HU Southeast Asian Societies and Cultures Lecture Series
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Mondays, 6-8 pm, Invalidenstr. 118, room 117
April 15th, 2pm. ONLINE
Book Launch: “Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: A Multifaceted History of Khmer Rouge Crimes” with Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier and Ann-Laure Porée.
May 5th
Sirima Thongsawang (Chulalongkorn University):
“Urban conflict and resolution: Bangkok as the city of Anulom”
Abstract:
Some say laws are not made to be broken as justice ignored is chaos invited, while countless people accept there is an exception to every rule. This is the social construction-differing from place to place- that determines belief, way of life and state administration in the society. The presentation analyzes urban conflicts in Bangkok and how state permission- Anulom applied. The presentation also discusses the intersections between state, urban community, and social stratifications in relations to the formation of conflict resolutions. The locus is Soi Phaya Nak and contiguous areas in Ratchathewi district, inhabited by different ethnic populations.
Sirima Thongsawang is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Chulalongkorn University's faculty of political science. Aside from Southeast Asian Studies, her research interests include migration, inequality, and development.
Zoom-Meeting beitreten
https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/66190820633?pwd=agZU2eVzy3u5rkVSRgXV4M99imE3aL.1
Meeting-ID: 661 9082 0633
Passwort: 237373
May 19th
Simon Rowedder (Universität Passau):
“Yunnan as Inter-Asian Method – not quite ‘Chinese’, nor quite ‘Southeast Asian’”
May 26th
Paul Christensen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen):
“Living with Shifting Sands: Social and Spiritual Impacts of Sand Mining in Southeast Asia”
May 27th TUESDAY 6pm
Andrew Mertha (Jons Hopkins University):
Book Talk – “Bad Lieutenants. The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970-1997”
June 27th FRIDAY 2pm
Book Launch: “Global Handbook of Inequality” with Surinder Jodhka
June 30th
Benjamin Baumann (Universität Heidelberg):
“From haunted sites to places of worship: Exploring the social ontology of roadside shrines in Thailand’s lower Northeast”
July 7th
Timothy Williams (Bundeswehr Universität München):
“‘The ghost of communism is alive and well.’ Consolidating power through memory.”