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The ¡°InterAsia Initiative¡±, to be managed by the MacMillan Center at Yale and the Social Science Research Council, has a number of core goals including the creation of a comprehensive, searchable database of scholars working in the field.

Further plans include a project website for disseminating research and networking materials, particularly to US policymakers, and a major international conference designed to cement existing academic networks and bring in new scholars.

The initiative ¡°aims to shift paradigms in how we conceptualise Asia by promoting collaborative research, scholarly networking and public policy connections,¡± says Helen Siu, professor of anthropology at Yale, and will inevitably draw on the expertise of researchers in both the social sciences and humanities.

¡°The InterAsia Initiative will highlight the shifting regional dynamics,¡± adds her fellow principal investigator Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan - Dinakar Singh professor of India and South Asian studies at Yale ¨C ¡°by mapping the changing shape of emerging sub-regions, as well as the emergence of new narratives on ¡®who defines Asia through time¡¯.¡±

Yale¡¯s partners in the InterAsia Initiative are: the SSRC; the National University of Singapore; the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong; G?ttingen University (Germany); the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (Lebanon): and Ko? University (Turkey).

matthew.reisz@tsleducation.com