Discussions about involuntary migration cut across disciplines from social scientific and humanistic inquiry. While the movement of people from one place to another has been happening sincethe beginning of human history, people move for many different reasons and movement does not always signal the freedom of mobility. For example, the conditions of “Asian” and Asian […]
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2025 AAS Verge Sponsored Panels CFP
Deadline July 31, 2024 Download We are excited to support the following panels four for inclusion at the 2025 AAAS conference: Activist Objects in Global Asias: Materiality, Affect, and Politics | Oxana Jeoung-Rakova, aksyona@snu.ac.kr, Elias J. Alexander eliasjalexander@gmail.com Imagining a Global Asias Curriculum | Fan Yang, yanyang@umbc.edu Whose verse? Which verse? Multiverse! Global Asias in/as […]
Call for Papers for Verge Issue 13.2 Open Issue
Deadline: October 7, 2024 A PDF of this call is available here For questions, contact verge@psu.edu. Verge: Studies in Global Asias invites proposals for special issue 13.2, which will be published in Fall 2027. Verge: Studies in Global Asias showcases scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the […]
2025 AAS: Call for Verge Sponsored Panel and Roundtable Proposals
Deadline: Monday, July 8 Verge will be sponsoring Global Asias panels and roundtables at the upcoming AAS conference. Our goal is to help generate and support work that straddles or otherwise navigates the differences and overlaps between Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies as intellectual formations and interdisciplines. Accordingly, we are putting out […]
2025 Summer Institute: “The Institutional Forms of Global Asias” Call for Applications
Submission Deadline: January17, 2025. Download PDF Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held July 28- August 1, 2025. SI2025, co-directed by Tina Chen and Charlotte D. Eubanks, will focus on the ways in which Global Asias as method and scholarly praxis both challenges […]
Issue 10.1 Brown/ness(es) (Spring 2024)
Editor’s Introduction The Possibilities and Limits of Brown/ness(es) Naveen Minai, Neelofer Qadir, Tina Chen Convergence PORTFOLIO Indenture, Iteration: Race and the Aesthetics of Contract Labor Najnin Islam, Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, Neelofer Qadir A&Q Making Brown/ness(es): Aesthetics in the Everyday Naveen Minai, Vanita Reddy, Marissa C. de Baca, Aaisha Salman, Xine Yao, Mira Al Hussein CODEX […]
Verge Advisory Board Updates, Summer 2024
Thank you to all of the Verge Advisory Board members who finished their terms in 2024! Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (2024) English, University of California-Irvine Laura Kina (2024) Art, Media & Design, DePaul University Brinda Mehta (2024) French & Francophone Studies and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Mills College Krishnendu Ray (2024) Nutrition and Food […]
SI 2024 Participants
Congratulations to the eight participants accepted to this year’s Global Asias Summer Institute at Penn State, “Involuntary Migration”. We look forward to working with you!
Call for Papers for Verge Issue 12.2 “Computational Environments”
A PDF of this call is available here Deadlines Convergence—September 30, 2024 Essays—June 1, 2025 Edited by Andrea Miller, Cindy Lin, and Tina Chen CFP Computational innovation has long been conceived in relation to technology’s capacity to shape, monitor, and manage environments through processes of scientific, aesthetic, and political representation that render the environment itself a […]
Call for Papers for Verge Issue 13.1 Open Issue
A PDF of this call is available here For questions, contact verge@psu.edu. Deadlines: June 1, 2025 (Convergence proposals) September15, 2025 (Essay submissions) This open issue invites essays related to the broader project of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, which showcases Scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the […]