The 2020 meeting of AAS-in-Asia wrapped up in splendid fashion with a splashy media presentation and warm farewells. Many thanks to Joe Haldane and the IAFOR staff for stepping in and making the event possible with their can-do attitude and energetic efforts. It was my first full all-virtual conference and one could see very much […]
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) are now accepting proposals for the 2020 AAS-in-Asia conference, to be held June 29-July 1, 2020 in Kobe, Japan. The AAS-in-Asia Program Committee welcomes proposals for organized panel sessions and roundtables. Individual papers will not be considered. Organized panels consist of formal paper […]
In December 2019, AAS announced to members that, after much consideration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and AAS had made a joint decision to postpone the AAS-in-Asia conference set to take place in Hong Kong in June 2020. Based on feedback from our membership, we had determined that searching for an alternative venue […]
In my September President’s Column I wrote about the impact of geopolitics on international scholarly exchanges and on conditions of higher education, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, from the perspective of AAS this problem has intensified. I am referring of course to the protests and shutdown of universities in Hong Kong, where […]
Report prepared by AAS Secretariat staff The Situation The Association for Asian Studies thanks its members and all who proposed panels for the 2020 AAS-in-Asia conference in Hong Kong for their patience while our staff, Board of Directors, and representatives from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have discussed the best steps forward. We […]
Planning is well underway for our seventh AAS-in-Asia conference, which will be held in partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) next June. We are aware that for the past five months there have been ongoing protests in Hong Kong. As our members expressed in the survey on AAS-in-Asia we conducted earlier this […]
