Date
Saturday 21 February 2026 1:00pm-5:45pm (JST, UTC+9)
Venue
Kobe University, Tsurukabuto 1st Campus, Building E, 4th Floor, Large Conference Room (E401)
Tsurukabuto 1st Campus | Kobe University
Organizer
East Eurasian Studies Project (EES)
Research Institute for Promoting Intercultural Studies, Kobe University
Program
1:00-1:15
Opening Speech: Hiroki OKADA (Kobe University)
1:15-2:45
Session 1. Infrastructures of Illicit Asia: Scam Centers and the Reordering of Global Risk
(Organizer: Masao IMAMURA)
Presentation 1 Sharon KWOK (Western Sydney University)
From Junkets to Scam Compounds: How Chinese Criminal Ecosystems Transplanted into Southeast Asia
Presentation 2 XU Peng (University of Manchester)
Scam Logistics: Building and Governing the Digital Illicit Economy in China–Southeast Asia Borderlands
Presentation 3 CHEN Yanyu (National Tsinghua University)
Moving Bricks: Money-Laundering Practices in the Online Scam Industry
Comment Kota Watanabe (JSPS/New York University)
3:00-4:30
Session 2. Connection and Disconnection in Digital Spaces
(Organizer: Ami RAMIREZ)
Presentation 1 Aldrie Alman Drajat (Universitas Indonesia)
Inter(net)subjectivity in politics of Japan: Japanese and Indonesian youth civic participation on social media
Presentation 2 Yosri RAZGUI (Waseda University)
When the ritual goes digital: Japanese football supporters in times of Covid-19
Presentation 3 Mattias van Ommen (Doshisha University)
Slow Approaches to Digital Connection: Chokketsu, Blacklists, and Gendered Intimacy in Japanese Online Games
Comment Taichi Uchio (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)
4:45-5:45
General Discussion
Discussant Michiko SAWANO (Ritsumeikan University)
Chiaki TSUCHIDA (Kobe University)
Full program
The full program (including abstracts) is available for download here. (Updated on 02/12 – Discussant and bio added.)
Registration
Contact
Takahiro Tomita (Kobe University) tomitaka@people.kobe-u.ac.jp
