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ISAP Cyprus is under construction. Please see the UCLan Cyprus website for more information. For enquiries, please email us at ISAPUclan@uclan.ac.uk.
The Institute for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP) aims to provide high standards of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and innovation to create a distinctive and interactive learning environment for students at UCLan and contribute to wider discussions on relevant themes and issues within the Asia Pacific Region.
ISAP is an umbrella institute that incorporates a number of other institutes and centres centred on Asia Pacific studies. These include: The International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU), the Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies (NorITS), the Northern England Policy Centre for the Asia Pacific (NEPCAP), and the Centre of Austronesian Studies (COAST).
ISAP considers the geographical reach of Asia Pacific Studies as being rooted first in the Austronesian language migration that expands from Taiwan, through Southeast Asia, across the Pacific and as far as Easter Island and Madagascar. Secondly, it incorporates the Russian Far East and all islands in the northern Pacific, and south to incorporate Japan, both Koreas, China and Mongolia.
ISAP constitutes the first official academic institution to follow this interpretation and aims to consolidate research on any level to assist in disseminating knowledge to all levels of society, business and government in the UK and beyond.
In keeping with our roots in Austronesian culture, the ISAP logo includes a ndrua, or ‘sacred canoe’ that originated in the southwestern Pacific islands. Used to navigate people freely across the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the sacred canoe has become symbolic to the ambitions of the Institute. In our quest to exchange and explore new ideas and interdisciplinary research, that is both temporal as well as spatial, and one that is inclusive of the different cultures and interpretations of the peoples that inhabit the Asia Pacific, it is only fitting that the saying: He waka eke noa (We are all in this canoe together!) has become the motto of ISAP.
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