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2024 AAS Annual Conference Wrap-Up and Resources
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AAS 2024 Annual Conference Resolution of Thanks
The Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies, […]
AAS 2024 Is Almost Here — What To Know Before You Go!
We look forward to welcoming over 3,000 speakers, attendees, and […]
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Linda Lim, longtime AAS member and retired @MichiganRoss professor, reflects on how developments in Singapore led to her career path in the United States—while maintaining strong ties to her homeland and its leaders in academia and government.
https://knowledgepraxis.academia.sg/blog/2024/04/12/linda-lim/
How might the context of scientific discovery relate to assessments of "new species discovery?"
Find out in Christine Luk's #STinAsia talk next Tue, April 23, 10:30 am ET:
DISCOVERING FRESHWATER JELLYFISH IN MODERN CHINA 🪼
Zoom registration: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm
Register now to attend (in-person or virtually) the May 24 symposium honoring the life and work of AAS member and @MichiganChina faculty member Xiaohong Xu, who passed away in 2023.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/xiaohongxu/registration/
Can you imagine a time before widespread internet? 😱 Back in our Spring 1995 Newsletter NCC was at the forefront of digital resources, inviting scholars to a demo at @AASAsianStudies! Folks were invited to check it out… *if* they had the internet! 😰😬 https://www.nccjapan.org/newsletters/newslet_5.pdf
New #AsiaNow post: a conversation between AAS Membership Manager Bill Warner and historian @SudevSheth of @Penn about his new @CambridgeUP book, BANKROLLING EMPIRE: FAMILY FORTUNES AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN MUGHAL INDIA.
https://www.asianstudies.org/bankrolling-empire-a-conversation-with-historian-sudev-sheth/
cc: @LauderInstitute @Wharton @PennHistory @PennSAS