2025

• Dr Adam Zulawnik (University of Melbourne): Celebrating 60 years of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and Korea
• Dr Yeow-Tong Chia (University of Sydney): 60 Years Since Singapore’s Separation from Malaysia
• Dr Hannah Soong (University of South Australia): Empowering Asian Academic Leadership in Australian Universities
• Associate Professor Paul Smith (UNE): Music and Political Mobilisation in the Asia-Pacific
• Dr Myra Mentari Abubakar (ANU): Gender and Urban Landscapes in Southeast Asia
• Dr Thomas Baudinette (Macquarie University): Developing Southeast Asian Media and Cultural Studies in Australia

2023

• Dr. Yu Tao (The University of Western Australia), Grounding Global China in the Asia Pacific: An idea-developing and capacity-building workshop for Asian studies EMCRs (including HDR students)
• Dr. Rebecca Meckelburg (Satya Wacana Kristen University, Indonesia), Symposium “The Political Economy of Women and Development in Southeast Asia: Old Problems, New Challenges”
• Dr. Kayoko Hashimoto (The University of Queensland), Empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools
• Dr. Eve Warburton (ANU), ANU Indonesia Institute Postgraduate Workshop
• Dr. Annisa R Beta (The University of Melbourne), Critical Girlhood Studies Research Collective Workshop
• Dr. Craig A Smith (University of Melbourne, Asia Institute), (Un)Translatable Asia

2021

• Genevieve Trail & Wulan Dirgantoro – Asian Art Research Now
• Vannessa Hearman – The Dili Massacre, 1991: Thirty Years On
• Rebecca Hausler – Navigating Asian studies in a post-Covid environment: Postgraduate Workshop
• Yasuko Kobayashi – WWII in the Asia-Pacific: Border Crossing Mobilities

2019

• Patrick Jory, University of Queensland – China’s Presence in Mainland Southeast Asia Today
  Event location: University of Sydney, 21 June
• Melissa Crouch, University of New South Wales – Women in Asia Forum
  Event location: University of New South Wales, 21-23 June

2017

• Thushara Dibley, The University of Sydney – Digital Research in Southeast Asia
  Event location: University of Sydney, 18 August
• Caroline Turner, The Australian National University – Asian Diasporas/TransPacific Contexts and Global Art
  Event location: ANU, 28-29 September
• Stephen Whiteman, The University of Sydney – Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories
  Event location: University of Sydney, 11-13 October

2015

• Chloe Gill-Khan, University of South Australia – Disentangling the Politics of ‘Crisis’: The Pakistanis State(s), governance and culture from within
  Event location: ICAS, 5-9 July
• Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia – Bringing Turkey in ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian Studies’ in Australia
  Event location: University of Adelaide, 5-9 July
• Nicholas Cheesman, The Australian National University – Myanmar/Burma Update 2015
  Event location: ANU, 19-20 June

2013

• Marshall Clark, Australian National University – Labour Migration in the Asia-Pacific: Race, History and Heritage
  Event location: ANU, 14-15 February
• Vannessa Hearman, The University of Sydney – New Perspectives on the 1965 Violence in Indonesia
  Event location: ANU, 11 – 13 February