Since 2015, the award-winning journal Verge and the Global Asias Initiative have been exploring how Global Asias knowledge production can reshape the academic landscape. Our work over the past decade has shown us that Global Asias is more than an opportunity to question the institutional structures that historically disarticulate area studies from ethnic studies and […]
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2025 AAAS Verge Sponsored Panels CFP
We are excited to support the following panels for inclusion at the 2025 AAAS conference
Issue 10.2 Archipelagic Asias (Fall 2024)
Editors’ Introduction Archipelagic Asias: Fluid Perspectives and Oceanic Methodologies Nicolai Volland and Leo T. S. Ching A&Q Toward and Archipelagic Praxis and Method: Solidarity, Storytelling, and Decolonization across Global Asias Adrian De Leon, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Sarah Ihmoud, Thiti Jamkajornkeiat, and Tiara R. Na’puti Codex Connecting Maritime Asia: A Roundtable Discussion on Eric Tagliacozzo, […]
CFP: Global Asias 7 Conference
CFP: Global Asia 7 Conference Penn State will host the Global Asias 7 conference in spring 2025. Sponsored by the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) and the Department of Asian Studies, GA7 complements the work of the award-winning journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias and the Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis book series. By bringing […]
SI 2024: Involuntary Migration
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]