The UC Irvine Global Asias Research Cluster will host the third Global Asias conference on February 20-21, 2025. This international conference brings together faculty, students, scholars, and artists from around the world. The “Global Asias” rubric foregrounds the dynamics of culture, economics, geopolitics, migration, ecology, and emotion that, especially in recent decades, have deepened Asia’s entanglements with the rest of the world and vice-versa.
Keynote Speakers
Colleen Lye, UC Berkeley
Adrian De Leon, New York University
The 2025 conference will feature over 40 panels and over 160 presenters, with over a third of presenters traveling to the conference from outside the US. Presentations and panels cover topics ranging from the environmental legacies of military conflict in Southeast Asia, the mutual articulation of national and ethnic identities in Asia from the nineteenth century to present, and the queer forms of the Korean wave, to Chinese diasporas in India, artistic production about expanding technological surveillance, and political and intellectual challenges to the Global Asias rubric itself. The conference aims not only to feature work that explores “Global Asias” as an object of study but, even more importantly, to cultivate a community of dialogue and exchange between Asia- and US-based interlocutors.
More information is on the conference website: https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/ga25/
All attendees and participants must register. Registration is free for UCI staff, students, and faculty. Sliding scale fee for non-UCI tenure-track faculty. Free for all others. Register here.