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Thesis about Agrarian Transitions in Indonesia wins the John Legge Prize for 2024

The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is pleased to announce that Dr Colum Graham, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, has won the 2024 John Legge Prize. Dr Graham completed his PhD in the Department of Political and Social Change, the College of Asia and the […]

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Book about the Mao-era origins of Chinese industrialisation wins Reid Prize for 2025

The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) is delighted to announce that Dr Koji Hirata, a historian from Monash University in Melbourne, has won the 2025 Reid Prize for his recently published book, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge University Press, 2024). The Reid Prize is the most prestigious prize

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Call for Papers: 24th MASSA Conference 2026

Charting Shared Futures: Policy, Culture, and Innovation in Malaysia, Singapore and the Region 24th MASSA Conference | 15–16 January 2026 HDR Workshop: 14 January 2026 Venue: Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia Deadline for abstract submission: 15 August 2025 Southeast Asia today is at a global crossroad. Comprising eleven nations of diverse economic, cultural and historical

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Change proposal in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania

On Tuesday 27 May the President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Associate Professor David Hundt, wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania to express the ASAA’s deep concerns about the proposed changes to the teaching of languages and Asian Studies. The proposed changes will particularly affect the Indonesian teaching program at

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