November 2018
Seminar | Women’s political pathways in Southeast Asia | Nankyung Choi
While Southeast Asian women’s socioeconomic status and formal political rights have improved significantly in recent decades, women remain under-represented in the region’s political institutions
Find out more »Seminar | Where do islands begin and end? Containing ‘the island’ in Eastern Indonesia | Elena Burgos Martinez
Seaweed feels expanding deep at sea. Are they part of the island, are they part of the sea, who owns them, what are they? These fields mirror kinship relations, matrices that regulate sociality and conviviality.
Find out more »Book launch & discussion | Unmarked graves: Death and survival in the anti-communist violence in East Java, Indonesia | Vanessa Hearman
The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of survivors, who faced decades of persecution
Find out more »December 2018
Seminar | Sharia embedded: The bureaucratization of Islam in Brunei and Singapore | Dominik Müller | Drinks afterwards!
What happens when Islam becomes translated into the language of contemporary state bureaucracy? How do bureaucratic schemes of Islam diffuse into society? What roles do state attempts of governing religion
Find out more »Book launch | Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s | Susie Protschky & Tom van den Berge
This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ‘modern’ (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines
Find out more »Oproep voor aanvragen | 8ste subsidieronde Dr. Silvia W. de Groot Fonds voor jonge Caraïbische onderzoekers
Het Silvia de Groot fonds is bedoeld om jonge Caraïbische onderzoekers, bij voorkeur van Marron-afkomst, financieel te ondersteunen bij de voorbereiding van een wetenschappelijke publicatie over de
Find out more »September 2019
Call for Panels | EuroSEAS Conference 2019 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 10th conference from 10 to 13 September 2019 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation
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