Global Multi-Year Partnerships

Center for Asian Studies, University of Colorado Boulder (CAS, CU Boulder)

The Institute began collaborating with the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder after Prof. Timothy Oakes, Director of CAS, visited the Institute for a semester in 2017. In 2018, CAS and the Institute started the research project entitled “China Made: Asian Infrastructures and the ‘China Model’ of Development,” which was eventually awarded a grant of USD $390,000 by the Henry Luce Foundation. The China Made project has been proceeding in three stages, with each stage culminating in a work. The project seeks to bring infrastructural studies into a much needed and overdue conversation with China’s infrastructural development initiatives. In doing so, a trans-Pacific network will be developed through workshops and research initiatives. The inaugural workshop “Conceiving Infrastructures in a Chinese Register” was held at CAS on October 17–19, 2018. The workshop was devoted to exploring the concept of infrastructure as a research analytic in the contexts of East and Southeast Asia. The second workshop “Infrastructural Urbanism in China,” hosted by the Institute, was scheduled for January 9–10, 2020.