History of Fellowship Program
How can traumatic injustices of the 20th century across “Asia” and its diasporas be narrated? What happens to the arts and humanities when mass injustice is deeply felt but seemingly inexpressible? How can scholars in the United States join the urgent intellectual project of inter-Asian efforts to rethink “Asia” in relation to histories of injustice and trauma, defined as unspoken or unread injustice? One of the key points of this important project was to bring scholars from Asia and U. S. scholars of Asia into dialogue with each other.
Each year the Forum on Trauma, History, and “Asia” hosted between one and four scholar-intellectuals or scholar-activists located in Asia, broadly defined, whose projects engaged these questions. Holding appointments as visiting fellows, they devoted themselves to their research project on trauma, history, and “Asia” and interacted with scholars and graduate students at the University of Washington. Each year the Project sponsored study groups and international workshops that examined how the objects of our study are being reconfigured in early 21st-century economic and cultural transformation and what role the humanities ought to play in shaping our thinking about regional agendas and scholarly lexicons.
We invite you to learn more about our past fellows by exploring the links below:
