BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14320-f836b7c035fa1b11df16dd76e1e4336b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260911T173146Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T101500 SUMMARY:Global Asias Cyber Chat DESCRIPTION:\nColonial and economic narratives that overdetermine how sc holars study and understand people’s relations to landscapes\, plants\, and other beings in Asia—what we term the computational environments of Global Asias—variously figure Asia as either a resource frontier from wh ich to derive cheap manufacturing labor and raw materials for European a nd U.S. markets (Nakamura 2014) or as a site of alien wilderness waiting to be tamed through computational and militaristic techniques. These co mputational environments include the synonymization of industrial planta tions and jungles in Southeast Asia with global resource frontiers\, the deserts of Southwest Asia as an ideal environmental laboratory to test Western military technologies and weapons\, and the rendering of East As ia’s population and their geopolitical and financial statuses as fungibl e sites for the advancement of data centers and AI technologies. In this Global Asias Cyber Chat\, we invite interested interlocutors to join us in questioning the production of universalizing claims of Asian environ ments across localities and cultures. Featuring three speakers—Wesley At tewell\, Shaoling Ma\, and Kalindi Vora—we will explore the following qu estions: How has Asia been cast as a computational and environmental obj ect of study and control? What are the contestations\, negotiations\, re makings\, and reclaimings constituted when Asia is conceptualized otherw ise?\n\nEmail gai@psu.edu to register.\n\nFor more details: https://even ts.la.psu.edu/event/global-asias-cyber-chat/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Colonial and ec onomic narratives that overdetermine how scholars study and understand p eople’s relations to landscapes, plants, and other beings in Asia—what w e term the computational environments of Global Asias—variously figure A sia as either a resource frontier from which to derive cheap manufacturi ng labor and raw materials for European and U.S. markets (Nakamura 2014) or as a site of alien wilderness waiting to be tamed through computatio nal and militaristic techniques. These computational environments includ e the synonymization of industrial plantations and jungles in Southeast Asia with global resource frontiers, the deserts of Southwest Asia as an ideal environmental laboratory to test Western military technologies an d weapons, and the rendering of East Asia’s population and their geopoli tical and financial statuses as fungible sites for the advancement of da ta centers and AI technologies. In this Global Asias Cyber Chat, we invi te interested interlocutors to join us in questioning the production of universalizing claims of Asian environments across localities and cultur es. Featuring three speakers—Wesley Attewell, Shaoling Ma, and Kalindi V ora—we will explore the following questions: How has Asia been cast as a computational and environmental object of study and control? What are t he contestations, negotiations, remakings, and reclaimings constituted w hen Asia is conceptualized otherwise?

Email gai@psu.edu to registe r.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/global-asias-cyber -chat/

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