<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am seeking two authors to join a panel submission for the 2026 Association of Asian Studies conference in Vancouver (March 12-15). Please see below the panel description. If interested, please email a paper title and abstract of 250 words to <a href="mailto:shannon.ward@ubc.ca">shannon.ward@ubc.ca</a> by <b>July 28</b>.</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0cm;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">Across Borders and Belonging: Multilingual Education and Changing Mobilities in Asia</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0cm;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"> </div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0cm;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Transnational mobility has served as a catalyst for multilingual education in Asia—both education in minoritized languages as well as education in dominant global languages such as English. Despite an expansion of multilingual education in the 21st century, however, communities across Asia are currently grappling with government policies that shift between promoting transnational connection and enforcing social, ethnic, and geographic borders. In this context, how do ideologies about borders manifest in policies for multilingual education and on-the-ground practices in schools, homes, and communities? How do these changing policies and practices shape the forms of belonging that mobile communities build through their migration routes?</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0cm;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:36pt">Through ethnographic case studies of a range of mobile communities, including rural-to-urban migrants, diasporic communities, and refugees, our addresses these questions by considering how multilingual education can simultaneously promote belonging and reify borders. Papers seek to disrupt common narratives about the relationship between multilingualism and transnational connection, which often treat multilingualism as a consequence of globalization despite the rapid language endangerment that has followed from associated forms of neoliberal expansion. By analyzing multilingual education amid changing mobilities, our panel positions Asian migrant communities at the center of possibilities for future language vitality and language revitalization at a moment when patterns of transnational connection are rapidly shifting.</div></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0cm;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:36pt"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0cm;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:36pt">Best,</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0cm;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-indent:36pt">Shannon</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Shannon Ward<div>PhD Anthropology</div><div>འབུམ་རམས་པ།</div><div>མི་སྤྱོད་རིག་པའི་ཚན་ཁག།</div><div><a href="mailto:smw525@nyu.edu" target="_blank">smw525@nyu.edu</a></div></div></div></div>