• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Dr Matthew J Walton
• Timing: Alternate Wednesdays in term, 2 p.m.
• Web Address: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/research-centres/asian-studies-centre/events
• Organising department: Asian Studies Centre

Tuesday 26 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Colonial India and the Hajj, 1865-1950
  TBA

Wednesday 27 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Gift of Education? Learning, Migration and intergenerational Relations among Karen Refugees in Thailand and the United Kingdom
  TBA

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Living in a Time of Deception: a historical Memoir of Singapore 1945-65
  TBA

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Shifting Words: Language Pride and Language Endangerment in Indonesia
  TBA

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Traffic in Hierarchy: Precedence and Power in Burmese Social Life
  TBA

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Other Side of Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur): The Personal-Elitism Tendencies in Leading Party and Internal Fragmentation of National Awakening Party (1998-2008)
  TBA
• 18:30 - Fighting Extremism through Islamic Moderation
  TBA

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Prospects for enhancing Democracy and Development in the Philippines: The 2016 Elections and beyond
  TBA
• 14:00 - The prospects for enhancing democracy and development in the Philippines: The 2016 elections and beyond
  TBA

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Burma: When Women lead the Way to Peace, Freedom and Democracy
  TBA

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon
  TBA
• 14:00 - Book Launch: The Karen and the Gift of Education
  TBA

Wednesday 9 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Challenges and Opportunities for strengthening State and Regional Parliaments in Myanmar
  Myat The Thitsar (Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation; Oxford)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Bureaucratisation of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Outlines of a Collaborative Research Project
  Dominik M. Müller (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Controlling the Narrative: The Law, Human Rights and 1MDB in Malaysia
  Kerstin Steiner (Monash)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Positioning Myanmar as an attractive new investment destination in Southeast Asia
  Sufian Jusoh (National University of Malaysia)

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - A Journey from Cambodia to America and Back!
  TBA
• 17:00 - Book launch: Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar
  Matthew J Walton (St Antony’s)

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Transforming Memory: Community Recollections of Inter-Religious Peace and Conflict in Myanmar
  Phyu Phyu Thi (Myanmar ICT for Development), Matthew J Walton (St Antony’s)

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Boundaries and Belonging in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Chin refugees in Mizoram
  TBA

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Southeast Asia Seminar: Postgraduate Research Session
  TBA

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Change & Challenge: Philippine Foreign Policy and the Philippine-U.S. Alliance
  TBA

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Opium and Coercive State Formation: Strongmen and Armed Conflicts in Burma’s Shan State (1948-1996)
  John Buchanan (University of Washington)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Understanding Indonesia's Post-Independence Elite: Data from the Constitutional Assembly
  Kevin Fogg (Centre for Islamic Studies), Syahrul Hidayat (University of Exeter; University of Indonesia)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Thailand's Post-2014 Foreign Policy: Riding on the International Trend
  Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto University; London School of Economics)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Inducement and Smaller-States' Triple Trade-offs: Southeast Asian Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative
  Cheng-Chwee Kuik (National University of Malaysia)

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Naga Serpent in Malay Divination
  TBA

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Beyond Victimhood? Experiences of New Vietnamese Migrants in Britain: Modern Slavery, Trafficking and the Cannabis Trade
  Tamsin Barber (Oxford Brookes)

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Myanmar’s “Buddhist Nationalist” Movement: A Challenge to Religious Authorities?
  Matthew Walton (University of Oxford), Khin Mar Mar Kyi (International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall), Aye Thein (Politics and International Relations)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Religion and Development: Interactions and Reconfigurations as viewed from Southeast Asia
  Dr Michael Feener (Sultan of Oman Fellow, OCIS)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Radicalizing liberalism: the ideological inversions of Islamic liberalism and moderation in Malaysian politics
  Carlo Bonura (SOAS)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Southeast Asia Seminar: Postgraduate Research Session
  Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development), Jieun Baek (Hertford, Blavatnik School of Government), Adrian Calo (School of Oriental and African Languages, London)

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Modern Greek Seminar: In search of a usable past: the case of the first cathedral of modern Athens
  LYCOURGOS SOPHOULIS (University of Oxford)