Subject: Duke Global Asia Initiative Information

Description: This list will serve as a tool for notifying those who are interested about symposiums, speakers, performances, funding opportunities, and other news related to the Global Asia Initiative.

The Global Asia Initiative at Duke has its origins in the efforts by groups across the world to articulate a new paradigm that looks at Asian nations, cultures, and civilizations in terms of their connections, interactions, and interdependencies in both historical and geographical space. The motive for such an exploration derives from contemporary research that exposes the entangled relations between countries in East, Southeast, South and West Asia not only in contemporary affairs but also in the distant past.

The Global Asia Initiative (GAI) will support research on inter-Asian topics that are collaborative and inter-disciplinary (ideally even cross-faculty: humanities/social sciences/science/environment/public policy, etc), involving research in more than one country.