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Port City Environments in Global Asia<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation, the second annual “Port City Environments in Global Asia” Conference was successfully held at NYU Abu Dhabi Conference Center on 15-16 January, 2020.<\/p>\n

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Keynote Address<\/strong>
by Don Worster (Renmin University, China)
“China as the Ecological Civilization: What Does It Mean and What Should It Mean?”<\/p>\n

Panel 1: \u201cGlobal Asia Collecting and Collected\u201d<\/strong>
Chair: Tansen Sen<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Mark Swislocki (NYU Abu Dhabi): \u201cForgetting Yvette Borup Andrews: An Artist among Naturalists in the American Museum of Natural History\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Salila Kulshreshtha (Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi): \u201cFrancis Buchanan and \u2018Collecting\u2019 Knowledge in 19th century\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Ezra Rashkow (Montclair State University): \u201c\u2018To secure the fast vanishing animals of the world before they are exterminated\u2019: the American Museum of Natural History\u2019s India expeditions, 1922-1930\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Panel 2: \u201cGlobal Asia and the Digital Humanities: Research, Pedagogy, Archive\u201d<\/strong>
    Chair: Mark Swislocki<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. David Wrisley and Nora Barakat (NYU Abu Dhabi) \u201cOpen Gulf: Digital History in a Global Asian Context\u201d<\/li>\n
    2. Jessica Abdala Molina, (NYU Abu Dhabi): \u201cVIP, Research, Pedagogy, Archive\u201d<\/li>\n
    3. Israa Mograbhi (NYU Abu Dhabi), \u201cFamily Business Histories: A Research Partnership with The Tharawat Family Business Forum\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Panel 3: \u201cPort City Environments in the Indian Ocean World\u201d<\/strong>
      Chair: David Ludden<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Duane Corpis (NYU Shanghai): \u201cBeyond the Parish: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Ports in the Pietist Networks of the Eighteenth Century\u201d<\/li>\n
      2. Elke Papelitzky (NYU Shanghai): \u201cConnecting Ayutthaya to the World: Sailing Routes and Knowledge Transfer\u201d<\/li>\n
      3. Vidhya Raveendranathan (NYU Shanghai): \u201cWho owns the beach? Property making, policing and coastal labour regimes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Madras.\u201d<\/li>\n
      4. Tansen Sen (NYU Shanghai): \u201cInter-Asian Connections in the Indian Ocean World: Port, City, Environments\u201d<\/li>\n
      5. Boris Wille (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg): \u201cLittoral Engineering: First Observations in the Maldives and Prospects for Indian Ocean Studies\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Panel 4: \u201cCoastal Environments in Monsoon Asia\u201d<\/strong>
        Chair: David Ludden<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. John Burt (NYU Abu Dhabi): \u201cBuilding from the Sea: The Coral Masonry of Historic Jezirat Al-Hamrah, UAE\u201d<\/li>\n
        2. May Joseph (Pratt Institute): \u201cIsland Ecologies and Minor Seas: The Maldives, the Malabar Coast and the Lakshadweep \u201d<\/li>\n
        3. Norman Underwood (New York University): \u201cMaking the Roman Indian Ocean: Ancient Supply Chains from Sicily to Sri Lanka\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Panel 5: \u201cNew Perspectives on Port City Environments in Global Asia\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

            \n
          1. David Ludden (New York University): \u201cTraumas of National Territory in Global Asia\u201d<\/li>\n
          2. Peter Valenti (New York University) \u201cKuwait as Najdi Entrepot: The Arabian Horse Trade as a Truly Global Asia Contribution\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Panel 6: \u201cBelt and Road Initiatives\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

              \n
            1. Sophia Kalantzakos (NYU Abu Dhabi): \u201cShowdown in Djibouti: Geopolitics in the BRI Era\u201d<\/li>\n
            2. Marina Kaneti (National University of Singapore): \u201cThe Persistence of Memory: ports and maritime imaginaries in South Asia\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Panel 7: \u201cEurasian Borderlands: Comparative and Connected History\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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                Special thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation<\/h5>\n

                Organized by the NYU Abu Dhabi Global Asia Initiative<\/p>\n

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                Websites and Publications<\/h1>\n

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                Family Business Histories explores the historical impact of family-owned businesses on the economy, culture, and society in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA).<\/p>\n

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                opengulf.github.io<\/span><\/a> is a transdisciplinary, multi-institutional research group for a community of scholars working on digital historical projects related to the Gulf region. Project by David Wrisley and Nora Barakat.<\/p>\n

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                by Masha Kirasirova, Oxford University Press (2024).<\/span><\/p>\n

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                by Salila Kulshreshtha, The Museum in Asia<\/em> (ed.), Routledge (2025).<\/span><\/p>\n

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                by Borris Wille, International Review of Environmental History<\/em>, Volume 9,
                Issue 1, 2023, edited by James Beattie, Australian National University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

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