From Yunnan to Thailand: Bai Zhizhang and his Tai Communist Comrades (Cui Feng, National University of Singapore, Comparative Asian Studies Program)

Visualising the Pre-Islamic Past: Autochthonous Agency and Inter-ocularity in "Noor Islam" and "Isi Neraka" (Herman Lim Bin Adam Lim, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Department of Asian Studies; Graduate Degree Fellow, East-West Center)

The Limits of Empire: Relationship between the Ming dynasty and the Lān Xāng Kingdom (1402-1613) (Zhang Chen, University of Macau, Department of History)

Turning the Wheel of What? Communities of Shared Political Practice across the Premodern Indian Ocean (Bruno Shirley, Cornell University, Department of Asian Studies)

Back through a Box: A Peek Inside Filipino Balikbayan Boxes as a Reflection of Filipino Philosophy and Transnational Communication Strategy (Lady Aileen Orsal, Northern Illinois University Department of Communication)

Hybrid Movement, Digital Technology and the Rise of Far-Right Islamist Protest Mobilization in Indonesia (Aqida Salma, Goethe University Frankfurt, Telkom University, Southeast Asian Studies and Communication)

Guerilla Labor: Freedom, Fugitivity, and Escape amidst Drugs and War in Highland Burma (Joshua Mitchell, Cornell University, Department of Anthropology)

“Karma Dressed in a School Uniform” Girl From Nowhere’s Nanno and the Disruptive School Girl Femininity (Anna Naiyapatana, Cornell University, Department of Asian Studies)

Gendering Digital Business: Representations of Cross-Border Burmese Women Jadeite Traders on China's Douyin (Anqi Yan, Yale University, Center for East Asian Studies)

Digital Nomads and Settler Viscosity: The Kristen Grey Deportation Case (Teraya Paramehta, University of Southern California, American Studies and Ethnicity)

New Sanctuaries Required: Tropical Forestry and Property Regimes in Colonial Burma (Michael Mandelkorn, Princeton, Department of History)

Reimagining National Boundaries: Anthropological Perspectives on Indonesia's Waste Trade and Recycling Industry (Jiwon Kim, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology)

Spaceships and Farmers: The Environmental Politics of Authoritarian Technocracy in Gregorio Brillantes’s “The Apollo Centennial” and Han May’s Star Sapphire (Jamie Uy, Nanyang Technological University, English, School of Humanities)