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SUMMARY:Oceanic Asias: Sonic Geographies of Hawaiian Whaling between Chin
 a & Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Organized by: SFU Global Asia Program — https://www.eventbr
 ite.com/o/115370452311\\nHow the migration of whales and the whalers that
  pursued them brought together east coast of China and west coast of Mexi
 co\\nThis event is part of the SFU Global Asia Program 30th Anniversary\\
 , Fall 2026 Speaker Series. You may participate in-person or online\\, pl
 ease specify when registering. Light refreshments will be provided for in
 -person attendance.\\nThis talk considers how the migration of whales and
  the whalers that pursued them brought together the east coast of China a
 nd the west coast of Mexico in the nineteenth century. In this period\\, 
 North Atlantic economies sought to procure whale oil as a source of illum
 ination and lubrication for the machines that powered the industrial revo
 lution. The expansion of this industry prompted Euro-American powers to c
 onscript Hawai’i as the crossroads of the Pacific and to rely on Hawaii
 an labor in this extractive oceanic enterprise. Centering indigenous Hawa
 i’ian (Kānaka Maoli) geographic thought\\, this paper considers the ut
 ility of sound and the sonic dimensions of Pacific whaling to surface sub
 merged Chinese Mexican geographies. It engages sonic speculation to disce
 rn patterns of inter-species mobility by imaginatively attuning to the so
 ngs that whales and their Kānaka hunters performed as key dimensions of 
 their social lives at sea. Evoking these sounds raises questions about sp
 ecies\\, space\\, and gender as Kānaka whalers were almost exclusively m
 en and only male whales produced song. Together they constructed a Chines
 e Mexican oceanic geography by elaborating a masculinist soundscape in th
 eir moves across the Pacific.\\nAbout the speaker: Matthew Chin is an Ass
 istant Professor of Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory Universit
 y. He received his PhD in Anthropology and Social Work from the Universit
 y of Michigan and his interdisciplinary research engages feminist and que
 er histories of race of across the Caribbean and Asia. His first b\\nhttp
 s://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/canada/vancouver/events/oceanic-asias-sonic
 -geographies-of-hawaiian-whaling-between-china-mexico-2026-11-26
LOCATION:Simon Fraser University - Vancouver Campus\\, 515 West Hastings 
 Street\\, Vancouver\\, BC V6B 5K3\\, CA
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/canada/vancouver/events/oceanic-asias-sonic-geographies-of-hawaiian-whaling-between-china-mexico-2026-11-26
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