The Global Asias Conferences are hosted biennially to complement the work of our award-winning journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias.  By bringing into relation work in Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies, the GA conferences are broadly expansive, covering Asia and its diasporas, East to West, across and around the Pacific, from a variety of humanistic perspectives—anthropology, art history, literature, history, sociology, and political science—in order to develop comparative analyses that recognize Asia’s place(s) in the development of global culture and history.

Ongoing since 2009, the GA conferences bring scholars from around the country and the world to PSU for cross-disciplinary conversations about Global Asias knowledge production.  They operate in tandem with the journal’s efforts to imagine into being the generative potential of the verge/verging as a space and/or mechanism for bringing disparate practices, ideas, fields, and methodologies into relation but not necessarily into alignment.