2020-2021 Autumn Term Lectures

Series Lecture

Transcending Boundaries: Southeast Asian Studies Lecture Series

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 1 | Southeast Asian Studies Lecture Series: Session 1 | Interpretation and Reconstruction of Traditional China-Vietnam Relations in Early 20th Century Vietnamese New History Studies

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 2 | Southeast Asian Studies Lecture Series: Session 2 | Contemporary Research on Thailand’s Politics: Structure and Methodology

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 3 | Southeast Asian Studies Lecture Series: Session 3 | Transcending Area Studies in the Bay of Bengal

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 4 | Area Studies in Asia Epistemologies and Trajectories

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 5 | The Politics of Memory: Saint Srivichai and the Formation of Modern Thailand

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 6 | The Informal, Intimate and Relational Economies of Yangon Street Vending

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 7 | A Study of Cambodian Party Politics

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 8 | A Review of the Restructuring of Regional Order and the Issue of South China Sea

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 9 | Divination and Politics in Thailand

Transcending Boundaries Lecture Series: Session 10 | Perspectives on Sino-Vietnamese Historical and Cultural Relations

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series: Session 1 | An Effort in Shifting Oil Dependency: the Exploration of ‘Rentier States’ for Development

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series: Session 2 | Paradigmatic Change in the Middle East Regional Power Relations and the Role of Asian Powers

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series: Session 3 | The Monarchy, the Tribes and the Shaykhly Families in Jordan, 1920-2012

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series: Session 4 | The Predicament of Democracy in Morocco: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series: Session 5 | Theoretical Issues in Area Studies

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series: Session 6 | Elhag Eldosh: The Status and Role of Shariah Supervisory Board in Islamic Finance Industry

Diversified Middle East Academic Lecture Series: Session 7 | Tim Niblock: Towards Conflict or Peace in West Asia? New Prospects and Possibilities, New Dimensions of Instability

Individual Lectures

The Implications, Progress and Research Frontier of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism

History and Area Studies

In between Poppy and Rubber Fields: Experimenting a Trans-border Livelihood in the Northwestern Frontiers of Laos

Iranian Studies Lecture | Homa Katouzian: The Short-Term Society: A Comparative Study of the Problems of Long-Term Political and Economic Development in Iran

Latin American Studies Lecture | Political Science Lecture on Latin American Studies: The Politics of Incremental Progressivism: Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo

Latin American Studies Lecture | The Complexity of Fragmented COVID-19 Response Across Brazilian Cities

Latin American Studies Lecture | The Costs of Inequality: Lessons and Warnings from Latin America

Latin American Studies Lecture | The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins

Eurasian Studies | Geopolitical Landscape and Future Trend of Eurasia in 2020

The Implications, Progress and Research Frontier of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Mechanism

History and Area Studies

In between Poppy and Rubber Fields: Experimenting a Trans-border Livelihood in the Northwestern Frontiers of Laos

Iranian Studies Lecture | Homa Katouzian: The Short-Term Society: A Comparative Study of the Problems of Long-Term Political and Economic Development in Iran

Latin American Studies Lecture | Political Science Lecture on Latin American Studies: The Politics of Incremental Progressivism: Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo

Latin American Studies Lecture | The Complexity of Fragmented COVID-19 Response Across Brazilian Cities

Latin American Studies Lecture | The Costs of Inequality: Lessons and Warnings from Latin America

Latin American Studies Lecture | The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins

Eurasian Studies | Geopolitical Landscape and Future Trend of Eurasia in 2020

Selected Lectures

Miracles and Traps of Development: How to Understand Economic Development with Economic Thinking