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Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India wins the prestigious Reid Prize.

President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Professor Kate McGregor is thrilled to announce the winner of the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s inaugural Reid Prize, the most prestigious prize in Australia and New Zealand for work in the field of Asian studies that has made an exemplary contribution to the understanding of Asia. […]

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Vale Hugh O’Neill

The ASAA is saddened to hear of the loss of an important scholar of Indonesia, Hugh O’Neill from the University of Melbourne. Hugh O’Neill passed away on Tuesday 15 March a few weeks before his 89th birthday.  In his very self-effacing way Hugh was an important figure in the history of person-to-person relations between Australia

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CFP: Chinese Studies Association of Australia 17th Biennial Conference

  Changing China: Then and Now Monday 29 November – Wednesday 1 December, 2021 The Australian National University, Canberra Change has been at the centre of the Chinese experience. Yet it has taken a range of forms and has elicited a variety of responses. The recurring cycle of 64 hexagrams in the foundational Yi jing

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Queering Our Worlds: A Tribute to Mark McLelland

The Association for Asian Studies presents a webinar to commemorate the legacy of Mark McLelland. Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00-8:30pm Eastern Time Co-sponsored by Japanese Studies Association of Australia Consulting organizers: Vera Mackie and James Welker Mark McLelland (1966-2020) was a pioneering scholar, whose work served as an inspiration to so many people in various

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