Call for Applications! 2025 Summer Institute: “The Institutional Forms of Global Asias”!

Submission Deadline: January 17, 2025.

Penn State University and the Global Asias Initiative invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held July 28- August 1, 2025. SI2025, co-directed by Tina Chen and Charlotte D. Eubanks, will focus on the ways in which Global Asias as method and scholarly praxis both challenges and reimagines the institutional forms of academia.

During SI2025, Institute participants will spend a week reading and thinking about the possibilities and limits of Global Asias praxis and working in teams to conceptualize and build new institutional forms around Global Asias research and pedagogy. Particularly generative work will be considered for publication in an Asia Shorts volume planned in conjunction.

On the theme:

We see Global Asias as an invitation to build things differently.

Since 2015, the award-winning journal Verge and the Global Asias Initiative have been exploring how Global Asias knowledge production can reshape the academic landscape. Our work over the past decade has shown us that Global Asias is more than an opportunity to question the institutional structures that historically disarticulate area studies from ethnic studies and diaspora studies. Global Asias is also an opportunity to build new structures.

Application Process:

Penn State will cover housing and meals for all participants.

To apply, please send the following documents to [email protected] by January 17, 2025.

All items must be sent as a single PDF file and each team must designate a contact person.

A proposal of 1500 words outlining the institutional project that the team wants to build which makes explicit the ways in which Global Asias is being used to create an alternative approach to the building of orthodox bureaucratic forms;
Brief (250 word) bios of all team members;
A current c.v. (no longer than 2 pp)from each team member; and
A provisional work plan, including a timeline, for your proposed project (2 pp).

Decisions will be made by end of February.

Inquiries regarding the Summer Institute may be directed to GAI director Tina Chen ([email protected]).