Message posted on 25/03/2021
[TransAsiaSTS] REMINDER: TransAsiaSTS Seminar: Technology as a Political Instrument | Prof. Itty Abraham | Friday, March 26
*SEMINAR ON TOMORROW* The TransAsiaSTS Network is delighted to announce its first invited virtual lecture for 2021 by Prof. Itty Abraham, National University of Singapore on Friday, March 26. Details of the talk and registration links follow below. Prof. Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, will serve as a discussant. *Title:* Technology as a Political Instrument: The Tactical and the Strategic *Abstract:* The close association of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter) with the so-called “Arab Spring” popular movements has reinforced our collective understanding of new media technologies as a great political disruptor. Under some circumstances, digital media can become a force multiplier for an unarmed public against a repressive state. Such a politics of confrontation should be seen as a tactical use of technology, facing certain inherent limits. Political technologies can be strategic as well, however, going far beyond the direct encounter of a movement and state to threaten state legitimacy, as this case study will discuss. My examination of a KL-based Rohingya diaspora group explores the long-term strategic implications of what I call the politics of recognition through discussion of two technopolitical moments – the group’s negotiations with the Unicode Consortium to make the Rohingya script visible on electronic screens and efforts to use blockchain to create a transnational refugee database. *Speaker Bio:* Itty Abraham is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and the former director of the South Asia Institute, the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Chair, and former associate professor of government and Asian studies. He was a fellow at the East-West Center, Washington, and taught at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Abraham was program director for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Global Security and Cooperation at the Social Science Research Council in New York from 1992-2005, where he helped shape the intellectual framework for post-area studies scholarship. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics at Loyola College, Madras, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received grants from the Ford, Rockefeller, and Wenner-Gren foundations, the Open Society Institute Burma Project and the U.S. Institute of Peace, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University. His research interests include international relations, science and technology studies, and postcolonial theory. *Disussant Bio:* Usha Raman is a professor of media studies at the University of Hyderabad, with teaching and research interests in science and health communication, digital cultures, feminist media studies and narrative journalism. *Seminar Date and Time*: Friday March 26, 04.00 UTC. *Live Streaming Link:* https://youtu.be/YhTy_vjeB6U *Event registration and other information:* https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/transasiasts-seminar-itty-abraham-tickets-145 144167111 _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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