A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
Images from the book: Reading Asian Art & Artifacts: Windows to Asia on American College Campuses, a project funded by the Luce Foundation.
For the complete set of images from this project, see IDEAS.
Grant Programs and Awards
What is ASIANetwork?
A consortium of over 170 North American colleges, ASIANetwork strives to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education to help prepare succeeding generations of undergraduates for a world in which Asian societies play prominent roles in an ever more interdependent world.
The unique teaching mission of the undergraduate liberal arts institution poses special opportunities and challenges in the development of Asian Studies. ASIANetwork seeks to encourage the study of Asian countries and cultures on our campuses and to enable our students and faculty to experience these cultures first hand. In a time of fiscal constraints, ASIANetwork facilitates conversations among faculty and administrators concerning the development and strengthening of Asian Studies programs, as well as ways to foster collaboration among institutions.
ASIANetwork convenes annual conferences addressing practical problems encountered by teachers in liberal arts institutions in the teaching of Asian Studies.
We publish twice a year ASIANetwork EXCHANGE, A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, and each winter ASIANetwork Bulletin, a newsletter.
In partnership with external foundations and institutions including Freeman Foundation and Luce Foundation, we offer to our members a number of programs for the promotion of the teaching of Asian Studies.
Consortium highlights, grants received, and current and completed programs and projects are summarized in our Fact Sheet. There is more detailed information about our history and purpose, and about membership benefits and information. Also available are lists of our current institutional members and our Board of Directors and Council of Advisors.
ASIANetwork Announcements
- Call for papers on Asian environments in special section of the Spring 2012 issue of ASIANetwork Exchange: Please send abstracts of 300 words or less to guest editor Darrin Magee by Jan. 1, 2012
- New grant from the Luce Foundation to support the ASIANetwork Service-Learning and the Environment in Asia Program (ANSLEAP), 2011-2013
- ASIANetwork Faculty Enhancement Program (ANFEP): Program and application information for the 2012 South Korea Seminar posted
- Information for the 2012 Marianna McJimsey Student Paper Competition posted
- Information on the 2012 ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Program for Collaborative Research in Asia posted, including application details and forms
- Announcement of the winner of The Marianna McJimsey Award 2011 Student Paper Competition posted
- Details on 2011 conference registration, accommodations and travel information posted
- Calls for applications for Guest Editor of the Special Section of the Spring 2011 issue of the ASIANetwork Exchange; application deadline, June 1, 2011
- Preliminary project reports for the 2010 ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Program posted
- New ASIANetwork Faculty Enhancement Program, "Deepening Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts: Seminars in India, South Korea and Vietnam," pending funding by the Mellon Foundation; program details and application information for the 2011 India Seminar available
- "Making Peace With Vietnam," a documentary film made by Steven Emmanuel of Virginia Wesleyan University with funding by the ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program, wins the Best Feature Documentary Award at the 2009 Beijing International Film Festival.
Other Announcements
- Director of Asia Programs, with particular focus on China, Center for International and Intercultural Studies, St. Lawrence University; review of applications beginning February 15, 2012, open till filled
- Fourth biennial Half the World Symposium on Environmental Issues in East Asia, hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, March 2-4, 2012; details forthcoming
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, St. Lawrence University, 1-year appointment beginning August 2012; review of applications beginning Feb. 1, 2012, open till filled
- Tenure-track position in East Asian cultural anthropology, Wittenberg University, Ph.D. required, review of applications beginning December 15, 2010; open till filled
- Columbia University's Asia for Educators Program launching online learning series for educators, with focus on China, Japan, Korea, & Vietnam, & subjects including Art, Language Arts, Theater, Geography, Economics, World History and Cultures: course & registration information.