2026 TARN Meeting (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

2026-9-23

2026 TARN Meeting (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

2026-09-02 - 2026-11-01

2026 TARN Meeting

 

Chip Era: Governance, Infrastructure, Labour, Mobility

 

Global Campus, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Dates: 4–6 September 2026

The 2026 TARN Meeting will be held from 4th to 6th September 2026 at the Global Campus, Kyung Hee University, Korea. Jointly organised by the Transit Asia Research Network (TARN), the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies (CCCS), Kyung Hee University, and the International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, the Meeting is conceived as a mid-term sharing and commenting session for a collaborative two-volume book project examining how semiconductors, as the foundation of digital infrastructures, are reshaping geopolitics, governance, labour, and capital in the twenty-first century. Participants will present the progress of their respective chapters, with the collective aim of submitting full manuscripts by the end of 2026.

The project comprises two volumes published under the Routledge Studies on Think Asia series:

Volume I: The Chip Era: Digital Governance and the Infrastructural Reordering of Sovereignty in Asia and Beyond

Volume II: Digital Enclosures in the Chip Era: Labour, Mobility, and Infrastructural Precarity

 

Participants

Name	Title	Affiliation
Brett Neilson	Professor	Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia
Sandro Mezzadra	Professor	Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, Italy
Ned Rossiter	Professor	Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee	Professor	Department of British and American Culture Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Wei-I Lee	Chief Editor	Voices of Photography
Joyce C. H. Liu	Professor / Director	International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Megha Shrivastava	Assistant Professor	PES University, India
Jagannath Panda	Professor	Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden
Roger Chi-Feng Liu	Assistant Professor	National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Nguyen Thi Trang	Assistant Professor	Faculty of History, Thai Nguyen University of Education, Vietnam
Pawan Adhikari	Research Fellow	Centre for Social Innovation and Foreign Policy (CESIF), Nepal
Lungani Nelson Hlongwa	Postdoctoral Fellow	International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Jasmin Dall’Agnola	Senior Research and Teaching Associate	Media and Internet Governance, IKMZ, University of Zurich
Katarzyna Szpargała	PhD Candidate	Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Lou Mo	Artist and Curator	n/a
Musquiqui Chihying	Artist, Researcher, and Experimental Film Director	n/a
Ranabir Samaddar	Professor / Director	Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India
Monika Verma	MSCA Researcher	Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
Tzu-Kai Liu	Assistant Professor	Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Dolma Tsering	Postdoctoral Fellow	International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Maidul Islam	Professor of Political Science	Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India
Qi Li	PhD Candidate / Researcher	Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies / International Centre for Cultural Studies, NYCU, Taiwan
Poonam Sharma	Postdoctoral Fellow	International Centre for Cultural Studies, NYCU, Taiwan
Nguyen Nu Nguyet Anh	Professor	Faculty of Sociology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Yu-Fan Chiu	Associate Professor	School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Lisa Yuk-ming Leung	Professor	Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Ngai Keung Chan	Assistant Professor	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Abhijit Roy	Professor / Chair	Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University / Centre for Research in Policy, Communication and Society, Kolkata
Rafał Smoczyński	Head of Religious Studies Department	Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Manuela Bojadzijev	Professor / Director	Institute for European Ethnology and Berlin Institute for Migration Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury	Professor	Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India
Ko-Lun Chen	Postdoctoral Fellow	International Centre for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan