2022/23 Lecture Series

January 20: Jittapim Yamprai, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

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Western Cultures as Thailand’s Strategy for Independence

February 3: Realisa Masardi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Michigan

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Refugee Youth Agency in Flux: Active and Passive Waiting in Transit Country Indonesia

February 10: Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters News Agency

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Massacre in Myanmar: How two reporters uncovered a Rohingya mass grave—and the price they paid for it.

March 10: Ambeth R. Ocampo, University of Michigan/Ateneo de Manila University

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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: The Marcos Diaries

March 24: ​​Teren Sevea, Harvard Divinity School

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History in Ruins: Keramat and Stories of Singapore Islam

March 31: Ben Tran, Vanderbilt University

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Reincarnation and Recursivity as Politics of Atmosphere

April 7: Kathrina Daud, Universiti Brunei Darussalam

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From the “Bloody Crown” to space travel: Comparing the social imaginaries of Malay and English language novels in Brunei Darussalam

September 2: Miriam Stark, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

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Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures

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September 9: Soksamphoas Im, Center for Khmer Studies

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Welfare Politics in Cambodia: An Examination of the National Ageing Policy 2017-2030 

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October 4: Adrian de Leon, University of Southern California

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The Filipino Subjunctive: A Transpacific Counterhistory of Filipinization

October 21: Jane Ferguson, Australia National University

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Four of the Thirteen Lives Are Stateless: The Cave Rescue, Hollywood Heroism and Ethnonational Traps at the Thai-Burma Border

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November 4: Ismail Fajrie Alatas, New York University

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Beyond Center and Periphery: Locating Southeast Asia in the Muslim World

December 2: Davorn Sisavath, California State University, Fullerton

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Making Life in the Aftermath of War in Lao PDR