Here on Asian Currents we’ll be hosting an account of each day’s online activity around the ASAA conference to give you a glimpse of what’s on offer at this year’s conference.
The 22nd Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia officially kicks off on 3 July 2018 but on 2 July there was a selection of pre-conference workshops and associated events.
For postgraduates there was a morning workshop:
Day 0 of #ASAA2018 – kicking off with our postgradue workshop on networking and getting a job in academia. Can’t wait to meet all the students ☀️
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????♀️???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny) July 1, 2018
Including simulated job interviews:
Getting a job in academia session at the postgrad workshop. Thanks to our academic panel, and well done to our three top ranked candidates – and to @niennie_yuannie for ‘getting the job’! #ASAA2018 @seacsydney @asiancurrents pic.twitter.com/XiGl0GZpXt
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????♀️???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny) July 2, 2018
The Historians of Southeast Asia also held their second meeting as a pre-conference event.
Ruth Nuttall: Researching 2006 East Timor Crisis very difficult because of lingering animosity between Fretilin and UDT. Historians of Southeast Asia. #ASAA2018 @ANUBellSchool
— Greg Raymond (@GregoryVRaymond) July 2, 2018
Presentation #1 done. Really enjoying spending the day amongst historians #ASAA2018 https://t.co/X8MwYVbd25
— Becky Gidley (@beckra_giddon) July 2, 2018
Robert Cribb on myths about Indonesia that historians have helped demolish: (1) 1965 anti-Communist purges were a Chinese genocide; (2) PRRI Pemesta revolts were secessionist. #asaa2018 Historians of Southeast Asia. @ANUBellSchool
— Greg Raymond (@GregoryVRaymond) July 2, 2018
At the Meeting of Historians of Southeast Asia, important point by @vhearman, 'We always need to remember the power structures that construct the official archive' #ASAA2018
— Michael Leadbetter (@M1ke_Pb) July 2, 2018
In the afternoon The Japan Foundation hosted a session on the New Colombo Plan and student mobility.
"At what point are we satisfied with #studentmobility numbers? One of our biggest universities has a 16% rate. Is this enough?" Kent Anderson#ASAA2018 pic.twitter.com/6ZzQGge5e7
— Japan Foundation AU (@JPFSydney) July 2, 2018
"Australia hasn't more investment in NZ than in all of Asia combined. We do not know how to engage with Asia. We need to collaborate and approach the problem as one, because we can achieve more together than we can in isolation" Jason Hayes, @PwC_AU #studentmobility #ASAA2018
— Japan Foundation AU (@JPFSydney) July 2, 2018
"It's important to remember that #studentmobility is not just the overseas experience, but begins with attitudes, and starts as early as high school. The actual travel require some funds so that tends to be the focus, but it's much bigger than that" #studentmobility #ASAA2018
— Japan Foundation AU (@JPFSydney) July 2, 2018
In the evening there was the launch for new book Ambitious Alignments from Power Publications and National Gallery Singapore.
A packed house for the launch of Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art 1945-1990 @stephen_whitemn #ASAA2018 @PowerInstitute1 pic.twitter.com/9f31G5MD5W
— Michael Leadbetter (@M1ke_Pb) July 2, 2018
Launch of the new @PowerInstitute1 publication – well done to all involved @stephen_whitemn @seacsydney #ASAA2018 pic.twitter.com/nJaNmt5KC2
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????♀️???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny) July 2, 2018
This is just a snippet of what was on offer. Tomorrow, 3 July, the conference begins in earnest with more than a thousand attendees. To join the online conversation use the hashtag #ASAA2018.
