43 Amerasia Journal 42:3 (2016): 43-68 10.17953/aj.42.3.43-68 Summer Institute in Asian American Studies Forum The SIAAS Project Reactivating Asian American Critical Work This forum engages with the Summer Institute in Asian American Studies (SIAAS) project, a multi-campus initiative dedicated to fur- thering Asian American Studies in Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia. Since our irst event in Taipei in 2013, the SIAAS project has brought together students and scholars and community and cultural work- ers from four continents for a series of summer institutes that have featured formal talks, seminars, roundtable and panel discussions, literary readings, ilm and video screenings, research sharing ses- sions, ield visits, and small-group break-out sessions led by schol- ars from around Asia. In this forum, we wish to ask: What is at stake in organizing and contributing to these events? What are some of the conditions that made our project possible in Taiwan? How have SIAAS events changed our views of Asian American Studies and its presumed subjects of analysis, especially concerning its en- gagement with “Asia?” In what ways have these events afected our teaching and learning, both inside and outside the classroom? And what might the SIAAS project indicate about the institution- alization of Asian American Studies as it has taken an international turn? As members of the SIAAS collective, we are excited to present our thoughts on these matters in Amerasia Journal, especially given the journal’s longstanding commitment to tracking developments in Asian American Studies both inside and outside the United States. We hope that these relections on our organizing work can resonate with Amerasia’s readers, wherever they may be located. —Guy Beauregard National Taiwan University