Conferences and Workshops

Unfamiliar Neighbours” was a hybrid worshop held in Japan that re-centres communities marginalised in national histories within East Asian port-city heritage. Rejecting heritage as a static, state-curated inheritance, it frames heritage-making as a negotiated practice shaped by minorities’ spaces, rituals, archives, and memories. Through panels and fieldwork in Tokyo–Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Hirado, it examines cultural brokerage, pluralism, and tensions between authorised narratives and vernacular memory.

Chinese migration to the UK’s northern industrial cities—especially Manchester and Liverpool—is a pivotal yet understudied chapter of the overseas Chinese diaspora. Beyond London’s Chinatown, North-West communities formed amid industrial decline, decolonisation, and multiculturalism. Tracing Cantonese, Hakka, Hong Kong, Malaysian, Singaporean, Mainland Chinese, and Taiwanese trajectories, this study links local associations to trans-Asian networks, culminating in March 20–25, 2025 fieldwork.