The conference, to be held in Seoul, South Korea, and hosted by SNUAC, will include concurrent workshops coordinated by individual directors and showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines. Workshops will focus on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from West Asia through Eurasia and South Asia and Southeast Asia to East Asia.

The conference structure and schedule have been designed to enable intensive working group interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern. Accordingly, there will be public sessions open to the full group of conference participants and additional scholars as well as closed workshop sessions.

Individual paper submissions are invited from junior and senior scholars, whether graduate students, faculty, or researchers in NGOs or other research organizations, for the following ten workshops:

• Conviviality beyond the Urban Center: Theorizing the “Marginal Hub”
  Workshop Directors: Magnus Marsden (Social Anthropology and Sussex Asia Centre, University of Sussex) and Madeleine Reeves (Social Anthropology, University of Manchester)

• Forced Migration in/of Asia: Connections, Convergences, Comparisons
  Workshop Directors: Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (Geography, National University of Singapore) andCabeiri Robinson (International Studies and Anthropology, University of Washington)

• Frontier Assemblages: Political Economies of Margins and Resource Frontiers in Asia
  Workshop Directors: Michael Eilenberg (Culture and Society, Aarhus University) and Jason Cons (LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin)

• Genealogies of Financialization: Reframing Sovereignty in Asia (1600–present)
  Workshop Directors: Sankaran Krishna (Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa) andSaeyoung Park (Modern Korean Studies, Leiden University)

• Geo-political Economies of (Post) Developmental Urbanization in East Asia
  Workshop Directors: Bae-Gyoon Park (Geography Education, Seoul National University) andJamie Doucette (School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester)

• Knowledge Mobilities and the Prospects for InterAsian Urbanisation
  Workshop Directors: Francis Collins (Geography, School of Environment, University of Auckland) and Kong Chong Ho(Sociology, National University of Singapore)

• Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization: Infrastructure, Software, Labor
  Workshop Directors: Brett Neilson (Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney) and Ranabir Samaddar (Director, Calcutta Research Group)

• Mecca InterAsia
  Workshop Directors: Engseng Ho (History and Anthropology, Duke University, and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore) and Cemil Aydin (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• Mediated Populism across Asia
  Workshop Directors: Paula Chakravartty (Gallatin School of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University),Zeynep Gambetti (Political Science and International Relations, Bogaziçi University), and Srirupa Roy (Centre for Modern Indian Studies and Political Science, University of Göttingen)

• The Social Economy and Alternative Development Models in Asia
  Workshop Directors: Euiyoung Kim (Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University) and Hiroki Miura (Institute of Korean Political Studies, Seoul National University)