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September 2012
AMRC welcomes Cambodian visiting scholars   View Summary
20 September 2012
Three visiting scholars from Royal University of Phnom Penh are learning about field-based learning and critical writing for three months through AMRC.
May 2012
Special journal issue on energy and development in Laos    View Summary
9 May 2012
Five articles on linkages between energy and development in Laos published in special edition of the journal Forum for Development Studies.
April 2012
Southeast Asian Seminar: Friday, 20th April, 12-1pm    View Summary
17 April 2012
Please join us to hear Oulavanh Keovilignavong present on "Spatial Regression Analysis of Private Investments and the Poverty-Environment Nexus in Laos" on Fri 20th April, 12-1pm, Madsen Building, Conference Room 449, The University of Sydney.
Southeast Asian Seminar: Law, governance and justice in the Mekong region, Friday 25th May   View Summary
17 April 2012
Philip Hirsch, Professor in Human Geography and Fleur Johns, Assoc/Prof at the Sydney Law School will give a presentation on "Law, governance and justice in the Mekong region" on Friday 25th May, 12-1pm, Madsen Building, Conference Room 449, The University of Sydney. All welcome!
SE Asian Seminar: Cultural Production of Minority Sexuality in mainland SE Asia, Fri 1st June   View Summary
17 April 2012
In this special session, we invite Dr. Chris Lyttleton (Macquarie Uni) and Dr. Douangphet Sayanouso (Dept Health, NSW) to share insights from their multi-sited ethnography in mainland SE Asia. Friday 1st June, 12-1pm, Madsen Building, Conference Room 449, The University of Sydney. All welcome!
March 2012
Usyd researchers receive $1.4m to explore livelihood adaptation in Laos   View Summary
20 March 2012
Human geographers and international public health experts from the University of Sydney will collaborate on a three year research project aimed at facilitating livelihood adaptation to natural resource pressures in Laos.
February 2012
Visiting Fellowship at Yale for Jo Gillespie   View Summary
14 February 2012
Current lecturer in the School of Geosciences, and AMRC alumnus, Jo Gillespie has been invited to take up a prestigious visiting fellowship position at Yale.
Congratulations Lindsay Soutar!   View Summary
9 February 2012
Former AMRC employee and geography honours graduate profiled in Sydney Morning Herald.
January 2012
Call for panel proposals and abstracts: 2nd ICIRD conference   View Summary
17 January 2012
Extension for panel proposals until 31 January 2012 as well as welcome individual abstract until 31 March 2012 for 'Toward an ASEAN Economic Community: Prospects, Challenges and Paradoxes in Development, Governance and Human Security.'
Delays to Xayaburi: Prof Phil Hirsch in The Economist   View Summary
9 January 2012
Commenting on Xayaburi Dam politics, Prof Phil Hirsch quoted by The Economist.