Please join us on Wednesday, May 22 to celebrate the newest volume from the AAS Publications Asia Shorts series, The Transpacific Flow: Creative Writing Programs in China. Author Jin Feng will be in conversation with Megan Walsh, moderated by AAS Digital Media Manager Maura Elizabeth Cunningham.
All are welcome to attend this event, which will be recorded for later viewing if you are not able to participate live.
Register for this virtual event HERE.
Please join us on February 28, 2024 for the virtual book launch of Global Anti-Asian Racism, a new Asia Shorts volume edited by Jennifer Ho (University of Colorado Boulder), featuring thought-provoking contributions from 13 authors.
Register for this virtual event HERE.
Register now to attend the online book launch of Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong, a new Asia Shorts volume by Michael C. Davis.
Please join us on Wednesday, January 24 to celebrate the launch of Reform and Nation-Building: Essays on Socio-Political Transformation in Malaysia, a new volume by Sharifah Munirah Alatas in the AAS Publications Asia Shorts series.
READ AN EXCERPT FROM REFORM AND NATION-BUILDING
Register now to join other AAS Members in a showcase of new resources in Asian Studies for 2024. Representatives from four recently launched organizations/initiatives will present their projects, provide an overview of planned activities, and share with audience members how they can get involved. Time will be allocated at the end of the session for audience Q&A with the panelists.
Current AAS membership is required to register. Non-members must join or renew their membership prior to proceeding with Digital Dialogue registration.
We plan to make New Resources in Asian Studies a regular feature of the AAS Digital Dialogues program. Do you have a resource, program, or initiative to share with other AAS members? Contact Digital Media Manager Maura Elizabeth Cunningham (mcunningham@asianstudies.org) to discuss it!
Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 2:00-3:00pm ET
This session will be an opportunity to meet with David Magier, interim editor of the Bibliography of Asian Studies, to familiarize scholars with the single most indispensable multidisciplinary resource for studying, teaching, and learning about Asia at all levels.
Our popular “Meet the Editor” series returns in August for its second year. These webinars, taking place over four consecutive weeks, will showcase our journals, book series, and online database, providing invaluable information for potential authors. Time will be set aside for questions, which you may ask during the webinar or in advance when you register.
We look forward to welcoming everyone interested in publishing with AAS!
REGISTER NOW for four August AAS Digital Dialogues!
Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 2:00-3:00pm ET
Lucien Ellington, EAA editor, encourages potential authors who are interested in contributing to the journal to attend this session. Those unfamiliar with EAA are strongly encouraged to visit the EAA archives and review author guidelines before the session. Ellington will also discuss the Key Issues in Asian Studies series of classroom texts he edits.
Our popular “Meet the Editor” series returns in August for its second year. These webinars, taking place over four consecutive weeks, will showcase our journals, book series, and online database, providing invaluable information for potential authors. Time will be set aside for questions, which you may ask during the webinar or in advance when you register.
We look forward to welcoming everyone interested in publishing with AAS!
REGISTER NOW for four August AAS Digital Dialogues!
Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 2:00-3:00pm ET
Published by AAS in conjunction with Columbia University Press, Asia Shorts has a unique mission in our contemporary publishing environment. Editor David Kenley will introduce the series and discuss how potential authors can prepare a manuscript for submission.
Our popular “Meet the Editor” series returns in August for its second year. These webinars, taking place over four consecutive weeks, will showcase our journals, book series, and online database, providing invaluable information for potential authors. Time will be set aside for questions, which you may ask during the webinar or in advance when you register.
We look forward to welcoming everyone interested in publishing with AAS!
REGISTER NOW for four August AAS Digital Dialogues!
Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 2:00-3:00pm ET
Joseph S. Alter, Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, will discuss the preparation of manuscripts for submission and the peer review process.
Our popular “Meet the Editor” series returns in August for its second year. These webinars, taking place over four consecutive weeks, will showcase our journals, book series, and online database, providing invaluable information for potential authors. Time will be set aside for questions, which you may ask during the webinar or in advance when you register.
We look forward to welcoming everyone interested in publishing with AAS!
REGISTER NOW for four August AAS Digital Dialogues!
Join the AAS on Wednesday, November 30 to celebrate the publication of the latest Asia Shorts title, New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia. Edited by Dimitar D. Gueorguiev, this collection includes six essays that examine questions of academic freedom in locations from India to Japan.
New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia examines the increasingly dire state of academic freedom in Asia. Using cross-national data and in-depth case studies, the authors shed light on the multifaceted nature of academic censorship and provide reference points to those working in restrictive academic environments.
Join us to celebrate the publication of Who Is the Asianist? The Politics of Representation in Asian Studies, a new Asia Shorts volume edited by Will Bridges, Nitasha Tamar Sharma, and Marvin D. Sterling.
Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian Studies through the lens of positionality, questions of authority, and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. From self-reflective essays on being a Black Asianist to the Black Lives Matter movement in Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Viet Nam, scholars grapple with the global significance of race and local articulations of difference. Other contributors call for a racial analysis of the figure of the Muslim as well as a greater transregional comparison of slavery and intra-Asian dynamics that can be better understood, for instance, from a Black feminist perspective or through the work of James Baldwin. As a whole, this diversified set of essays insists that the possibilities of change within Asian Studies occurs when, and only when, it reckons with the entirety of the scholars, geographies, and histories that it comprises.
Mechademia—an intellectual community built around a conference and a journal (University of Minnesota Press)—has stood at the forefront of youth-focused Asian popular culture scholarship since its inception in the early 2000s. With its emphasis upon manga, anime, video games, and other forms of East Asian popular culture and their fan bases, Mechademia has regularly brought together scholars, fans, and practitioners in seeking common dialogue, fresh approaches, and innovative insights.
This Digital Dialogues session seeks to probe the interconnections between Mechademia and Asian Studies. We begin with a brief history of Mechademia led by its founding organizers discussing the impetus for creating the conference and journal. The discussion subsequently broadens to address the following questions:
Session 4 in the Summer 2022 “Meet the Editor” Series
This AAS Digital Dialogue session will offer attendees a chance to be better positioned for successful publication in the AAS pedagogical publications, Education About Asia (EAA) or Key Issues in Asian Studies (KIAS), both edited by Lucien Ellington. In order to make the Digital Dialogue session as effective as possible, potential EAA contributors are encouraged to visit the EAA homepage and review editorial guidelines and other relevant information. Participants who are not familiar, or have limited familiarity, with EAA are encouraged to attend this Digital Dialogue session but it is important that they also visit the EAA online archives and read sample articles, teaching resource essays, and reviews in order to gain a better sense of the publication.
Readers interested in publishing a KIAS volume should first visit the KIAS homepage to learn more about the publication. It is highly recommended before attending this Digital Dialogue session that interested participants visit the Asia Shorts homepage in order to understand how these two publications differ in their mission statements, intended audiences, structure, and length. Time will also be set aside to address questions you are invited to submit in advance (you may submit questions when registering for the session, or through the button below).
This AAS Digital Dialogue session will be an opportunity to meet with David Magier, the interim editor of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) so you can get more familiar with the single most indispensable multidisciplinary resource for studying, teaching and learning about Asia at all levels. Dr. Magier will begin the session with a brief overview of the 65-year history of the BAS and how it has evolved into its current form as vast online database. He will talk about the scope and coverage of the BAS and show what makes it unique among research resources for scholarship on Asia, and how it provides access to essential content that would otherwise remain unknown or inaccessible. Dr. Magier will also give a glimpse into how the BAS is compiled, the roles of the Editor, the staff of Asia regional Associate Editors, and the BAS Advisory Board, the engagement with the international Asian Studies community of librarians and scholars, and how prioritization and strategic direction for the BAS are formulated. Finally, he will outline new developments to expand the BAS and improve the functionality and efficiency of its operations and value to the field of Asian Studies. Some time will also be set aside to address questions.
Join us June 29 at 3:00 pm ET for an AAS Digital Dialogue session featuring David Kenley, editor of the Asia Shorts book series. Published by AAS in conjunction with Columbia University Press, Asia Shorts has a unique mission in our contemporary publishing environment. Kenley will introduce the series and, more importantly, discuss how potential authors can prepare a manuscript for submission. Participants can submit questions regarding Asia Shorts in particular or about the broader state of disseminating scholarship in a rapidly changing publishing industry. Open access, “pay to publish,” the explosion of social media, and the blurring of the boundary between trade texts and scholarly monographs—these are only some of the topics Kenley will address in this important Digital Dialogue session.
This AAS Digital Dialogue session will be an opportunity to meet with Joseph S. Alter, the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, to learn about the preparation of manuscripts for submission and the peer review process. Alter will begin the session with a brief overview of points that are outlined in a short document entitled “Guidelines for Publishing in the Journal of Asian Studies,” which you may access below. The document is designed to address many common questions that relate to publishing and to highlight key points that are especially relevant as you consider submitting your work to the JAS.
Following this overview, the session will be structured around questions you are invited to submit in advance (you may submit questions when registering for the session, or through the button below). These may range from the practical and procedural to broader concerns about how the field of Asian Studies is changing, and how to conceptualize your work in relation to changes in academia more broadly.
Join AAS for a rebroadcast of the Member Meeting that took place on March 26 at the 2022 Annual Conference in Honolulu. Following the recorded event, there will be a live Q&A with Executive Director Hilary Finchum-Sung. We welcome all current and prospective members to this event to learn about the new AAS Strategic Plan, governance changes, and upcoming programs.
Register today—and on the registration form, please share any questions, comments, or topics you’d like Hilary Finchum-Sung to address during the live Q&A session.
