By Katherine In-Young Lee Katherine In-Young Lee is associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the essay “Ford and My Family,” available for download at the button below, Lee begins with a moment from her childhood in Canton, Michigan, where she grew up in an environment marked by “a special […]
Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies — SEAC/AAS Initiative Association for Asian Studies 2024 Annual Conference (AAS2024 @ Seattle) Submission deadline: July 15, 2023 The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is seeking paper proposals from up-and-coming scholars – including graduate students – to join a “Rising Voices” panel on the […]
Lyman P. Van Slyke—known as “Van” to his friends and colleagues— grew up in a small mining town in northern Minnesota and graduated from Carleton College in 1950. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was assigned as a naval air intelligence officer on the aircraft carrier Valley Forge during the Korean War. When his […]
The Association for Asian Studies is now accepting applications for its 2023-2024 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants. The Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants are made possible thanks to the generous support of Sweden. This grant program is part of a collaborative transnational project that aims at enhancing the […]
John MacDougall, a pioneer of using the Internet as a research tool for Indonesian studies, died in Maryland on May 16, aged 83. Among his many services, he was editor and publisher of Indonesia Publications from 1984 to 2004; creator and moderator of a bilingual Indonesian and English “Apakabar Project” from 1990 to 2002 which […]
The AAS Board of Directors (BOD) assembled for its spring meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on March 15. After ratifying the minutes from its January 2023 meeting, the BOD discussed an array of Association matters and took action on several of them, including the following: In addition to voting on the motions above, the BOD engaged […]
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2024 Submission deadline: July 15, 2023 The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is seeking a panel or roundtable proposal for SEAC designated panels. Each year SEAC is allocated two Designated Panels, which are accepted directly onto the Annual Conference Program without Program Committee […]
The Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that the 2023 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies has been awarded to Dr. Nor Ismah, Vice-Director at the Institute of Southeast Asian Islam at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Dr. Ismah will be based at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University […]
The Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies, AAS Secretariat staff, and I would like to thank individuals and groups who contributed to the 2023 Annual Conference. So many people and organizations helped to make the conference possible, and we are grateful for their time, talents, and assistance. Thanks first to the 2023 Program […]
Chelsea Davidson is an ESL tutor who teaches independently under her brand, Birdie English. A new AAS member—she joined the association on March 3, 2023—Davidson is broadly interested in Asian Studies, English Language Education/Applied Linguistics, and Interdisciplinary Studies; her countries of focus are South Korea (ROK), China, and Japan. Why did you join AAS and […]
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University and author of Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Many readers will be familiar with the politics of reproduction in contemporary China, via media stories about the One Child Policy in effect from the late […]
22-23 June 2023, Daegu, South Korea Presented by the Association for Asian Studies with support from Sweden Deadline for Submitting Applications: 15 April 2023 The Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce a workshop for junior scholars aimed at promoting the publication of research articles in international journals. The workshop will take place on […]
