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 […]
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Issue 9.2 Culinary Cultures on the Move (Fall 2023)
Editors’ Introduction Cooking Cultures: Global Asias on the Move and in the Making Krishnendu Ray, Jooyeon Rhee, Tina Chen Convergence FIELD TRIP Food in the Indian Ocean World: Mobility, Materiality, and Cultural Exchange Krishnendu Ray, Kathleen Burke, Stephanie Jolly PORTFOLIO Reframing the Visuality of Food: Instagram Images by Northern Japanese Farmers Chikako Nagayama CODEX Gender, […]
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, […]
Issue 8.2 Visualizing Asias: Interventions in Asian and Asian Diasporic Art (Fall 2022)
Editors’ Introduction Remapping Asian and Asian Diasporic Art: Identity, Intervention, and Care Chang Tan, Laura Kina, Tina Chen Convergence CODEX Reading with Care: Photography and Anti-Asian Violence Bakirathi Mani, Susette Min PORTFOLIO Planetary Art in the Sinophonecene: An Introduction Hai Ren, Zheng Bo, Mali Wu A&Q Curation as Decolonial Practice Laura Kina, Alexandra Chang, Lawrence-Minh […]
Issue 8.1 Indian Ocean Studies, African-Asian Affinities (Spring 2022)
Editors’ Introduction African-Asian Affinities: Indian Oceanic Expressions and Aesthetics | Emmanuel Bruno Jean-François and Neelima Jeychandran Convergence FIELD TRIP The Indian Ocean Turn: New Perspectives and Approaches from the Field | Neelima Jeychandran, Smriti Srinivas, Pedro Machado, and Bettina Ng’weno CODEX Entangled Histories, Relational Methodologies, and Worlding Imaginaries: A Collaborative Review of Amitav Ghosh’s Historical Fictions […]
Issue 7.2 Digital Asias (Fall 2021)
Editors’ Introduction Unfolding Digital Asias | Jonathan E. Abel and Joseph Jonghyun Jeon Convergence PORTFOLIO Sari-Sari Style: Tropical Excess and an Asian Sense of Brown in Wawi Navarroza’s Photographs | Emmanuel David FIELD TRIP Asian/America Gaming | Tara Fickle, Chris Patterson, Melos Han-Tani, Se Young Kim, Marina Kittaka and Emperatriz Ung INTERFACE Malaysia Design Archive: […]
Issue 7.1 Open Issue (Spring 2021)
Editors’ Introduction On Cataclysms and Connectedness| Tina Chen Convergence FIELD TRIP New World Orders and the Geopolitics of the Transpacific | Yuan Shu Circulatory Histories of the Nation-State | Prasenjit Duara Imagining the Post-American World War: Geopolitics, Technology, and the Representation of Chinese and Chinese Americans in Singer and Cole’s Ghost Fleet| Yuan Shu Silent […]
Issue 6.2: Infrastructures and Global Political Aesthetics (Fall 2020)
Editors’ Introduction Dreams of Infrastructure in Global Asias | Jessamyn R. Abel and Leo Coleman Convergence PORTFOLIO The Efficient Ruin of Infrastructure | Curated by Carrie Cushman and Nicholas Risteen FIELD TRIP Violence and Hope: The Aesthetic Force of Infrastructures | Corey Byrnes, Mubbashir Rizvi, and Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda A & Q Infrastructures of Inter-Asian Connection: […]
Issue 6.1: Displaced Subjects (Spring 2020)
Editors’ Introduction On the Subject(s) of Displacement | Tina Chen and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Convergence CODEX Exposing EJKs and the State— A Collaborative Review of Dark Lens/ Lente ng Karimlan: The Filipino Camera in Duterte’s Republic | Nerissa S. Balce, Sarita Echavez See, John Labella, Ethel Tungohan, Caroline Baicy, and Gary Devilles FIELD TRIP Art, […]
Issue 5.2 Forgetting Wars (Fall 2019)
Editors’ Introduction FORGETTING REMEMBERING ‖ REMEMBERING FORGETTING | Tina Chen, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, and We Jung Yi Convergence A & Q Operations of Forgetting | Sunny Xiang, Jessica Nakamura, Xiaojue Wang, We Jung Yi, and Victor Bascara Codex A Collaborative Review of Trinh Minh-ha’s Forgetting Vietnam | Trung Nguyen, Anita Chang, Việt Lê, and Lan […]