3rd Annual Conference
February 20–21, 2025
UC Irvine
Keynote Speakers:
Colleen Lye, UC Berkeley
Adrian De Leon, NYU
Early Career Publishing Workshop:
Tina Chen, The Penn State University
Sponsored panels by Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and the UCI Marxist Institute for Research.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome the following proposal formats:
- Individual paper: 250 word abstract
- Panel (3–4 presentations): 250 word description + 100–200 word abstracts for each presentation
- Roundtable (4–6 presenters): 250 word description
Proposals, along with a two-page CV for each presenter, should be sent to globalasias@uci.edu by 11:59 PM PT, August 2nd, 2024. Decisions in late August.
IACS and UCI-MIR members, please indicate your affiliation in your proposal. Panel/roundtable spots will be reserved for both sponsoring organizations. We especially encourage full panel proposals.
Questions? Email globalasias@uci.edu. To receive email announcements about Global Asias 2025, please sign up here.
The intellectual paradigm of Global Asias recognizes Asia’s shifting position in the realm of geopolitics, capital, and culture; this shift counters or exceeds longstanding narratives associated with that region and with global ordering more broadly. Global Asias 25 invites submissions that expand our understanding of “Asia” as a region, discourse, and/or process in relation to the “global” or the “globe.”
Possible presentation topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- Space and place making
- Language and translation
- Belonging and citizenship
- Circulation and migration
- Political economy
- Regionalism
- Inter-imperial and transimperial formations
- Mapping consumption, production, or culture
- Queer/trans relationality
- Environment and sustainability
- Infrastructure
We invite proposals from scholars, artists, writers, activists, and other practitioners. Projects that consider a range of disciplines and methods, and that speak across (non)traditional or intellectual borders are especially encouraged.
Please note that this is an in-person conference and that we do not have the staff support to accommodate requests for remote participation.
Conference registration opens in the fall. There will be a sliding scale registration fee for tenure-track participants. No cost for all other participants.