Events archive
Southeast Asia Seminar
Tu-Anh Vu-Thanh (Oxford)
6 March 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Conventional wisdom holds that international trade agreements can be used as external pressures and credible commitments to overcome opposition to and lock in domestic economic reforms. This belief,... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Giles Ji Ungpakorn
20 February 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Following the anti-government protests at the end of the year, where the protesters called for the end of parliamentary democracy and a “new” system of appointed parliaments and appointed governments... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Petra Mahy (Oxford)
6 February 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Much of the developing world is dominated by informal employment (that is, employment which is not regulated by the state). In Indonesia, it is estimated that around 70% of workers (or approximately... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Matthew Walton (Oxford)
28 January 2014 - 4:00am to 4:00pm
Fellow’s Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
The recent emergence of Buddhist nationalist movements in Myanmar and Sri Lanka—represented most prominently by the 969 Movement and Bodu Bala Sena, respectively—has resulted in violence directed... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Danica Salazar (Oxford)
23 January 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines are postcolonial Southeast Asian nations where the English language continues to play an important role as a language of intranational communication,... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Saiful Umam (Imam Bukhari Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
27 November 2013 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
There is no doubt that Arabic has a very central position in Islam. Not only was Arabic the language of the Qur’an, the Prophet and his companions, but it was also the standard language for the... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Natalie Porter (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford)
13 November 2013 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Recent outbreaks of swine flu, SARS and avian influenza are provoking innovative global health efforts to control diseases transmitted between species. In Southeast Asia, much of this effort centers... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Dr Lee Jones (Queen Mary College, University of London)
6 November 2012 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
St Antony's College
Southeast Asia Seminar
Dr Abdul Razak Baginda (St Antony’s College)
20 May 2010 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
The Founders Seminar Room, Founder’s Building St Antony's College
Abdul Razak is currently a senior associate member at St. Antony's College and is working on the subject of Radical Islam. He has been a keen observer of Malaysian politics for the last three decades.