Approaching Global Asias Reading Group - Foundations of Global Asia: Tactics and Theories
Week 2: Global Asias as an Alien Form: Exchanges and Indigeneity
Event Date & Time
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Event Location
710 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Hello Everyone, we are convening a mini reading group for Approaching Global Asias, where we read around the basic concepts of Global Asias. This is a hybrid workshop format, and you can join in person or on Zoom. This is the second meeting.
The reading amount for each week is around 40 pages, and you are free to join one or multiple sessions. Here is the list of readings and this folder has all the pdfs for the provided readings
Lunch will be provided for all three meetings. If you need access to the building, please let us know.
Week 2 Mandatory Readings:
- Chen, Tina, Nadine Attewell, Anushay Malik, David Ludden, Michael R. Jin, and Mark Chiang. "The Problems and Possibilities of Global Asias Pedagogy." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 9, no. 1 (2023): 1-42.
- Day, Iyko, Juliana Hu Pegues, Melissa Phung, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, and Danika Medak-Saltzman. “Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions.” Verge (Minneapolis, Minn.) 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–45.
- Suglo, Ignatius G. D. ""Sound of Friendship": Music Iconography in Twentieth-Century Africa–China Relations." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 8, no. 1 (2022): 195-216.
Optional Readings
- Valadares, Desirée, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Alexander Murphy, and Neelima Jeychandran. “Transits: Theorizing Transits: Im/Mobility, Im/Materiality, Im/Permanence.” In Global Asias: Tactics & Theories, edited by Tina Chen and Charlotte Eubanks. University of Hawai’i Press, 2025.
- Minai, Naveen, Neelofer Qadir, and Tina Chen. "The Possibilities and Limits of Brown/ness(es)." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 10, no. 1 (2024): vi-xxiii.
For questions, please contact Approaching Global Asias Lead Convenor Pratiti Ketoki at [email protected].