APSIG newsletter no. 58: July 2005

News from the Asian Studies Association of Australia

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ASAA 2006 Conference
The next ASAA conference will be in Wollongong, 26-29 June 2006. The website will be up soon. The convenor is Adrian Vickers.

SEALG list

Keeping up with Southeast Asian library news in the UK? You may be interested in SEALG's new newslist.

APSIG e-mail list

Christina Flynn has taken over from Deveni Temu as the administrator of the aliaAPSIG forum, which is a moderated e-mail discussion list aimed at facilitating regular communication between APSIG members.

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APSIG forthcoming events

APSIG spring dinner, Wednesday 28 September, at a Canberra restaurant. More details from George Miller (please remove '.nospam' from address) ph 02 6295 1439.

APSIG lunchtime talk, Travellers' tales. Two interesting speakers are planned for later this year. More details in inCite and via the APSIG e-discussion list.

Library visit in Canberra, late 2005. More details later.

Christmas lunch, early December. More details later.

Books received

Economic reforms and food security: the impact of trade and technology in South Asia. Eds. Surech Candra Babu, Ashok Gulati. New York : Haworth Press, 2005. 482 p. ISBN1560222573 (soft)

Selected proceedings of the South Asia Regional Conference held in New Delhi, April 2002.