Asia DPhil Day

The Research Day will showcase students’ research, facilitate exchange of ideas across disciplines and regions within Asia, and foster a supportive peer network

10.15: Introduction

Session 1: 10.30 am – 1 pm
10.30 am: Maw Maw Khaing (Hertford College)
Montessori in Myanmar: In search of existential freedom in Myanmar’s education

11.00 am: Subham Basak (Jesus College)
Livelihood-related internet use among underprivileged young men in Kolkata

11.30 am: Abhishek Saha (Lincoln College)
Who is an Indian? Documents and the production of statelessness

12.00 pm: Aishwarya Mukhopadhyay (St Antony’s College)
Unbuilt Futures, Paper Realities: Waste infrastructure and bureaucratic aspirations in a small Indian city

12.30 pm: Yuhan Hu (St Antony’s College)
Downplaying Popularity of Protests: Visual Narratives, Authoritarian Control, and the 2019 Hong Kong Social Movement

LUNCH: 1.00-2.00 pm

Session 2: 2.00 -4.00 pm
2.00 pm: Thu Htet (Oriel College)
Rethinking hedging: Introducing a ‘dynamic portfolio’ approach to Southeast Asian strategic alignments

2.30 pm: Shivangi Kaushik (Wolfson College)
Colonial Pasts and Overlapping Presents: Understanding linkages between the creation of British undivided Assam and ethnolinguistic identity formation of migrant students from Northeast India (NER) in Delhi

3.00 pm: Fandi Achmad (Oriel College)
Digital Service Exports and Firm Innovation: A Grounded Theory Insight from the IT-Business Process Management Sector in the Philippines

3.30 pm: Jinxiao Wang (Visiting Student at St Edmund Hall)
An Italian among Chinese Elite: Ludovico Nicola di Giura (1868–1947)

4.00 pm: End