Call for Applicants: Global Asias and Japan Studies Cyber Chats

Submission Deadline: April 3 and May 23

In early 2023, the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) is kicking off a three-year collaboration with Japan Foundation New York (JFNY) aimed at creating a network of junior scholars between the United States and Japan. The collaboration will involve a Cyber Chats series in spring 2023, a year-long early career networking project designed to cultivate substantial engagement between scholars in the US and Japan, participation in the Global Asias 7 conference (spring 2025), and eventually a publication in Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

To build a conversation about Global Asias and Japan Studies and to identify potential applicants for the early career networking project, we are excited to launch a new Cyber Chats series. For these two Cyber Chats (on “Challenges and Opportunities for Global Asias Approaches to Japan Studies” and “Migration, Identity, and Diasporas at the Intersection of Japan Studies and Global Asias”) JFNY partners with Verge: Studies in Global Asias and the GAI to continue developing the conceptual horizons and institutional possibilities of Global Asias scholarship. As always, we aim to bring scholars working with Global Asias approaches, topics, and orientations into conversation to identify some of the opportunities and challenges inherent in this emerging multidisciplinary knowledge formation.   

Note: For this Cyber Chat series, participants can be based anywhere. However, applicants to the early career scholars networking project, which is funded by JFNY,  must be based either in the United States or in Japan. These online conversations are being scheduled at a time that is accessible to scholars located in both countries.

Challenges and Opportunities for Global Asias Approaches to Japan Studies – Applications due April 3

Migration, Identity, and Diasporas at the Intersection of Japan Studies and Global Asias – Applications due May 23

Learn more about this opportunity here.