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CACS (College of ASEAN Community Studies) together with GIGA (German Institute of Global and Area Studies) presents “The Rise and Varieties of Party Factionalism in Southeast Asia.” This two-day workshop will examine intra-party factions and factionalism in competitive party systems of Southeast Asia. These include the cases of Indonesia, the Philippines, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia. Participants:
 PD Dr. Andreas Ufen, Senior Research Fellow, GIGA, Hamburg‒Theory, Malaysia Prof. Robert H. Taylor, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of…

The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 9th conference from 16 to 18 August 2017 at the University of Oxford. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation, EuroSEAS invites scholars and PhD students from all academic disciplines with an interest in Southeast Asia to submit panels that explore relevant research topics from an interdisciplinary perspective as well as discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of research generated in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. Proposals are also invited…

About the Conference Celebrating its 54 th anniversary, the Faculty of Liberal Arts Thammasat University (FATU) Conference is held by the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, to promote and strengthen our regional and global networks in research and teaching in humanities and social sciences and to establish networks of academics and researchers in the disciplines. To build upon a successful 2015 conference which marked the advent of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), this year our conference seeks to further…

We live in an era where goods and services are abundant and the market economy have brought a significant improvement to billions of people's lives and made it possible for people from any background to deliver values and contribute to development while keep improving their quality of life. The astonishing digital revolution also has given everyone a chance to participate in the increasingly global world, leading to a freer and more prosperous people. But the challenges facing the region is…

  ASEAN Youth Initiative Conference (AYIC) is a conference for ASEAN Youth to channel their aspiration in facing global issues – especially in achieving Sustainable Development Goals – initiated by students of Universitas Padjadjaran AYIC will be held within September 7 – 10 at Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia. In its first installment AYIC carries out the theme of “Unfolding Youth Roles, Creating Sustainable Tomorrow” and will focuses on four points of Sustainable Development Goals that will be discussed in four…

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a universal mechanism under the Human Rights Council that reviews the human rights situation in all 193 UN Member States once every four and a half years. All Southeast Asian states have undergone two review cycles of their respective human rights situations under the UPR process. But what is the impact of the UPR on human rights in the region? And does the focus on constructive dialogue and the state-centric nature of the process…

The next Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK) Conference, to be held 16-18 September 2016, is being hosted at SOAS, University of London, in the Russell Square area in central London within easy access of King’s Cross and Euston rail stations as well as the London tube’s Northern (Charing Cross Branch), Piccadilly, and Metropolitan Lines. This conference provides a major venue for the dissemination of research on South East Asia in various disciplines for academics from…