Category: Southeast Asia
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Event Report: Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia
On February 26, the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies hosted Dr. Diana Kim, Assistant Professor…
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The Challenge of International Accountability in Mass Atrocities: Myanmar and the ICJ
Abstract Following the mass atrocities committed against the Rohingya people by the state of Myanmar,…
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Event Report: Democracy in Myanmar – What to Watch for in 2020
On February 6th, the Synergy Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies and the Contemporary Asian Studies…
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Authoritarianism, Buddhism, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar: A Critical Inquiry
Abstract: This paper investigates whether Myanmar’s consecutive authoritarian governments and Buddhist monastic community maintain an unacknowledged…
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Event Report: Street Food in Bangkok and Hanoi: Conflicts Over the Use of the Urban Space
“Street Food in Bangkok and Hanoi: Conflicts Over the Use of the Urban Space,” an…
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Event Report: Colonial Secularism, Buddhism and the Continuing Violence of Burmese Women’s ‘Freedom’
On February 12th, 2019, the Centre for Southeast Asia Studies hosted an academic seminar with…
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Poor Prospects for Democracy in Malaysia
Disclaimer: Please note that the views expressed below represent the opinions of the article’s author.…
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![[Op-Ed] “Every Bit of Warming Matters”: The Inequalities of Climate Change](https://utsynergyjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/World-Headed-for-Irreversible-Climate-Change-—-IEA.jpg)
[Op-Ed] “Every Bit of Warming Matters”: The Inequalities of Climate Change
On October 8, 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special UN…
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Event Report: How Democratic Should Vietnam Be?: Anticommunist Nationalists and the Debate on the Constitutional Transition in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), May-December 1955
On November 8, 2018, the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Munk House of…
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Event Report: “Trauma, Mourning, Witnessing: Photographing the Philippine Drug War”
On October 12, 2018, the Dr David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies hosted Professor Vicente…
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