Author: IACS Society
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Call for IACS Board Member Nominations
— The IACS Society is pleased to announce open nomination (including self-nomination) and election of active members for several open positions in the next board (2025-2027). The obligations of the board members are to promote and advance the academic activities of the IACS Society, including organizing the summer school, the conference, the dissertation prize, as…
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A New Institutional Member
— The IACS Society is pleased to announce that the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota has joined us as an institutional member. The IACS Society is honored to partner with University of Minnesota’s GWSS Department which has been a leading institution in North America in engaging with issues of structural inequalities,…
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2025 IACS Dissertation Prize Winner
— This year, we received forty nominations from Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, the UK, and the US. The dissertations reflect a wonderfully diverse range of critical issues that are grounded in, converge across, and transcend, Asia. Our jury consisting of Professors Fran Martin (chair), Yiu-fai Chow, Sharmani Gabriel, and…
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2025 IACS Dissertation Prize Shortlist
— The 2025 IACS Dissertation Prize received 40 strong nominations this year. The quality and quantity of the dissertations have exceeded our expectation and made the selection a truly exciting and challenging task. After careful reading and intense discussion, our jury, Prof Fran Martin (jury chair), Prof Yiu Fai Chow, Prof Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, and…
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2025 IACS Conference: Acceptance letters and venue
__ The acceptance letter of the IACS 2025 Conference has been sent to all panel organizers and individual submitters. The conference organizer will announce the program on the conference website soon. — IACS 2025 will take place at the Twin Lotus Hotel in Nakhon Si Thammarat city, which features rooms, halls, restaurants, and a shuttle…
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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
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
. 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
— 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
— 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…