Liberalism and populism have been pitted against each other in Southeast Asia in both political discourse and day-to-day political contestation. This roundtable offers a rare opportunity to explore the patterns of commonality and difference within and across Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and the Philippines.

Participants:

• Associate Prof. Dr Faisal S. Hazis is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, and his research interestsinclude electoral politics, democratisation and rural informatics.

• Lisandro Claudio, Associate Professor of Political Science at Ateneo De Manila University, has just published a book on the history of liberalism in the Philippines. 

• Elliott Prasse-Freeman, a PhD student at Yale University, is focusing on Myanmar and the role right-wing social movements have played in ratifying the state’s recent ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.

• Marcus Mietzner, Associate Professor at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, is a scholar of Indonesian politics and has written extensively on the Indonesian military and the struggle to build democratic politics. 

• Sandra Hamid, The Asia Foundation's Country Representative to Indonesia, is a cultural anthropologist and development specialist focusing on political participation and civil society.  

Register here.

Hosted by NYSEAN.