Programs

Inter-Asia Program

Supporting research collaborations within and across the regions of Asia

Left to right: Najla Al-Awadi, Nasser Al Shaali, Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, and Tarik Yousef listen to Anwar Gargash discuss UAE political reform at SSRC conference in Dubai, February 2008.

Credit: Ayed Kazour

The SSRC's Inter-Asia Program seeks to reconceptualize Asia as a dynamic and interconnected formation spanning the Middle East (including Turkey), Central Asia, Russia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. Program activities commenced with an international conference in Dubai, UAE, in February 2008. The SSRC hosted a second international conference, which took place in Singapore on December 8-10, 2010 in partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong. Discussions focused on ways to move beyond the territorial fixities of area-studies research without discounting the importance of contextually grounded, place-based knowledge. All three partners are working to organize Inter-Asian Connections III: Hong Kong (June 2012) as well as a series of research activities to support the exchange of knowledge and the development of social science research collaborations within different regions of Asia, and to make existing circuits of scholarship and dialogue more inclusive.

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Seteney Shami
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