A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
Keynote Speaker Richard Bresnahan & Board Member Jim Kodera, ASIANetwork Conference, 2006 (Photo by Diane Clayton)
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 three times a year ASIANetwork Exchange, a newsletter for teaching about Asia. 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 Individual Members, and our Board of Directors and Council of Advisors.
ASIANetwork Announcements
- Student-Faculty Fellows Program for Collaborative Research in Asia: Summer 2009 Program information and application forms available
- Erin McCarthy, Chair, Call for Nominations to the ASIANetwork Board of Directors, 2009-12: nomination form.
- Ronnie Littlejohn, Vice-Chair, Call for Panel Proposals for the 2009 ASIANetwork Conference at Hickory Ridge Conference Center: panel theme; panel proposal form.
- Freeman Foundation Renews Student-Faculty Fellowship Program for a 4th 3-year Cycle
Other Announcements
- Call for papers: Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion (SIPR) Conference on "Immortality, Physicalism and Death of God," University of Alaska, Anchorage, June 13-14, 2009, abstract deadline, May 1, 2008
- One-year visiting position in Chinese language and area studies to begin September 2008, Knox College; tenure-line search during the 2008-2009 academic year anticipated; for details, contact Professor Michael A. Schneider, Chair, Asian Studies Program
- Japan-America Student Conference 2008, Reed College, UCLA, University of Montana, Harvard University, July 25 - August 21, 2008, application deadline extended to early April
- Director of Chinese Programs, Associated Colleges of the South, Atlanta, Georgia, starting date as early in 2008 as feasible, open till filled
- 1-year Teaching Fellow in Japanese Studies with a specialization in any academic discipline, Earlham College, screening beginning March 1, 2008
- Director of the M.A. Program in International Relations, Bangkok Center, Webster University-Thailand, screening beginning February 1, 2008 Honolulu, Hawaii, May 18 - June 06, 2008, application deadline, Feb. 1, 2008