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Crosscurrents: A conversation connecting Latin America and East Asia

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This panel will discuss how various disciplinary approaches from the Social Sciences and Humanities examine Latin America’s cultural and historical ties to East Asia. To what degree the trans-local exchange of people, commodities, and ideas between different regions of East Asia and Latin America shapes various research agendas? Indeed, understanding Latin America as part of the Pacific World changes our notion of Latin America as a region, beyond Atlantic and Pan-American Studies.

Speakers

Dr. Gustavo Oliveira is Assistant Professor in the UCI Department of Global and International Studies. He obtained his PhD in geography from UC Berkeley, and he was visiting assistant professor of economic geography at Peking University. His current book project examines Chinese investments in Brazilian agribusiness and related infrastructure.

Dr. André Keiji Kunigami is Assistant Professor in the UCI Department of Film and Media Studies. He obtained his PhD in Asian Studies from Cornell University, and before, he was a Doctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Foundation. His work focuses on Brazilian and Japanese cinema, the relation between filmic forms and the political, peripheral modernisms, and yellowness and raciality in Brazil.

Moderator and Discussant

Dr. Heidi Tisnman is Professor and Chair of the UCI History Department. A historian of gender and labor in modern Latin America, she is interested in the relevance of feminist materialist paradigms for transnational and world history. She is currently developing a book project on Chinese labor, gender, race, and nation in 19th century Peru and Chile.