BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16231-1ebccc22d19b6162de66d82ab99b547d@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T204803Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T173000 SUMMARY:Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty DESCRIPTION:\nGlobal Asias: Tactics &\; Theories\n\nAn indispensable guide to the methods\, frameworks\, and critical concepts animating Glob al Asias scholarship\, Global Asias: Tactics &\; Theories is the inau gural volume of the Global Asias MAP book series sponsored by Penn State ’s Global Asias Initiative. Praised as “visionary\,” “innovative\,” and “richly seductive\,” the book exemplifies how the collaborative ethos of Global Asias praxis catalyzes new methods of scholarship and pedagogy—a nd creates inventive models of academic knowledge-production. Organized around five keywords—Transits\, Indigeneity\, Epistemology\, Language\, and A/Geography—and featuring innovative research and pedagogy forums\, the book highlights potential overlaps and points of disagreement betwee n area studies\, ethnic studies\, and diaspora studies.\n\nTina Chen is the founding director of Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative\, founding editor of the award-winning journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias\, co -editor (with Charlotte Eubanks) of the Global Asias: Method\, Architect ure\, Praxis book series at the University of Hawai’i Press\, and author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature an d Culture (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title). She is interested in sp eculative fictions\, the imaginable ageography of Global Asias\, and dev eloping a more capaciously imagined scholarly praxis.\n\nCharlotte Euban ks (they/them) is professor of comparative literature\, Japanese\, and A sian studies at Penn State. They are author of two monographs Miracles o f Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan and The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Ja pan. They coedit a book series Global Asias: Methods| Architecture| Prax is and co-chair the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/new-books- in-the-humanities-by-faculty/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Glo bal Asias: Tactics & Theories

An indispensable g uide to the methods, frameworks, and critical concepts animating Global Asias scholarship, Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume of the Global Asias MAP book series sponsored by Penn S tate’s Global Asias Initiative. Praised as “visionary,” “innovative,” an d “richly seductive,” the book exemplifies how the collaborative ethos o f Global Asias praxis catalyzes new methods of scholarship and pedagogy— and creates inventive models of academic knowledge-production. Organized around five keywords—Transits, Indigeneity, Epistemology, Language, and A/Geography—and featuring innovative research and pedagogy forums, the book highlights potential overlaps and points of disagreement between ar ea studies, ethnic studies, and diaspora studies.

Tina Chen is the founding director of Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative, founding edi tor of the award-winning journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias , co-editor (with Charlotte Eubanks) of the Global Asias: Method, Ar chitecture, Praxis book series at the University of Hawai’i Press, and author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title). She is interested in speculative fictions, the imaginable ageography of Glob al Asias, and developing a more capaciously imagined scholarly praxis.

Charlotte Eubanks (they/them) is professor of comparative literatur e, Japanese, and Asian studies at Penn State. They are author of two mon ographs Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medi eval Japan and The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan. They coedit a book series G lobal Asias: Methods| Architecture| Praxis and co-chair the Northea st Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

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