The Asian Studies Discussion Group is an inter-disciplinary and international graduate student group that meets bi-monthly to discuss selected theoretical readings on "Asia" as method, field-site, and imagined region. They also discuss current scholarship in Asia-focused journals, regional politics, and the relevance of these to their own research.

Students interested are welcome to join discussions. The next meeting is an informal "mini-conference" on 12pm-1.30pm, 25 March (Tuesday), on the theme "Asian Intersections".

Hyo Woo (English) will discuss Chinatown as a material and symbolic site for the making of a Korean immigrant community and imaginary in the U.S. in early 20th century Korean novels in English. Anis Sundusiyah (Education) will discuss how Indonesian teachers negotiate bilingual language policies in international schools in Indonesia. Carol Chan (Anthropology) draws on ethnography of inter-Asian labor migration to highlight how such processes reproduce hierarchies within and between Asian nations, while creating possibilities for new forms of solidarity.