Southeast Asian Studies Seminars

CENTRE FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDIES, SOAS
G52, Main Building, Russell Square, 17.00-19.00

27 October 2009
Tim Forsyth (Development Studies Institute, LSE)
Environmental Politics and Democracy in Thailand

3 November 2009
Dr Roger Montgomery (LSE)
Farm Risk Reduction Assessment for Nusa Tenggara Islands, Eastern Indonesia

17 November 2009
Dr Peter Sharrock (SOAS)
Excavations and restoration of the last great Khmer temple of Banteay Chmar
                                                                  
Co-hosted with the Centre for Law and Conflict and the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy
24 November 2009
Dr John A. Hall (Associate Professor, Chapman University School of Law, Orange, California)
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Fragile Credibility in the Face of Political Interference, Administrative Failure and Corruption

1 December 2009
Dr Mandy Sadan (SOAS)
How it Started: Conversations on the Founding of the Kachin Independence Army and the Origins of Armed Conflict in Burma

8 December 2009
Professor Carrie Tarr (Kingston University)
Melodrama, Modernity and Vietnamese National Identity in the Films of Viet Linh

15 December 2009
Dr Nick Gray (SOAS)
An Introduction to the Music of the Balinese Shadow Play

Further Information                                                                        
Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/cseas/
Or contact Centres & Programmes on:
Email: Jane Savory js64@soas.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4892 /3
 
Centre Chair: Dr Ben Murtagh
Email: bm10@soas.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4248

SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES SEMINARS
Asian Studies Centre
St Antony’s College
University of Oxford

5.00 to 6.30 pm on Thursdays, Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College

12 November 2009
Krisna Uk (Cambridge)
Living amidst remnants of war in Southeast Asia
 

19 November 2009
Dr Mulaika Hijjas  (SOAS)
Heresies and housewives: didactic literature for women in the Malay manuscript tradition
 

26 November 2009 – to be announced

3 December 2009
Dr Graham K Brown (Bath)
The ethnic Leviathan: public discourse and private violence in Malaysia


All are welcome
Convenor: PJ Thum
For enquiries e-mail: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or tel: 01865-274559
 
Please check for updates to the programme at: http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/asian/asianlectures.html