Publications

Publications

Asian Currents special series: Celebrating women’s contributions to the ASAA

Asian Currents, the flagship blog of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, is excited to launch a special series on celebrating women’s contributions to the ASAA. The series will run over the next two months and is edited by ASAA President, Professor Melissa Crouch, and Asian Currents Editor, Natasha Naidu. The series will include a […]

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Retrieving Hemisphere – An Asian-Australian Monthly (later Magazine bimonthly) – 1957-84

Steps are underway to enable the digitising of an important general interest Australian periodical from last century:  Hemisphere – An Asian-Australian Monthly, (later Magazine (bimonthly), which was published by and for the Commonwealth of Australia from 1957-84.  Some ASAA members may remember the periodical, which was edited by two outstanding editors, RJ Maguire (1957-1969) and

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Book Launch: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity

Join Dr Sachiyo Tsukamoto and Purai Global Indigenous History Centre for the launch of her book, ‘The Politics of Trauma and Integrity.’ Dr Sachiyo Tsukamoto’s work gives voice to the Japanese women behind one of the largest, government-sponsored human trafficking and sexual slavery scandals in modern history. Using diaries, interviews, letters and oral testimonies, the

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Retrieving Hemisphere – An Asian-Australian Monthly (later bimonthly) Magazine – 1957-84

Steps are underway to enable the digitising of an important general interest Australian periodical from last century:  Hemisphere – An Asian-Australian Monthly, (later Magazine (bimonthly), which was published by and for the Commonwealth of Australia from 1957-84.  Some ASAA members may remember the periodical, which was edited by two outstanding editors, RJ Maguire (1957-1969) and

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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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