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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
Call For Applicants: Cultivating Early Career Networks Between Global Asias and Japan Studies
Download PDF The Global Asias Initiative (GAI) at Pennsylvania State University, in conjunction with Japan Foundation, New York (JFNY), is conducting a three-year project aimed at kickstarting a network of junior scholars between the US and Japan who are working under the conceptual rubric of Global Asias. The goal of this three-year project is to […]
AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels
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 […]
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, […]