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Job Opportunity: Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Chinese History @ NTU Singapore

Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Chinese History position at Nanyang Technology University, Singapore Applications close 30 July 2023 Click here to read more and apply The Chinese Programme in the School of Humanities at NTU invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure-track)/Assoc/Full Professor with tenure in Chinese history. The area of […]

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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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APTCCARN 6 – Creative conservation initiatives: Collective approaches for material culture and living heritage

What: The 6th annual conference of the Asia Pacific Tropical Climate Conservation Art Research Network When: 3-5 July 2023 Where: Ubud (2-3 July); Denpasar (4-5 July) Register: here This year APTCCARN, Institut Konservasi and the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation will gather together to reconnect again and share creative conservation initiatives and ‘learned’ practices

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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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Vernon Joseph Turner OAM – 8 September 1924 to 9 April 2020

He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in 1964, having focussed on Asian Studies and writing his thesis on the Indian Educationist and Nobel Literature Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. He published his first book “Indonesian for Schools” coauthored with Hedwig Emanuels in 1967 (Science Press) which he completed alone after

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