Hosted by the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center, the annual LSE Southeast Asia Forum will bring together leading Southeast Asia experts to engage with some of the region's most critical and pressing issues.
Join the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for the 37th annual ASEAN Roundtable. Topics consist of the implications of key events in the region, including the Russia – Ukraine war and the growing global bipolarity, the intensification of China-US rivalry in the Indo-Pacific, and the vision of ASEAN post-2025.
Meeting Point 2022 offers spaces to discover new friends, exchange ideas and experiences, and discover inspiration for future work. This event is hosted by the Mekong Cultural Hub.
Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, the 15th Annual International Indonesia Forum Conference invites scholars from all over the world to examine the multilayered dimensions of Indonesian society in their fields of research and analysis. All sessions are available for virtual attendance through zoom.
Organized by the American Institute for Indonesian Studies and the Michigan State University Asian Studies Center, the Conference on Indonesian Studies: Emerging Discourses and Collaborations in a New Age will feature the research of history, culture, anthropology, sociology, language, and art scholars to better contextualize the interdisciplinary factors that shape contemporary Indonesia.
In this conference hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the US-ASEAN Business Council, senior US government officials, private sector executives, and prominent academics will discuss the US relationship with ASEAN and the Quad, as well as the role of American industry in the region.
The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), in collaboration with Michigan State University (MSU) Asian Studies Center, will hold the inaugural Conference on Indonesian Studies in 2021. The Conference seeks to expand research dissemination, activities, as well as collaboration on Indonesian studies.
The NYSEAN Public Universities Consortium (PUC) aims to foster and facilitate interdisciplinary Southeast Asian studies throughout the SUNY and CUNY systems. Interested in the incredibly diverse region of Southeast Asia? Join the consortium’s inaugural conference!
Jointly organized by Global Asia Institute, Pace University and NYSEAN, this month-long conference brings together leading experts from around the world to examine Southeast Asia’s position in the shadow of China, and in the sights of European imperial powers.
During this program, scholar-activists will situate, analyze and strategize for resistance to Myanmar’s military coup. Organized by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CEAS) at UC Berkeley, the symposium incudes two public panels, a virtual exhibit and two action workshops to serve as a gathering ground for diverse supporters of Myanmar democracy, inclusive of and informed by Myanmar’s people’s struggles.
The Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF) is an interdisciplinary group that serves members of the Yale community with a common interest in Indonesia and Indonesian affairs. The theme for the 2020 YIF Conference is "Stemming the Tides: Indonesia in the Age of Climate Catastrophe." The program will consist of one keynote presentation and one panel of paper presentations on November 13, 2020 from 8:00-10:30 PM ET, followed by a second keynote presentation and one panel of paper presentations on November 14, 2020 at 8:00-10:30 AM ET.
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The 15th Graduate Forum is one of the flagship events of the Asia Research Institute (ARI). This event provides a platform for graduate students from around the world working on Southeast Asia to communicate and interact, as they mature into the next generation of academic leaders. While several portions of the forum are for invited participants only, there will be three keynote addresses that are all open to the public:
July 22, 2020: Using Social Science as a Force for Good: Scholarship on, for, and as Activism (Meredith L. Weiss, Professor, State University of New York at Albany)
July 23, 2020: Making the Globe: A Cultural History of Science from the Bay of Bengal (Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor, University of Cambridge)
July 24, 2020: World History and the “Seduction of Quantification” – A View from Southeast Asia (Faizah Zakaria, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University)
In Southeast Asia today, there exists a range of arrangements along a spectrum. Some countries (such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines) operate, at least nominally, under a regime of objective control. In others, the military operates explicitly (Vietnam and Lao PDR) or implicitly (Cambodia) as a tool of the ruling political party. Indonesia is a former military dictatorship that has reformed its armed forces; Myanmar operates what might be called a transitional model. Thailand has only recently emerged after five years of military rule, and the possibility of a return cannot be ruled out.
This one-day conference, consisting of panel presentations and a roundtable, will explore the following key questions:
What is the relationship between the military and the identity of the nation, people, or elites?
What is the relationship between the military and political authority?
How does the military impact structures of legitimacy?
What are the key principles, myths, or events that have helped shape the relationship between the military and the country? Is that expected to change or remain the same in the future?
Professor Dr. Aurel Croissant (Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg) will deliver a keynote address.
This year's three-day conference has a total of 18 panels, with topics on all aspects of Lao Studies. In addition to panel speakers, we are honored to have an art exhibition, entitled "Between Two Worlds: Through the Eyes of the Lao Artist" by Tiao Nithakhong Somsanith, an artist from the Lao royal court, who will be showcasing his work on stencilling and gold thread embroidery along with a Lao America artist, Chantala Kommanivanh, who will be showcasing a more contemporary piece. In addition, our keynote speakers come from Laos, Mr. Anasay Keodara, a filmmaker, and Ms. Khamly Philvong, an actress from "Sabaidee Luanphrabang," who will be discussing issues of filmmaking in Laos along with Dr. Steve Arounsack, a Lao American professor of Anthropology.
For more information and to register for the event, click here.
President Rodrigo Duterte came to power by promising a bloody war on drugs. Since he assumed office in July 2016, thousands of drug users and dealers have been killed in both police operations and murders by unknown assailants. Nearly all of these victims were poor Filipinos who lived in informal settlements in the country’s largest and most populous cities. The Philippine case is not unique. Echoes of the Philippine experience can be found worldwide.
This conference aims to bring together journalists and scholars who have explored the nexus between urban poverty, policing, and violence. It will explore how violence is woven into the fabric of policing strategies that have focused on the security and safety of the rich and the middle class, and on criminalizing the poor as thieves, drug addicts, and scoundrels. Seen in this light, the war on crime is but the latest expression of a decades-long war against the urban poor.
This first SEAREG meeting in Southeast Asia will broaden our geographic reach and enable scholars based in the region to become more actively involved in the network. This first-of-its-kind conference is generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.
Click here to register now on the SEAREG website. Information about hotels, local transportation, and the meeting agenda will be posted as it becomes available.
The two-day conference will feature a series of panels focusing on Duterte's presidency, the media, polarization, and Duterte's war on drugs.
In recent months, public life in Thailand has been overshadowed by the momentous October 13, 2016 passing of long-reigning King Bhumibol, and the December 1 accession of the King Vajiralongkorn to the throne. Although a popular referendum approved the 2016 draft constitution last August, that constitution has yet to pass into law, and no date has been set for the next general election. As the ruling military junta completes its third year in power, freedom of expression remains severely constrained, and Thailand faces a range of economic and social challenges. During this third Columbia Thailand Update event, eight speakers will present their research and views on the latest developments and prospects, at a crucial juncture in the country’s history.
This two-day workshop will bring together scholars doing critical studies of bilateral relations between the United States, its western and regional allies, and a range of countries in Southeast Asia, both during the late Cold War era and since.
