The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman will be taking part in an online roundtable via Zoom, “Global Networks for Asian Studies,” on 2 March 2022, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm, Eastern Standard Time, United States (March 3, 7 am, Philippine Standard Time). Registration is required.

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Discussion Points

Organized by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the roundtable features “leaders from global Asian Studies institutions in dialogue on crucial issues” such as “global inequities, support for young scholars, and future directions” of the field. The discussion will center on, just to name a few:

• The impact of the pandemic on Asian Studies
• Issues and “current/potential problems”
• “Supporting and sustaining” Asian Studies
• Inspiring interest in the study of Asia
• Possibilities for collaboration
• Supporting scholarship

Professor Matthew Santamaria will represent the UP Asian Center in the roundtable.

List of Participants

• Kamran Ali (Vice President, Association for Asian Studies)

• Jerónimo Delgado-Caicedo (Secretary General, Latin American Association for Asian and African Studies (ALADAA)

• Lía Rodriguez de la Vega (Deputy Director of the Asian Affairs Committee of the Argentine Council for Relations International, Latin American Association for Asian and African Studies (ALADAA))

• Hilary Finchum-Sung (Executive Director, Association for Asian Studies)

• Brendan Howe (President, Asian Political and International Studies Association)

• Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, (Chairman, Consortium of Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA))

• Hy Luong, (President Association for Asian Studies)

• Philippe Peycam (Director, International Institute of Asian Studies)

• Matthew Santamaria (University of the Philippines Asian Center)

• Krisna Uk (Director of Special Initiatives, Association for Asian Studies)

• Christine Yano (moderator) (Past President, Association for Asian Studies)

Many of these participants also took part in an online roundtable, "Networks of Knowledge on Asia," on 26 November 2021, which launched the UP Asian Center’s ‘New Direction in Asian Studies’ webinar series. Watch the recording.

Learn more about the AAS roundtable.

The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. It also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, the Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website.