Keynote Address
by Don Worster (Renmin University, China)
“China as the Ecological Civilization: What Does It Mean and What Should It Mean?”

Panel 1: “Global Asia Collecting and Collected”
Chair: Tansen Sen

1. Mark Swislocki (NYU Abu Dhabi): “Forgetting Yvette Borup Andrews: An Artist among Naturalists in the American Museum of Natural History”
2. Salila Kulshreshtha (Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi): “Francis Buchanan and ‘Collecting’ Knowledge in 19th century”
3. Ezra Rashkow (Montclair State University): “‘To secure the fast vanishing animals of the world before they are exterminated’: the American Museum of Natural History’s India expeditions, 1922-1930”

Panel 2: “Global Asia and the Digital Humanities: Research, Pedagogy, Archive”
Chair: Mark Swislocki

1. David Wrisley and Nora Barakat (NYU Abu Dhabi) “Open Gulf: Digital History in a Global Asian Context”
2. Jessica Abdala Molina, (NYU Abu Dhabi): “VIP, Research, Pedagogy, Archive”
3. Israa Mograbhi (NYU Abu Dhabi), “Family Business Histories: A Research Partnership with The Tharawat Family Business Forum”

Panel 3: “Port City Environments in the Indian Ocean World”
Chair: David Ludden

1. Duane Corpis (NYU Shanghai): “Beyond the Parish: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Ports in the Pietist Networks of the Eighteenth Century”
2. Elke Papelitzky (NYU Shanghai): “Connecting Ayutthaya to the World: Sailing Routes and Knowledge Transfer”
3. Vidhya Raveendranathan (NYU Shanghai): “Who owns the beach? Property making, policing and coastal labour regimes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Madras.”
4. Tansen Sen (NYU Shanghai): “Inter-Asian Connections in the Indian Ocean World: Port, City, Environments”
5. Boris Wille (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg): “Littoral Engineering: First Observations in the Maldives and Prospects for Indian Ocean Studies”

Panel 4: “Coastal Environments in Monsoon Asia”
Chair: David Ludden

1. John Burt (NYU Abu Dhabi): “Building from the Sea: The Coral Masonry of Historic Jezirat Al-Hamrah, UAE”
2. May Joseph (Pratt Institute): “Island Ecologies and Minor Seas: The Maldives, the Malabar Coast and the Lakshadweep ”
3. Norman Underwood (New York University): “Making the Roman Indian Ocean: Ancient Supply Chains from Sicily to Sri Lanka”

Panel 5: “New Perspectives on Port City Environments in Global Asia”

1. David Ludden (New York University): “Traumas of National Territory in Global Asia”
2. Peter Valenti (New York University) “Kuwait as Najdi Entrepot: The Arabian Horse Trade as a Truly Global Asia Contribution”

Panel 6: “Belt and Road Initiatives”

1. Sophia Kalantzakos (NYU Abu Dhabi): “Showdown in Djibouti: Geopolitics in the BRI Era”
2. Marina Kaneti (National University of Singapore): “The Persistence of Memory: ports and maritime imaginaries in South Asia”

Panel 7: “Eurasian Borderlands: Comparative and Connected History”

1. Nora Barakat (NYU Abu Dhabi): “In and Out of the Sphere of Submission: Nomads, Territory and Governance in 18th Century Ottoman Syria”
2. Masha Kirasirova (NYU Abu Dhabi): “The Arab Revolt in Moscow: Arabs-Crypto-Zionists, and the 1930 Eurasian Conjuncture”
3. Mark Swislocki (NYU Abu Dhabi) : “Becoming Indigenous in Imperial China”