Southeast Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies
Discover the diversity of Southeast Asia in the heart of Berlin. Whether it’s Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, or Singapore, you can gain insights into one of the most dynamic regions in the world. International experts, experienced language instructors, and leading scholars will guide you through a diverse and innovative study program. Interested? Learn more here.
Southeast Asian Societies and Cultures
Transregional Southeast Asian Studies
Interested in exploring the fascinating transregional and globe-spanning ties of Southeast Asia? This page offers an overview of the Regional Department for Transregional Southeast Asian Studies.
09 July: The Chinese in the Philippines: History, Identity and Culture
Lecture by Prof. Richard T. Chu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/southeastasia/the-chinese-in-the-philippines-history-identity-and-culture
- 09 July: The Chinese in the Philippines: History, Identity and Culture
- 2018-07-09T18:00:00+02:00
- 2018-07-09T20:00:00+02:00
- Lecture by Prof. Richard T. Chu (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- When Jul 09, 2018 from 06:00 to 08:00
- Where Room 117, Invalidenstrasse 118
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Drawing on his research on the cultural and familial practices of Chinese merchant families in Manila from the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Chu analyses the historical factors that have created a distinct binary between “Filipinos” and “Chinese” in Philippine society today. He demonstrates how centuries of close interaction between the two groups has been promoted as well as obstructed by empire, colonialism and nationalism. He calls for Filipinos and Chinese alike to work toward resisting and challenging forces that tend to homogenize and reify their identities and that result in misunderstanding and long-standing prejudice between them, especially at a time when tensions between China and the Philippines have risen over territorial disputes of the islands in the West Philippine Sea.
About the speaker:
Richard T. Chu (A.B. Ateneo de Manila University; M.A. Stanford University; Ph.D. University of Southern California) is Five-College Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published various articles focusing on the history of the Chinese and Chinese mestizos in the Philippines and centering on issues of ethnicity, gender, and nationalism. He is the author of Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila: Family, Identity, and Culture 1860s–1930s (E.J. Brill, 2010; Anvil 2012) and Chinese Merchants of Binondo during the Late Nineteenth Century (University of Santo Tomas Press, 2010). He is also editor of More Tsinoy Than We Admit (Vibal Publishing, 2015). Currently, he is working on his next book project, tentatively entitled “Building A Nation, Effacing a Race: The Construction of ‘Chinese’ and ‘Filipino’” that analyses the different newspaper articles and other textual materials dealing with the “Chinaman” question in the Philippines during the American colonial period. He teaches courses on the Chinese diaspora, Philippines, U.S. empire in the Pacific, and Asian/Pacific/America.
13 July: Bakwit as Protest: Displacements and Evacuations as Form of Resistance and Medium of Social Campaign
Lecture by Andrea Malaya Ragragio (Leiden University/University of the Philippines Mindanao)
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/southeastasia/bakwit-as-protest-displacements-and-evacuations-as-form-of-resistance-and-medium-of-social-campaign
- 13 July: Bakwit as Protest: Displacements and Evacuations as Form of Resistance and Medium of Social Campaign
- 2018-07-18T18:00:00+02:00
- 2018-07-18T20:00:00+02:00
- Lecture by Andrea Malaya Ragragio (Leiden University/University of the Philippines Mindanao)
- When Jul 18, 2018 from 06:00 to 08:00
- Where Room 117, Invalidenstrasse 118
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I will present the historical context of and ethnographic case studies on the ‘displacement’ experienced/expressed by Manobo indigenous peoples (or lumad) of Mindanao (southern Philippines), in the context of state and development aggression in the past three decades that have seen an intensification of mass evacuations (locally called bakwit) into metropolitan centers like Davao City. Interacting closely with non-indigenous, urban-based groups for both material and non-material support, they learn to maximize their lengthening stays in their ‘places of refuge’ in metropolitan centers by launching broad social education campaigns like undertaking ‘people's political sojourns’ (lakbayan) to other major cities of the Philippines in order to popularize their causes. How do we view bakwit and lakbayan as a new mode of action in relation to the range of politico-cultural options historically demonstrated by Mindanao indigenous communities and radicalized peasants? How potent and sustainable is this mode of action? Is this phenomenon an indigenous movement equivalent to the early-21st-century surge of ‘occupy movements’? This presentation will argue that some insights, if not lessons, can be learned from the presented ethnographic cases as we reflect on the importance of intersections of struggles, visions and organizational forms that emerge from the ‘indigenous movement’ of southern Philippines.
About the speaker:
Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University. She is also currently with the faculty of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the Philippines-Mindanao in Davao City, and helps edit BANWA, the in-house peer-reviewed journal of UP Mindanao. Previously, she worked as a graduate assistant in the Center for International Studies and as University Research Associate in the Archaeological Studies Program, both at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and as a Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the University of the Philippines-Manila. Andrea writes about culture, education, and politics in her column Soyez Realistes in the online news outfit Davao Today (www.davaotoday.com). She is a Board Member of Salupungan International, an international solidarity network of indigenous peoples advocates, and a member of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers in the Philippines. She obtained her Master of Arts degree in Archaeology and her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (cum laude) from the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
01.12. Invitation to Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Sarah Ansari – Boundaries and belonging: the making of minorities in post-Partition South Asia
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/southeastasia/invitation-to-guest-lecture-with-prof-dr-sarah-ansari-boundaries-and-belonging-the-making-of-minorities-in-post-partition-south-asia
- 01.12. Invitation to Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Sarah Ansari – Boundaries and belonging: the making of minorities in post-Partition South Asia
- 2020-12-01T10:15:00+01:00
- 2020-12-01T23:59:59+01:00
- When Dec 01, 2020 from 10:15 to 11:59
- Where Zoom
- Attendees Prof. Dr. Sarah Ansari
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Invitation to Guest Lecture: "Boundaries and belonging: the making of minorities in post-Partition South Asia"
Prof. Dr. Sarah Ansari
Tuesday, 1. Dezember 2020, 10:15
Via Zoom. Please register at the following address to receive the zoom-link: sadia.bajwa@asa.hu-berlin.de
Sarah Ansari is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on 19th and 20th-century South Asia with an emphasis on places that are today in Pakistan, in particular the province of Sindh and its mega-city Karachi. Her publications have explored the role of local religious elites, the impact of migration, women’s lives, so-called ‘ethnic’ identities, and interactions between ordinary citizens and the everyday state. Her most recent book (co-written with William Gould) is Boundaries of Belonging: localities, citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan (CUP, 2019).
The lecture is organized by PD Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg and Dr. Sadia Bajwa as part of the MA course "Negotiating 'Minorities' in South and Southeast Asia in Transregional Perspective"
It is hosted by the departments of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies and South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
15.01 Invitation to 32nd HIP Workshop – part of the 'COVID-19 Research Method Working Group on Pakistan: Researching in Times of a Pandemic'
- https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/southeastasia/15-01-invitation-to-32nd-hip-workshop-part-of-the-covid-19-research-method-working-group-on-pakistan-researching-in-times-of-a-pandemic
- 15.01 Invitation to 32nd HIP Workshop – part of the 'COVID-19 Research Method Working Group on Pakistan: Researching in Times of a Pandemic'
- 2021-01-15T14:00:00+01:00
- 2021-01-15T16:00:00+01:00
- When Jan 15, 2021 from 02:00 to 04:00
- Where Zoom
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32nd Humboldt India Project Workshop on Friday, 15 January 2021, via Zoom.
The presenters are part of the 'COVID-19 Research Method Working Group on Pakistan: Researching in Times of a Pandemic.' The presentations are structured as vignettes, i.e. the presenters describe and reflect on events and critical moments during their field research where the effects and implications of the pandemic became most visible to them. Sharing and discussing these concrete research experiences opens up the discussion for re-examining current research practices.
When?
Friday, 15 January 2021
2:00 pm to 4.00 pm (Kindly note: Berlin time!)
Where?
https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/65185043933?pwd=UXd1b0lYZVF4SzJPVXF6WHNrU2NPUT09
Speakers:
2:00 pm (Berlin)/ 6:00 pm (Islamabad): Rahat Shah, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
2:30 pm (Berlin)/ 6:30 pm (Islamabad): Dr. Salman Khan, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, Kings College, London and Dr. James Caron, Lecturer, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
3:00 pm (Berlin)/ 7:00 pm (Islamabad): Rahat Batool, Consultant Medical Anthropology, M Phil, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
3:30 pm (Berlin)/ 7:30 pm (Islamabad): Mudassar Munir, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Università delgi Studi di Milano
Events and publications
Exciting full-day cultural program on Indonesia
Resources
Southeast Asia Newsletter of the IAAW: soa-newsletter.iaaw@lists.hu-berlin.de
To subscribe: Send a blank email with the subject line "subscribe soa-newsletter.iaaw Firstname Lastname" (fill in your own name) to sympa@lists.hu-berlin.de.
Resources for Southeast Asia
Asia House Foundation:
The Asia House Foundation advocates for the realization of human rights, the strengthening of social and political participation, as well as for social justice and environmental protection. https://www.asienhaus.de/stiftung-asienhaus
Asian and African Studies Blog (British Library):
The blog promotes the work of the curators, recent acquisitions, digitization projects, and collaborative projects outside the Library: https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african
Centre Asie du Sud-Est - CASE, Paris:
https://www.ehess.fr/en/center-south-east-asia-case
Very active mailing list: case-programme@services.cnrs.fr
To join the list, a request must be sent to Sophie Hénon: Sophie.HENON@cnrs.fr
CrossAsia:
CrossAsia is a specialist portal for Asian studies (Berlin State Library): https://crossasia.org
European Association for Asian Studies (EuroSEAS):
Large Southeast Asia conference within Europe held every two years: https://www.euroseas.org/
International Quarterly for Asian Studies (IQAS):
A scientific journal published quarterly in Open Access with many contributions to Southeast Asia. The editorship is led by Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs (Transregional Southeast Asian Studies, IAAW), with managing editors PD Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg (IAAW) and Ann Philipp (ABI Freiburg): https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/index
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs:
A scientific journal published by the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, appearing three times a year as Open Access: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/saa
Podcast: Straight Talk Southeast Asia by Bridget Welsh
In Straight Talk Southeast Asia, Bridget Welsh provides in-depth analysis and insights into political and social developments across Southeast Asia. The podcast covers issues like democracy, human rights, elections, and economic trends in various countries in the region. Welsh, a well-known expert in Southeast Asian politics, offers detailed explanations and speaks with guests who discuss current events and challenges.
The podcast is available on Bridget Welsh’s website, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.
Resources for Southeast Asia Newsletter of the Heinrich Böll Foundation:
Information on events of the HBS in Berlin related to Southeast Asia: https://th.boell.org/en/information-heinrich-boll-stiftung-southeast-asia
Revue Archipel:
A multilingual scientific Open Access journal focused on insular Southeast Asia. Published by the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE) and the Association Archipel, Paris: https://www.openedition.org/16055?lang=en
TLC: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Association:
A study group focusing on Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. For membership, registration on the mailing list, and sending messages, an email must be sent to Dr. Justin McDaniel (jmcdan@sas.upenn.edu).
Working Group Southeast Asia within the German Society for Asian Studies (DGA):
https://asienforschung.de/arbeitskreise/ak-soa/
Resources for Cambodia
Bophana Center
The Bophana Center is an audiovisual archive and also produces its own materials while training young Cambodians in sound and film techniques. A central figure and founder is the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rithy Panh.
https://bophana.org/
Documentation Center of Cambodia
Archive and research center on the Khmer Rouge regime.
https://www.dccam.org/
Accessing the (outdated but still active) website is worthwhile, as it contains the archive catalog.
https://d.dccam.org/
Khmer Times
State-controlled news portal.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/
Phnom Penh Post
Formerly the country's leading newspaper, now state-controlled.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archive
The museum's archive has been digitized with the help of UNESCO, and unlike other archives, researchers and interested parties have free access here.
https://archives.tuolsleng.gov.kh/
Resources for Indonesia
DEUTSCH-INDISCHE GESELLSCHAFT Berlin e.V.
Regular expert lectures and event newsletters related to Indonesia: http://www.digberlin.org
Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen - Rumah Budaya Indonesia - Berlin
Newsletter from the cultural department of the Indonesian Embassy in Berlin: https://www.facebook.com/RBI.Berlin
Indonesia at Melbourne
A blog from the University of Melbourne about political, economic, legal, and ecological developments in Indonesia: https://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/
Inside Indonesia
Regularly publishes thematic dossiers on Indonesia. The newsletter can be subscribed to here: https://www.insideindonesia.org/about/contact-us
KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
News/newsletter about the KITLV and its research and other academic activities, scholarships, funds, etc.: https://www.kitlv.nl/news
Soy Division
An artist collective in Berlin, primarily from the Indonesian diaspora. Organizes events related to art and activism: https://www.soydivision.berlin/
Watch Indonesia!
An NGO in Berlin that critically monitors the political situation in Indonesia and regularly organizes lectures and discussion rounds: https://www.watchindonesia.de/?lang=de
Resources for Malaysia
Aliran
An NGO with a long tradition that advocates for freedom, justice, and solidarity.
https://aliran.com/
Bersih Germany
The German section of Global Bersih.
http://bersihgermany.com/About-Us/
Global Bersih
An NGO advocating for “clean elections” and the rights of Malaysians abroad.
https://www.instagram.com/global_bersih/?hl=de
Malaysiakini
An online newspaper in multiple languages known for its critical reporting. Some content can be accessed for free; full articles require a subscription.
https://www.malaysiakini.com/en
Sisters in Islam (SIS)
Malaysia’s most well-known Islamic organization for women’s rights/muslim feminism.
https://sistersinislam.org/
Resources for Myanmar
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma): Collects and publishes data on political prisoners in Myanmar and releases a “Daily Briefing in Relation to the Coup.”
https://aappb.org/
German Solidarity Myanmar: An activist network in Germany with an informative, current website and regular actions and events.
https://www.solidarity-myanmar.de/
Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP) – Myanmar: A think tank that publishes current analyses, data, and maps on a range of topics on its website.
https://ispmyanmar.com/
Justice for Myanmar: Reveals which international (including German) companies collaborate with the military in Myanmar and support it directly or indirectly with money or weapons. It also has a newsletter.
https://www.justiceformyanmar.org
Mohinga Matters: Originally started as a literary platform, this blog now provides weekly updates on the coup and other texts of political resistance (also has a newsletter).
https://mohingamatters.com/
Myanmar Conflict Map: From the International Institute for Strategic Studies—an attempt to document the many nationwide battlefields on a map, supplemented by conflict reports and analyses for individual regions in Myanmar.
https://myanmar.iiss.org/analysis?s=warscapes
Myanmar Institute e.V.: An academic network of Myanmar researchers and students with an annual conference and plenty of room for active participation. It also has an irregular newsletter with events, publications, and job offers.
https://myanmar-institut.org/
Newsletter of the Euro-Burma Office: (news@euro-burma.de) A daily selection of English-language news and reports on Myanmar in media worldwide. Subscribe here:
http://www.euro-burma.eu/contact/subscribe/
Frontier Fridays (Newsletter): Frontier Fridays is a free weekly news round-up featuring the most important events shaping Myanmar. Subscribe here:
https://hype.co/@frontiermyanmar/ae8gwkdn
Distribution list of the Myanmar Study Group Berlin: Meets every last Wednesday evening of the month (in person). All interested parties are welcome: msg.berlin@myanmar-institut.org
Resources for Thailand
Asienhaus Bonn
https://www.asienhaus.de/
Berliner Künstlerkollektiv un.thai.tled
https://unthaitled.org/
Deutsch-Thailändische Gesellschaft
https://www.dtg.eu/
Hamburger Gesellschaft für Thaiistik
http://thaiistik-gesellschaft.de
Sinema Transtopia, Lindower Str. 20/22, Haus C 13347 Berlin
https://sinematranstopia.com/de
T(h)ai Studies Network Germany (TSNG)
https://berlin.thaiembassy.org/de/page/t-h-ai-studies-netzwerk-deutschland?menu=643e6ae78f4377374459bc03
Here, you can register for the newsletter.
Wat Buddhavihara: Thai Buddhist temple in Berlin Pankow (Heinersdorf), Malchower Straße 23, 13089 Berlin
https://www.facebook.com/Buddhavihara.Berlin?_rdr
Resources for Vietnam
Chùa Linh Thứu
Buddhist pagoda in Berlin Spandau.
http://www.linhthuu.de/
Delegation der Deutschen Wirtschaft in Vietnam
https://vietnam.ahk.de
Here, you can subscribe to the monthly newsletter.
Diên Hồng – Gemeinsam unter einem Dach e.V.
Association for promoting intercultural education and development policy educational work with a special focus on Vietnam, based in Rostock.
https://www.dienhong.de/
Deutsch-Vietnamesische Gesellschaft e.V.
https://vietnam-dvg.com/vietnam-info/
Here, you can subscribe to the biannual online magazine "Viet Nam Info."
Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vietnamistik e.V.
https://vietnamistik.de/
Reistrommel e.V.
Association for integration promotion through counseling.
https://www.reistrommel-ev.de/
Stiftung Asienhaus
https://www.asienhaus.de
Here, you can also order a newsletter.
Thời báo
An English-language, Vietnam-critical political blog from Germany.
https://thoibao.de/blog/category/vd-news
Vereinigung der Vietnamesen in Berlin und Brandenburg e.V.
https://vietnam-bb.de/de/
Voice of Vietnam
State-run Vietnamese news portal.
https://english.vov.vn/en/