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Briefings: Emerging Research from the Global Asias Working Groups
Monday | Dec 13, 2021 | 11:00a-12:15p
Join us for research briefings on works-in-progress from the Global Asias Working Groups across disciplines and Asia regions.
- Yanqiu Jiang (Comparative Literature), “Tongue-Tied: Shen Manyuan’s ‘Singing of the Five-Colored Bamboo Frame of a Brazier’” (Group: Failure to Voice: Literature)
- Pritha Mukherjee (Art History), “The New Muse on The Block: Bihar Museum and the Reorganization of Bihar’s Heritage Topography” (Group: Decolonization and South Asia)
- Jian Ren (History), “Chinese Latin Americans and their trips to China, 1959-1966.” (Group: Cold War Asias)
- Sahithya Venkatesan (Geography), “Tracing Climate Change Development in Coastal Ecologies in Tamil Nadu, India”(Group: Global Anti-Caste Thought)
- Zhuo Zhao (Mason Gross/Music), “The influence of Border Culture: The Study of Chor in Inner Mongolia, China” (Group: Sound of “Chor”)
New center will work to advance research on cardiometabolic disease and mental health of Asian adults
Asians are the fastest growing yet most understudied US minority group at 23 million people, having grown 26 percent from 2010-2019. Yet less than one percent of research funding from the National Institutes for Health in the last 10 years was focused on U.S. Asian populations. Currently, there are significant disparities in the Asian community’s relationship to heart health and mental health. The Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity intends to focus on cardiometabolic disease and mental health research to inform both practice and policy at community, regional, and national levels.
Health disparities in the Asian community are perpetuated by the “Asian Paradox.” U.S. Asians are, on average, the highest income earners and the most highly educated, but more older Asian adults live below the poverty line, are less likely to participate in biomedical research, and suffer disproportional health disparities compared to white Americans.
“These health inequities are further complicated by the heterogeneity of these immigrant populations, especially with respect to culture, religion, language, sexual identity, and trauma exposure, many of which challenge our assumptions about the ‘model minority’ stereotype around Asian Americans,” explains Wu.
Seeking to bolster press freedoms as journalists find themselves under increasing pressure from authoritarian governments and other hostile forces, the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Peace Prize to two journalists thousands of miles apart for their tireless efforts to hold the powerful to account.
The journalists, Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitri A. Muratov of Russia, were recognized for “their courageous fight for freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”
“They are representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions,” the committee said in a statement released after the announcement in Oslo.
Ms. Ressa — a Fulbright scholar, who was also named a Time magazine Person of the Year in 2018 for her crusading work against disinformation — has been a constant thorn in the side of Rodrigo Duterte, her country’s authoritarian president.
Philippines’ Nobel Prize Newsroom Is Overjoyed but Under Siege
Rappler, the news site co-founded by the new Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, dares to criticize the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte. He may yet see it shut down.
Further thoughts on Asian Studies “inside-out” (IJAS Spring 2021)
By Allan Punzalan Isaac, Johan Mathew, Anjali Nerlekar, Paul Schalow and Tamara Sears
In response to Sato and Sonoda’s “Asian Studies ‘inside out’: research agenda for the development of Global Asian Studies,” members of the Global Asias Collaborative at Rutgers University – comprised of a diverse group of scholars of Asia and the Asian diaspora located in history, literature, art history, geography, among other disciplines – offer responses to this generative prompt to remap the place and field of “Asia” in its heterogeneous and interwoven temporalities and topologies.
Boys’ Love (BL) movies, TV and Web series focusing on teen and young adult male same-sex crushes and relationships have been wildly popular among youth, primarily young female, audiences across East and Southeast Asia, from Japan and Korea to Thailand and the Philippines. Cinema and queer studies scholars address how each national industry has borrowed and adapted visual and formal narrative aesthetics from other Asian media and fandom in developing the genre for their local audiences.
BL Cultures Panel Recording (April 8, 2021)