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Call for Proposals: “Global China” Dissertation Workshop at AAS-in-Asia

July 11-12, 2024Yogyakarta, IndonesiaApplication deadline: April 19, 2024 Thanks to funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that we will host a dissertation workshop for Ph.D. students currently enrolled in higher education institutions in Asia. The workshop, sponsored by the AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC), […]

Jun Takahashi Receives 2024 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award

The Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Jun Takahashi (Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, Colby College, ME) is the recipient of the 2024 Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching. Dr. Takahashi has a background in Japanese language and culture, linguistics, and foreign language pedagogy, […]

Call for Applications — “The Year of Choosing Dangerously: Anticipating the Impact of the 2024 Elections in the Indo-Pacific and the United States”

May 8-9, 2024Washington, DC An East-West Center and Association for Asian Studies Writing and Policy Workshop The East-West Center (EWC) is partnering with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to build a “Network of Networks” bridging the U.S. and the Indo-Pacific. As part of the EWC’s Research Innovation & Collaboration Exchange (RICE) initiative, this collaboration […]

AAS 2024 Prizes

The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s prize competitions and offer congratulations to all honorees. Please join us at the AAS 2024 Awards Ceremony at the Sheraton Grand Seattle Hotel, Grand Ballroom, Second Floor on Saturday, March 16 at 10:15am Pacific Time. Prizes for Books and Scholarship East and Inner Asia […]

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Capacious Listening and Diverse Entry Points: On “Global Anti-Asian Racism”

By Tina Chen, Jennifer Ho, and Christine Yano Forthcoming from the AAS Publications Asia Shorts series, Global Anti-Asian Racism is edited by Jennifer Ho, past president of the Association for Asian American Studies and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. This collection features a diverse range of contributions from its […]

Come See “The Latehomecomer” at AAS 2024

Please join the Association for Asian Studies as we partner with Literature to Life to bring a special performance of The Latehomecomer to our 2024 Annual Conference in Seattle. Saturday, March 16, 2024Doors open: 5:00pmShow begins: 5:30pm Sheraton Grand Seattle1400 6th AvenueSeattle, Washington 98101 All registered conference participants receive complimentary access to The Latehomecomer—your badge […]

Developing Mission: An Interview with Historian Joseph W. Ho

Missionaries who left the United States for China in the early 20th century packed for overseas assignments that lasted years at a time. They needed clothing, of course; Bibles and other religious texts were tools of the trade. If they had additional responsibilities—as medical missionaries, for example—they would need equipment to carry out that work. […]

Mark Elvin (1938-2023)

Mark Elvin, Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at the Australian National University and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, sadly passed away on 6 December 2023 in Oxford (England). Mark Elvin was an eminent scholar of Chinese history and the author of several ground-breaking works that changed the way in which China and its […]

Robert E. Entenmann, 1949-2024

Robert E. Entenmann, a longtime member of the Association for Asian Studies, died January 7, 2024 in Northfield Minnesota, having taught Chinese history at St. Olaf College for 36 years. A native of Seattle, Bob earned a B.A. in Chinese History from the University of Washington, an M.A. from Stanford, and a Ph.D. from Harvard […]