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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…

It is widely believed that we are in the middle of a technological revolution. The dynamic capacity of the internet to connect and transmit information—as well as the evolving nature of devices and infrastructures, owing to digitalisation—has seen new technologies bring rapid change to many parts of the world, including Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, much of the scholarship and debate surrounding the impact of digital technologies remains highly Western-centric. In Indonesia, digital platforms have been used to organise mass rallies, assist…

APSA is the Asia Pacific Sociological Association, established by the late Emeritus Professor John Western (University of Queensland) and a number of sociology colleagues from the Asia Pacific region in 1996. Our goals are to establish a network to link sociological associations, sociology departments and individual sociologists in the Asia Pacific region as well as to encourage co-operation between sociologists, planners and policy makers at both the regional and community level. APSA is a member of International Sociological Association and has productive networks…