2023 Keynote Speakers - CTS - AP 
​Hanoi, Vietnam
February 13-17, 2023

Dr. Mimi Sheller helped establish the “new mobilities paradigm” and is a key theorist in the interdisciplinary field of mobilities research. Her work has received research funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the British Academy, the U.K. Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Macarthur Foundation, the Mobile Lives Forum, and the Graham Foundation in Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Dr. Sheller has published more than 130 articles and book chapters, and is the author or co-editor of fifteen books, including Advanced Introduction to Mobilities (Edward Elgar, 2021); Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2020); Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018); Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014); Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Duke University Press, 2012); Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (Routledge, 2003); and Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Macmillan Caribbean, 2000).
Dr. Prasit Leepreecha is a faculty member in the Department of Social Science and Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He is an anthropologist, focused on ethnicity and indigeneity in Southeast Asia. He has long-term engagements with several ethnic groups in the region such as the Hmong and Mien (Yao) in northern Thailand and neighboring countries. For decades, Dr. Leepreecha has worked closely with indigenous peoples networks in Thailand and throughout Asia and has published widely on this topic. Recent publications on ethnicity and indigeneity include 'Transnational Indigenism in Southeast Asia' (forthcoming, 2022), 'Heroes of the Plain of Jars: Hmong Monuments and Social Memory in Laos and America' in the Journal of Mekong Studies (2020), and 'Becoming Indigenous Peoples in Thailand' in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (2019). His work in critical tourism studies is focused on ethnic tourism. Examples of his work in this field include, 'Commoditizing His Majesty's Footprints: Tourism in Highland Ethnic Communities in Northern Thailand', in Tourism and Monarchy in Southeast Asia (2016) and 'The Politics of Ethnic Tourism in Northern Thailand', in Mekong Tourism: Competitiveness & Opportunities (2008).

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Dang Thi Phuong Anh
Professor Honggang Xu is Dean of the School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Her research interests include tourism geographies, system dynamics, and mobilities. She has published more than 100 academic articles and edited six books focused on the topics of sustainable tourism and heritage tourism. She is the deputy editor of international refereed journal, Tourism Geographies and sits on several influential tourism journals’ editorial board, such as Tourism Management, Tourism Management Perspective and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management. She is also an expert at UNESCO’s Monitoring Center of Sustainable Tourism Observatory (MCSTO) in China and has overseen the sustainable tourism monitoring of World Heritage sites at Mount Huangshan and the Ancient Village in Southern Anhui- Xidi and Hongcun since 2009.
Dr. Jamie Gillen is director and senior lecturer in the Global Studies Programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Hailing from the United States and trained as a human geographer, Jamie has interests in cultural politics, tourism, urbanization, rural-urban relations, agrarian livelihoods, and the project of fieldwork. He has been working in Vietnam since 2002 and considers it one of his homes. In 2021 Jamie published a co-edited book with Liam Kelley and Phan Le Ha called Vietnam at the Vanguard and is the author of the short monograph published in 2016 entitled Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam.