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Configuring Global Asias: Talking with Tina Chen (Penn State)

configuring global asias
February 2, 2022
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Zoom

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Add to Calendar 2022-02-02 16:00:00 2022-02-02 17:30:00 Configuring Global Asias: Talking with Tina Chen (Penn State)   The Global Asias Initiative, sponsored by Penn State's Department of Asian Studies, encompasses several interrelated projects that bring into relation, but not necessarily into alignment, work in Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies.  Under the direction of Tina Chen, the Initiative cultivates multi-disciplinary collaboration through the work of an award-winning journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias; the biennial Global Asias conference; and the annual Global Asias Summer Institute.  Deeply transnational and transhistorical in scope, Verge is committed to generating thematic and conceptual links among the disciplines and regional/area studies formations that address Asia in a variety of particularist (national, subnational, individual) and generalist (national, regional, global) modes. Collectively, these projects study 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. Tina Chen is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at Penn State University, and author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (2005).  She is the Founding Editor of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, winner of the 2016 BEST NEW JOURNAL Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) and the 2020 PROSE Award for Best New Journal in the Humanities from the Association of American Publishers (AAP).  She is director of the Global Asias Initiative at Penn State and will be serving as the interim director of the Humanities Institute for AY 2021-2022. Sponsored by Asian Futures, a Humanities Collaboratory initiative funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Register for this event here Zoom Humanities Institute huminst@osu.edu America/New_York public

 

The Global Asias Initiative, sponsored by Penn State's Department of Asian Studies, encompasses several interrelated projects that bring into relation, but not necessarily into alignment, work in Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies.  Under the direction of Tina Chen, the Initiative cultivates multi-disciplinary collaboration through the work of an award-winning journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias; the biennial Global Asias conference; and the annual Global Asias Summer Institute.  Deeply transnational and transhistorical in scope, Verge is committed to generating thematic and conceptual links among the disciplines and regional/area studies formations that address Asia in a variety of particularist (national, subnational, individual) and generalist (national, regional, global) modes. Collectively, these projects study 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.

Tina Chen is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at Penn State University, and author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (2005).  She is the Founding Editor of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, winner of the 2016 BEST NEW JOURNAL Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) and the 2020 PROSE Award for Best New Journal in the Humanities from the Association of American Publishers (AAP).  She is director of the Global Asias Initiative at Penn State and will be serving as the interim director of the Humanities Institute for AY 2021-2022.

Sponsored by Asian Futures, a Humanities Collaboratory initiative funded by the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme

Register for this event here

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