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Archive for February, 2009

Asia and Pacific Studies Society website launched

After much help from DOI and the Faculty of Asian Studies (and a reasonable amount of personal hair pulling) the new Asia and Pacific Studies Society Website is online (http://apss.weblogs.anu.edu.au).
The APSS aims to use this site as a primary way of communicating with members and the broader Asian Studies community. The new blog style allows [...]

lecture on The Journey to the West

Public Lecture
Some Old and New Thoughts on The Journey to the West 西遊記
Professor Anthony C. Yu 余國藩
Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Religion and Literature in the Divinity School
University of Chicago
7pm, Tuesday February 24, 2009
APCD Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre, ANU
Professor Yu offered a personal [...]

Summer in the Thailand-Burma borderlands

Southeast Asian Frontiers: Thailand and Burma (ASIA3014/6114) is currently running in northern Thailand. Led by Chintana Sandilands and Nicholas Farrelly from the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific, the 13 students in the course have completed two weeks of academic activities in Chiang Mai. They have been learning both the Thai and Burmese languages, [...]