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
- 2008 Conference photo galleries posted: Friday keynote; Saturday keynote & morning panels; Saturday afternoon panels; Saturday business meeting & reception; Sunday panels
- Call for nominations to the Board of Directors, 2010-13, due on July 31, 2009
- Application information & forms for the 2010 AN Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Program available.
- Call for panel proposals, 2010 ASIANetwork Conference, hosted by Agnes Scott College, Emory University Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia, April 9-11, 2010
- Recipients of the 2009 ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program announced
- Call for Applications for a Guest Editor, Special Section of the Spring 2010 Issue of the ASIANetwork Exchange, applications due June 1, 2009
Other Announcements
- Resident Director, Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU), Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, starting August 1, 2009, annually renewable; applications deadline: July 15, 2009, open till filled
- Faculty development workshop on "Contesting Boundaries: Environments and Interdependence in Asian Perspectives," Belmont University, Sept. 17-19, 2009 ($20 discount on registration fees for AN member institution faculty)