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan
Pedro Machado, Indiana University Bloomington
4:45-5:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
The conference will also be live-streamed via Asia Center’s YouTube channel.
Organized by the Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Center for African Studies in collaboration with Maria Adele Carrai and Duncan Yoon. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
