Tim Oakes, Professor of Geography, is interim faculty director at the Center for Asian Studies which was awarded a $2.2 million grant from the US Department of Education鈥檚 Title VI program. He told听:听听鈥淥ne of the missions of CAS is to make Asia as accessible as possible for as many people on campus and in our broader community as we can. That鈥檚 from expanding Asian studies in the curriculum here at CU Boulder, making study abroad opportunities available to a wider variety of students especially students who don鈥檛 have the financial resources to otherwise study abroad.鈥�
Prof. Oakes continues to be active in research. He gave two keynotes this year.听听in February, titled 鈥淐ities just beyond reach: infrastructures of post-urbanism in China鈥� at the Finnish Society for Development Research Annual Meetings, in Helsinki. He gave another Keynote in Montreal in May, titled 鈥淪uspension cities: infrastructures of post-urbanism in China鈥� at the听McGill New Cities Conference: Concrete Futures? The (Im)material Lives of New Cities Built From Scratch. He will be giving another keynote coming up in December at the听the 10th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG 2022) in Taipei. The听听颈蝉听New Geopolitics in East Asia.
Professor Oakes is the Principal Investigator on the ChinaMade project, where he organized and hosted the 4th ChinaMade听听(鈥淔rom听鈥楥hina Model鈥� to Global China鈥�) in May at the University of Toronto鈥檚 Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. This was the final workshop of the ChinaMade project and featured scholars from the US, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sweden. Professor Emily Yeh of the Department of Geography also participated.
As a result of a workshop Prof. Oakes co-organized in Switzerland last year, ChinaMade has co-published two听听on Chinese export development. These factsheets are public-facing and intended for a more general audience (in addition to the scholarly work and books published by Oakes).
And as Principal Investigator on the Tale of Two Asia鈥檚 project, Oakes also organized a听workshop听last April in Boulder on听鈥淐hina鈥檚 Nuclear Belt & Road: Socio-technical Perspectives on China鈥檚 Expert Nuclear Infrastructures.鈥� The workshop featured presentations by scholars from the US, Canada, Australia and India.