Transcending Boundaries – Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies
Transpacific Studies Network Hybrid Conference
February 9-11, 2024
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February 9 & 10 (Fri & Sat)
Aulagebäude/Alte Mensa (1. OG, Linker Saal) Gebäude 1312
Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 3-5
55128 Mainz
February 11 (Sun)
Philosophicum II (EG 00.212)
Jakob-Welder-Weg 20
55128 Mainz
We explore connections across national and regional borders in and along the Pacific. The event will serve as a space to discuss early stage-research and on-going projects in this field.
Topics include:
- Film and television that culturally crosses the pacific ocean
- Literary works (novels, memoirs, poems, etc.) from and about (Trans)pacific regions
- Representations and/or performances of gender in (Trans)pacific regions
- (Trans)pacific mobilities and migration, including policy
- The Pacific and the blue humanities
- Climate change and the environment in (Trans)pacific regions
- (Trans-)Pacific issues of collective memory
- Understandings of geography/space/territory in relation to (Trans)pacific regions
- Negotiating cultural hybridity
- Revitalizations of (Trans)pacific traditional ecological epistemologies
- Reflections on practices and imaginations of borders/bordering in the Pacific
The conference is organized by Sandra Meerwein and the Transpacific Studies Network (TPSN). The TPSN was established in the fall of 2022 with the goal of exploring Pacific cultures, ecologies, histories, literatures, politics, and societies in an interdisciplinary, multi-lingual, and, importantly, transregional manner.
The organizers would like to thank the following organizations for their support:
