We would like to wish all our subscribers a very happy new year, and are delighted to present the latest issue of the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (LSE SEAC) Newsletter.
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SEAC appoints new Centre Manager
SEAC is pleased to welcome our new Centre Manager, Dr Lee Mager. Lee has a long history with LSE, having previously worked as Undergraduate Manager and Deputy Department Manager in the Department of Geography and Environment, and having completed his MSc and PhD in the Department of Sociology. He is looking forward to becoming part of the SEAC community, where he will take overall operational responsibility for the Centre in addition to managing events, communications and publications.
SEAC would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr Do Young Oh for his excellent service as Interim Centre Coordinator and wishes him the very best for his future career.
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LSE-Southeast Asia Early Career Researcher Network
SEAC is taking the lead on building a global network of young scholars specialising in the Southeast Asia region. We will be hosting our inaugural Early Career Researcher Network event on 13th February, with participants representing 9 different institutions from the UK and Southeast Asia. Keep an eye out on our Twitter and Facebook pages for reports and photos from the event!
If you would like to be added to our Early Career Researcher Network database for updates and future events, please send a request to Lee: seac.admin@lse.ac.uk
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SEAC Research Fund 2019: Call for Applications
Applications are invited for the third round of SEAC's Research Fund, open to all LSE Staff at Assistant Professor/Assistant Professorial Research Fellow level or above. The projects, to address social science issues relevant to Southeast Asia and aligning with SEAC’s core research themes, are to take place between 1st July 2019 to 31st July 2020. The deadline for applications is 30th April. For more detailed information, please read the official Funding Call.
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New Blog: Is Popular Environmentalism Democratic?
Prof. Forsyth (LSE, Department of International Development) shares some insights from his recent research in Thailand for SEAC's blog, weighing up the pros and cons of popular environmentalism.
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Catherine Allerton speaks at National University of Singapore marriage migration conference
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SEAC Director welcomes members of the Korean National Assembly
On 14th March 2019, 4 members of the Korean National Assembly visited the LSE and met Prof. Hyun Bang Shin to discuss their interests in urban regeneration, gentrification and social inequality, to help inform their future legislative activities.
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Southeast Asia Discussion Series: "Para-Nationalism: Sovereignty and Authenticity in the Wa state of Myanmar"
Friday 15th February, 4.00 - 6.00pm;
Graham Wallas Room, LSE
Speaker: Dr Hans Steinmüller, LSE Anthropology
Discussant: Dr Patrick Meehan, SOAS Development Studies
Chair: Prof. Hyun Bang Shin, SEAC Director
The first SEADS event of 2019, Dr Hans Steinmuller will be giving a talk relating to an upcoming paper on para-nationalism in Myanmar. In a new format for SEAC, the talk will incorporate a Discussant (Dr Patrick Meehan, SOAS) to complement the main speaker and contribute constructive comments and allow the audience to benefit from insights from both. Prof. Hyun Bang Shin, SEAC Director, will be Chair.
More details, including how to register your attendance, can be found here.
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Revisiting Displacement in Urban Studies
Thursday 28th February, 5.00 - 8.00pm;
Room CLM.7.02, 7th floor, Clement House, LSE
Speakers:
- Katherine Brickell (Professor of Social, Cultural and Historical Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Lisa Tilley (Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London)
- Jordana Ramalho (PhD Candidate, LSE Geography)
- Qin Shao (Professor of History, The College of New Jersey)
- Oren Yiftachel (Professor of Political and Legal Geography, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- Loretta Lees (Professor of Human Geography, University of Leicester)
Chair: Prof. Hyun Bang Shin, SEAC Director
The Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, in collaboration with the Urban Salon, will be hosting a roundtable discussion on displacement, incorporating Southeast Asia and beyond. Speakers will offer reflections on the meaning of 'displacement' in their ongoing and past research.
More details, including how to register your attendance, can be found here.
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Masterclass: Conducting Research in violent urban contexts
1st March, 1.30 - 3.00pm
LSE
Qin Shao, Professor of History at the College of New Jersey, will be sharing her expertise on urban research, particularly in relation to violent contexts, for LSE research students. Prof. Shao's research interests include property rights, historical preservation, domicide, displacement, mental health, dignity, sustainability, and grass-roots movements. She is working on a new project about the impact of politically motivated displacement under Mao. Invitations will be sent out in due course.
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Cove Session: Reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula and its implications for geopolitical economy and Southeast Asia
28th February, 10.30-12.30
LSE
Vladimir Tikhonov, Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Oslo, will be following his 27th February LSE Festival Roundtable Discussion with a SEAC Cove Session to discuss further implications of Korean reconciliation, particularly in relation to Southeast Asia.
Invitations will be sent out in due course.
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Populist Challenges in Southeast Asia
On 23rd January, the LSE Student Union ASEAN society hosted a talk and Q&A from Prof. John Sidel (LSE, Government) exploring the factors behind the divergent forms of populism in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Listen to the podcast here.
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