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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- April Asian Currents (#89) (18 April 2013)
- Japan, the US and the ‘rebalance’: deconstructing the Senkaku problem (Rikki Kersten)
- Indonesia’s manufacturing pessimism unfounded (Ross McLeod)
- Shahbag: Bangladesh embraces new-wave activism (Faham Abdus Salam)
- Election year renews focus on Iran’s ethnic diversity (James Barry)
- ‘Bringing Indonesia alive’: Inside Indonesia celebrates 30 years (Thushara Dibley and Jemma Purdey)
- New perspectives on 1965 violence in Indonesia (By Vannessa Hearman)
- China’s fashionable approach to breast cancer awareness (Yue Gao)
- Local governance reform a key to helping India’s rural poor (Richard Iles)
- LCNAU plans response to White Paper language goals (Anya Woods, Colin Nettelbeck, John Hajek)
- Labour migration in the Asia–Pacific (Marshall Clark)
- Books on Asia
- (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
- (14 Feb) February Asian Currents (#88)
