NUS Press at AAS-in-Asia 2017 June 30, 2017 15:00
NUS Press participated in the 2017 AAS-in-Asia conference at Korea University in Seoul last week (June 24-26).
(Image credit: Chye Shu Wen)
Organised by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), in partnership with Korea University, the theme of the conference was 'Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries.'
(Image credit: Chye Shu Wen)
We are pleased to have met scholars and students who have an interest in Southeast Asia, and were heartened by the warm response towards our art history publishing programme.
(Above) Publishing director Dr Paul Kratoska speaking with some scholars based in South Korea and Thailand
(Image credits: Chye Shu Wen).
Here are highlights of some of the books that were displayed:
- Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore by Chua Beng Huat
- Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699 by Sher Banu A. L. Khan
- Singapore's Permanent Territorial Revolution: Fifty Years in Fifty Maps by Rodolphe De Koninck
- Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary by David Teh
- Liberalism and the Postcolony: Thinking the State in 20th-Century Philippines by Lisandro E. Claudio
- Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State by John Butcher and R. E. Elson
- The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace by Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng
- Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia [NEW JOURNAL]
The 5th edition of AAS-in-Asia will take place at Ashoka University, New Delhi, India (July 5-8, 2018). For updates on AAS-in-ASIA 2018, please check on their website occasionally at the following link:
http://www.aas-in-asia2018.com/index.html