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AAS 2024 — Call for Session Chairs

The AAS Program Committee seeks session chairs for the 2024 Annual Conference. Please consider volunteering as a chair for an Individual Paper Session. Volunteer session opportunities are available only for the in-person conference in Seattle. The Program Committee is responsible for creating sessions for individually submitted papers accepted to the program. Serving as a chair […]

Excerpt — Reform and Nation-Building: Essays on Socio-Political Transformation in Malaysia

Sharifah Munirah Alatas is a scholar and author whose writings focus on Malaysian politics, civil society, good governance, higher education reform and the future direction of universities. In late 2023, AAS Publications will release Reform and Nation-Building: Essays on Socio-Political Transformation in Malaysia, an Asia Shorts collection of articles by Alatas that discuss recent elections, […]

2022 AAS Regional Conferences — Student Paper Prize Winners

Please Note: Due to an administrative oversight, the names of these student paper prize winners were not posted in 2022. We apologize to all honorees for the delay in publicizing their work! We congratulate all the student paper prize winners who presented at AAS regional conferences in 2022. In recognition of their accomplishments, the Council of Conferences […]

AAS to Develop Dissertation Workshops

The Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that we will pilot a dissertation workshop at the upcoming 2024 Seattle Annual Conference, thanks to seed funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. To ensure thematic coherence, the workshop will be organized around “Global China: China’s Interactions Across and Beyond Asia.” We thus seek students whose […]

#AsiaNow Speaks with Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi

Tania Murray Li teaches at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto; Pujo Semedi teaches at the Department of Anthropology at Gadjah Mada University. They are the co-authors of Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone, published by Duke University Press, awarded Honorable Mention for the 2023 AAS George McT. Kahin […]

2025 and 2026 AAS Annual Conference Locations

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is thrilled to announce the selection of two brand-new conference locations for its 2025 and 2026 Annual Conferences. In an effort to provide diverse and exciting settings for its members, the AAS has chosen Columbus, Ohio as the venue for its 2025 conference, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for […]

ACLS Statement on Fighting for an Ambitious Vision of Public Higher Education in America

Published at the American Council of Learned Societies website, September 11, 2023 According to its mission statement, West Virginia University is committed “to lead transformation in West Virginia and in the world through local, state, and global engagement.” By proposing major cuts in its undergraduate and graduate programs, including engineering, environmental planning, languages other than […]

AAS 2024 Update: Registration, Housing, and a Fundraising Goal

Plans for the AAS 2024 Annual Conference in Seattle are moving along! Our Program Committee has just completed its review of proposals (decisions will be emailed on September 14), the Local Arrangements Committee is organizing its Seattle programming, and AAS conference team Robyn Jones and Angie Bermudez are working hard on the innumerable details that […]

AAS 2023 Election Nominees and Ballot Issues

We are pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the fall 2023 AAS elections. The online ballot will open on September 14, and all current AAS Members will receive an email with instructions for accessing it. Election day (when the ballot is closed and votes recorded) will be November 14. Newly elected representatives will […]

Generation and the Politics of Memory in China: Sociologist Bin Xu on Chairman Mao’s Children

Back in September 2017, I interviewed Emory University sociologist Bin Xu about his first book, The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford University Press, 2017). At the end of our exchange, Xu told me about his next project—an examination of collective memory among the zhiqing, or 17 million “educated […]