NUS Press at ICAS 2017 July 28, 2017 17:16

NUS Press participated in the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars conference at Chiang Mai Convention Centre in Chiang Mai, Thailand last week (July 20-23).

Organised by the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), with support from the Faculty of Social Sciences of Chiang Mai University, we were pleased to participate at the conference's Asian Studies book fair.

(Photo credit: Valerie Yeo)

We were also pleased that Sarah Tiffin's Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century was shortlisted for the ICAS Book Award. Whilst it did not win, we were pleased with the overwhelming interest in the book and our art history publishing programme.

Here are highlights of some of the books that were displayed:

• Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore by Chua Beng Huat
• US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975: Strategic Non-alignment in the Cold War by Daniel Wei Boon Chua
• Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary by David Teh
• 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 11^th edition of ICAS will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands (July 16-19, 2019). For updates on ICAS-11, please check the ICAS website occasionally at the following link: http://icas.asia/en/icas11

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