Focus Asia Webinar Series

Focus Asia Webinar Series - Registrations Now Open!

Focus Asia is a webinar series focused on Asian Studies over the month of October. We are holding two 30-minute webinars per week over the 5 weeks of October on Tuesdays and Thursdays during which we will discuss the rich tapestry of Asian history, culture and politics - a showcase of Gale resources and academic research.

Details on each webinar can be found by clicking on the "Register" links. All registrants will afterwards receive recordings.

Focus Asia Webinar Series program

Tuesday 1st October 2024 1:00-1:30pm Japan Time
The Kowloon Walled City as seen through digitized Primary Sources
Masaki Morisawa - Senior Product Manager, Gale Asia

Register - Tuesday 1 October

Thursday 3rd October 2024 1:00-1:30pm Japan Time
Japan’s Return to the International Community in the 1950s
Professor Sandra Wilson, College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences, Murdoch University

Register - Thursday 3 October

Tuesday 8th October 2024 12:00-12:30pm Japan Time
Exploring Gale's China and the Modern World archives series

Liping Yang, Senior Manager - Gale Academic Publishing and Masaki Morisawa, Senior Product Manager, Gale Asia

Register - Tuesday 8 October

Tuesday 15th October 2024 12:00-12:30pm Japan Time
Exploring State Papers Online Colonial: Asia Part 3: Malay States, Malaya and Straits Settlements and British Library Newspapers Part 7: Southeast Asian Newspapers

Liping Yang, Senior Manager - Gale Academic Publishing

Register - Tuesday 15 October

Thursday 17th October 2024 12:00-12:30pm Japan Time
Decoding Chinese, Japanese and South Korean strategic ambitions, approaches and challenges in the era of evolving strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific: A Comparative Study
Dr Alica Kizekova, Lecturer. School of Media, Creative Arts, & Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University

Register - Thursday 17 October

Tuesday 22nd October 2024 12:00-12:30pm Japan Time
China and Australia: Trade, Migration, and Politics in the Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
Liping Yang, Senior Manager - Gale Academic Publishing

Register - Tuesday 22 October

Tuesday 29th October 2024 12:00-12:30pm Japan Time
Language and Power in Pacific and Asian History

Dr. Lewis Mayo. Lecturer. Asia Institute, University of
Melbourne

Register - Tuesday 29 October

Thursday 31st October 2024 12:00-12:30pm Japan Time
Using Gale Digital Scholar Lab with Asian Studies resources / Gale Research Showcase, Learning Centers, Essays and Source Library summaries
Damian Almeida, Training and Digital Communications Executive, Gale Australia and New Zealand

Register - Thursday 31 October

We hope you will be able to attend some of the sessions that are of interest, however if you can’t please feel free to register for them and we will send you the recordings.