Category: News
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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…
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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
— 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
— 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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14th Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Biennial Conclave
— Our institutional partner and 2023 Conclave organiser, the Centre for Inter-Asian Research at Ahmedabad University, reported on the recently concluded 2023 Conclave. “The Conclave helped to transform the way we think about inter-Asian cultural studies, bringing together scholars from all over Asia to discuss new ways of collaborating and exchanging knowledge. It prepared the…
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IACS DISSERTATION PRIZE 2023 WINNER
— This year, we received ten strong submissions from the network of inter-Asia cultural studies, from Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, and Taiwan. All dissertations were carefully reviewed by our judging panel, consisting of Profs Tejaswini Niranjana (chair), Chua Beng Huat, Melani Budianta, Roberto Castillo, and Anneke Coppoolse, which speaks highly of the submitted work as…