Events archive
Southeast Asia Seminar
Juliette Koning (Reader in Organization Studies and Asian Business, Oxford Brookes)
13 May 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Southeast Asia Seminar
Penny Edwards (Associate Professor, Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
8 May 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Southeast Asia Seminar
Matt Schissler (Independent Scholar, Myanmar)
29 April 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Southeast Asia Seminar
Su Lin Lewis (Bristol)
4 March 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
The social history of colonial Southeast Asia has often been seen through the lens of ‘plural societies’, where diverse ethnic groups rarely mixed. This paper challenges that narrative by examining... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto)
25 February 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
The military staged a coup on 22 May 2014, overthrowing the elected government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Outwardly, the military justified its political intervention with the classic... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Michael Buehler (SOAS)
18 February 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Since the collapse of the authoritarian New Order regime in 1998, hundreds of Islamic laws have been adopted across Indonesia. Over the past years, scholars have examined both the causes and the... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Dominik Müller (Goethe-University, Oxford)
4 February 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founders' Building, St Antony's College
Brunei Darussalam is the only Southeast Asian country that has unambiguously defined itself as an “Islamic State” since Independence. In the absence of democratic institutions or an influential civil... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Alicia Izharuddin (SOAS): Islamic modernity, Indonesia, gender and sexuality, Alexander Wain (Oxford): Chinese Muslims, conversion to Islam, Courtney Wittekind (Oxford, St Antony’s): Migration, displacement, return/repatriation in Southeastern Burma, Jun Zubillaga-Pow (King’s College London): Malay lesbians, Singapore history, neoliberal politics
9 December 2014 - 8:15am
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Please join us for a look at the exciting range of current research on Southeast Asia being conducted by post-graduate students in the UK. Each presenter will give a brief introduction to his or her... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Lena Rethel (Associate Professor, University of Warwick), Kerstin Steiner (Senior Lecturer, Monash University)
26 November 2014 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
At a time when conventional, interest-based financial system continues to suffer from the fallout from the global financial crisis of 2008-9, Islamic finance is a rapidly expanding segment of... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Claudio Sopranzetti (Postdoctoral fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)
29 October 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building at St Antony’s College
Southeast Asia Seminar
Rui Feijo (Visiting Academic, St Antony's College & Associate Researcher, University of Coimbra)
15 October 2014 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
In 1999 Timor-Leste was given the opportunity to vote on a self-determination referendum that put an end to centuries of Portuguese colonial and Indonesian neo-colonial rule. Two and a half year... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Rui Feijo (Visiting Research Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford and Associate Researher, University of Coimbra)
15 October 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
In 1999 Timor-Leste was given the opportunity to vote on a self-determination referendum that put an end to centuries of Portuguese colonial and Indonesian neo-colonial rule. Two and a half year... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
John D. Ciorciari (University of Michigan)
19 June 2014 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Since 2006, the United Nations and Cambodian government have sponsored a hybrid tribunal to try selected Khmer Rouge officials for atrocities of the late 1970s. However, the court has suffered from... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Joseph Harris (Assistant Professor, Boston University)
12 June 2014 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
Recent scholarship has suggested that state developmental strategies have transitioned from a focus on capital accumulation and economic growth to human development and social policy. Consequently,... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Verapat Pariyawong (Former Special Counsel to the Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand)
29 May 2014 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
The session will be focussing on Thai politics following the 2006 coup and how the protesters, the care taking government, the courts and military establishment and different classes in Thai society... Read more