Conceptualizing “Slow Global Risks”: Navigating the Complex Layers of Transnational Social Phenomena in Eastern Eurasia
Date: Saturday 21 February 2026 1:00pm-5:45pm
Venue : Kobe University, Tsurukabuto 1st Campus, Building E, 4th Floor, Large Conference Room (E401)
Organizer: East Eurasian Studies Project, Research Institute for Promoting Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, https://ees-kobe.
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Program:
1:00-1:15
1:15-2:45
Session 1. Infrastructures of Illicit Asia: Scam Centers and the Reordering of Global Risk (Moderator: 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)
(Break 2:45-3:00)
3:00-4:30
Session 2. Connection and Disconnection in Digital Spaces (Moderator: Ami RAMIREZ)
Inter(net)subjectivity in politics of Japan: Japanese and Indonesian youth civic
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)
(Break 4:30-4:45)
4:45-5:45
General Discussion