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Awards and Prizes

Awards and Prizes

John Legge Prize Winner and Honourable Mentions 2022

The ASAA is pleased to announce the winner and honourable mentions of the John Legge thesis prize for 2022: Winner: Lukas Fort, University of Western Australia, ‘Making Indonesia clean from waste: The role of culture in the development of new waste management services in Sumbawa, Indonesia’ This eminently readable thesis offers fascinating and nuanced ethnographic […]

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Symposium: Empowering Asian Language Speakers to become Language Teachers in Australian Schools

On 3 July 2023, a symposium on empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools was held at the University of Queensland, St Lucia campus. The symposium was supported by an ASAA Event Grant and UQ School of Languages and Cultures. Symposium organiser Kayoko Hashimoto commented on the event: “The symposium was

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2022 Wang Gungwu Prize

The Wang Gungwu Prize for the best Asian Studies review article in 2022 has been awarded to Associate Professor Hyun-ho Joo for his paper Envisaging East Asia: Korean daily newspapers’ interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism speech. The Committee endorsed the article in the following way: “Based on content analysis of newspaper reporting and commentaries on

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ASAA President Prof. Kate McGregor announces the 2021 John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies

2021 John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies I am delighted as President of the ASAA to announce that the 2022 John Legge Prize for the best thesis in Asian studies in Australia in 2021 has been awarded to Dr Kaira Zoe Alburo Cañete a graduate from the University of New South Wales

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