Events Archive - Our last 10 years of talks, launches and other events
Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic - John Zubrzycki Talks about His Latest Book
Tuesday July 17, 2018 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dancer Padma Menon & Photographer Barbie Robinson In Conversation about "Siva in Me"
Wednesday June 6, 2018 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Milton Osborne on how Pol Pot Solved the Leprosy Problem
Wednesday May 23, 2018 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Citizen Power. Postwar Reconciliation: Yasuko Claremont In Conversation
Wednesday April 4, 2018 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Peter Hack Author of The Art Deco Department Stores of Shanghai - In Conversation
Wednesday December 6, 2017 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Australians in Shanghai: Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty Port China
Tuesday July 25, 2017 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Madeleine O'Dea Author of The Phoenix Years In Conversation
Thursday July 13, 2017 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Afternoon Tea with Jenevieve Chang - From Suburban Sydney to Shanghai Show Girl - Saturday May 6th
Saturday May 6, 2017 2:00 PM
The Mysterious Mr Jacob - John Zubrzycki Talks about His Latest Book
Thursday April 27, 2017 6:00 PM
Maharani - The First Australian Princess. Author Chris Kunz at Asia Bookroom
Thursday March 30, 2017 6:00 PM
Launch of Race and British Colonialism in South-East Asia, 1770-1870
Monday December 12, 2016 6:00 PM
The 100 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia - Editor Yong Ding Li Speaks at Asia Bookroom
Wednesday November 2, 2016 6:00 PM
CANCELLED - A Conversation about Peace - Author Barry Hill In Conversation with Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tuesday October 18, 2016 6:00 PM
Vietnam as if... - Kim Huynh Talks about His Recently Published Collection of Short Stories
Wednesday October 12, 2016 6:00 PM
Bestselling Indonesian Author Leila S Chudori at Asia Bookroom
Saturday October 8, 2016 4:00 PM
Author Sherene Suchy In Conversation about her new book Keepsakes. Memoir on the 'museum of you' & estate planning
Thursday June 16, 2016 6:00 PM
Invitation: Launch of Activism and Aid in East Timor by Ann Wigglesworth
Tuesday May 31, 2016 6:00 PM
Philip Coggan Talks about Spirit Worlds: Cambodia, The Buddha and the Naga
Thursday May 26, 2016 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Archipelago A Journey Across Indonesia - Ian Burnet talks about his Third Book on Indonesia
Thursday August 27, 2015
Launch of Prof Anthony Reid's History of South East Asia: Critical Crossroads
Wednesday June 24, 2015
Nicholas Jose and Linda Jaivin in Conversation to Celebrate Publication of Bapo
Tuesday February 24, 2015
Nicholas Jose To Launch Professor John Minford's Translation of the I Ching - Tuesday December 16
Tuesday December 16, 2014
Into the Heart of the Himalayas - Jono Lineen speaks about his 2700 kilometre-solo trek
Thursday October 23, 2014
Japanese Translator Meredith McKinney Speaks About Two Very Different Japanese Works
Wednesday October 15, 2014
Run For Your Life - Jill Jolliffe award-winning journalist at Asia Bookroom
Wednesday July 16, 2014
Linda Jaivin's Beijing - Linda Jaivin in Conversation with Geremie Barmé
Wednesday July 9, 2014
Orangutans - Robert Cribb's Wild Man from Borneo Launch by Leif Cocks
Thursday June 5, 2014
In Conversation: How has Asia been Imagined, Represented and Transferred Across Boundaries?
Wednesday March 12, 2014
Puer Tea - Author Jinghong Zhang in Conversation with Andrew Walker
Thursday February 27, 2014
Photography and China - Claire Roberts and Gael Newton in Conversation
Thursday May 16, 2013
On the Trail of Taslima - Hanifa Deen in conversation with Vasiliki Nihas
Tuesday April 23, 2013
ABC's Tokyo Correspondent Walter Hamilton On Japan's Children of the Occupation
Thursday September 6, 2012
Gareth Evans Launches Merle Ricklefs' Latest Book On Indonesian Islam
Tuesday August 14, 2012
The Religion of Falun Gong - Benjamin Penny In Conversation with Geremie Barmé
Tuesday June 12, 2012
Indian Author Mridula Koshy Talks and Reads from her Collection of Short Stories
Wednesday September 7, 2011
Madurese Seafarers - Professor Campbell Macknight On Kurt Stenross's new book
Thursday August 18, 2011
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Japanese Poet, Kawano Yuko (1946 - 2010)
Thursday August 11, 2011
Asian Treasures: Gems of the Written Word – a Conversation with Andrew Gosling
Tuesday July 26, 2011
Meredith McKinney Talks about her New Translation of Kokoro, by Natsume Sôseki
Wednesday February 23, 2011
Hamish McDonald, Author of 'Mahabharata in Polyester', Speaks at Asia Bookroom
Tuesday November 16, 2010
To the Diamond Mountains with Tessa Morris-Suzuki. A Journey through the Two Koreas and China….
Monday November 15, 2010
Author of Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong -Claire Roberts Speaks at Asia Bookroom
Thursday November 11, 2010
The Fast Pace of Life in Suzhou - Pamela Jackson on the Home-grown Entrepreneurs of Suzhou
Wednesday October 27, 2010
Author of Digital Atlas of Indonesian History Robert Cribb Speaks at Asia Bookroom
Thursday October 7, 2010
Award Winning Young Adult Authors at Asia Bookroom - Kirsty Murray and Anthony Eaton
Friday August 20, 2010
Shamini Flint Introduces Inspector Singh and The Singaporean School of Villainy!
Tuesday August 10, 2010
Hon Bob McMullan Launches NTA's East Indonesia Aid's 200 Tanks Campaign
Wednesday March 17, 2010
BOOKED OUT - Xinran Talks About Her Latest Book - Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
Tuesday February 23, 2010
Translating Lives - A Discussion with Professor Anna Wierzbicka
Wednesday February 17, 2010
Contemporary China & Chinese - A Talk for those Fascinated about China & Chinese People
Thursday February 4, 2010
Asia Bookroom in Hong Kong at the 3rd Hong Kong Antiquarian Bookfair
Friday December 4, 2009