Movement and Space in the Making of the Pacific
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lok C.D. Siu

Saturday, February 24 / 9AM - 4PM / Humanities 210

The Asia Pacific Americas Research Cluster (APARC) at UC Santa Cruz hosts its second graduate student conference on the theme of the spatial, political, and conceptual formation of the Pacific. Various human activities have shaped a globally interconnected and locally inflected world of the Pacific: the development of tourism, processes of displacement and migration, transnational political and commercial relations, the transmission and translation of texts and theories. How have different practices of movement, travel, and migration made and remade the Pacific? How have various notions of mobility and “rootedness” shaped local and transnational imaginations of the Pacific as a place and a concept? How has the Pacific been entangled with discourses of nationalism, colonialism, identity, gender, ethnicity, or race?

The conference features keynote speaker LOK SIU, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Asia/Pacific/American Studies at NYU, and papers presented by graduate students from across California.

LOK SIU is the author of Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford, 2005). Her research encompasses a broad range of topics including migration, diaspora, transnationalism, cultural citizenship, race and gender, Chinese diaspora, Central America and Panama, and Asians in the Americas.

Sponsored by the Asia Pacific Americas Research Cluster

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