Welcome to the Asian Studies Association of Australia
ASAA 2014 Biennial Conference
Asiascapes: Contesting Borders
ASAA is pleased to announce that the 20th ASAA biennial conference will be held from 8-10 July 2014 at the University of Western Australia, Perth. This conference invites presentations addressing shifts, continuities, innovations and tensions in Asia. We welcome engagement from scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences and other sciences, as well as interdisciplinary explorations of Asia and Asia-Australia relations. Further details and a call for papers will follow.
The ASAA was founded in 1976 to promote and support the study of Asia in Australia. Its membership is drawn mainly from academic staff and students at Australian universities, but it also takes a strong interest in Asian Studies and the use of Asia-related materials in schools and in Australian attitudes to and policies towards Asia. The Association supports two refereed journals, the Asian Studies Review and the e-Journal of Foreign Language Teaching. It holds a biennial academic conference which offers members and other scholars the opportunity to hear the latest in research and to develop contacts with other scholars. The Association sponsors four book series, covering Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Women in Asia, as well as issuing an electronic newsletter, Asian Currents. The Association makes regular submissions to governments and universities on issues of importance in Asian Studies. The ASAA highly values its international links and encourages the membership of scholars based outside Australia as well as cooperation with Asian Studies organizations in the region and beyond.
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- June Asian Currents (#90) (18 June 2013)
- Western voices unheard as human rights continue to decline in Sri Lanka (Sandy Gordon)
- The emptiness at the heart of Xi Jinping’s China Dream (Gerry Groot)
- Indonesian human rights report on 1965 killings: a bridge too far (Ken Setiawan)
- Malaysia’s election result—no surprise to the knowledgeable (Clive Kessler)
- Pakistan’s hopes rest with third-chance prime minister (Alicia Mollaun)
- North Korea’s ‘rational’ belligerence (Benajamin Habib)
- Nepal’s democratic Maoists move toward economic transformation (Ramesh Sunam, Keshab Goutam)
- Hindi as a priority language (Richard Iles)
- Researching Buddhism in Australia (Anna Halafoff and Ruth Fitzpatrick)
- April Asian Currents (#89) (18 April 2013)
- (4 Apr) Report from the Labour Migration in the Asia-Pacific: Race, History and Heritage workshop [PDF] - an event funded in 2013 under the ASAA Event Funding Scheme
- (6 Mar) Report from the New Perspectives on the 1965 Violence in Indonesia workshop [PDF] - an event funded in 2013 under the ASAA Event Funding Scheme
