SEAC is hosting a workshop for PhD students across the UK working on Southeast Asia. The workshop is designed to allow UK university-based research students working on the region to present their work among their peers for feedback and to provide a broader opportunity for sharing ideas and information related to ongoing doctoral research focused on Southeast Asia.
Thank you to those who have submitted paper proposals. Please find the schedule below:
Dynamics of Political Power and Influence, SAL.LG.14
10:30-11am: Morris Chan (LSE), “An Autocratic Peasantry? Relationships between Economic Dependence on the State and Pro-Regime Voting Behaviour in Malaysia”
11-11:30am: Tony Neill (LSE), “Rebirth of the ‘Bo’: Charismatic Revolutionary Commanders as ‘Strongmen’ in South-Eastern Myanmar”
11:30am-12pm: Tiffany Lau (LSE), “Understanding Perceptions of Online Chinese Propaganda in Southeast Asia”
Dynamics of Economic, Education, Environmental, Labour, and Land Policy, SAL.LG.18
10-10:30am: Azhar Hussain (LSE), “Climate Change and Capital Dynamics: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Indonesia”
10:30-11am: Meshal Alkhowaiter (LSE), “Voices of Change: Exploring Sentiment Shifts and Responsibility Attribution in Singapore’s Labour Debate”
11-11:30am: Dan Adams (Newcastle University), “The Role of Capital in Indonesian Intercultural Adjustment in UK Higher Education”
11:30am-12 noon: Maria Carmen Fernandez (University of Cambridge), “Negotiating Appropriate Land Tenure and Redistributive Justice Mechanisms in the Bangsamoro: Localizing Agrarian Politics in Muslim Mindanao”
Dynamics of Early Modern and Modern Economic and Social History, SAL.G.17
10:30-11am: Judy Law (University of Warwick), “Southern Fujianese Merchants in Southeast Asia and Their Impact on Zhangzhou Porcelain Trade (Late Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Centuries)
11-11:30am: Nitya Gundu (University of Warwick), “Threading the Globe: Kalamkari Cloth in Seventeenth-Century Southeast Asia”
11:30-12 noon: Jeremy Goh (University of Warwick), “Chinese Big Business in the British Straits Settlements: The Transnational Enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904-1941)”
Dynamics of Political Mobilization, SAL.LG.14
1-1:30pm: Rune Larsen (LSE), “The Organisational Origins of Onset: Communist Civil War in the Philippines and Thailand after the Second World War"
1:30-2pm: Wichuta Teeratanabodee (University of Cambridge), “The Milk Tea Alliance: Transnational Public Sphere and Collective Imagination in East and Southeast Asia”
2-2:30pm: Ploykamol Suwantawit (University of Liverpool), “Fandom in Action: Mobilisation of Thai Youth in the 2020-2021 Anti-Government Protests”
Dynamics of Environmental, Health, and Housing Policy, SAL.LG.18
1-1:30pm: Irna Nurlina Masron (Birkbeck, University of London), “Subaltern Urbanisms: The Politics of Heritage and Housing in Jakarta’s Urban Kampungs”
1:30-2pm: Hanh-An Trinh (LSE), “The Unanticipated Inauguration of Buildings: Towards an Infrastructure of Housing Development From a Case in Hai Phong, Vietnam”
Dynamics of Late Colonial and Cold War Political History, SAL.G.17
1-1:30pm: Joko Susanto (University of Cambridge), “From ‘Kemadjoean’ to ‘Indonesia Maju’: Changes and Continuities in the Idea of Progress in Modern Indonesian Nationalism”
1:30-2pm: Quah Say Jye (University of Cambridge), “The Anatomy of Worldmaking: Sukarno, Untimeliness, and Anticolonialism in Postcolonial Indonesia”
2-2:30pm: Ha Chae Kyoun (University of Cambridge), “Ideology, Security, and Regionalism: South Korea’s Strategic Interest in Southeast Asia During the Early Cold War Era”
2:30-3pm: Nathaniel Lai (University of Cambridge), “The ‘Stars’ Aligned? Journalism and Gender in Cold War Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, c. 1949-1963”
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