Built on the existing network of scholars and activists that came together to form the IACS Journal since the 1990s, the IACS Society was formed in 2004 to meet the growing demand of younger intellectuals to expand the scope and scale of IACS activities, to promote activist intellectual work in, across, and beyond Asia. In 2011, the Society began registering members, held its first formal general assembly and elected a board and advisory board, marking the Society’s transition from a loose network of intellectuals to an institutionalized international society. It runs a biennial conference and summer school in alternate years, and newly established a dissertation prize to recognize and advocate emerging works in inter-Asia scholarship.

IACS Society is registered in Hong Kong under the name “Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Limited.”

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IACS Society Board
IACS Society Board (2023-2025, elected July 2023)
Roberto CASTILLO (Treasurer)
Yiu-fai CHOW
Sharmani GABRIEL
Anneke COPPOOLSE (General Secretary)
Holly HOU
Thiti JAMKAJORNKEIAT
Satofumi KAWAMURA
Rimi KHAN
Keewoong LEE
Fran MARTIN
Madhuja MUKHERJEE (Vice Chair)
Kristine REYNALDO (Institutional Representative)
Siriporn SOMBOONBOORANA
Andy Chih-ming WANG (Chair)

Past Chairs
Audrey YUE (2019-2023)
Tejaswini NIRANJANA (2015-2019)
Meaghan MORRIS (2011-2015)

List of previous IACS Society boards

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Contact
e. interasiaculturalstudies@gmail.com
f. facebook.com/IACSSociety
i. instagram.com/iacs_society