Southeast Asia Forum sessions @ MLA2024

SOUTHEAST ASIA FORUM SESSIONS AT MLA2024

* POSTCOLONIAL SOUTHEAST ASIA? LIMITS & POSSIBILITIES

Thursday, 4 January 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM, Marriott – 411-412

Presider: Ryan Ku

Presentations:

1) Humanities Journals as Postcolonial Counterpublics in Southeast Asia

Elmo Gonzaga

2) Singapore as Global Asia: A Wayward Postcolonialism

Cheryl Narumi Naruse

3) Reading Modernity in the ‘Postcolonial Noncolonial’ Thailand: Non-synchronism and Moments of Disjuncture in Modern Thai Literature

Phrae Chittiphalangsri

4) The Tagalog Guerrilla Novel and the Limits of Postcolonial Analogy

Chris Cañete Rodriguez Kelly

* SOUTHEAST ASIA & QUEER OF COLOR CRITIQUE: INTERSECTIONS & INTERVENTIONS

Saturday, 6 January 2024, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM, Marriott – 411-412

Presider: Jasmine An

Presentations:

1) Santah kaladu: Queering the Silent History (and Roaring, Singing Future!) of Kristang and Portuguese-Eurasian Creole Language and Identity

Kevin Martens Wong

2) Queer Diasporic Interventions in the Problematics of ‘Vietnam’: Two Examples

Howie Tam

3) Asian Interventions into Queer of Color Critique

Alvin Henry

4) ‘The Word _____’: Locating Thai Transmasculinity in Translingual Poetics

Jasmine An

* SPECULATIVE FICTION FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA IN THE 21st CENTURY

Sunday, 7 January 2024, 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM (virtual)

Roundtable participants: Weihsin Gui (presider), Nazry Bahrawi, Zhui Ning Chang, Cheryl Julia Lee, Solihin Samsuri, Joshua Tee, Kevin Martens Wong

For more information please visit seasfmla2024.hcommons.org.