Author: IACS Society

  • 2026 IACS Summer School

    2026 IACS Summer School

    Image credit: The Chinese University of Hong Kong — The 2026 IACS Summer School will be hosted by the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in collaboration with Inter-Asia partners in the city. To be the first to receive Summer School updates, including the Call for Applications, follow us on Facebook or Instagram,…

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  • Tenderness Amid Tensions: Reflections on the 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Summer School

    Tenderness Amid Tensions: Reflections on the 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Summer School

    Photo by Paolo Sandicho — Kristine Reynaldo 2024 IACS Summer School Coordinator and Program Curator — In his opening lecture for the 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School, Chih-ming Wang characterized the summer school as a “subject-making laboratory” through which “the inter-Asia project is operated and advanced.” The gist of this project, as Chua Beng…

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  • Call for Special Panels – 2025 Inter-Asia Conference

    Call for Special Panels – 2025 Inter-Asia Conference

    . The organizing committee of the 2025 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference at Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat (Thailand), which will take place from July 23 to 25, 2025, invites lifelong friends of IACS to organize special panels related to milestones and anniversaries that coincide with the 2025 Conference: the journal (25th year), the society (20th year), and Kuan-hsing’s Asia as Method…

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  • Call for Nominations: 2025 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Dissertation Prize

    Call for Nominations: 2025 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Dissertation Prize

    — To encourage critical scholarship in inter-Asia cultural studies and to recognize and honor emerging and exciting research in the field, the IACS Society invites nominations for the 2nd IACS Dissertation Prize.  — We accept nominations of Ph.D. candidates or recent graduates whose final dissertations (i.e. fully completed dissertations that have already gone through all review, defence/viva,…

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  • Book Launch: The Translocal Island of Okinawa

    Book Launch: The Translocal Island of Okinawa

    — 18 September 2024 14:30-16:30 (GMT+8) — Join the launch forum via this Webex link (meeting no: 2518 324 9881, password: TR@9188) or in person, 1F Conference Room, IEAS, Academia Sinica — SpeakerShinnosuke Takahashi, Victoria University of Wellington — DiscussantsChiyo Wakabayashi, Okinawa UniversityHao-Ming Lo, Academia Sinica — ModeratorChih-Ming Wang, Academia Sinica — The increasingly divisive politics in East Asia today are…

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  • Upcoming: 2024 IACS Summer School

    Upcoming: 2024 IACS Summer School

    UP Diliman Campus photos by Pol Torrente — The 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School, hosted by the Department of English and Comparative Literature of the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City, is coming up soon. On 5 August, an international group of summer school participants will be welcomed to the UP Diliman…

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  • Call for Papers: UCI Global Asias 2025

    Call for Papers: UCI Global Asias 2025

    — The University of California, Irvine’s Global Asias research cluster welcomes proposals for individual papers, panels and roundtables for their 3rd annual conference to be held 20-21 February 2025 at UC Irvine. “Global Asias 2025 invites submissions that expand our understanding of ‘ Asia” as a region, discourse, and/or process in relation to the “global”…

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  • 2025 IACSS Conference

    2025 IACSS Conference

    — Image credit: Walailak Channel — The 2025 IACSS Conference will be held July 23-25, 2025 at Walailak University in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand. It will be hosted by the Center of Geo-Social and Cultural Research for Sustainable Development (GSCR). Under the conference theme, “Geo-Social Connection: The Continuing Journey of Critical Inquiry”, the organising committee…

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  • IACS Conference 2023

    July 27-29, 2023, Ahmedabad University The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Society’s Biennial Conclave returned to India after a gap of more than fifteen years. The 2021 conference was organized virtually by the IACS Society’s Secretariat at the National University of Singapore. In 2023 we proposed a Landing Zone for the conference at Ahmedabad, India, July…

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  • 2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Summer School

    2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Summer School

    2024 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Summer School

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