UCI Global Asias

09/09/2026

Our conference programming committee is hard at work! Each of us reads every single submission, and we discuss and debate each one as a group. The number of proposals this year is up 20% from last year. We can already tell that this is going to be a really exciting edition. Decisions next week!

08/10/2026

https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/ga27/

07/15/2026

One month left to submit a proposal! Link in bio.

07/14/2026

One month to go before our CFP deadline! Please consider applying -- and share widely! https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/ga27/

06/29/2026

06/22/2026

The inaugural UC Irvine Global Asias Research Prizes in Taiwanese American Studies are now open for 2027!

https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/twamprizes/

💰 Awards:
• Undergraduate: $500 (3,000–5,000 words)
• Graduate: $1,000 (5,000–10,000 words: dissertation chapters, seminar papers, or published/accepted articles since 2025)

📋 Eligibility:
• Open to UC Irvine & non-UC Irvine students.
• Research must focus on Taiwanese *American* experiences; connections to broader Taiwanese/Taiwan Studies welcome.
• All research fields welcome. Note: creative work ineligible.

🌟 Selection Committee:
• Wendy Cheng, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, USC
• Chris Fan, Associate Professor of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies, UC Irvine
• Yu-ting Huang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
• Wen Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
• Lily Wong, Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies, American University

📅 Deadline: March 5, 2027
🔗 Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/TWAmericanPrizes

06/05/2026

5th Annual UC Irvine Global Asias International Conference

February 18–19, 2027
UC Irvine

Keynote Speaker:
Paul Nadal, Princeton University

Early Career Publishing Workshop:
Tina Chen, The Penn State University

CFP: https://sites.uci.edu/globalasias/ga27/
Proposal Form: https://bit.ly/ga27cfp

CALL FOR PAPERS

PROPOSALS DUE
11:59PM PST AUGUST 14, 2026

We welcome the following proposal formats:

Individual paper: 250 word abstract + 2-page CV
Panel (3–4 presentations): 250 word description + 100–200 word abstracts and 2-page CVs for each presentation
Roundtable (4–6 presenters): 250 word description + 2-page CVs for each panelist
Other Format: 500 word description
Presenters can participate on a maximum of two panels.

Proposals should be submitted here: https://bit.ly/ga27cfp/

Decisions in late August.

This will be an in-person conference. We do not have staff support to accommodate requests for remote participation or hybrid online/in-person panels.

Conference registration opens in the fall. There will be a sliding scale registration fee for tenure-track participants only. No cost for all other participants.

The intellectual paradigm of Global Asias recognizes Asia’s shifting position in the realm of geopolitics, capital, and culture; this shift counters or exceeds longstanding narratives associated with that region and with global ordering more broadly. Global Asias invites submissions that expand our understanding of “Asia” as a region, discourse, and/or process in relation to the “global” or the “globe.” We invite proposals from scholars, artists, writers, activists, and other practitioners.

For this edition of the conference, we especially encourage proposals on the topics of

- Art
- Islands
- Indigeneity
- Circulation
- Southern California

We also invite proposals on:

- Circulation of goods and services
- Logistics, infrastructure, and supply chains
- Transpacific art networks
- Activism, Community Organizing
- Environment, militarization, land rights
- Technology, subjectivity, crisis
- Crip theory, Disability Studies, Anti-work
- Language and translation
- Critical University Studies
- Rethinking disciplines, methods, and knowledge productions of “Asia”

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

05/19/2026

05/14/2026

Thanks to the cast and crew of the hit Taiwanese musical “Don’t Cry, Dancing Girls (勸世三姊妹)” for visiting UCI! UCI Drama PhD student An-Ru Chu kicked things off with a lecture on khan-bong-kua funeral practices. Director Hui-cheng Tseng recounted the development of the musical, and we were treated to a performance by Jiajia Chang . Sponsored by the Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles and .

05/12/2026

UCI International Film Club Presents a Sreening of
Three Times (Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2005)
May 13, 7-9pm, McCormick Screening Room

Register here: https://zotspot.uci.edu/illuminations/rsvp_boot?id=1946673

This three part film starring Shu Qi and Chang Chen as lovers across a century of Chinese history maps out a panoramic vision of two individuals caught in the turmoil of political and cultural upheaval. Shu Qi and Chang Chen play a concubine and a young, wealthy revolutionary in “A Time for Freedom” set in 1911, a soldier on leave and a pool hall hostess in “A Time for Love” set in 1966 and a performance artists and photographer in “A Time for Youth” set in 2005.