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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=s.baum@griffith.edu.au href="mailto:s.baum@griffith.edu.au">Scott Baum</A><STRONG> <A href="mailto:s.baum@griffith.edu.au">s.baum@griffith.edu.au</A></STRONG></DIV></DIV>
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<P><B>Dear Colleagues,</B></P>
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<P><B>I would like to draw your attention to the following conference:</B></P>
<P><B>Asia Pacific Sociological Association Conference (APSA), Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Oct. 22-24, 2012 </B></P>
<P><B>Conference Theme: Sociology and Social Transformations in the Asia Pacific region</B></P>
<P><I>The first <B>Asia Pacific Sociological Association</B></I> (APSA) Conference was held at the Philippine Social Science Center under the leadership of Prof. John Western (University of Queensland), Prof. Corazon Lamug (Philippine Sociological Society), and Dr. Virginia Miralao (Philippine Social Science Council) and a number of sociology colleagues from the Asia Pacific region in 1996. Since then conferences have been held at least every two years in South Korea, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Each conference has a specific theme which addresses the development of sociological research and scholarship in the Asia-Pacific region.</P>
<P>The 2012 APSA Conference will be held in Quezon City, Metro Manila at the School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University.</P>
<DIV><BR clear=all>The conference website is: <A href="http://apsa2012admu.wordpress.com/">http://apsa2012admu.wordpress.com/</A><BR><BR>Regards<BR>Professor Scott Baum<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Associate Professor Michael Leach</DIV>
<DIV>Politics & Public Policy</DIV>
<DIV>Faculty of Life and Social Sciences</DIV>
<DIV>Swinburne University of Technology</DIV>
<DIV>PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC </DIV>
<DIV>AUSTRALIA 3122</DIV>
<DIV>Phone: +61 3 9214 5357</DIV>
<DIV>Fax: +61 3 9819 0821</DIV>
<DIV><A href="mailto:mleach@swin.edu.au">mleach@swin.edu.au</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>