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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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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The Australian Centre on China in the World, at the Australian National University, has launched the Australia-China Story website, a collection of Australian media on China and other resources curated since 2008 and ordered by theme. Each of the themes has an introductory essay. Beneath the essays, all media on the topic is collated chronologically,
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The University of Western Australia’s Deputy Vice Chancellor (Community and Engagement) Professor Kent Anderson has been awarded a Japanese Foreign Minister’s commendation for exceptional service in promoting a mutual understanding between Japan and Australia. An international lawyer who specialises in comparing Asian legal systems and who started his academic career as Associate Professor at Hokkaido
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ANU Press has published a new collection of essays, The Social Sciences in the Asian Century. Edited by Carol Johnson, Vera Mackie and Tessa Morris-Suzuki, the book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region who reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the 21st century.
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Global Leaders—a non-profit organisation that develops international educational programs for a diverse student population and administers a range of study abroad programs in collaboration with its partner universities in Asia—is inviting applications for study abroad programs. Applications are now open for the following short winter schools/programs at Thailand’s leading Thammasat University in Bangkok and Udayana
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