Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In the summer of 2022, Global Asia Initiative (GAI) at Duke University launches new project to foster the conversation between scholars working on different geographical regions, different time periods and different disciplines. GAI invites scholars of Asian Studies and translational history to our platform to introduce their research. We are going to discuss pressing issues facing human society and our shared planetary future. Guests of this project range from historians to scientists. Their research expertise spans Asia and beyond. The series has a particular focus on environment and society in Asia. We also welcome other TransAsia themes.
The Global Asia Initiative (GAI) launched in 2015 to support research on trans-Asia topics that are collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature.
The initiative explores the connections between Asian nations, cultures and ecosystems, particularly these nations' shared challenges related to politics, security, and environmental pollution and climate change.
By working closely with the Social Science Research Council’s Inter-Asia Program and drawing on the resources of Duke and the Triangle area, the Global Asia Initiative hopes to become an important hub for the study of these issues and the discussion of other trans-Asia themes. At Duke University’s Global Asia Initiative, a hub for the SSRC’s Inter-Asia program in Environmental Humanities, we seek to develop Environmental Humanities in Asia as a way of raising consciousness and provoke new ways of thinking about the human-nature relationship in Asian societies and its impact and connections with the rest of the world.
In the summer of 2022, Global Asia Initiative (GAI) at Duke University launches new project to foster the conversation between scholars working on different geographical regions, different time periods and different disciplines. GAI invites scholars of Asian Studies and translational history to our platform to introduce their research. We are going to discuss pressing issues facing human society and our shared planetary future. Guests of this project range from historians to scientists. Their research expertise spans Asia and beyond. The series has a particular focus on environment and society in Asia. We also welcome other TransAsia themes.
The Global Asia Initiative (GAI) launched in 2015 to support research on trans-Asia topics that are collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature.
The initiative explores the connections between Asian nations, cultures and ecosystems, particularly these nations' shared challenges related to politics, security, and environmental pollution and climate change.
By working closely with the Social Science Research Council’s Inter-Asia Program and drawing on the resources of Duke and the Triangle area, the Global Asia Initiative hopes to become an important hub for the study of these issues and the discussion of other trans-Asia themes. At Duke University’s Global Asia Initiative, a hub for the SSRC’s Inter-Asia program in Environmental Humanities, we seek to develop Environmental Humanities in Asia as a way of raising consciousness and provoke new ways of thinking about the human-nature relationship in Asian societies and its impact and connections with the rest of the world.
