Organizer: Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University; Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG)

Type/Location: Hybrid / Boston, MA

Description:

Join the Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University for the 19th annual Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) Winter Conference. Sydney Jones, Senior Advisor of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at NYU, will deliver the State of the Region Keynote. John Sidel, the Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International and Comparative Politics and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, will deliver the State of the Field Keynote.

About the Speakers:

Sidney Jones is a Senior Adviser to the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) in Jakarta, Indonesia, a non-governmental research organization she founded in 2013; and an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University.

From 2002 to 2013, Jones worked with the International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) in Jakarta, first as Southeast Asia Project Director, then from 2007 as Senior Adviser to the Asia Program. Before joining Crisis Group, she worked for the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and New York (1977-84); Amnesty International in London as the Indonesia-Philippines-Pacific Researcher (1985-88); and Human Rights Watch in New York as the Asia Division Director (1989-2002).

Jones is author or co-author of many publication and reports on human rights, violent extremism, and ethnic and religious conflict in Southeast Asia for a variety of non-governmental organizations. her writing has been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Asia-Pacific Journal, South China Morning Post, Asia Magazine, Southeast Asian Affairs, Harvard Business Review, International Journal of Society and Language, and more.

John Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International and Comparative Politics (Joint appt. LSE Government & LSE IR) and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre.

He is a specialist on Southeast Asia and has conducted extensive research in Indonesia and the Philippines in particular. He is the author of Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Stanford University Press, 1999); (with Eva-Lotta Hedman) Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Trajectories (Routledge, 2000), Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2006), The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment (East-West Center, 2007); (with Jaime Faustino) Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines(The Asia Foundation, 2019), and Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia (Cornell University Press, 2021).

He received his BA and MA from Yale University and his PhD from Cornell University.

Registration Links:

To attend the event in person, please register here by Friday, November 29, 2024.

To attend the event online, please register here by Friday, November 29, 2024. Please note only the keynotes and SEAREG Fellows presentations will be streamed. There is no registration fee to participate online.