Previous seminars

Here you will find information about our previous seminars.

 

2024

3 June

Ayo Wahlberg - Fertility Figures: The Reconfiguring of ‘One-Child’ China

7 May

Workshop: Cyclical Spectres of Conflict in Southeast Asia

6 May

Open seminar: Real Farmers, Dream Cities: Agrarian Change, Demonstration in Myanmar

8 April

Open seminar: Crypto-Colonialism and Spectral Polities in Thailand and Greece

26 March

Infrastructural urbanism in China - Toward a materialist reframing of urbanization

25 March

China as ethnographic absent presence: missed encounters in the Polish and Mexican amber markets

15 February

Open seminar: LGBTIQ Rights and Indonesian Civil Society - Threats, Constraints and Possibilities

1 February

Open seminar: Global Demand for Chinese Minerals and the Making of the Modern World, 1935-1962

 

5 December

Open Seminar with Nalika Gajaweera, University of Southern California

25 November

Open Seminar: Coming conflict in the Taiwan Strait?

24 November

Roundtable: Vietnam’s Domestic and International Challenges

20 October

Open Seminar: Can the May 2023 general elections return democracy to Thailand?

18 October

Brownbag seminar: China's Xi Jinping at the height of his powers - what will he now do?

23-24 September

Workshop: The international politics of emotion

23 September

A Dangerous Trinity? Dispute Inflation, Dispute Escalation, and Two-Level Games in East Asia

19 September 

Open seminar: Beyond transnational organized fisheries crime

7 June

Workshop: Comparative Perspectives on Skills and Skilling Regimes

18 May

Sufi Bikers and Islamic Humanitarians: New Islamic Movements from Southeast Asia to West Africa

17 May

Open Seminar: Myanmar after the military coup: What can/should international actors do?

17 May

Open Seminar: Creating Open Science from the Bottom Up

16 May

Open Seminar: Memory in the Mekong: Regional Identity, Schools, and Politics in Southeast Asia

9 may

Open Seminar: In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

5 may

China Solutions and Chinese Wisdom for the World: Stress Testing China’s Agenda for Global Ordering?

11 apr

Open Webinar: Agriculture and Rural-Urban Migration in China - A Socio-Technical Perspective on Land

4 apr

Open Webinar: Cutting the Mass Line – Moving Water and the Political in Southwest China

30 mar

Symposium: Vietnam - partistat & pluralism, går det ihop?

3 mar

Open Webinar: Labor of the Imagination: Return Migration and the Transformation of Metro Manila

17 feb

Open Webinar: The World in the Casino: Contract, Model and Exhibition in Three Asian Cities

16 feb

Open seminar: Autocratization in South Asia

14 feb

Open Webinar: Social Justice and the Middleman Minority State

 

December 8

Seminar/Webinar: Chinese domestic public opinion and maritime crisis escalation.

Dr. Andrew Chubb, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University.

November 15

Open webinar: Thinking about Deterrence for Japan and Stability in Asia

Yoko Iwama, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan.

November 11

Open Seminar: Can Thailand’s Youth-led Democracy Movement Promote Inclusive, Equality-driven, Participatory Democracy?

Dr. Titipol Phakdeewanich, Visiting Research Fellow in Human Rights, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University.

November 8

Open Seminar: Conceptualizing Southeast Asian Auto-Mobilities in the Wake of AFTA

Ivan Small, Central Connecticut State University.

October 25

Open seminar/webinar: The Myanmar Spring Revolution - What, Why and How?

Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)/Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Discussant: Niklas Foxéus, Associate Professor and Research Fellow History of Religions, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University.

October 20

Myanmar after the Coup

Meet the author and journalist Bertil Lintner.

October 14

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66

Geoffrey Robinson, Professor of History at UCLA. Discussant: Johan Lindquist, Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University.

September 13

Webinar: Urbanization in precarious times: Critiquing development in “transitional” Myanmar

Stephen Campbell, School of Social Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

May 26

Open Webinar: The Cyber Threat Landscape in East Asia and Policy Challenges

Dr Jun Osawa, Nakasone Peace Institute, Tokyo.

May 4

Open webinar: Political Repression and Lèse Majesté in Authoritarian Thailand

Saowanee Alexander, assistant professor of sociolinguistics, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University, Tyrell Haberkorn, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Kevin Hewison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Asia and the Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Asian Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

May 3

Open Webinar: The Nearby: A Scope of Seeing

Biao Xiang, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, and Director of Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany.

April 28

Book webinar: The Burmese Labyrinth - A History of the Rohingya Tragedy

Meet the author and journalist Carlos Sardiña Galache.

April 14

Open Webinar: All Above Heaven - China’s space strategy between partnership and systemic rivalry

Marco Aliberti, Senior Research Fellow, the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), Vienna.

March 11

Open webinar: The Coup and the Intricacies of Power-Sharing in Myanmar

Marco Bünte, Professor of Asian Politics, Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Jenny Hedström, Assistant Professor, Swedish Defence University, and Debbie Stothard, General Director of the International Federation for Human Rights (fidh), and Coordinator at ALTSEAN Burma. 

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