Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

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.

 

Meeting link: 

https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/67196301255?pwd=UQq8re7Rrsl9IjvVxGhvbL2nVCrnje.1

Meeting-ID: 671 9630 1255

Passwort: 669391

 

May 5th


Sirima Thongsawang (Chulalongkorn University):
“Urban conflict and resolution: Bangkok as the city of Anulom”

 

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.”