17th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference 2007

New Zealand - This is a Multidisciplinary Conference on Asia.

University of Otago 22-25 November 2007

A Multidisciplinary Conference on Asia

Keynote Speakers:

Barbara Watson Andaya
Professor of Asian Studies and member of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i

Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Professor of Japanese History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University

The New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA), established in 1974, seeks to encourage the spread of knowledge about Asia, its history, its culture and its role in international affairs. The Society's biennial conferences help achieve this aim through the dissemination of original research in all fields concerning Asia.

Keynote Speakers
Barbara Watson Andaya
Barbara Andaya is Professor of Asian Studies and a member of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i. Her publications include The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2006) and Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i, 2000). Professor Andaya will deliver the NZASIA Nicholas Tarling Lecture.

Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Deputy Convenor and Professor of Japanese History in Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Her publications include The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History (Verso, 2005) and Re-Inventing Japan: Time Space, Nation (M.E. Sharpe, 1998). Professor Morris-Suzuki is currently engaged in a joint ARC project on border controls and the migration of people in the Asia Pacific region.

The objectives of the Society are as follows:

To contribute to the knowledge and understanding of Asian polities, societies and civilisations by fostering research by its members or others, through the holding of conferences and scientific meetings, through publications, periodicals and the like, through subsidising research and travel, and in any other ways howsoever.

To disseminate knowledge of Asian polities, societies and civilisations in New Zealand by holding meetings and/or conferences, sponsoring publications, and establishing links amongst specialists in these fields and other educational, cultural and governmental institutions and their members, and amongst such specialists and news media.

To establish and maintain contacts with Societies of similar or related interests in Asia, Australia, America, Europe and elsewhere, by affiliation or otherwise.

Activities

Holding of seminars and conferences

Issuing of a Newsletter and occasional publications

Offering of advice on curricula matters

Updating of the New Zealand Asian Studies Directory

Counterpart Societies
Asian Studies Association of Australia

Chinese Studies Association of Australia

Japanese Studies Association of Australia

Korean Studies Association of Australia

Association for Asian Studies (North America)

International Association for Asian Studies (Europe)
Associates

Asia New Zealand Foundation (formerly Asia 2000 Foundation of New Zealand)