Upcoming Events


January 16-21, 2017

Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures, IIAS/SSCR Winter School

C-Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Co-organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute (TVRI).

Conveners: Francis Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Zaharom Nain (The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia); Srirupa Roy (University of Gottingen’s Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Germany)

Guest Co-Conveners: Paula Chakravartty (Department of Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School, New York University, US)

Host Co-Convener: Jack Linchuan Qiu (School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the C-Centre, Hong Kong)


May 18-20, 2017

University of Michigan/SSRC Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2017

The Global Media Studies Initiative at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Virtual Research Institute, “Media, Activism and the New Political: InterAsian Perspectives,” is pleased to announce the inaugural Doctoral Institute on Global Media and Communication. We aim to facilitate and advance rigorous inter-disciplinary doctoral dissertation research on global media and communication in a range of contexts worldwide.

We seek to create a sustained and diverse network of advanced graduate students by providing the opportunity to give and receive critical feedback on dissertations in progress.


Spring 2018

InterAsian Connections VI

Details to follow shortly!