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ANU Asian languages staff restored to their appointments

The Australian National University has backed down on its plans to downgrade its Asian language academics to fixed contracts following widespread community consultation and national condemnation. The university issued its final proposal for changes to the School of Culture, History and Languages on 18 April after a fraught consultation process which received 97 submissions as […]

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Position at The University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is advertising for the position of Deputy Director in its Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, to join the Centre’s management team and take responsibility for outward-looking activities, including the day-to-day management of relations with its partners in the region, the identification of new opportunities for research collaborations and outreach, and the design

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Article on women’s rights in Nepal wins 2015 Wang Gungwu Prize

An article about the struggle over women’s rights in Nepal, by Margaret Becker of Adelaide University, has won the 2015 Wang Gungwu Prize for the best article published in Asian Studies Review in 2015. The President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Professor Louise Edwards, announced the winner of the annual prize, which

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Study of Phnom Penh waste pickers wins ASAA prize

A researcher who has spent some years studying waste pickers in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh has been awarded the 2015 ASAA Presidents’ Prize for the best thesis on Asia submitted in 2014. Dr Cindy Bryson, from the Australian National University’s Archaeology and Anthropology Department, has been awarded the prize for her dissertation entitled ‘A valuable

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