#AsianStudies
authors! Our 2025 AAS book prize competitions are open for nomination. See our website for full details about each prize, then talk to your publisher about having them nominate your work. The deadline for all nominations is June 30, 2024.
Call for Applications: 2023-2024 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants for scholars from South and Southeast Asia. Apply by September 1, 2023 for 2-12 months of support.
The Journal of Asian Studies
@jas_tw
is now published by
@DukePress
! All JAS articles from 1941 to the present are available paywall-free at the Duke University Press website for the first few months of 2023.
Call for applications reminder: Apply by September 30 for 2022-2023 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants, available to scholars from South & Southeast Asia. Full details:
Grants ... grants ... we've got your grants!
☑️
#AAS2024
Travel Grants
☑️Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies
☑️East & Inner Asia Small Grants
Learn more and apply:
It's time ...
#AAS2024
Call for Proposals time! Submit your organized session, individual paper, or roundtable proposal for our conferences online (March 1) and in Seattle (March 14-17). The deadline for all proposals is August 3!
Call for applications: apply by November 15 for
@AIISIndia
fellowships, available to graduate students, faculty/researchers, and those working in the creative & performing arts. Get more information and application instructions at the AIIS website:
#AAS2023
has come to an end—thanks to all 3,400+ speakers, participants, exhibitors, and volunteers who joined us in Boston this year! We look forward to seeing you in Seattle next March for
#AAS2024
.
Call for applications: we are now accepting proposals for 2022-2023 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants, available to scholars from South & Southeast Asia. See details at our website and submit applications by September 30, 2022.
We are pleased to announce the winners of AAS 2021 prizes for books, service, and contributions to
#AsianStudies
. Please join us at the Award Ceremony on March 24 during
#AAS2021
to celebrate these members of our field and their work!
Many thanks to
@HLuceFdn
for supporting our special
#AAS2021
plenary session on "Race and Racisms in Asia/Asian Studies." All are invited to join us for this important conversation on Thursday, March 25 at 5:30pm Eastern Time.
Call for Applications: Academic Writing for International Publication Workshop, June 22-23 in Daegu, Korea. Junior scholars are invited to apply by April 15 for consideration.
We regret to announce that the
#AAS2020
Annual Conference scheduled for next week in Boston, MA has been cancelled due to concerns about
#COVID19
.
Please see the special announcement at our conference website for more information and FAQs:
The Association for Asian Studies is honored to announce the new Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies, made possible by a generous gift from L.A. Peter Gosling and Linda Yuen-Ching Lim.
Apply by January 24 for a
@caorc
-
@NEHgov
research fellowship! This program enables scholars who hold a PhD to spend 4-6 months in a country with an Overseas Research Center as their base.
We are now accepting applications from Southeast Asian scholars for the 2024-25 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies. Apply by February 1 for this program, which provides 8-12 months of support for research and writing.
"Scholars of Chinese art history now have a new home to share news, events, and find their communities!" Learn more about the newly launched Association for Chinese Art History in this
#AsiaNow
post by Michelle C. Wang
@asianartlibrary
.
It's that time of year ...
#AAS2023
#CFP
time! We're now accepting proposals for our 2023 Annual Conference, to be held February 17-18 (virtual sessions) and March 16-19 (in-person sessions). Submit proposals by August 9 to join us online or in Boston!
We are pleased to announce that the AAS has received a $60,000 grant from
@HLuceFdn
to support our new project, “TOWARD GLOBAL ASIAS: Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies and Exploring Afro-Asian Affinities.” Read the full announcement at
#AsiaNow
:
AAS Members: register now for the next session in our
#AASDigitalDialogues
series, "Asian Studies and Black Lives Matter," featuring William H. Bridges IV,
@DocKBrown85
, Yasmine Krings & Marvin D. Sterling. July 22 at 7pm ET.
Call for applications - "Asia Pacific Perspectives" Junior Scholar Writing Workshops, to be held online in early 2023. Apply by December 1 for consideration.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who attended
#AAS2021
! Your engagement, enthusiasm, and support has made our first Virtual Annual Conference an amazing experience—everyone at the AAS appreciates the time and energy you contributed to ensuring this new venture would be a success.
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal for
#AAS2022
. Our Program Committee considered over 1,100 paper and panel proposals, and we appreciate everyone's hard work. We look forward to an exciting conference in Honolulu and online next March!
The
#AASInAsia2024
conference will be co-hosted with
@UGMYogyakarta
, July 9-11. All panel and roundtable proposals must be submitted for consideration by October 31, 2023. Learn more:
In consultation with the AAS staff, Board of Directors, and our members, we've decided to make
#AAS2021
a virtual conference. We look forward to seeing many of you online next March!
Get all the details at our
#AsiaNow
blog ➡️
AAS has heard that some scholars from the PRC were denied permission to participate in
#AAS2022
. We are currently investigating and will post an update as soon as possible.
Call for applications —
@librarycongress
Asian Division Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program, for one or more weeks of on-site research. Submit all materials by January 28, 2024.
AAS supports the efforts of those who combat anti-Black racism in academia and our field in particular. Many of our members are participating in the
#ScholarStrike
initiated by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon, and AAS expresses its solidarity with the goals and aims of the action.
Today, the AAS Secretariat staff wishes a very happy retirement to Membership Manager Doreen Ilozor (below, second from left). Doreen has been building the AAS community for 15 years and we will miss her greatly!
Many AAS Members are making an abrupt switch to teaching online due to
#COVID19
. We want to help make this transition easier. Tweet us your advice, questions, successes, failures, links to resources and we'll boost the signal to facilitate a discussion about
#GoingRemote
.
Join us in Daegu, Korea, June 24-27, 2023 for the 8th AAS-in-Asia conference, to be held in partnership with Kyungpook National University. Conference CFP will open in September!
New
#AsiaNow
post:
@IUBloomington
PhD candidate Elise Anderson describes her experiences attempting to conduct research in Xinjiang, China this past summer amid a government crackdown on the Uyghur community there.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the
#AAS2021
Opening Ceremony! Catch up on-demand to see two amazing Chindon'ya performances and Christine Yano's vibrant, wide-ranging Presidential Address on
#GlobalAsias
.
The
#AAS2024
Call for Proposals will be open until August 3 at 5pm Eastern Time. Start your proposal early! The deadline *will not be extended.* Questions? Check out the FAQ at our conference website.
Call for proposals: the 2023 Southwest Conference on Asian Studies will meet at
@UHouston
and online, November 3-4, to celebrate "Voices and Visions: New Perspectives in Asian Studies." Submit a paper or panel proposal by July 1 for consideration.
New digital resource
@librarycongress
: Japanese Censorship Collection covering the 1920s-30s. Includes more than 1000 working documents from the Home Ministry.
The wait is over—here are the
#AAS2025
and
#AAS2026
Annual Conference locations!
We can't wait to visit two new (to us) cities with our
#AsianStudies
community!
Read full announcement at
#AsiaNow
:
The
#AAS2022
Call for Proposals is now open! Submit your paper, panel, or roundtable proposal by August 10 as we prepare for a hybrid conference next March, online and in Honolulu, HI. 💻 🏝️
#CFP
@aasinasia
2023 will take place in Daegu, Korea, June 24-27, co-hosted by AAS and Kyungpook National University. Submit your panel or roundtable proposals by Monday, October 31, 2022 for consideration!
One week from today:
#AAS2019
in Denver will open with a Keynote Address by
@thantmyintu
on "Myanmar, An Unfinished Nation: A Story of Race, Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st Century." Made possible by generous support from
@HarvardYenching
.
Congratulations to Professor Susan Shirk of
@UCSanDiego
, who has been honored with the
#AAS2024
Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies prize. Here, AAS President Jean Oi presents Dr. Shirk with the award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of
#AAS2022
book prizes, student paper prizes, and the Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award. Congratulations to all honorees!
On Tuesday, August 8, join us at 8:00am ET for an
#AASDigitalDialogues
introduction to the "Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences" research grants program.
Register now:
AAS Member Anne Reinhardt of
@WilliamsCollege
has recently published a new
@Harvard_Press
study of the treaty-port system in 19-20C China, NAVIGATING SEMI-COLONIALISM: SHIPPING, SOVEREIGNTY, AND NATION-BUILDING IN CHINA, 1860-1937.
AAS Members, mark your calendars for this upcoming
#AASDigitalDialogues
series, "From Dissertation to Book." Four sessions on a potentially intimidating process, with advice and encouragement from those who have gone through it, starting October 26!
Thank you so much to all the panelists and attendees at tonight's
#AASDigitalDialogues
session on "Asian Studies and Black Lives Matter." We'll post the video and transcript at the AAS website as soon as possible, and we look forward to continuing the conversation.
Thanks to the generous publishers who are offering their
#AAS2020
discount codes via our new Virtual Exhibit Hall—check it out now at the AAS Conference website.
Congratulations to 2020 Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies honoree, Patricia Buckley Ebrey of
@UW
! Since we were unable to hold the
#AAS2020
awards ceremony, Ebrey shared a video reflecting on her decades as an AAS Member—view it at our website.
🏆We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2020 prizes—see
#AsiaNow
for the full list, and join us at the Awards Ceremony on March 20 at
#AAS2020
in Boston to congratulate all the honorees!
New
#AsiaNow
post: Chris Rea of
@UBC
shares a look at his "Chinese Film Classics" website, course, playlists, and book—all valuable resources for research and teaching these important works of early Chinese cinema.
Many thanks to
#AAS2020
participants for their support in the wake of conference cancellation. We really appreciate the encouraging words, offers of assistance, & donated registration fees. We'll answer questions & provide updates as quickly as possible—thanks for your patience.
How can you continue doing research when travel is difficult and archives closed? Online, of course. Here,
@mjsharafi
offers tips for finding and digging into digital South Asia law reports.
Congratulations to AAS Member Kenneth Pomeranz, historian of China and the world at
@UChicago
, who has been awarded the 2021
@ToynbeePrize
for the study of global history.
Thanks to all for your efforts in composing these constructive recommendations for addressing systemic racism in Asian Studies and how the AAS can play a role. These are very important issues, and your petition will be forwarded to the AAS Board of Directors for discussion.
🥳 It's a pleasure to announce that the AAS has awarded $100,000+ in funding to 25 projects in the 2024-25 “Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences” grant competition. Thanks so much to
@Sida
and Forest Foundation Philippines for their support!
#CFP
ASIANetwork 2024 Annual Conference — Asia Beyond Boundaries: Past, Present, Future. April 12 – 14, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia; teachers and students are invited to submit session, individual paper, and poster proposals by August 31.
"Race and Racisms in Asia/Asian Studies" — all are welcome to join our special
#AAS2021
plenary session on Thursday, March 25 at 5:30pm Eastern Time. Supported by the
@HLuceFdn
, this is an important conversation that you won't want to miss.
Register now for our February 16
#AASDigitalDialogues
session, ACADEMICS ONLINE: DIGITAL HARASSMENT ACROSS ASIAS, featuring nine speakers discussing public-facing scholarship, activism, and online harassment in
#AsianStudies
.
🎉 The AAS is thrilled to announce that we have received a $2.68-million grant from Sweden to spearhead a new four-year initiative, "Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences and Supporting Under-represented Scholars of Asia." Learn more about it:
The
#AAS2024
conference team and Program Committee thank everyone who responded to our Call for Proposals. We received *1,712* submissions!!! That's one of our highest totals ever—and will make the selection process a tough one. Decisions will be sent in late September.
And the winner is ... Victor Seow!
@EastAsiaSciTech
is the winner of our
#AAS2023
Photo Booth contest—thank you to Victor and all who entered the competition! We look forward to seeing you at
#AAS2024
in Seattle.
Call for applications: Mentoring Workshop for Black Graduate Students in Asian Studies, to be held on Friday, April 9. Submit your application by February 22 to participate in this important discussion.
Graduate students — apply by January 5 to participate in our 2022 Dissertation Workshop, hosted with
@ssrc_org
and supported by
@HLuceFdn
! This year's theme is "Demographics, Migration, and Transnational Flows." More info:
Congratulations to AAS Member
@dfedman
for this recognition of his work! SEEDS OF CONTROL is also one of the many volumes we've been proud to support through the AAS First Book Subvention Program.
Congratulations to
@dfedman
. His book "Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea" won the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch Book Award. Read the announcement here:
#ReadUP
👶 We are thrilled to announce that onsite childcare will be available for all attendees at
#AAS2020
! Get the scoop on this and more at the latest issue of "Conference Connection," now published at
#AsiaNow
.
🎉 Congratulations to the 2020 winner of the
@bookcritics
award for biography: AAS Member
@astanley711
of
@NorthwesternU
! Stanley is author of STRANGER IN THE SHOGUN'S CITY: A JAPANESE WOMAN AND HER WORLD.
Congratulations to those of you who received
#AAS2023
acceptance emails yesterday! Remember to register as soon as possible ... early bird rates are in effect until October 7. We look forward to seeing you online and in Boston next year!
Applications open today for the
@PrincetonUPress
Supporting Diverse Voices grants fall funding cycle, focusing on work by BIPOC scholars in economics, sociology, politics & international relations, anthropology, and urban studies.
.
@TelAvivUni
faculty & AAS Member Ori Sela is author of a new
@ColumbiaUP
book, CHINA'S PHILOLOGICAL TURN: SCHOLARS, TEXTUALISM, AND THE DAO IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
July 11-15, tune in to the virtual AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies, which will feature over 200 paper presentations, three keynote talks, film screenings, and more.
Applications for our Public Research in
#AsianStudies
fellowships are due by Friday, January 14 at 5pm Eastern Time! These fellowships will support Asianists not in the professoriate to develop public programs on Asia and Asian communities.
10 days left until
#AAS2018
kicks off in Washington, D.C.! Good news: the city's famous cherry blossoms are predicted to reach their peak bloom March 23-27. Perfect timing for us!
Call for proposals: 2024 Southeast Conference of the AAS, January 26-28 at
@WakeForest
. Submit proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables by October 30 for consideration.
We are still accepting proposals for
#AAS2024
Late-Breaking Sessions! Organize a panel or roundtable on a trending topic and submit it for consideration by the deadline of January 18.
🎞️Now available at the AAS website: the video and transcript of our
#AASDigitalDialogues
session on "Asian Studies and Black Lives Matter," as well as a list of further reading & additional resources from panelists.
Check out supernatural stories from early medieval China in HIDDEN AND VISIBLE REALMS, a new collection edited and translated by AAS Member Zhenjun Zhang of
@StLawrenceU
and published by
@ColumbiaUP
.
Save the Date!
#AAS2023
will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, March 16-19. The Call for Proposals will open in mid-late June 2022—check out early info posted at the conference website to start planning now!
New
@Harvard_Press
book by AAS Member Elena Suet-Ying Chiu of
@UMassAmherst
— BANNERMAN TALES (ZIDISHU). Chiu's work discusses Manchu & Chinese storytelling in Qing-dynasty Beijing.