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Jan 9, 2025 | 
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The Association for Asian Studies welcomes nominations and self-nominations of candidates for our Fall 2025 elections. All nominations must be submitted by completing this online form no later than Friday, February 14, 2025. 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 Studies through participation in AAS governance.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
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For more than 80 years, the Association for Asian Studies has held an Annual Conference each spring in North America. Open to all individuals holding an interest in Asian Studies, this annual meeting brings over 3,300 Asianists to present and discuss the latest research in the field. Academics, university faculty, graduate students, and more attend over 400 panel sessions, a book exhibition, and film screenings, and partake in multiple networking and social functions.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
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The AAS Program Committee seeks session chairs for the 2025 Annual Conference. Please consider volunteering as a chair for an Individual Paper Session. Volunteer session opportunities are available for the in-person conference (only) in Columbus. Each year, the Annual Conference Program Committee organizes sessions from the individual paper submissions accepted to the conference program.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
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Books, 2024 Book Prizes, China, East Asia, History Lawrence Zhang is Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and author of Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China, published by Harvard University Asia Center and recipient of the 2024 AAS Joseph Levenson Prize (pre-1900) honorable mention. To begin with, please tell us what your book is about.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
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Books, Buddhism, China, East Asia, Excerpt, History, Religion What happens when ordained Buddhist monks and nuns break the law?
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
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Books, China, East Asia, History, Hong Kong Ho-fung Hung is Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University and author of City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule, published by Cambridge University Press and winner of the 2024 AAS Joseph Levenson Prize (Post-1900). To begin with, please tell us what your book is about. The unrest and crackdown in Hong Kong in 2019-20 captured the world’s attention.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
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Annual Conference, 2025 Annual Conference, Announcement We are now accepting submissions for the AAS 2025 Film Expo, which will be held in conjunction with the AAS Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio, March 13-16, 2025. A partnership established with the AAS in 2011, the Annual Conference Film Expo is curated and organized by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
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Books AAS Publications is pleased to share its newest Asia Shorts title, The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations, by social scientist David Zweig. Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zweig examines current tensions in U.S.-China relations through the lens of scientific exchange.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
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Current position: Professor of Global Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies Institution/Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley Discipline: Gender and Women’s Studies; South Asian Studies; Transnational Asian Studies Area or countries of interest: South Asia; Bangladesh; Middle East; Global South Specialization or research interests: Transnational feminism; history and politics of feminist movements; activisms; critical approaches to development; political economy; Islam and politics...
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
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Annual Conference, 2025 Annual Conference, Announcement The AAS 2025 Annual Conference Program Committee seeks proposal submissions for pre-conference workshops to be held next March in Columbus, Ohio. The goal of pre-conference workshops—a new addition to the AAS Annual Conference program for 2025—is to provide additional options for attendees outside of the busy conference schedule.
