Kaira Zoe Canete, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Rebecca Meckelburg, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Elena Williams, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University. Announcement of the 2020 Conference at Sophia on July 4~5, Announcement of Prof. Christopher Bondy as the new ASCJ President, June 14, 2019 On 6 June 1941 the Far Eastern Association was formed and issued The Far Eastern Quarterly as its organ, with Cyrus Peake as Managing Editor. A democratic consultation process is likely to provide the most acceptable solution. The political fallout over the pandemic has made COVID-19 not only an international health hazard challenge to international mobility, but also a poison ivy to free exchanges of intellectual thought. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. As noted in earlier postings, this years conference will be online only, and the registration period for non-presenting participants has ended. She subsequently went on to study for her PhD at Cornell University with a specialisation in Southeast Asian history. Yoneyuki Sugita (Osaka University) "[2] Graves worked with Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. of the Oriental Division of the Library of Congress, the Institute of Pacific Relations, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the American Oriental Society, as well as with colleges, universities, and museums. April 20, 2022 The Secretariat of A-ASIA is hosted by the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. In the Asian Studies Association of Australia, we pride ourselves on promoting young scholars as a key part of our activities as a professional association. Augusto De Viana (University of Santo Tomas) In this Korean Studies Distinguished Speaker Seminar at the Asia Institute, Ms Youngmi Choi, a prominent feminist poet and leading figure in Korean literature, will speak with Dr Jay Song about her work and fight against sexism in South Korea. We appreciate your continued understanding and support of AAS-in-Asia, in these very uncertain times. Available at: The program committee welcomes proposals for individual or panel presentations and round tables. All conference information will be posted online at www.sec-aas.com as it becomes available. You can read the articles on Asian Currents on each days events: Day 0, Looking at Asia through the lens of disability, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. The 2013 Conference was held in San Diego; Philadelphia (March 2730, 2014); Chicago (March 2629, 2015); Seattle (March 31April 3, 2016); Toronto (March 1619, 2017); Washington, D.C (March 2225, 2018). asianstudies.org, Founded in 2009, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) is a politically independent non-partisan and non-profit interdisciplinary think tank, conference organiser and publisher dedicated to encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating intercultural awareness and promoting international exchange, principally through educational interaction and academic research. Please direct any questions about conference logistics to our local arrangements chair Professor Hiromi Taniguchi. The organization was further restructured in 1970, when four elective area Councils were formed, representative of each of the four areas of Asia: South Asia (SAC), Southeast Asia (SEAC), China and Inner Asia (CIAC) and Northeast Asia (NEAC). September 1, 2017 February 20, 2022 Until then he served as President of the National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, for six years. Supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), Late-breaking News Roundtable: In 1977, a Council of Conferences (COC) was established both to co-ordinate the regional conferences held by the Association and to discover ways to better serve the needs of Asia studies scholars in various parts of the United States. We have also organised important late-breaking news roundtables in the plenaries that address the various impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and current challenges to academic freedom. To publicize the scholarly achievements of our SEC/AAS members, the SEC/AAS will be posting on its website a bi-annual newsletter that lists recent publications of its members. Our Postgraduate Conference Awards are supported by our endowment fund, managed by the Australian National University for the ASAA as the ASAA Presidents Fund. In 2005-2006 she was President of the American Association of Asian Studies. Her career has involved teaching and researching in Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and since 1994, Hawaii. Barbara Watson Andaya is Professor in the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawaii and former Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Speakers: Professor Edward Aspinall, Australian National University, President, ASAA; Associate Professor Melissa Crouch, University of New South Wales, Secretary ASAA; Professor Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University. In 1936, the group began publishing the Far Eastern Bibliography. The 2018 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies was held on March 22-25 at the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Emiko Miyashita & Hana Fujimoto | Haiku International Association, Asia at the Crossroads: Conversations on Food, Politics, and Culture The Association for Asian Studies in Africa (A-ASIA) was founded at the Asian Studies in Africa Roundtable, held in Chisamba, Zambia in November, 9-11, 2012. This rivalry is much more complex than that of the old Cold War period between the US and the Soviet Union. Kathryn Phillips, Faculty of Arts Macquarie University, Kuansong (Victor) Zhuang, Department of Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University. End of the submission period. 2018. Thu, August 20, 2020, Late-breaking Panel: We plan to have a "new book roundtable" for authors who have published their new books in 2020 and 2021. The COVID-19 Pandemic in East and Southeast Asia: Comparative Perspectives, Special Panel: *The southeast region includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. Sobunsha, 1976), Vietnam Joins the World; American and Japanese Perspectives (co-editor, New York, M.E. This page provides links to other conferences with a focus on Japanese and Asian studies. Participants in the SEC-AAS annual meeting have the opportunity to share their work with an engaged group of colleagues and start conversations that continue long after the meeting is over. Area library organizations have been formed for South Asia (CONSALD), South East Asia, and East Asia (CEAL). Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. The councils were formed so that each area of Asia could have a proportionate voice in the Association and on the Board of Directors. For your records and for easy use we have created a complete Abstract Booklet of the ASAA 2020 Conference Program which is available for download here. In 2000 she received a John Simon Guggenheim Award, which resulted in The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian History, 1500-1800. Ljiljana Markovic (Osaka University/Belgrade University) Tso, Bendi. Farish Noor (Nanyang Technological University) We will be live-streaming all sessions, including plenary and featured addresses, as well as scheduling special sessions, facilitating discussions and interviews, and encouraging as much online interaction as possible. [6] The first president of the Association was Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. [4], In 1956, the organization was renamed to the Association for Asian Studies to expand its scope to cover all areas of Asia, including South and Southeast Asia. Each year, AAS-in-Asia conferences are a joint production between the Association for Asian Studies and a local host university and committee. It is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Christine Yano, AAS President Please submit your proposals no later than OCTOBER 30, 2020.. Bruce Cumings, writing in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, charged that for the AAS to participate in this way of funding scholarship on Asia led to confusing academic research and government intelligence work. Start of the submission period for the 2022 online conference. The membership application form is available on the SEC/AAS website. Jane Ferguson (Australia National University) Accessibility Statement, HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License, https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol38/iss2/18. Whereas the United States is seeking freedom, China is seeking control by coercion, and the onset of COVID-19 has encouraged Xi Jinping as well as to a lesser extent Vladimir Putin to reinforce their authoritarian rule and coercive diplomacy. The ASAA 2020 conference was reshaped into online activities in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic.

On behalf of IAFOR, and the local consortium of Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto Universities, I would like to extend to you a very warm welcome to this AAS-in-Asia Conference 2020. October 1, 2021 The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2020. The ASAA biennial conference has been a regular feature of Australian scholarly life since 1976. Supported by IAFOR Research Centre and Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, Special Panel: ASAA warmly thanks the team at Monash University for taking on this role for us. Visit the Registration information page on the Conference website here. Speakers: Naomi Srikandi (Peretas, Yogyakarta), Intan Paramaditha (literary author, Macquarie University), Arahmaiani (visual artist, Yogyakarta/Denpasar) and Gustaff Iskandar (Common Room Networks Foundation, Bandung). The SEC-AAS meeting is a vibrant gathering of a wide range of scholars, from graduate students to senior professors and independent researchers. The G7 nations total GDP is 45% of the worlds and is far bigger than Chinas and Russias combined (15%). This submission is the property of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) and the author. Date: Friday, 2 October 2020, 4-7pm AEST, 1-4pm WIB and 8-11am CET, Panel 1: Ravando, Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones, Heather Goodall, John Ingleson, Panel 2: Jonathan Tehusijarana, Paula Hendrikx, Rhoma Dwi Aria Yuliantri, Gerry van Klinken, In association with the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN), Chair: Monika Winarnita (Deakin University), Panelists: Samia Khatun (SOAS), Chunyan Zhang (RMIT), Amrita Malhi (ANU), Farzana Yesmen Chowdhury (UQ), Sophie Loy-Wilson (University of Sydney), Date: Thursday13 August, 12.30pm-1.30pm (AEST), Panelists: Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne, Dr Pradeep Taneja, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Dr Avery Poole, Senior Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), Chair: Tanzil Shafique (University of Melbourne), Panelists: Ishita Chatterjee (University of Melbourne), Reden Recio (University of Melbourne), Neeraj Dangol (University of Melbourne), Stephanie Butcher (University of Melbourne), Chair: Kate McGregor (University of Melbourne), Panelists: Rachel Hughes (University of Melbourne), Lia Kent (Visiting Fellow, Australian National University), Ken Setiawan (University of Melbourne), Lisandro Claudio (University of California), Chair: Anoma Pieris (University of Melbourne), Discussant: Kim Dovey (Informal Urbanism Research Hub), Panelists: Jeff Hou (University of Washington), Amanda Achmadi (University of Melbourne), Sidh Sintusingha (University of Melbourne), Jayde Roberts (University of New South Wales). Pin Pin Debbie Chan, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia. ASCJ, President See the Annual Meeting page for more details. HOTEL RESERVATIONS: Follow this link to make special reservations at the Seelbach Hotel for this conference. The AAS-in-Asia conferences are intended to be smaller size conferences than the typical AAS Annual Conferences. You can find details of these activities, including links to recordings of our Roundtable series, below. It is dedicated to the capacity enhancement of institutions, programmes, and scholars. Christine R. Yano (University of Hawaii), AAS President, Joseph Haldane (Osaka University), Chairman and CEO, IAFOR As globalizing forces gathered pace, it also became obvious that preparing students for a changing world required greater attention to the international aspects of tertiary education, a direction that has gained in momentum since the late 20th-century. Reports from CULCON: Cultural and Educational Interchanges between Japan and the U.S. Asia Matters Podcast: South Asias Dual Crisis: Covid-19 and Climate Change, Reimagining Transnational Student Mobility in the Post-COVID-19 Era, Godzilla and Global Anxiety from Hiroshima to COVID-19, The Other AI: Automation, Innovation and the Future of Work in Asia, A Virtual Museum Visit of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Taste Washoku to Unveil Japanese Society: Encountering with Wagyu and Matcha, Asia at the Crossroads: Conversations on Food, Politics, and Culture. Julio Teehankee (De La Salle University) The presentation will begin by noting that the bridging of cultural differences through higher education has historical roots, but will then move to consider some of the early issues facing educators as Asian societies entered a new era after the Second World War. President Association for Asian Studies. Dr Nishihara was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1979 and at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York in 1981-82. The worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 is reinvigorating the rivalry between the United States and China, a source of major international tensions today. 20, 2019 Date: Friday, 20 November 2020, 12-2pm AEDT/8-10 WIB, Recording: Watch recording here. In this open forum we invite participation from members of the academy, students, and members of the general public to take stock of the state of Asian Studies and to ask: Does Asian Studies have a future in Australian universities? In response to the ongoing coronavirus global pandemic and continued travel restrictions, the Boards of the AAS and IAFOR have jointly decided to move the AAS-in-Asia 2020 conference entirely online, and extending the conference from Monday, August 31 to Friday, September 04, 2020. The Other AI: Automation, Innovation and the Future of Work in Asia We are glad that you are here as we reconfigure what it means to gather and think through Asian Studies in the 21st century. The ASAA held its 21st ASAA biennial conference on 5-7 July 2016 at the Australian National University in Canberra. Becoming a member to receive exclusive access to: document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Disclaimer, 2021 Asian Studies Association of Australia, Website developed by Web Vision Solutions, Four issues per year of Asian Studies Review, Networking with researchers and practitioners in Asian Studies, Conference, Membership and Book discounts. Yoneyuki Sugita (Osaka University) The conference theme, Asia at the Crossroads could never be more apt for this AAS-in-Asia, which itself sits in this intersection of challenges. Our engagement is different and many of us will be learning the ropes anew but no less valuable. Membership in SEC/AAS is open to all individuals and institutions interested in Asia. World War II brought many academics into the government, some in the active military and some in the Office of War Information or the Office of Strategic Services, both of which were intelligence agencies which used academic disciplines and scholarly forms of analysis. [7] Attendance grew from 200 for the organizational meeting in 1948 to 605 at the first annual meeting in 1949 and to 2,434 in 1963.[8]. The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia and the study of Asia. AIE International High School. Haruko Satoh (Osaka University) In addition, Chinas intervention in Australias domestic politics and its strong measures to control Hong Kongs democratic practices pose challenges to their freedom and democracies. Individual dues are $20/year, or $10/year for students and pre-college teachers (without the journal). We hope this is an enriching experience for both mentors and mentees. Cancellation of the 2020 Conference I would like to thank my fellow AAS-in-Asia committee members, colleagues within IAFOR and its network, as well as the AAS leadership, for their enormous work behind the scenes to ensure the delivery and success of this very important conference. March 22, 2021 Masashi Nishihara has been President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security since 2006. Posting of the final program, Apr. The Constitution of the new group was drafted by Edwin O. Reischauer, Woodbridge Bingham, and Earl H. Pritchard. Start of Early Bird Registration. The Association provides members with an Annual Conference (a large conference of 3,000+ normally based in North America each spring), publications, regional conferences, and other activities. Current initiatives include scholarly exchanges, new programmes and institutions, support for existing capacities, conferences, workshops, graduate student support, and curriculum development, among others. Cancellation of the 2021 Conference due to COVID-19. Like many other institutions and individuals, this has involved stress testing the protocols, operations, and technologies that will allow a conference of this size to function, and for its participants to present and participate over a very full week of great and diverse programming. Reverend Takafumi Kawakami | Shunkoin Temple, Kyoto, Japan, Taste Washoku to Unveil Japanese Society: Encountering with Wagyu and Matcha She is General Editor of the new Cambridge History of Southeast Asia and is completing a book on gender in sexuality in Southeast Asia from early times to the present. New Threats to Academic Freedom. In 2020 ASAA is hosting a series of webinars on topics which were to be presented as roundtables and workshops during the ASAA 2020 conference. Godzilla and Global Anxiety from Hiroshima to COVID-19, Special Panel Session: October 31st, 2021 2022 Online Conference Update Regular members are entitled to participate in SEC-AAS activities, to receive the Southeast Review of Asian Studies, and to receive all mailings about the annual conference and other conference-related matters. Reimagining Transnational Student Mobility in the Post-COVID-19 Era Christopher Bondy At the time of writing (early August), Japan has been effectively in self-isolation since early April in a second period of sakoku (closed country/isolation), and this time I hope it doesnt quite last the 214 years it did previously and we need to show Japan is intellectually open and welcoming, if not physically. This conference is exceptional in terms of the range and quality of the submissions, but also in terms of the circumstances in which it is taking place. Password: 4iMn7_LGa4Zl, Chairs: Wulan Dirgantoro and Edwin Jurrins, the University of Melbourne. Associate Professor Department of Anthropology University of Louisville Lutz Hall Room 228 Louisville, Kentucky 40292(502) 852-3078jh.zhao@louisville.edu, Associate ProfessorDepartment of Sociology University of Louisville Lutz Hall Room 109(502) 852-8005hiromi.taniguchi@louisville.edu, Follow this link to make special reservations at the Seelbach Hotel for this conference. Regular Online Registration, Feb. 20- Apr. Moreover, they are likely to stay in power beyond the 2030s, and perhaps even longer. Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Bendi Tso, University of British Columbia. Yu Yating, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The AAS is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies and participates with its sister societies in a wide range of activities, including joint participation in research and informational exchanges. In keeping with the theme of AAS-in-Asia 2020, Asia at the Crossroads: Solidarity through Scholarship, this presentation will focus on the globalizing of education, a key element in facilitating the scholarly exchanges that have become especially important in Asia. Educated at the University of Sydney (BA, DipEd), she received an East-West Center grant in 1966 and obtained her MA in history at the University of Hawaii. Thanks to all the mentors who have volunteered to help mentor ASAA mentees with publication advice and more general mentoring advice. Robyn Jones, Conference Manager, AAS schedule of panels for the conference on July 2 and 3. End of Early Bird Registration. Attendees present on a wide range of topics related to the study of Asia, including but not limited to literary and cultural studies, history, politics, anthropology, the arts, economy, and sociology. Alison Darby, School of Culture, History and Language, The Australian National University. When the war was over, political scientists, historians, and social scientists continued to be concerned with contemporary affairs. Association for Asian Studies in Africa (A-ASIA). Yet in these very difficult circumstances universities still have a special role to play in providing a space where debate is encouraged, where academic difference is tolerated, and where the objective of educating the next generation is prioritized. Asia at the Crossroads: Solidarity through Scholarship. This hegemonic tendency may also extend to the competition between Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Joseph Haldane in Conversation with Yutaka Mino, Zen Buddhism and Well-being The pandemic has forced us into a world only made possible through technology, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Stay up to date with the conference developments via the Conference website. The conference offers a stimulating environment for intellectual exchange on a wide range of topics and themes, and we welcome scholars from around the world to participate. What you will and are experiencing in AAS-in-Asia is our new Plan A. ASCJ is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization dedicated to the study of Asia. If you have any questions or concerns, please send us a message viaour Contact page.

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