Associate Professor Stephen Epstein gave the Korean Studies Association of Australasia Regional Keynote Speech at the ASAA’s 25th Biennial Conference which was held at Curtin University from 1 to 4 July 2024. This post is a summary of the regional keynote speech given at the conference. South Korea has long been a crucible of social […]
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Dr Se-Woong Koo was the keynote speaker at the ASAA’s 25th Biennial Conference held at Curtin University from 1 to 4 July 2024. This post is a shorter version of the keynote speech given at the conference. On June 12, 2018, North Korea and the United States held their historic first-ever summit, bringing the
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In this post, I take the opportunity to reflect upon the work and achievements of the ASAA Council over the past two years (2023-24). It has been an exciting term on Council with lots of activity and new developments. In 2023, we welcomed not one but two postgraduate representatives to the Council to affirm our
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In late-2023, ASAA member Jorien van Beukering participated in a training program on Sharing Stories on Contested Histories. In this post she shares her experience with the program and how the program has progressed her Asian Studies research. What is the Sharing Stories on Contested Histories training program? Sharing Stories on Contested Histories (SSOCH) is
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Robin Jeffrey reflects on the new ASAA report, Australia’s Asia Education Imperative, co-authored by Melissa Crouch and Edward Aspinall. Professor Jeffrey was an editor-author of Maximizing Australia’s Asia Knowledge (with John Fitzgerald, Kama Maclean and Tessa Morris-Suzuki), the ASAA’s 2002 report on the condition of Asian studies. Australia’s Asia Education Imperative reflects the scholarly passion
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On 18 and 19 July 2022, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Wollongong, the University of Notre Dame, and Ritsumeikan University (Japan) hosted a Two Day Online Workshop titled “WWII in the Asia-Pacific: Border Crossing Mobilities”. The international research team and organisers of the workshop were Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi from Ritsumeikan University, Rowena Ward
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