The Call for Papers for the ASAA 26th Biennial Conference from 29 June – 2 July 2026 at Deakin Geelong Waterfront is now open! The conference theme is “Beyond Borders: Reimagining Asian societies in and across a Shifting World”. The deadline for submissions is November 7, 2025. Read more and submit your abstract here. Key dates: […]
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The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is pleased to announce that Dr Colum Graham, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, has won the 2024 John Legge Prize. Dr Graham completed his PhD in the Department of Political and Social Change, the College of Asia and the
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The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is delighted to announce that Dr Koji Hirata, a historian from Monash University in Melbourne, has won the 2025 Reid Prize for his recently published book, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The Reid Prize is the most prestigious prize
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The ASAA is pleased to announce two winners of the Postdoctoral Writing Grant 2025. Dr Xiao Yang has been awarded a grant to further research on the globalisation of Chinese film and Dr Clara Siagan has been awarded a grant to further research on the politics of social housing in Jakarta. The ASAA thanks the judging panel, Dr Sharyn Davies (chair),
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Charting Shared Futures: Policy, Culture, and Innovation in Malaysia, Singapore and the Region 24th MASSA Conference | 15–16 January 2026 HDR Workshop: 14 January 2026 Venue: Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia Deadline for abstract submission: 15 August 2025 Southeast Asia today is at a global crossroad. Comprising eleven nations of diverse economic, cultural and historical
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It is with sadness that the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) marks the passing of one of its Life Members and founders, Emeritus Professor Anthony (Tony) Reid. Tony was born in New Zealand in 1939 and acquired most of his university education at Victoria University of Wellington, before going to the University of Cambridge
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