Here on Asian Currents we’ll be hosting an account of each day’s online activity around the ASAA conference to give you a glimpse of what’s on offer at this year’s conference.
The 22nd Biennial Conference of the 黑料社区 officially kicks off on 3 July 2018 but on 2 July there was a selection of pre-conference workshops and associated events.
For postgraduates there was a morning workshop:
Day 0 of – kicking off with our postgradue workshop on networking and getting a job in academia. Can鈥檛 wait to meet all the students 鈽�锔�
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????鈥嶁檧锔�???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny)
Including simulated job interviews:
Getting a job in academia session at the postgrad workshop. Thanks to our academic panel, and well done to our three top ranked candidates – and to for 鈥榞etting the job鈥�!
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????鈥嶁檧锔�???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny)
The Historians of Southeast Asia also held their second meeting as a pre-conference event.
Ruth Nuttall: Researching 2006 East Timor Crisis very difficult because of lingering animosity between Fretilin and UDT. Historians of Southeast Asia.
— Greg Raymond (@GregoryVRaymond)
Presentation #1 done. Really enjoying spending the day amongst historians
— Becky Gidley (@beckra_giddon)
Robert Cribb on myths about Indonesia that historians have helped demolish: (1) 1965 anti-Communist purges were a Chinese genocide; (2) PRRI Pemesta revolts were secessionist. Historians of Southeast Asia.
— Greg Raymond (@GregoryVRaymond)
At the Meeting of Historians of Southeast Asia, important point by , 'We always need to remember the power structures that construct the official archive'
— Michael Leadbetter (@M1ke_Pb)
In the afternoon hosted a session on the New Colombo Plan and student mobility.
"At what point are we satisfied with numbers? One of our biggest universities has a 16% rate. Is this enough?" Kent Anderson
— Japan Foundation AU (@JPFSydney)
"Australia hasn't more investment in NZ than in all of Asia combined. We do not know how to engage with Asia. We need to collaborate and approach the problem as one, because we can achieve more together than we can in isolation" Jason Hayes,
— Japan Foundation AU (@JPFSydney)
"It's important to remember that is not just the overseas experience, but begins with attitudes, and starts as early as high school. The actual travel require some funds so that tends to be the focus, but it's much bigger than that"
— Japan Foundation AU (@JPFSydney)
In the evening there was the launch for new book Ambitious Alignments from Power Publications and National Gallery Singapore.
A packed house for the launch of Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art 1945-1990
— Michael Leadbetter (@M1ke_Pb)
Launch of the new publication – well done to all involved
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????鈥嶁檧锔�???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny)
This is just a snippet of what was on offer. Tomorrow, 3 July, the conference begins in earnest with more than a thousand attendees. To join the online conversation use the hashtag #ASAA2018.