Southeast Asia Research Centre

Date	Event
27 Oct 2009	Seminar - Kokang and Sino-Myanmar Relations Dr James K Chin, Researcher, Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong
07 Sep 2009	Joint Seminar - Thailand's Turbulent Politics Since the 2006 Coup Duncan McCargo is Professor of Southeast Asian Politics at the University of Leeds (UK), with a primary focus on Thailand. He has published nine books, most recently Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (Cornell University Press, 2008).
02 Jun 2009	Joint Seminar - The Default Position: The Military and Politics in South East Asia since the Second World War Professor Robert H Taylor was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham after serving as Pro-Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies and Professor of Politics in the University of London. He is the author of, or a contributor to many publications on modern South East Asian history and politics. His most recent book is The State in Myanmar (2009).
19 May 2009	Joint Seminar - What’s a norm’s life cycle and how does it help manage HIV/AIDS? Dr Alan Collins, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Relations, Swansea University, United Kingdom
15 May 2009	Seminar - Neo-Patrimonial Democratization? The Evolution of Political Parties in Cambodia Dr Melissa G. Curley, Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queenland, Australia
20 Mar 2009	Seminar - Consolidating Party Oligarchy? Indonesia's Political Parties and 2009 General Elections Dr Nankyung Choi, Research Fellow, SEARC
13 Mar 2009	A Discussion with Louis-Vincent Gave SEARC presented a more optimistic viewpoint on the global economy and Asia's near-term future.
26 Feb 2009	A Discussion with Dr Homayoun Alizadeh SEARC and AIS Postgraduate Society presented a talk by the Regional Representative for South-East Asia, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
01 Dec 2008	Seminar - Political Tsunami and the Future of Malaysia Jeff Ooi, Chief-of-Staff, Penang State Government
27 Nov 2008	Seminar - Can Asia really be globalized on the way up yet decoupled on the way down Dr Simon Ogus, Founder and CEO of DSGAsia
10 Oct 2008	Seminar - An 'L' of Recession Dr Jim Walker, Managing Director of Asianomics
14 May 2008	The Relationship between the Judiciary and Human Rights: Pakistan's Experience and its implication for Southeast Asia Mr Muneer A. Malik, Former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan
05 May 2008	Democracy and Elections: The Impact of Online Politics in Singapore Mr James Gomez, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia
16 Jan 2008	A Titanic Tussle: Thailand's Future after the Election Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak Director of Chulalongkorn University's Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS), Bangkok
05 Dec 2007	Is the Political and Economic Consensus Formed in Malaysia after May 13, 1969 Fraying Mr N Balakrishnan, Ex-journalist (Dow Jones) and Investment Analyst (Bankers Trust)
04 Dec 2007	Big Questions about Asia and China Mr Jonathan Anderson, UBS Investment Bank
12 Apr 2007	Responsible governance: Asian democracies revisited Professor Wazir Karim, University of Malaya
08 Feb 2007	Timor-Leste and the State Failure Paradigm Professor James Cotton, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy
21 Jun 2006	China's Interests in the South China Sea: Vistas of Peace and Cooperation Dr. Amita Agarwal, University of Rajasthan, India
31 May 2006	Joint Seminar - Professor Amien Rais (Cancelled)
24 May 2006	Joint Seminar - Privatisation of state owned housing in Hanoi: Unequal impacts on tenants and owners
03 Apr 2006	US Power in Asia Pacific and the Americas: Towards a Politics of 'Leverage'? Dr Nicola Philips, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
02 Mar 2006	Crossing borders, shifting selves: Indonesian Malay women in Singapore Dr Carole Faucher, SEARC Academic Visitor
24 Nov 2005	On Becoming a Strongman: Municipal Politics Through the Eyes of a Chinese-Filipino Elite in a Northeastern Philippine Frontier Bryan Wong, PhD Candidate, Oxford University
17 Nov 2005	East Kalimantan and the Decentralisation process: The problem of growing Dayak national consciousnes Paul Culligan, PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore
10 Nov 2005	Accountable to Whom? Trade Unions, Labour NGOs and the Accountability Question in Indonesia Dr Michele Ford, Lecturer, Flinders Asia Centre, Flinders University, Australia
03 Nov 2005	Host-Guest Interactions: Some Experiences from Border Tourism in Vietnam Dr Yuk-Wah Chan, Research Fellow, Southeast Asia Research Centre
19 Oct 2005	The Past is Always Present: Territorial, Political, and Security Aspects of Peace Negotiations in the Southern Philippines Astrid Tuminez, Senior Research Associate, US Institute of Peace
12 Sep 2005	The Role of Civil Society in Global Trade Professor Walden Bello, The Founding Director of Focus on the Global South For more details: English \| Chinese
19 Aug 2005	Feminising the Indonesian nation: constructing the boundaries of the Singapore state Dr Michele Ford, Flinders University, Australia; and Dr Lenore Lyons, University of Wollongong, Australia
18 Aug 2005	Bali without Bombs: The Singaporean Tourist Experience in the Bintan Resort Zone Dr Michele Ford, Flinders University, Australia; and Dr Lenore Lyons, University of Wollongong, Australia
08 Jun 2005	Terlena - Breaking of a Nation A seminar with documentary film Mr. Andre Vltchek, Political Analyst, Writer and Filmmaker
15 Mar 2005	The SARS Epidemic and Disclosure of the Singapore Nation Professor Chua Beng Huat, Asia Research Institute & Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
07 Mar 2005	Multinational Corporations and the Myanmar Stalemate: Reassessing in Options By Professor Ian Holiday, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
02 Mar 2005	Managerial Reform as a Political Program: The Case of Thaskin's Bureaucracy Professor Martin Painter, Department of Public & Social Administration
13 Jan 2005	Coming Out of Mahatir's Shadows? Badawi One Year Later Dr James U. H. Chin, Politics and Government Studies Programme, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
25 Nov 2004	Southeast Asian Chinese Investments in Post-1978 Mainland China: Hong Kong as a Bridging Site 改革開放以來東南亞華商對中國大陸投資特點分析 Dr Wang Wangbo, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University and Visiting Fellow, SEARC
19 Nov 2004	Religious Conversion and Reconstruction of Identities: The Case of Chinese Muslim Converts in Malaysia Ms. Joy Lam, Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
18 Nov 2004	Recent Developments in the ASEAN Economies Professor Anne Booth, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
04 Nov 2004	Learning from the Compliance Approach Mr Jeremy Prepscius, Director of Compliance for North Asia, NIKE
06 Oct 2004	Singapore: Leadership Change - Regime Stagnation? Dr Ross Worthington, SEARC's Visitor
15 Sep 2004	The Cambodian Experiment: Can Cambodia’s garment industry survive the end of quotas? Ms. Ros Harvey, International Labour Organization, Cambodia
28 May 2004	The United States and Cambodia, 1950 to 2004: The China Factor Professor Kenton Clymer, Department of History, Northern Illinois University and Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in American Foreign Policy, To Renmin (People's) University, Beijing
25 May 2004	Are social policies in the Asian NIEs unique? Dr M. Ramesh, Public Policy Programme, National University of Singapore
20 May 2004	Between Multiculturalism and Communitarianism: The Cost of Membership in an Ascribed Community Professor Chua Beng Huat, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
18 May 2004	The Current Participation of the Indonesian Military in Electoral Politics (印尼軍人在當前選舉政治中的角色) Dr Salim Said, Department of Political Science, University of Indonesia
28 Apr 2004	Network-building as a Political and Rights-based Strategy Ms Lin Chew, Visiting Researcher, Southeast Asia Research Centre
06 Apr 2004	Surveying News Representations of Filipina Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore Ms Celine Lim, Visiting Researcher, Southeast Asia Research Centre
16 Mar 2004	Mass Rape in a Situation of Armed Conflict (1989-1998): Aceh, Indonesia Ms Suraiya Kamaruzzaman, Academic Visitor, SEARC
25 Feb 2004	Dragon and Leviathan:The pitfalls of identity and modernity in Singapore, 1965-1997 Dr Sikko Visscher, University of Amsterdam
12 Feb 2004	異域‧孤軍‧華人族群泰國北部原國民黨軍隊、眷屬及其後裔族群認同與歷史變遷的民族誌研究 (Alien land-Wandering Soldiers-Ethnic Chinese: An Ethnographic Study of Ethnic Identity and historical change of Kuomintang Soldiers and Their Descendents in Northern Thailand) Mr Duan Ying, MPhil candidate, Chinese University of Hong Kong
09 Feb 2004	Indonesia at the Crossroads: Historic Elections, Counterterrorism, and other Challenges Mr Konrad Huber, Council on Foreign Relations
18 Dec 2003	Division, deadlock and decay under Myanmar’s military dictatorship. What is to be done? Professor Ian Holliday, Department of Public & Social Administration, CityU
26 Nov 2003	A Merchant Chinese Family in Southeast Asia, 1850s-1960s: The Choong Family History in Xiamen, Phuket, Kedah and Penang Dr Wu Xiao An, Department of History, Peking University
24 Nov 2003	Markets, Workers, and Economic Reform: Reconstructing Asian Labour Systems A joint seminar with the Department of Public and Social Administration, CityU Professor Fred Deyo, Department of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton
14 Nov 2003	In Defense of Speculation: What we know, what we write and what we can prove Professor Ken Young, CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong
24 Oct 2003	The Politics of Labour Activism in Malaysia Tian Chua, Human Right Activist, Malaysia
29 Sep 2003	State Companies, Free Trade Agreements and the Political Regime in Singapore Professor Garry Rodan, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia
27 May 2003	The Inner Workings of Decentralisation: Towards Tightening the Unitary State in Indonesia Dr. Michael Jacobsen
30 Apr 2003	Who Wants to Be Diasporic? Dr Allen Chun, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
25 Apr 2003	China's Direct Investment in Cambodia: Implications for Labour Dr Stephen Frost, Research Fellow, SEARC
27 Mar 2003	Nationalism Against Its People? "Economic Nationalism" of Overseas Chinese Businesses in Inter-war Singapore, 1919-1941 Ms Huei-ying Kuo, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton/Visiting PhD Fellow, SEARC
25 Mar 2003	Development of Ethnic Chinese Enterprises in Southeast Asia after the Financial Crisis Professor Yuan Ding, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of History, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China
21 Mar 2003	Islamism, Nationalism and Socialism in Indonesia. A joint seminar with the Hong Kong Society for Indonesian Studies Mr Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian writer
20 Mar 2003	Development of Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals in Indonesia after Suharto Era Professor Yuan Ding, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of History, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China
19 Mar 2003	The Chinese of Indonesia and the '930' Incident of 1965: An Account of the Experiences A joint seminar with the Hong Kong Society for Indonesian Studies Mr Oei Hiem Hwie, Independent Researcher on Indonesia
13 Mar 2003	Whither Southeast Asia? Professor R.D. Hill, University of Hong Kong
06 Mar 2003	A Socio-Economic and Political Overview of the Implementation of Regional Autonomy in Indonesia Dr. Trilke Erita Tulung, Universiti Sam Ratulangi, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
26 Feb 2003	US-Philippines Special Relations Revived: National Borders and 'Global Terrorism' Dr Kathleen Weekley, University of Wollongong
24 Feb 2003	Local Power, Decentralisation, and the Reconstruction of Indonesia s Political Regime Dr Vedi Hadiz, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
19 Feb 2003	Foreign Migrant Workers and an Emerging Rights Agenda Dr Nicola Piper, Australian National University
13 Dec 2002	Regulatory Character and Regulatory Reform: Globalisation and Safety Standards in Thailand After the Kadar Toy Factory Fire Dr Fiona Haines, Department of Criminology, University of Melbourne
21 Nov 2002	Historical explanation and the anti-Chinese riots in Indonesia Edwin Yang Tsung-Rong, Chinese Civilisation Centre, CityU
11 Nov 2002	Changing Labor Markets in a Globalizing Asia: Challenges for Asian Trade Unions Professor Rene E. Ofreneo, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of the Philippines
04 Nov 2002	September 11 and Political Freedom Asian Perspectives Mr James Gomez, Senior researcher, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
27 Sep 2002	"The only good populist is a rich populist": Thaksin and Thailand's democracy Dr Chris Baker, Independent researcher and writer, Bangkok
26 Sep 2002	Rethinking Asian Corruption after Enron Professor Pasuk Phongpaichit(Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
31 May 2002	Globalisation, International Standards and The Rule of Law: A New Symbolic Politics A joint seminar with the Department of Applied Social Studies, CityU Dr Kanishka Jayasuriya, SEARC, CityU
21 May 2002	To be or what to be – that is the main question: on factionalism and secessionalism in North Sulawesi, Indonesia Dr. Michael Jacobsen, SEARC, CityU
07 May 2002	Non-Governmental Organizations and Democratization: the 1992 Bangkok Uprising Dr Alex H. Choi, Southeast Asia Research Centre, CityU
18 Apr 2002	Will there be another term for Malaysia's Dr Mahathir? The Leadership Style and Politics of the Prime Minister Joyce Juo-yu Lin, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Tamkeng University, Taiwan
25 Mar 2002	The World Bank and Thailand: Crisis and Social Safety Nets Professor Kevin Hewison, Director, SEARC, CityU
14 Mar 2002	The Singapore System Myth or Model? Dr Chee Soon Juan
21 Dec 2001	The Current Political Situation in Indonesia and the Policy Orientation of the Megawati Government Mr. Rizal Dharmaputra, Executive Director of LESPERSSI Jakarta, Indonesian Institute for Strategic and Defence Studies
07 Dec 2001	Contemporary Problems of Nation-Building in Indonesia Professor Leo Suryadinata, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
06 Dec 2001	Post-Suharto’s Ethnic Chinese Society and Politics Professor Leo Suryadinata, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
05 Dec 2001	Contemplation of History and Culture Identity Formation of the Sino-Filipino Hybrid Professor Liao Dake, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University
27 Nov 2001	Whither East Asian Regionalism? Professor Yamazawa Ippei, Institute for Developing Economies, Japan
14 Nov 2001	Violence and Reconciliation in Contemporary Indonesia: Religion, Nation, Custom and Resource Competition Dr Greg Acciaioli, Visiting Fellow, SEARC and University of Western Australia
29 Oct 2001	Labour Organising for Improved Health and Safety Standards in Thailand Mr Andrew Brown, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of New England, Australia
12 Oct 2001	The 600th Anniversary of Zheng He’s Voyages: South China Sea Issue and Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia Professor Lung Tsuen Ni, Taiwan Research Institute
10 Oct 2001	Multiculturalism as Instrument of Political and Social Discipline: the case of Singapore Professor Chua Beng Huat, Department of Sociology & Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
24 Sep 2001	New Internet Oppositions in Singapore Mr James Gomez, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
17 Sep 2001	China’s Foreign Policy Towards Southeast Asia During the Cold War Professor Wang Xinsheng, Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, Zhongshan University, China
08 Aug 2001	Research on Southeast Asia in China Professor Zhuang Guotu, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University, China and Visiting Professor, SEARC
18 Jul 2001	Sinology in the Netherlands Professor Zhuang Guotu, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University, China and Visiting Professor, SEARC
05 Jul 2001	The Cambodian Labour Law: Its Origins and Its Consequences Professor Malcolm Falkus, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, Australia
15 Jun 2001	Reforming Asian Labour: Institutional and Political Tensions of Globalization and Economic Restructuring Professor Fred Deyo, Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton and Visiting Professor, Dept of Applied Social Studies, CityU
14 Jun 2001	Crisis in Indonesia: Forests, Fires and Finances Professor Herb Thompson, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
12 Jun 2001	Graduated Sovereignty in Southeast Asia Professor Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley and Visiting Professor and Visiting Professor, SEARC, CityU
08 Jun 2001	Critical Ethnology of Globalising Asian Cities Professor Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley and Visiting Professor, SEARC
06 Jun 2001	Human Rights, Malaysia and Singapore: Personal Experiences Mr Said Zahari (retired journalist, Malaysia)
24 May 2001	Making Democracy Work? The Politics of Democracy Promotion in Southeast Asia Dr Michael Connors, Institute for Political and International Studies, University of Leeds, England
30 Mar 2001	East Timor: Elections, Violence and Prospects Dr Jean Berlie, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong
20 Mar 2001	Corruption and Thailand Professor Pasuk Phongpaichit, Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand





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