Hosted by the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Center, Hun Kim, University of California Irvine, and Hyun Bang Shin, LSE, will examine how municipal authorities altered planning maps and manipulated property archives to change the landscape of de facto ownership in an evolving Saigon.
Hosted by the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, Mari Pangestu, former Indonesian Minister of Trade, will provide her perspective on economic headwinds facing the region, including the climate crisis and food and energy security.
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.
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Tom Lembong, Indonesia’s Trade and Investment Minister, will discuss Indonesia’s growing importance in the global economy.
Hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts Contemporary Asia, a panel of curators and artists will discuss the current Museum of Modern Art Exhibit, Signals: How Video Transformed the World, and how artists harnessed video as an agent of social change in Asia.
Hosted by Weatherhead East Asian Institute and sponsored by NYSEAN, Hayeon Lee, Columbia University, will discuss her three years of ethnographic field work studying Vietnamese migrant women marriages in South Korea.
Organized by USINDO and the Stimson Center Southeast Asia Forum, Bambang Susantono, Chairman of the Nusantara National Capital Authority, Kathleen Bartram, International Development Group, and Deden Rukmana, Alabama A&M University, will discuss Indonesia’s plan to build a new capital city.
Hosted by the Stimson Center, Robert Godec, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Rithiny Teng, Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia, Sinsamout Ounboundisane, Fishbio, and Vu Dung, Keep Vietnam Clean, will share takeaways and policy recommendations from the Mekong-U.S. Partnership 5th Policy Dialogue.
Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Peter Andreas Gotsch, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Alejandro N. Ciencia, University of the Philippines Baguio, Nila Kamil, Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Michiyo Kakegawa, Soka University, and Sharon Seah, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, will discuss climate risks and vulnerabilities in Southeast Asian cities.
Sopheak Chhan, Royal University of Phnom Penh, will consider how the impacts of hydropower dams across the Mekong River have intensified long-term land and resource struggles in Cambodia. This event is sponsored by the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the East-West Center.
Mie Oba, Kanagawa University, Nobuhiro Hemmi, Monitor Deloitte Institute Japan, and Christina L. Davis, Harvard University, will discuss Japanese business ventures in Southeast Asia. This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Harvard University Asia Center.
Hosted by University of Washington, Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi will examine the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world's palm oil.
Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Arsjad Rasjid, Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will discuss Indonesia’s ASEAN Business Advisory Council Chairmanship priorities, agenda, and legacy projects.
Hosted by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, Gita Wirjawan, founder of the Indonesian investment bank Ancora Group, will discuss the role of trust in Southeast Asian economic and democratic development.
Dan Slater, University of Michigan, will discuss his book From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia, which examines why some Asian countries became more democratic as they grew richer while others did not. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Center for International Development.
Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at University of Hawaii, Amporn Jirattikorn, Chiang Mai University, will discuss how masculinity is redefined among Shan male migrant sex workers from Myanmar who sell sex to gay men clients in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Jayant Menon, ISEAS Senior Fellow, Pham Minh Thai, Centre for Analysis and Forecasting in Vietnam, and Punpreecha Bhuthong, International Economics and Development Policy Program in Thailand, will discuss the findings from the recent ISEAS publication Agricultural Trade between China and the Greater Mekong Subregion Countries: A Value Chain Analysis.
Debbie Fordyce, President of Transient Workers Council Too, and Laavanya Kathiravelu, Associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, will discuss their advocacy and research on migrant worker issues in Singapore. This event is sponsored by Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asia Institute and NYSEAN.
Hosted by the Stimson Center, Nguyen Linh Dan, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Nguyen Mai Phuong, The Asia Group, Courtney Weatherby, The Stimson Center, and Jake Brunner, Head for the Indo-Burma Group, will discuss how Vietnam can implement its climate energy commitments.
Hosted by Hunter College, Beatriz Lorente, University of Bern, Aileen Salonga, University of the Philippines, Paolo Valdez, De La Salle University, Sonia Das, New York University, and Jennifer Delfino, Borough of Manhattan Community College, will discuss the intersection between postcolonial industries and linguistic modernity in the Philippines.
Professor Chua Beng Huat, National University of Singapore, and Dr. Suraya Ismail, University of Cambridge, will discuss the issues that have emerged from the sale and ownership of 99-year leases on public housing units in Singapore. This workshop is hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hosted by Cornell University, Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore, will examine the vital links between the time construct of seriality in migration and the temporal structure of family-based social reproduction within migrant-sending families in Southeast Asia.
Hosted by the University of Maryland, Professor Budy Resosudarmo, Australian National University, will discuss the context of climate policies in Indonesia, challenges to achieving their climate goals, and opportunities for developing Indonesia-US work on sustainability research and implementation.
This online workshop will bring together academics and a range of local and international civil society stakeholders to investigate the socio-environmental implications of the ongoing transition towards more sustainable models of energy production in Southeast Asia. This workshop is hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Professor Tania Li, University of Toronto, and Associate Professor Pujo Semedi, Gadjah Mada University, will discuss the structure and governance of Indonesia’s contemporary oil palm plantations as outlined in the book, Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Plantation Zone. This event is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University.
Hosted by Cornell University, Dr. Edmund Malesky of Duke University will present research that argues that as developing countries embrace international markets, economically insecure groups – and migrants in particular- are the most incentivized to educate themselves on factors that might improve their situation in the changing economy.
Hosted by the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs of Indonesia, and Gregory B. Poling, Director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, will discuss Indonesia’s priorities and economic cooperation between the United States and Indonesia.
Dr. Mike Dwyer, Indiana University, Dr. Lisa Arensen, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Dr. Chu Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan, Srinakharinwirot University, and Dr. Gabriel Young Yit Vui, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, will discuss how development impacts land and communities. This event is sponsored by the University of Hawaii Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Henry Luce Foundation.
Dr. Zach Abuza, an expert on Southeast Asia and insurgencies, will discuss his recent Stimson policy paper with Priscilla Clapp, senior advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace, and Yun Sun, a Senior Fellow and Co-Director at the Stimson East Asia Program. Abuza’s paper outlines a roadmap ahead for Myanmar’s shadow government and the tactics outside observers should watch in this new phase of the war.
Hosted by SEACoast, Dr. Benny Baskara, visiting Research Associate at UCSC Anthropology, will lead a discussion on Teren Sevea's book, Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya.
