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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. Register here.
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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.
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.
Read more: Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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.
Read more: Read: RU Global Asias responds in International Journal of Asian Studies
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)
