| January 2012 | Professor Carlyle A. Thayer | The Apparatus of Authoritarian Rule in Viet Nam |
| January 2012 | Professor Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet | Government Repression and Toleration in Contemporary Vietnam |
| February 2012 | Professor Mark R. Thompson | Civil Society and Democracy: Towards a Taxonomy in Asia and Beyond |
| February 2012 | Dr Michael H. Nelson | Some Observations on Democracy in Thailand |
| March 2012 | Dr Jonathan D. London | Welfare Regimes in China and Viet Nam |