[ratina][/ratina]An international lawyer who specialises in comparing Asian legal systems has been elected president of the ASAA Council for 2017–18. Professor Kent Anderson, Professor of Law and Japanese Studies at the University of Western Australia, has an eclectic background, having completed tertiary studies in the US, Japan, and the UK in law, politics, economics and […]
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The ASAA’s President’s Prize has been renamed the ‘John Legge Prize for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies awarded at an Australian university, ’in honour of Professor John Legge, who died last year, age 94. Formerly Foundation Professor of History at Monash University, ‘Jack’ Legge, was a specialist on the political history of modern Indonesia
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Buddhism & Australia will hold its 6th annual conference in Perth in February. The International Conference on Buddhism & Australia—the only annual academic Buddhist conference in Australia—will be held at Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, 2–4 February 2017. Further information is available on the Buddhism & Australia website. Buddhism & Australia also publishes the
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The Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) has called for papers for its 15th Biennial Conference. The conference, ‘Chinese values and counter-values: past and present’, will be held at Macquarie University, Sydney, from 10 July to 12 July 2017. The association invites proposals in any area of Chinese Studies for individual or joint papers or
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The Perth International Arts Festival’s 2017 program will feature a number of performances and screenings from Asia. Two Japanese films, After the Storm and The Red Turtle will screen as part of the Lotterywest Festival Films. After the Storm is the latest film from renowned Japanese film director Hirokazu Koreeda, and is based on family
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A thesis exploring the Indonesian military’s role in the 1965–66 genocide in Indonesia has won the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s most prestigious award. The 2016 ASAA Presidents’ Prize for the best thesis on Asia conferred in 2015 has been awarded to Dr Jess Melvin, University of Melbourne, for her dissertation entitled ‘Mechanics of mass
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