Asian Studies Review was founded in 1977 and was originally known as the ASAA Review. The Review replaced the ASAA Newsletter, which appeared six times between 1975 and 1976. The first editor of the Review was Tony Reid, who edited the first three issues before Japan specialist John Caiger took over in 1978-1979. Jamie Mackie became editor from 1980 to 1984, […]
Asian Studies Review – history of a journal Read More »
The Australian Consortium for “In-Country” Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) — the organisation I head up — is here today as the direct result of previous Australian Government policy choices and public investment in Asian language education. Australia has done Asian language education well in the past. We could do it better again in the future if
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
Caste rules censor research and deny scholarships to marginalised students in India. Read More »
How might we begin to understand the intersectional strands of sovereignty that bind together internees national and diasporic identities?
Pacific War Incarceration Camps Read More »
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.
Why Study Indonesian? A Rationale for Australian Education Read More »
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
Joint statement: One year after the military coup in Myanmar Read More »
