Verge is sponsoring the following Global Asias panel and roundtable for consideration for the upcoming AAS conference: Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes | Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) & Elmo Gonzaga (egonzaga@cuhk.edu.hk) Destabilizing Identities in Studies of Global Asias | Roy Chan (rbc@uoregon.edu) 250 word abstracts and 2-page CVs should be submitted to […]
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AAS & AAAS: Call for Proposals for Verge-sponsored Panels
Deadlines July 14, 2023 (for AAS) August 18, 2023 (for AAAS) Verge will be sponsoring Global Asias panels and roundtables at the upcoming AAS and AAAS conferences. 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 […]
SI 2023: Archipelagic Asias
The study of Asia(s) remains fragmented along the lines of nations, histories, ethnicities, languages, and disciplines—all concepts that are rooted, epistemologically and pragmatically, on terra firma, on the supposedly sound conceptual ground of a continental Enlightenment tradition. What happens, however, when we shift our point of view, and instead adopt an oceanic perspective? How do […]
Call for Papers for Verge Issue 12.1 “Trade in Humans”
Issue 12.1 “Trade in Humans” Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel Deadlines Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 Essays: August 30, 2024 A PDF of this call is available here. For questions, contact verge@psu.edu. Trade in humans is a vast and age-old engine of migration between regions in the Asia-Pacific and, since the […]
Verge Advisory Board Updates, Spring 2023
Thank you to all of the following Verge: Studies in Global Asias Advisory Board members who have concluded their terms this year! Nicole Boivin (2023), Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Lan Duong (2023), Cinema & Media Studies, USC Patrick Eisenlohr (2023), Anthropology, University of Göttingen Namiko Kunimoto (2023), History of […]
Issue 9.1 Open Issue (Spring 2023)
Editors’ Introduction Storying Global Asias Tina Chen Convergence A&Q The Problems and Possibilities of Global Asias Pedagogy Tina Chen, Nadine Attewell, Anushay Malik, David Ludden, Michael R. Jin, Mark Chiang PORTFOLIO Of Scrolls and Tears: Trinh Mai’s Archival Art and Organic Ephemera H. J. Tam FIELD TRIP Left Internationalisms in Nationalist Times Andrew Way Leong, […]
Global Asias 6 Conference Program
We are pleased to share the conference program for Global Asias 6, which will be held March 31–April 1 at the Pennsylvania State University. Download PDF
Channels initiative to host screening of Those 4 Years and Q&A with Filmmaker Joe Thomas Karackattu
The Channels initiative will host a screening of the film Those 4 Years and a Q&A with filmmaker Joe Thomas Karackattu on April 1, 2023, from 3:45–5:00 p.m. This event will be held at Hyatt Place State College as part of the Global Asias 6 Conference. All are welcome. Those 4 Years journeys across three […]
Verge-sponsored Panels at AAAS 2023
Verge is delighted to be sponsoring the following panels at the upcoming Association for Asian American Studies conference (Long Beach, CA, April 6–8). We hope you’ll join us for some of these events! The Relational Methodologies of Global Asias Cultural Production: (Re)envisioning Social Justice and Accountability Session T22 | Thursday, April 6 | 10:00 a.m. […]
Gendering Social Movements across Global Asia and Asian America Cyber Chat Rescheduled to April 17
The Global Asias Cyber Chat: Gendering Social Movements Across Global Asia and Asian America, previously scheduled for early March, has been rescheduled to Monday, April 17. This event is hosted by the CU Boulder Center for Humanities & the Arts and Center for Asian Studies in partnership with the GAI. To view complete information and […]