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.