Asian Studies Centre
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Rediscovering the Primitive: Adivasi Histories in and after Subaltern Studies
02 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Uday Chandra speaks at the South Asia Seminar Two decades ago, the historical anthropologist K. Sivaramakrishnan noted with a sense of irony that "eli...
Fighting Extremism Through Islamic Moderation
31 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir (Menteri Besar - Chief Minister - of Perak, Malaysia) speaks at St Antony's College Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir was appointed as the 1...
The Traffic in Hierarchy: Precedence and Power in Burmese Social Life
24 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ward Keeler speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar. Traffic on city streets is the first of three scenes from everyday life Ward Keeler will use in t...
Living in a Time of Deception: a Historical Memoir of Singapore 1945-65
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Poh Soo Kai speaks at the Southeast Asia seminar on May 4th, 2016. Living in a Time of Deception is a study of Singapore history from the post-war ...
The Gift of Education? Learning, migration and intergenerational relations among Karen refugees in Thailand and the United Kingdom
28 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Pia Jolliffe speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar Focusing on the Karen people from Burma/Myanmar in Thailand and in the United Kingdom, this talk ...
The Development of Islamic Finance in Malaysia: Facts, Issues and Potential
21 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Arshad Mohamed Ismail speaks on Islamic Finance at the Southeast Asia seminar Islamic finance is often seen as a segment that is experiencing exponent...
Timor-Leste, Challenges in Post-Independence: From Dream to Reality
19 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Former President of East Timor, speaks at St Antony's College. What the experience of Timor-Leste t...
Trading with the Enemy: the Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People's Republic of China
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Hugo Meijer gives a talk at the International Political Economy of East Asia seminar. In light of the intertwining logics of military competition ...
The Oxford India Lecture: An Undocumented Wonder - the Making of the Great Indian Election
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr S Y Quraishi gives the Oxford India lecture 2016. Guest of Honour: H.E. Mr Navtej Sarna, Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom This event...
The Political Economy of the Indo-Myanmar Frontier: Exploring Historical Links and Current Challenges in Mizo-Chin Relations
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Reshmi Banerjee speaks at the South Asia seminar. Borders have always witnessed social and cultural interaction. They are dynamic trans-national z...
Is the 21st Century Asia's?
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
NB: The first minutes of the presentation were not recorded. Professor Danny Quah speaks at the International Politics of East Asia Seminar Many write...
Mechanism of oppression, Dalits and legal developments in India
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Dag Erik Berg speaks at the South Asian seminar. There has been a tendency in caste studies to explain the origins and existence of caste, relying ...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: a first step towards a sino-centric regional order?
11 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Drs Matteo Dian and Silvia Menegazzi give a talk on the AIIB at the International Political Economy of East Asia Seminar This presentation will analys...
China's Economic Nationalists: from Bretton Woods to Bandung
08 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Amy King, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University, gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre. Conventional wisdom...
The Making of a Constitution: Pakistan and the Question of Sovereignty
01 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash gives a talk on Pakistan and it's constitutional sovereignty on 19th January 2016. The constitution of a country is its 'Suprem...
The Geopolitics of Change in Burma
27 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bertil Lintner (Independent Journalist and Author) speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 20th January 2016. The United States and the West did not c...
Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China
08 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Smith (Council on Foreign Relations) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre on 24th November 2015. No country feels China's rise more deeply...
A Vote for Authoritarianism? Reflections of Singapore's 2015 General Election
08 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Pingtjin Thum (Research Associate, Centre for Global History; Coordinator, Project Southeast Asia) speaks at the Southeast Asia seminar on 21st Octobe...
The Alchemist of Exile: Writing the Life of a Vietnamese Political Prisoner
01 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lorraine Paterson gives a talk at the Southeast Asia Seminar on June 10th, 2015. Under French colonialism in Indochina, approximately ten thousand...
Rumors, riots, and taxis: The politics of Myanmar's new media infrastructure
23 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Southeast Asia Seminar Trinity Term 2015 In early July 2014, Myanmar's second largest city became the site of anti-Muslim riots, extending a pattern o...
The Diffusion of Islamic Laws Across Indonesia
25 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A talk as part of the Southeast Asia Seminar Series Since the collapse of the authoritarian New Order regime in 1998, hundreds of Islamic laws have be...
Chinese Reform in Light of James Meade's Liberal Socialism.
17 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Zhiyuan Cui (Tsinghua University) gives the Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture 2014. This is an annual lecture held in St Antony's College, the topic...
Dr. Ansari and the Indian Medical Mission to the Ottoman Empire, 1912-13
04 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Burak Akcapar talks on his book 'People's Mission: Dr. Ansari and the Indian Medical Mission to the Ottoman Empire, 1912-13' published by Oxford Un...
Changing Buddhist Identities in Contemporary Myanmar (Burma)
04 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
As Burma (Myanmar) opens up to the world during a period of rapid change, Matthew J Walton, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, explores the ...
Timor Leste Route to Democracy: a critical appraisal
22 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The first talk given as part of the Southeast Asia Seminar, St Antony's College during MT14 In 1999 Timor-Leste was given the opportunity to vote on a...
Thailand and the Rule of No Law
26 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A talk given as part of the Southeast Asia Seminar Series The session will be focussing on Thai politics following the 2006 coup and how the protester...
Closing Myanmar's Pandora Box: resolving the Buddhist-Muslim Conflict
20 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Public lecture and discussion organised by the Middle East and Asian Studies Centres, St Antony's College, in collaboration with Oxford Centre for Isl...
Religion as a Motive for Exclusion in Contemporary Western Democracies
20 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A co-sponsored event from the Asian Studies Centre, the Dahrendorf programme for the Study of Freedom, the Middle East Centre and North American Studi...
Burma: Towards 2015 and Beyond
30 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Roundtable Discussion on the future of Burma Burma is at a very sensitive moment in its transition. The peace process with ethnic armed groups is in a...
Ethnicity and Experiences of Conflict in Burma: An Informal Rountable Discussion
30 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
An Informal Rountable Discussion on Burma Matthew Walton will discuss ethnicity and differential experiences of suffering more broadly as well as the ...
The Emerging Agro-Industrial Complex in Burma: the Politicis of Land Reform, Land Grabs and Resistances, and the Chinese Presence
30 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This talk examines Land Politicis in Burma Kevin Woods has been engaged in research and activism on land politics in Burma for over a decade. His init...
Anti-Muslim Movements in Sri Lanka and Myanmar: Connections and Commonalities
08 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This talk examines the recent rise of violence perpetrated by Buddhist nationalists on Muslim and Christian residents in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. The re...