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 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
- Member institutions Dickinson College, Fairfield University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Randolph-Macon College selected to be host colleges for the 2010-11 ASIANetwork - Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Program: information on teaching fellow positions.
- Flash Bulletin! Freeman Foundation renews funding for the Student-Faculty Fellows Program for 2011 and 2012.
- Invitation to the 2010 Conference from Vice-Chair Fuji Lozada, April 9-11, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia; Preliminary Conference Program; Conference Registration
- Summer 2009 AN Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program preliminary reports posted
- 2009 conference photo galleries posted: Friday Board Meeting, Keynote Address, & Freeman Fellows Orientation; Saturday Morning Keynote Address & Panel Sessions; Saturday Afternoon Roundtables & Panel Sessions; Saturday Afternoon Business Meeting & Evening Roundtables & Kyogen Plays; Sunday Morning Plenary Address & Panel Sessions
- "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
- 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.
- 2010-11 Research fellowships for scholars specializing in Buddhist art or Indian Trade, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore; application deadline: Feb. 15, 2010
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, beginning Aug. 2010; PhD required; East Asian cultural anthropologist background with teaching and research focus in popular culture and gender; screening beginning Jan. 15, 2010, open till filled
- Adjunct instructor of Chinese and adjunct instructor of Japanese, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, part-time, one year positions beginning August 2010, review of applications beginning January 11, 2010; open until filled
- Call for papers or panels on Central, South, Southeast, and East Asia by undergraduate students, 4th Undergraduate Asian Studies Symposium, Marietta College, April 15-17, 2010; proposals due March 1, 2010
- Program Dean, Asia-Pacific Region, IES Abroad (Institute for the International Education of Students), posted July 2009, open till filled