Friday, October 16, 2026 | 6pm to 7:30pm
25 West 43rd St, 10th Floor, Room 1000
between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan
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Professor Alex Ho explores how hauntology serves as a powerful framework for Asian American and global Asian studies, bridging past customs and present urgencies. Building on initial concepts from his essay with Professor Joy Liu, Ghost Notes: A Journaling Practice for Taiwanese American Autoethnography (Center for the Humanities), Alex Ho reflects on the cultural practice of burning “joss paper” (spirit/ghost money) in Chinese and Chinese diasporic cultures. By examining how such folk traditional rites negotiate ghostly affects, patrilineal kinship, and capitalist ideology, Ho interrogates how spectral themes can offer new avenues for unpacking women’s familial and labor experiences, for integrating Taiwan studies with Asian American studies, and for rethinking the role of writing in ethnic studies pedagogy.
