Author: Aya Homei (The University of Manchester) Science for Governing Japan’s Population (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Author: Sujin Lee (University of Victoria) Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan  (Stanford University Press, 2023) Discussant: Mina Marković – University of Cambridge —————————————— You are invited to a conversation with Aya Homei and Sujin Lee hosted […]

Thursday, May 2, 2024 | 7:00PM-8:30 PM ET | REGISTER FOR ZOOM MJHA Roundtable: Remaking “Shōgun” – Historians Assess Please see event webpage (https://mjha.org/event-5672414) to register for Zoom Featured Panelists: Mary Elizabeth Berry, Class of 1944 Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Berkeley Eleanor Hubbard, Independent Scholar Morgan Pitelka, Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor, […]

12 Questions for Jonas Rüegg: Japan and Oceanic History (with Paul Kreitman) Monday, May 6, 2024 | 12:00-1:30 PM EDT | 5:00-6:30 PM BST | 6:00-7:30 PM CET Please see event webpage (https://mjha.org/event-5682975) to register for Zoom Featuring: Jonas Rüegg, Senior Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Zurich, and winner of the 2024 Modern Japan […]

Choson History Society invites you to join our Zoom Speaker Series, presented by Thomas Conlan, Professor of Medieval Japanese History at Princeton. Thomas Conlan will illustrate how Japan was an ethnically diverse state from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, closely bound by trading ties to Korea and China. His talk will reveal new archaeological […]

This event is by invitation only. An East-West Center and Association for Asian Studies Writing and Policy Workshop The East-West Center (EWC) is partnering with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to build a “Network of Networks” bridging the U.S. and the Indo-Pacific. As part of the EWC’s Research Innovation & Collaboration Exchange (RICE) initiative, […]

Renegade Rhymes invites readers into Taiwan’s vibrant underground hip-hop scene to explore the social, cultural, and political dynamics of life in a post-authoritarian democracy. Beginning in the immediate aftermath of martial law (1949-1987), the book follows Taiwan’s earliest rappers and DJs as they critiqued the island’s political system, spun tales from their perspectives as members […]

On Thursday, May 23 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Henry Yeung (National University of Singapore) to discuss his book Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia. His book offers key empirical observations on the highly contested and politicized nature of semiconductor […]

The 6th BAAS (Baltic Association for Asian Studies) conference on the “Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Accelerated Globalization” to be held at University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia from May 23-26, 2024. Abstract submission deadline: 25.03.2024. Dear esteemed colleagues and scholars, We are delighted to invite you to present your paper at our upcoming conference on […]

An annual two-day conference for Japanese-English translators and those interested in such a career. The IJET-32 will be held in Toronto, Canada on May 25-26, 2024. Our theme is “Who knit ’ya? Who are we in the age of Chat-GPT?”. We hope to strengthen the connections within our translation and interpreting community and explore the […]

The National Endowment for the Humanities and Arizona State University are delighted to present a two-week residential Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty entitled “Translation and Traveling Texts: East Asian National Literatures in an Era Without Borders.” Running from Monday, June 17th to Friday, June 28th, 2024, and held in-person at ASU’s Tempe Campus, this […]

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), in collaboration with Michigan State University (MSU) Asian Studies Center, will hold the 4th annual AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies from June 18 – 22, 2024. The conference continues to highlight and celebrate the growing and evolving academic study of Indonesia. The conference aims to expand research dissemination […]

A quick survey of recent scholarship reveals considerable gaps in the study of world children’s literature and children’s literature in translation. What is needed then is a widening of scope and encouragement to maintain the momentum that has been gained. Considering questions regarding local and ‘glocal’ poetics; viewing childhood through diverse socio-cultural lenses; expounding theories […]

Get ready for an unforgettable experience at AAS-in-Asia 2024, the conference that brings Asian Studies to a more intimate and engaging setting. Designed specifically for scholars and enthusiasts of Asian Studies, this event offers an incredible opportunity to participate in panel sessions, network with colleagues, and explore the latest research in a smaller, more focused […]

Call for Papers Representations of East Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States ca. 1850-1929 Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT — 26-28 September 2024 This amazing conference funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art builds on recent scholarly trends by ascertaining how Asian and European artists who journeyed through or resided […]

The American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS) annual conference program committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on topics concerning China, Taiwan, other Chinese-speaking communities, and the Chinese diaspora for the 66th Annual Conference, hosted by the Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, on October 4-6, 2024. We welcome […]

Overview: The Korean Archaeological Society is inviting three scholars on early Korea studies to participate in a panel titled “The Prospective of Early Korea Studies” (a tentative title) in its annual meeting (November 1–2, 2024). Early Korea is broadly defined as the prehistoric or early historic periods where textual records are absent or limited, and […]

The Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex together with the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna is inviting scholars whose research focuses on the intersections of contemporary geopolitics and economic statecraft on the Korean peninsula in the context of growing tensions in the region to submit a […]