Global Asia(s) Working Group

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Interest form for the new Working Group at RIDGS: Approaching Global Asia(s)


 

Who are we

Our main aim is to pen up thematics, discuss methodological approaches, and steer stimulating conversations in the emerging field of Global Asia(s), combining area studies, ethnic studies, digital culture, and diaspora studies. Currently, there are no intellectual units on campus that focus on Global Asia(s). Therefore, this would open up ways to bring questions of race, temporality and equity, diversity, and inclusion to the same.

 

As a working group, we will primarily focus on narrative construction of identities, mobility, decoloniality, and cultural praxis as our guiding theme. We will approach questions of politics, culture, and global exchange through the registers of fiction, film, sport, and mixed media (including narratives in video games). The group will seek to host book and film discussions while also inviting guest speakers (filmmakers, artists, authors, or scholars) to address these themes. This would add a new dimension to the extant theoretical approaches to Global Asia(s) and the larger RIDGS project of building upon interdisciplinary strengths by fostering intersectional collaborative projects and community-engaged research.

 

Inaugural Global Asia(s) Lecture With Dr. Andrew F. Jones

A poster with a Grey background and two images. Left image is of an african american man in a postcard style with the word Barry Brown on the left corner and Far East on the right corner. Right image is in a red tint and has an Asian man on the left side (foreground) and two African American people on the right side (background). Above the images there is a border with musical notes. The right hand corner of the border has the RIDGS logo and beside it is a QR code to sign up for the talk.

The Approaching Global Asia(s) Working Group will host Dr. Andrew F. Jones (Agassiz Professor of Chinese, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley) for an inaugural lecture on Fri, Feb 21, 2025 from 2 - 3:30 PM.

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