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 (2025-2027, elected July 2025)
Roberto CASTILLO (Treasurer)
Jeremy DE CHAVEZ (Institutional Representative)
Yiu-fai CHOW
Anneke COPPOOLSE (General Secretary)
Sharmani GABRIEL
Thiti JAMKAJORNKEIAT
June Hee KWON
LUO Xiaoming
Fran MARTIN
Madhuja MUKHERJEE (Vice Chair)
Kristine REYNALDO
Nishant SHAH (Institutional Representative)
Denise Tse-Shang TANG
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