Speaker: Dr Eli Elinoff (Postdoctoral Fellow, NUS Department of Sociology & Asia Research Institute) Date: Wednesday, 12 April 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis In May of 2014, the Thai military deposed elected Prime… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Alicia Izharuddin (Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya) Date: Wednesday, 23 March 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis This paper examines the modern history of veiling in Malaysia using the continuum… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Céline Coderey (Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute and Teaching Fellow in Tembusu College, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Next to Thailand and Cambodia, Myanmar has the… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Marie Gibert (Asia Research Institute, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2015 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Pursuing the “art of being global” (Roy and Ong, 2011), Hồ Chí Minh City falls… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Gerard Sasges (Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 21 October 2015 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Today, seven nations have maritime or island claims in the disputed South China… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Alfred Gerstl (Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna) Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2015 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98 and the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004… Continue Reading
Date: Wednesday, 2 September 2015 Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis The Bugis are a historically significant people in Southeast Asia and their political, economic and military activities since the 18th century have left an indelible… Continue Reading
Updated: 13 April 2015 We regret to announce that this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Speaker: Dr Christine Helliwell (College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU) Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2015 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6,… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Yew Kong Leong (University Scholars Programme, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2015 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Secret agents, commandos, prison women, mad scientists, mutant creatures, cyborgs, and overweight clairvoyants: these… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Fiona Lee (Asia Research Institute, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 4 February 2015 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis This talk explores the notion of home embedded in minoritized cultural identity formation in Valerie Jaffee’s… Continue Reading