InterAsia Week – Beirut, Lebanon (May 27 – June 1, 2024)

May 17, 2024

About

The ACSS is pleased to host InterAsia Week in Beirut and to welcome members of three different partner-sponsored initiatives  for a series of meetings. While these projects are guided by different aims, they share a commitment to engaging with research networks that cross-cut geographies and disciplines and develop innovative transregional frameworks for examining complex issues.

Partners

Our partner institutions in the 2024 InterAsia Week

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Photos from InterAsia Week 2024.

Events

The conference will feature several workshops and meetings in collaboration with InterAsia partners. On May 30th the InterAsia partnership will host a panel discussion on “War and Civilizationist Horizons” that is open to the public.

The Civilizationism Project: Network Meeting

War and Civilizationist Horizons: Violence, revanchism and ‘revenge memories’

Mapping Connections

China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East Institute

InterAsian Digitalities

News and Events

Panel Discussion: War and Civilizationist Horizons

This panel focuses on the relationship between war – real or rhetorical – and invocations of civilizational fault lines and conflicts in the Middle East, Europe/Russia and South Asia. Panelists will discuss the rhetoric of civilizational wars

‘Rethinking the Middle East as West Asia’ Workshop held in Beijing, China (January 13-14, 2024)

Members of the Mapping Connections project participated in a two-day workshop that explored a wide-range of issues around the new (and old) connections between China, East Asia, and the Middle East, and the implications of these for our understanding of the region

InterAsian Legalities Cluster Launch

We are pleased to announce the InterAsian Legalities Cluster, a research partnership between the The Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS / based at Melbourne Law School), the Arab Council of Social Sciences, and WSU School of Law

Get in Touch

Whether you’re interested in academic collaborations, have insights to share, or questions about our initiatives, we’re here to engage and assist. We invite you to connect with us through the following form, and to visit our contact page for further instructions on getting in touch.