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 […]
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 […]
Deadline: Friday September 29, 2023 The Vietnam Studies Group (VSG) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual graduate student paper prize competition. The competition encourages the direct involvement of graduate students in the growth of Vietnamese studies and supports their professional development. The competition is open to full- and part-time graduate […]
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 “JSEAS-SEAC” panel on the topic of “The Presence of the Public in Southeast Asian Studies: Epistemologies and Experiences” (Click button below for eligibility). We seek to recruit early […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Mai Takeuchi (Lecturer of Japanese, University of California, Los Angeles) is the recipient of the 2023 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching. Dr. Takeuchi has a background in Japanese language pedagogy, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, and she has […]
In partnership with Sweden, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) has launched a four-year initiative to help reduce the social and economic vulnerabilities of Southeast and South Asian low and lower-middle income countries. The “Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences and Supporting Under-Represented Scholars of Asia” (CHSS) project aims at strengthening the research capacity of […]
The Association for Asian Studies welcomes nominations and self-nominations of candidates for our Fall 2023 elections. All nominations must be submitted by completing this online form no later than Friday, February 24. Nominees should be current AAS members (or must become members if selected to appear on the election ballot) who wish to contribute to the Association and the field of Asian […]
The Association for Asian Studies and the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) are grateful to Sumie Jones, Professor Emerita at Indiana University and an AAS member for more than 45 years, for providing the resources, leadership, and inspiration for the establishment of the Sumie Jones Prize for Project Leadership in Japan-centered Humanities. The mission of the […]
The AAS Fall 2022 election opened on September 15 and concluded on November 15. All current AAS members received an electronic ballot to vote in the election; of the 6,515 ballots sent, 1,001 were cast, representing a participation rate of 15.36 percent. Results of the election appear below. We thank Survey and Ballot Systems for […]
Deadline: January 18, 2023 February 1, 2023 The Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC) has awarded the AAS $5,000 to support the AAS 2023 Annual Conference attendance of up to 5 graduate students in Japan Studies. The aim is to increase the presence and participation of racial and ethnic minorities as well as LGBTQ+ students, students with […]
Organized under the auspices of The Journal of Asian Studies to help increase the range, breadth and quality of journal article manuscripts, the theme for this workshop is “Boundary Pushing.” Significant new work in Asian Studies often runs counter to or across traditional categories of scholarly conversation. For this reason, work that pushes boundaries is […]
Deadline: Thursday September 22, 2022 The Vietnam Studies Group (VSG) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual graduate student paper prize competition. The competition encourages the direct involvement of graduate students in the growth of Vietnamese studies and supports their professional development. The competition is open to full and part time […]
We are pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the fall 2022 AAS elections. The online ballot will open on September 15, 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 15. Newly elected representatives will […]
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and Kyungpook National University (KNU) have signed a memorandum of understanding to partner on the 8th AAS-in-Asia conference. The conference will take place on the KNU campus in Daegu, Korea, from June 24 to 27, 2023. First held in 2014, AAS-in-Asia conferences feature panel sessions and roundtables, a keynote […]
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 new collaborative transnational project that aims at enhancing the research capabilities of scholars and local institutions, especially in post-conflict and conflict areas, while helping to reduce the social and […]
Durham, North Carolina—The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS), the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), will join the Duke University Press journals program in 2023. “There are many reasons we have decided to partner with Duke, but one of the most important is Duke’s prioritizing of the academic contributions of its journals. […]
