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‘Silence #1.6.1’ solo exhibition by Thai artist Pimpisa Tinpalit

Venue: Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road (inside Brunswick Town Hall), Brunswick, VIC Dates: Saturday 4 June 2022 to Sunday 24 July 2022 Opening on Saturday 4th June, ‘Silence #1.6.1’ is a solo exhibition by Thai artist Pimpisa Tinpalit is a philosophical study of death and how all metaphysical conditions co-exist. Death can provide insight into […]

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2022 ST Lee Lecture | John Guy: Ubiquitous Trees and Serpents – Early Buddhist Imagery of Southern India

Speaker: John Guy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Date and time: Wed., 15/06/2022, 5:30 pm AEST Hybrid Event | Chau Chak Wing Museum and on zoom Registrations via the link Curator John Guy provides a preview of the major exhibition Tree & Serpent. Buddhist Art in Early India, 200 BCE–300 CE, to be

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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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THY PHU Warring Images: Vietnam Pictorial and the Colours of Socialist Futurity

The second program in our 2022 Sydney Asian Art Series, Troubling Images, coonvened by Olivier Krischer. This presentation explores the construction of socialist ways of seeing in Vietnam, focusing on the communist illustrated magazine, Vietnam Pictorial, which deployed color images as a means to project visions of socialist futurity, conjuring forth revolutionary renovations at a

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Nominations for the John Legge Prize for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies extended

The ASAA is delighted to announce have extended the deadline for nominations for the John Legge Prize for the best thesis in Asian studies in Australia in 2021 to 21 May The first prize consists of a cash award of $2,000. The writer of the selected thesis will also receive a certificate and priority consideration

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