🚨 Today is the final day to submit your abstract for ASAA 2026. 🚨 Don’t miss out on presenting at the largest Asia-focused conference in the Southern Hemisphere. Submit now here: asaa2026.cventevents.com/event/asaaco...

The ASAA 2026 Call for Papers closes in just a few days! Be part of this major international gathering on Asia and its shifting futures. Deadline: 7 November 2025 → asaa2026.cventevents.com/event/asaaco...

📚 Applications now open! The ASAA Mid Career Book Prize 2026 celebrates excellence and innovation in Asian Studies, recognising the outstanding work of mid career scholars. 🗓️ Applications close 30 January 2026 Click here to apply: asaa.asn.au/grants-award...

New to the Intercultural Dialogue series: Tirtawening reflects on her path to socio-legal studies and the Tri Dharma academic workload in Indonesia Read now here: asaa.asn.au/seeing-how-l...

One week left to submit your abstract for ASAA 2026! 🗓 Deadline: 7 November 2025 Submit here: asaa2026.cventevents.com/event/asaaco...

🚀 Applications now open! The ASAA Early Career Book Prize 2026 - If your monograph was published in 2024–2025, and you’re within five years of your PhD, you could be eligible to win $1,000 and recognition for your work. Read more and apply here: asaa.asn.au/grants-award...

New to Asian Currents: Intercultural dialogue continues with Vinitika Vij reflecting on her teaching approach which combines critique and building student confidence through kindness in the classroom Read now here: asaa.asn.au/a-small-act-...

⏳ Only 2 weeks left to submit your abstract for ASAA 2026! Don’t miss your chance to join the largest Asia-focused conference in the Southern Hemisphere. Deadline: 7 November 2025 → asaa2026.cventevents.com/event/asaaco...

Next in the Asian Currents blog series on intercultural legal dialogue: Jessica Marpaung reflects on moving between local contexts and international principles across Indonesia, Australia and the US: asaa.asn.au/not-always-a...

The ASAA Early Career Book Prize 2026 is now open for applications! Applications close on 9 January 2026, and the winner will be announced by May 2026. Read more and apply here: asaa.asn.au/grants-award...

The ASAA Oral History Project continues with Liam Prince, whose journey in Asian Studies began in Kathmandu and led to a lifelong engagement with Indonesia and his current role as Consortium Director of ACICIS 🎥 Watch Liam’s story here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFe9...

Heritage is not static. At ASAA 2026, we’ll explore how language, cuisine, museums, and memory preserve and reshape cultural identity. Submit your abstract by 7 November 2025: asaa2026.cventevents.com/event/asaaco...

New to Asian Currents: Md Abdur Razzak shares his pedagogical approach of socially responsive legal education across Bangladesh and Australia as part of the intercultural legal dialogue series Read his contribution now here: asaa.asn.au/socially-res...

From civic participation to law, civil society, and politics — how is Asia adapting to rapid change? #ASAA2026 invites contributions on: ⚖ Politics, law & governance 🙋 Civic participation 🌏 Social transformations at community & family levels Abstracts due 7 Nov → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

Thinking collectively? Organise a panel for ASAA 2026. Panels allow extended discussion, multiple presenters, and cross-disciplinary exchange. Deadline: 7 November 2025. Submit your panel proposal here → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

How can Asia respond to the urgent challenges of climate change and sustainability? ASAA 2026 welcomes contributions on: 🌱 Environmental challenges & responses 🐾 Human & non-human perspectives 🏙 Rural, urban, & in-between sustainability Abstracts due 7 Nov 2025 → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

New to Asian Currents: M. Ibrahim shares a window into his life as an academic at an Indonesian law school, as part of the exchange of intercultural legal dialogue happening on the blog Read his words now here: asaa.asn.au/carrying-man...

PhD students and ECRs: ASAA 2026 is the perfect platform to share your work and connect with colleagues. Submit by 7 November 2025. Details: www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

🆕 Asian Currents: The intercultural legal dialogue series continues with Shohini Sengupta reflecting on her experiences prior to academia, commencing teaching in India in 2020 and the solidarities being built among the HDR cohort at UNSW Law & Justice Read now here: asaa.asn.au/solidarity-a...

From Alaska to Nagoya to Canberra 🌏 Kent shares his journey from international law to Asian Studies leadership in the ASAA Oral History Project 📺 Watch Kent’s story here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBNI...

How do technology, innovation, and digital economies reshape Asia across borders? #ASAA2026 invites papers on: 💻 Digital economies & collaboration 🤖 AI, cybersecurity & ethics 🎓 Education & the future of work ⚙ Political economy of innovation Submit by 7 Nov → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

NEW POST: Asian Currents is launch a blog series profiling the expertise of cademics from Asia doing PhDs in Australia, based on an intercultural legal dialogue panel series held at UNSW Law this year Read the introduction to the series by Melissa Crouch here now: asaa.asn.au/intercultura...

How are power, diplomacy, and cooperation being reshaped across Asia? #ASAA2026 seeks contributions on: 🌏 Indo-Pacific international politics 🤝 Strategic diplomacy & soft power 📈 Security, trade, & environmental governance Abstracts due 7 November 2025 → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

Professor Elora Shehabuddin will be the keynote speaker of the ASAA 2026 Biennial Conference! Professor Shehabuddin is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley and is the incoming President of the Association for Asian Studies

At #ASAA2026, your research can take many forms: 📄 Paper presentations 📌 Posters (digital or physical) 👥 Panels 💡 Alternative formats Whichever you choose, all submissions are due by 7 November 2025. Be part of the conversation → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

Why submit to an abstract to #ASAA2026? It’s the biggest gathering of Asia scholars in the region – a chance to connect, share, and learn. Deadline: 7 November 2025. Submit here: www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

#ASAA2026 invites abstracts on: 📚 Media, literature & art across borders 🌐 Language, translation, & intercultural communication 🪶 Indigenous & First Nations thought 📖 The “Asia Literacy” debate in Australia Abstracts close 7 November 2025 → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

How are identities being reshaped in an era of mobility, contestation, and hybridity? #ASAA2026 welcomes papers on: 🌏 Diaspora communities & belonging 🛂 Migration policy & lived experiences 🎭 Cultural hybridity & identity formation Abstracts due 7 November 2025 → www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

The call for papers is open for the 26th ASAA Biennial Conference! 📍 Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront 📅 29 June – 2 July 2026 🌏 Theme: Beyond Borders: Reimagining Asian societies in and across a Shifting World Submit your abstract by 7 November 2025 👉 www-eur.cvent.com/c/abstracts/...

📢 Call for Abstracts | Writing Workshop on Asian Cities & International Law Venue: ISIL, New Delhi Workshop Date: 13 Dec 2025 Theme: Exploring how Asian cities shape, reflect & challenge international law. Abstract Submission: 19 Sept 2025 See more here: www.isil-aca.org/download/202...

Historians of Southeast Asia (HiSEAs) Network seminar: ‘The Feral Territories of Eastern Bangkok’, Dr Samson Lim (Monash University) Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 4:00 PM - 5:30pm online via zoom Register here: www.linkedin.com/events/histo...

Dr Adrian Buzo (1948–2025) devoted his life to advancing understanding of Korea and building the field of Korean Studies in Australia. Read a tribute authored by Professor Bronwen Dalton AM here: asaa.asn.au/vale-adrian-...

From organising the Women in Asia conference to editing Asian Studies Review, Tanya has shaped the ASAA in big ways. Hear her story in this next instalment of the ASAA Oral History Project 👉 youtu.be/L9IP7GPEAhA?...

🌟 Dr Colum Graham has been awarded the 2024 John Legge Prize for his doctoral thesis about agrarian transitions in Indonesia 🌟 Please join us in congratulating Dr Graham, and Dr Minglei Wang who was recognised with the award of runner-up 👏 Read the press release: asaa.asn.au/news/thesis-...

New from the ASAA Oral History Project: 🌏 Lis Kramer shares her journey from Indonesia to Australian academia, and why supporting Asian languages matters more than ever. Watch here 👉

The ASAA has launched an oral history project in celebration of its 50th anniversary. Hear the organisers discuss why they wanted to create the series in an introductory episode here: asaa.asn.au/introduction... Or view the video on the ASAA's youtube channel here: www.youtube.com/@AsianCurrents

Dr Koji Hirata, a historian from Monash University in Melbourne, has won the 2025 Reid Prize for his recently published book, Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (CUP 2024) Read the full press release here: asaa.asn.au/news/book-ab...

Eva F Nisa has penned a tribute to the late Tony Reid reflecting on his remarkable contributions, particularly in the field of Southeast Asian Studies Read the review in Asian Currents here: asaa.asn.au/charting-the...

New to Asian Currents: Shobha Elizabeth John explains her recent ASR article on literary representations of singleness and gendered aloneness in urban India Read the blog post here: asaa.asn.au/too-unattach... And read the full Asian Studies Review article for free here: doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Call for papers: 24th MASSA Conference 2026 To be held at Murdoch University on 15-16 January with the theme "Charting Shared Futures: Policy, Culture and Innovation in Malaysia, Singapore and the Region" Abstract submissions due by 15 August 2025 Read more here: asaa.asn.au/news/call-fo...

New to Asian Currents: Sharpay Qiong Wu on National Treasures on the Big Screen: What Ne Zha 2 Can Tell Us about Techno-Nationalism Read now here: asaa.asn.au/national-tre...

AMSEAS is calling for papers for its online 2025 Conference on "Between Co-option and Dissent: Speaking Truth to Power in Mainland Southeast Asia" Paper proposals are due by 31 July and the conference will be held on 12-13 November Read more and submit here: buff.ly/FxdpAKA

Vale, Anthony Reid (1939–2025) It is with sadness that the ASAA marks the passing of one of its Life Members and founders, Emeritus Professor Anthony (Tony) Reid The ASAA has shared some reflections on Tony's life and work, which can be read here: asaa.asn.au/news/vale-an...

The ASAA President has written to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Tasmania about proposed changes to the School of Humanities which threatens to end the teaching of Indonesian and to partially close other language programs Read the letter here: asaa.asn.au/news/stateme...

New to Asian Currents: Sarah Turner et al on the changing geographies of childhood in Southeast Asia Read the blog post here: asaa.asn.au/shifting-geo... Read the full article in the Asian Studies Review for free here: doi.org/10.1080/1035...

The Chinese Studies Association of Australia is calling for nominations for 3 prizes, including an early career publication award: www.csaa.org.au/2025/05/csaa... @asiancurrents.bsky.social

New to Asian Currents: Mark Harrison on the decline of Chinese Studies in Australia This post is adapted from the Louis Green Memorial Lecture, State Library of Victoria, October 2023 Read now here: asaa.asn.au/on-the-decli...

Applications for the ASAA's John Legge Prize will close this Friday 2 May! The John Legge Prize will recognise the best PhD thesis in Asian Studies conferred by an Australian university in 2024 Get your application in here: asaa.asn.au/grants-award...

‼️ Applications for the ASAA's Postdoctoral Writing Grant will close this Thursday 17 April ‼️ Apply now here: asaa.asn.au/grants-award...

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