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A few more days to submit your applications!
The deadline for proposing a fully-constituted panel to GA8, or submitting an abstract to specific GA8 panel organizers (see the other images for more information), is October 16, 2026.
weird thing #5 about Alien Forms & Minor Genres is that the book's coda is an editorial dossier that includes the first round of reader reports to make academia and academic knowledge production more transparent.
Get the book now at dukeupress.edu/alien-forms-a…!
weird thing #4 about Alien Forms & Minor Genres is that it makes its case for recognizing scholarly knowledge production in more capacious ways by including an annotated bibliography of works included in "the shadow archive."
Get the book now at dukeupress.edu/alien-forms-a…!
weird thing #3 about Alien Forms & Minor Genres is that, while the author is no Jennifer Egan, one of the book's non-chapters is a PowerPoint slide presentation. Get the book at dukeupress.edu/alien-forms-a…!
weird thing #2 about Alien Forms and Minor Genres is that it has no chapters! Its three sections are populated with an assemblage of different "non-research" genres of writing to illustrate the dimensionality of scholarly praxis.
Get the book at dukeupress.edu/alien-forms-a…!
weird thing #1 about Alien Forms & Minor Genres is that it has three introductions [presented as a book proposal, a (speculative) faculty activity report, and a set of lesson plans].
Get it at dukeupress.edu/alien-forms-a…!
A reminder that the deadline for proposing a fully-constituted panel to GA8, or submitting an abstract to specific GA8 panel organizers (see the other images for more information), is October 16, 2027!
We are excited to share a new CFP for Verge 15.2, a special issue on Cold War realignments in Global Asias!
Convergence proposals are due on September 30, 2027, and essays on May 1, 2028. They can be submitted at forms.gle/MSnmwohWNZWTcZgQ8.
Congratulation to the winner of our giveaway! They've won Project MUSE digital access to Verge: Studies in Global Asias for a year.
Thanks for following all of our Verge 12.2 content reveals!
Our Field Trip piece for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2, Critical Computing in Global Asias: Intimacies of Empire, Labor, and Logistics, is the issue's open access piece!
Read the article at muse.jhu.edu/article/997474.
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The Global Asias Initiative is seeking papers for sponsored panels that will be submitted for the in-person AAAS conference running March 25-27, 2027, in Baltimore, MD!
250 word abstracts and 2-page CVs should be submitted to individual panel organizers by October 2, 2026.
Here's the full cover for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2. Read the issue over at Project MUSE! You can check if your home institution is one of the many universities worldwide that subscribes to the Premium Collections at about.muse.jhu.edu/about/jou….
In an essay for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2, Merlyna Lim develops the method of computational archipelagos with Indonesia as a case study!
In an essay for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2, Maya Cruz proposes "gaze-scaling" as a computational practice!
In an essay for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2, Tony Hyunduck Cho thinks of compensation as a computational practice and relates it to US military presence in the Pacific!
In an essay for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2, Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang thinks through the cybernetic aesthetics of Taiwanese civil defense media!
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A reminder that the deadline to submit a Convergence proposal for Verge 14.2 is September 30, 2026!
Proposals can be submitted at forms.gle/dYCG5CsRJgagDp9y8.
In an essay for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2, Ding-Liang Chen conceives of a "decolonial digitality" rooted in Buddhist cosmologies.
In the Field Trip piece for Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.2, Kalindi Vora, Wesley Attewell, and Shaoling Ma provide a useful introduction to critical computing in Global Asias!
