We are pleased to announce the 23rd biennial conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) will be held at the University of Melbourne from 6th to the 9th July 2020. The theme for the conference is Future Asias. The biennial Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Conference is the largest gathering of experts working on AsiaContinue reading “ASAA 2020 Futures Asia Conference”
Category Archives: CONFERENCE
Early Career Workshop at UNSW Law
WOMEN IN ASIA CONFERENCE 2019 EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER (ECR) WORKSHOP PROGRAM 12 PM – 4:30PM, Friday 21 June 2019 Law Faculty Common Room, Level 2, Law Building (MAP REF: F8) Session 1: Social Impact and (National) benefit Chair: Dr. Tanya Jakimow (UNSW) Speakers: Jan Breckenridge (UNSW), Louise Edwards (UNSW) & Sarah Cook (IGD, UNSW) In this sessionContinue reading “Early Career Workshop at UNSW Law”
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
On 27-28 November, UNSW Law will be hosting a conference on legal education. The theme of the 2019 conference is: ‘Teaching as a Subversive Activity’. We will be looking for panels, papers, posters and performances on legal education research related to the theme, which we have drawn from Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner’s classic TeachingContinue reading “Teaching as a Subversive Activity”
Women in Asia in an Era of Anti-Elitism
Registration for speakers at the Women in Asia conference 2019 is soon closing! Make sure you register before 20 April as a speaker for the event. Registration is available here: https://www.international.unsw.edu.au/women-in-asia-conference-2019 The Women in Asia conference is a biennial event run by the Women in Asia Forum of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. TheContinue reading “Women in Asia in an Era of Anti-Elitism”
Women in Asia Conference 2019
The 2019 Women in Asia Conference will be held at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney on 21 to 23 June 2019. The Women in Asia Forum is affiliated with the Asian Studies Association of Australia and hosts a biannual interdisciplinary conference. The theme of the 2019 conference is “Women in an Era of Anti-Elitism: Responding toContinue reading “Women in Asia Conference 2019”
Implementing New Constitutions Workshop
From 13-14 October 2017, Chicago Law School will be holding a workshop on ‘From Parchment to Practise: Implementing New Constitutions’. I will be presenting a paper on “Vehicle for Democratic Transition or Authoritarian Straightjacket? Constitutional Regression and Risks in the Struggle to Change Myanmar’s Constitution“. The abstract of my paper is as follows: How hard isContinue reading “Implementing New Constitutions Workshop”
ASAA Conference 3-5 July 2018
The next Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference will be held in Sydney on 3–5 July 2018. Co-organised by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the China Studies Centre and the School of Languages and Culture, this conference will bring together academics from across the disciplines with a shared interest in Asia. The conference is open to scholars, students and community membersContinue reading “ASAA Conference 3-5 July 2018”
Courts and Constitutionalism in Contemporary Asia
Next week at the ICON conference we have a panel lined up on “Courts and Constitutionalism in Contemporary Asia”. This panel seeks to explore the role of courts and how and why they do (or do not) contribute to building constitutionalism in contemporary Asia. The last few decades have seen the creation of a range ofContinue reading “Courts and Constitutionalism in Contemporary Asia”
Politics in Action in Southeast Asia
Upcoming Event: Politics in Action: Democratic Updates from Southeast Asia Policy Roundtable When: 29 July 2016, 10.00 – 18.00 Where: New Law School Lecture Theatre 104, New Law Building, University of Sydney Southeast Asia is far from homogenous when it comes to political systems, government leadership and democratic transitions. Each country has a unique political history which separatesContinue reading “Politics in Action in Southeast Asia”
UNSW HKU Conference 2015
This coming Friday and Saturday UNSW Law and HKU Law will be holding a research symposium at UNSW Kensington Campus, Sydney. A session on ‘Comparative Constitutional Interpretation: Asia & Beyond‘ will be held on Friday morning together with Rosalind Dixon (UNSW), Melissa Crouch (UNSW), Theunis Roux (UNSW), Po-Jen Yap (HKU) and Jianlin Chen (HKU).
Melissa Crouch 