Southeast Asian Seminar Series: Past seminars
| 2010 |
2009 | 2008 |
2011
| 2011 Program - First Semester | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
| 17 March | Hydropolitics of the Pak Mun dam | Dr Kanokwan Manorom, Ubon Ratchathani University |
| 12 May |
Experiments in cross-scalar labour oganising: Reflections on trade-union building work in Aceh after the 2004 tsunami |
Dr Michele Ford, University of Sydney and Thushara Dibley, University of Sydney |
| 19 May | Northern Thai youth gangs: Violence, masculinity and local culture |
Dr Anjalee Cohen, University of Sydney |
| 20 May (Friday at 2.00pm) | Building climate change resilience capacity in three cities in Vietnam through implementation of a Shared Learning Dialogue (SLD) | Dr Bach Tan Sinh, National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies, Vietnam |
| 26 May | Joining the dots of agrarian change in Asia: A 25 year study from Thailand | Professor Jonathon Rigg, Durham University |
| 2011 Program - Second Semester | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
| 25 Aug |
Adapting under pressure: insights on rural livelihood adaptation in Laos |
Avakat Phasouysaingam, National University of Laos; Yayoi Lagerqvist, University of Sydney; Professor Phil Hirsch, University of Sydney. |
| 2 Sept | Discussing methods in the field: Connecting theory with locality |
AMRC postgraduate students. |
| 15 Sept | Participatory action research and resource governance: Experiences from the Mun Basin, Thailand |
Dr Kanokwan Manorom, Ubon Ratchathani University |
| 30 Sept | Looking at The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen |
Professor Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand; Dr Chris Baker, independent scholar. |
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30 Sept |
Thailand's election and new government: A turning point? (Co-presented with Sydney Ideas) Details here |
Professor Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; Dr Chris Baker, independent scholar. |
| 20 Oct |
China Meets the Lower Mekong: Perspectives from Yunnan and Thailand |
Professor Yos Santasombat, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Professor Lu Xing, Yunnan University, China. |
2010
| 2010 Program | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
| 6 May |
Boundaries between sustainability and modernization: material, spatial, political and social changes on the boundaries between grid and off-grid electrification in Laos and Thailand |
Mr Mattijs Smits, University of Sydney |
| 27 May |
Sex Tourism Relationships in a Filipino Community, a case from the Phillippines |
Dr Rosemary Wiss, Macquarie University |
| 3 June | Resource rights, REDD development and forest governance in Jambi province, Indonesia | Dr Jeffrey Neilson, Dr Bob Fisher, Dr Yayoi Fujita, University of Sydney |
| 12 August |
Local institutions in forest and pasture management in Northern Mongolia | Dr Bob Fisher, University of Sydney |
| 19 August |
Medical tourism in Asia | Professor John Connell, University of Sydney |
| 23 September |
Opium and Poverty in Laos | Professor Paul Cohen, Macquarie University |
| 21 October |
Collaborative management approaches to protected areas in Thailand | Mr Surin Onprom, University of Sydney |
| 4 November |
Anthropology, Colonialism and the End of Balinese Worlds |
Professor Linda Connor, University of Sydney Dr Mary Ida Bagus, University of Newcastle |
2009
| 2009 Program | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
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8 April |
Writing the Mekong |
Professor Milton Osborne, Australian National University |
| 22 April |
Contextualising community: Ethnic identity in Makassar, 17th - 21st centuries |
Professor Heather Sutherland, Free University, Amsterdam |
| 27 May |
Oil palm, agricultural policy and the agrarian transition in Indonesia |
Dr John McCarthy, Australian National University |
| 7 August |
Aspects of the prehistory of Viet Nam |
Professor Ben Kiernan, Yale University |
| 28 August |
Contested waterscapes in theMekong region: Hydropower, livelihoods and governance |
Dr Tira Foran, Chiang Mai University |
| 25 September | Ecological nationalism in China: The Nu (Salween) river controversy |
Ms Hongyan Ga, University of Sydney |
| 19 October |
Fighting for the role of the nation state in knowledge mobilisation and educational research: An auto-ethnography of a mobile transnational Vietnamese scholar |
Ms Phan Le Ha, Monash University |
| 30 October |
Livelihoods and landscapes in Doi Mae Salong: 'Doing it differently' in a Thai protected area | Dr Bob Fisher, University of Sydney |
2008
| 2008 Program | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
| 14 February |
Are environmental movements socially exclusive? An historical study from Thailand |
Dr Tim Forsyth, London School of Economics |
| 12 March |
Singapore biopolis: Bare life in the city-state |
Associate Professor Catherine Waldby, University of Sydney |
| 2 April |
Mapping bombing raids over Indochina |
Dr Holly High, University of Sydney |
| 9 April |
Nam Theun 2 watershed management and protection authority: Integrated conservation and management project | Dr Stephen Duthy, Nam Theun 2 Watershed Management and Protection Authority |
| 30 April |
The state of the Indonesian media |
Mr Bambang Harymurti, Editor-in-Chief, Tempo newspaper |
| 7 May |
Poverty and livelihoods in fisheries communities around Nha Phu lagoon, Vietnam |
Mr Huy Tuong Nguyen, University of Sydney |
| 6 August |
The post-opium scenario and rubber in northern Laos: Alternative western andChinese models of development | Dr Paul Cohen, Macquarie University |
| 20 August |
The use of a mixed-methods approach in understanding the influence of World Heritage zoning on subsistence forest practices | Mr Nathan Wales, University of Sydney |
| 29 August |
The Mekong region hydropower explosion |
Mr John Dore, AusAID and M-POWER |
| 24 September |
Herding catfish in the Mekong: Governing pangasius for sustainable rural livelihoods and environmental performance |
Dr Simon Bush, Wageningan University |
| 8 October |
Land issues in Laos |
Professor Phil Hirsch, University of Sydney |
| 22 October |
Carbon sequestration, REDD, forests and human rights | Dr Bob Fisher, University of Sydney |