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Caste rules censor research and deny scholarships to marginalised students in India.

6th April 2022 / Ashok Danavath, Pranav Jeevan P and Lotika Singha / Asian studies, India

Image: Dalit History Month Editathon at UC Berkeley, April 15, 2017 (CC BY-SA 4.0) In March 2022, Indian students of humanities and social sciences fields, who were applying for the National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) administered by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), Government of India were made aware of a new clause that […]

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Pacific War Incarceration Camps

11th March 2022 / Anoma Pieris / Asian studies, Indonesia, Japan, Japan - Australia relations, Korea, Singapore, Southeast Asia

How might we begin to understand the intersectional strands of sovereignty that bind together internees national and diasporic identities?

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Why Study Indonesian? A Rationale for Australian Education

17th February 2022 / Liam Prince / Asian studies

Having significant numbers of Australians learning Indonesian and studying Indonesia is necessary to give Australia better strategic choices in the future, and the talent and expertise to execute our chosen strategies more nimbly, adeptly, and with fewer unintended consequences.

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Joint statement: One year after the military coup in Myanmar

1st February 2022 / admin_asaa / Asian studies, Australia - Asia relations, Myanmar, Southeast Asia

On 1 February 2022, people in Myanmar will mark the first anniversary of renewed military dictatorship with protest and resistance. The coup prevented an elected government from taking office. The military extralegally detained its members, and embarked on a program of state violence reminiscent of the atrocities in 2017 that led hundreds of thousands of

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“The Santa Cruz Massacre, Thirty Years On” Symposium

26th November 2021 / Vannessa Hearman / Asian studies, Australia - Asia relations, Southeast Asia, Timor-Leste

Today in my city… Mothers crying …their tears water the flowers that scatter on the gravestones of Santa Cruz Cemetery Their bodies have disappeared from our side But their names are imprinted in the heart of the Timorese People Egas Alves, “Today in my city,” 31 May 1995 On 12 November 1991, Indonesian soldiers shot

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Where is Asia in ‘Fortress Australia’?

3rd November 2021 / Joanna Elfving-Hwang, Theo Mendez, Masafumi Monden / Asian studies, Australia - Asia relations

For Australia’s neighbours in the Indo-Pacific region the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal announced late September signalled a firm pivot toward traditional Western allies. The strengthening of a narrative that positions China as a threat to Australia’s security is also bound to further alienate the inflow of Chinese students to Australian Universities. As Australia closes in

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Caste rules censor research and deny scholarships to marginalised students in India.

Pacific War Incarceration Camps

Why Study Indonesian? A Rationale for Australian Education

Joint statement: One year after the military coup in Myanmar

“The Santa Cruz Massacre, Thirty Years On” Symposium

Where is Asia in ‘Fortress Australia’?

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