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ASPAC Graduate Prizes: Application Deadline

ASPAC–Mori Prize and ASPAC–Barlow Prize for Graduate Students

At the 1992 ASPAC conference at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), the ASPAC Board voted to establish the John and Mae Esterline Prize to encourage student participation in ASPAC conferences and to recognize the support given to students by our colleagues John and Mae Esterline. The name of the award was changed to the ASPAC–Esterline Prize and then to the ASPAC–Mori Prize in June 2014, in honor of Professor Barbara Mori of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. As a long-time ASPAC member, Professor Mori advocated Asian studies, including Asian musicology, her … » More …

New Course for Summer 2018

ASIA 303 is housed entirely in the Asia Program and allows us to offer class credit for a variety of experiences, from lectures, to a movie series, to excursions the Asia program offers to students.

Our inaugural class will invite students with different academic backgrounds and interests to explore our regional Asian studies conference (ASPAC), hosted here on the Pullman campus in 2018. Students will prepare to attend panels and to formally interview both senior and junior scholars who will attend and present at the conference. They will also participate in social gatherings and cultural events along with all other participants.

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ASPAC Proposals: Extended Application Deadline

Call for Proposals
Envisioning Global Asia
ASPAC 2018 Conference, June 8-10, 2018

The Asia Program at WSU invites college and university faculty, K–12 schoolteachers, independent scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies to submit proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, individual papers, or poster presentations on historical or contemporary topics in the humanities, arts, social sciences, education, health, law, business, environmental sciences, or other disciplines related to East, South, or Southeast Asia and their diasporas. We especially welcome proposals that connect theory, method, or practice to contemporary or historical questions of urbanization, migration, … » More …

ASPAC Proposals: Regular Application Deadline

Call for Proposals
Envisioning Global Asia
ASPAC 2018 Conference, June 8-10, 2018

The Asia Program at WSU invites college and university faculty, K–12 schoolteachers, independent scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies to submit proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, individual papers, or poster presentations on historical or contemporary topics in the humanities, arts, social sciences, education, health, law, business, environmental sciences, or other disciplines related to East, South, or Southeast Asia and their diasporas. We especially welcome proposals that connect theory, method, or practice to contemporary or historical questions of urbanization, migration, … » More …

ASPAC Proposals: Early Application Deadline

Call for Proposals
Envisioning Global Asia
ASPAC 2018 Conference, June 8-10, 2018

The Asia Program at WSU invites college and university faculty, K–12 schoolteachers, independent scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies to submit proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, individual papers, or poster presentations on historical or contemporary topics in the humanities, arts, social sciences, education, health, law, business, environmental sciences, or other disciplines related to East, South, or Southeast Asia and their diasporas. We especially welcome proposals that connect theory, method, or practice to contemporary or historical questions of urbanization, migration, … » More …