# Event Details - **Event Name**: Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 am – Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: A collaborative project from the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asia’s Initiative.About this EventPresented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative.The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU and Pennsylvania State University’s Global Asias Initiative are pleased to present “Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias,” a one-day symposium at NYU and a Convergence feature for a special issue of the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias. “Moving Objects” examines the varied modes of conveyance and the material infrastructures that facilitate the movements of people, cultural objects, and materials, by which Global Asias come into existence.What are the objects, vehicles, and vessels of migration, circulation, and exchange that connect Asians to one another and to others? What are the platforms and material environments through which Global Asias are built? How do cultural and political representations of such moving objects serve to make diasporic passages possible? How are such passages re-routed with the arrival of new modes and technologies of travel and transit? How do moving objects shape the national, ethnic, racial, and religious subjectivities of those who inhabit Global Asias? What cultural and political meanings attach to the objects of movement and the paths they take?Symposium schedule9:45 a.m. Registration10:00-10:15 a.m. Opening RemarksCrystal Parikh, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU Tina Chen, Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative10:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Objects Moving PeopleAnel Rakhimzhanova, “Performing Transit: Mobility and the Spatial Imagination in Central Asia” Ann Ngoc Tran, “Boat Materialities: The Maritime Objects of Vietnam’s Postwar Exodus” Christopher Cappazola, “Trapik, or, How Manila Got Hooked on Cars” Julia Lee, “Tracking Global Asias” Moderated by Junyoung Verónica Kim, New York University12:05-2:00 p.m. Break2:00-3:40 p.m. People Moving ObjectsKyoungjin Bae, “The Crisis of Portable Infrastructure: Tea Chests between Nineteenth-Century China and India” Eve Oishi, “Correspondences: Three Missing Letters, the Postal Service, and Global Asias” Alisha Cherian, “Kavadis in Motion: Routes of Belonging across Tamil Singapore and Malaysia” Moderated by Krishnendu Ray, New York University3:45-4:00 p.m. Closing RemarksCrystal Parikh, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU Tina Chen, Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative4:30-5:30 p.m. ReceptionNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID.Accessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall, all gender restrooms and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.Credit: “Kavadi Thaipusam” by hams37 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/moving-objects-modes-of-conveyance-and-the-making-of-global-asias/100001982832174410 - **Event Categories**: performances, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU - **lat**: 40.7279715 - **long**: -73.9915761 - **full address**: Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, 20 Cooper Square, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/68b9e729b764c3f679557cc42f35d56f4beaa62f8b3966db46f2100f39753851-rimg-w799-h533-dcecd8c0-gmir.jpg?v=1771055350 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias being held? - **A:** Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias takes place on Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 10:00 am to Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm at Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, 20 Cooper Square, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias? - **A:** Moving Objects: Modes of Conveyance & the Making of Global Asias is organized by Asian/Pacific/American Institute. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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