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March 2018
Workshop East Javanese Batik
Batik is a well-known traditional fabric of Indonesia that employs a technique of applying wax-resist dyeing to the cloth either by drawing dots and lines with a spouted tool (canting), or by printing various motives with a copper stamp (cap). The wax-resist prevents dyes to penetrate, so that only the parts without wax will be colored. Wax can then be removed with boiling water and a new color eventually applied until the design is completed. Most people are familiar with batik from Central…
Find out more »Lecture by Rosalia Sciortino on “Gender, Peace and Security” for International Institute of Peace and Development Studies (IIPDS) – Closed event
Since its debut in 2005, the annual peace studies programs have empowered a network of community leaders, activists and scholars from across the world. The School of Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation focuses on understanding peace and conflict in local, regional and international contexts, conflict analysis, its positive transformation, violence prevention. Participants will gain skills relevant to peace-building and creative peace advocacy and actions from grassroots, national and international levels. The International Institute of Peace and Development Studies is…
Find out more »Southeast Asia Mini Book Fair
GET A BOOK, SUPPORT SEA JUNCTION! Once a month, SEA Junction holds a mini book fair focusing on Southeast Asia. Three kinds of books are displayed: New books given in consignment from recognized publishers with an interest in the countries of Southeast Asia including Silkworm Books from Thailand, ISEAS from Singapore and Yayasan Pustaka Obor from Indonesia. New and used books that are double to those of SEA Junction’s Library. They include books in Thai, English and Indonesian on various…
Find out more »Conversation on the “Ups and Downs of Interfaith Dialogue in Southeast Asia” with Father Greg Soetomo (Closed Event)
Ngobrol with Father Greg Soetomo, SJ, about the Ups and Downs of Building Inter-Religious Dialogue at SEA Junction at 10-11 am, on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. Followed by a potluck lunch. (Closed Event). Father Greg, a Jesuit who is active in dialogue with Muslim community, graduated cumlaude as a doctor of Islamic studies from Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta, May last year. He is active in various interfaith dialogue networks both in Indonesia and abroad, as well as…
Find out more »Panel Discussion on Migrant Labor in the Thai Fishing Industry at a Time of International Scrutiny
The practices of Thailand's fishing industry have been under scrutiny by the international community since media exposes in 2015 found use of trafficked fishermen were systematic and pervasive. Under pressure of the European Union's 'yellow card' listing of Thailand as a country violating EU requirements on fishing practices, and the US government's listing of Thailand as Tier 3, the worst of the worst, in the US annual Trafficking in Persons report, the Thai government has implemented far reaching reforms in…
Find out more »April 2018
Southeast Asia Mini Book Fair
GET A BOOK, SUPPORT SEA JUNCTION! Once a month, SEA Junction holds a mini book fair focusing on Southeast Asia. Three kinds of books are displayed: New books given in consignment from recognized publishers with an interest in the countries of Southeast Asia including Silkworm Books from Thailand, ISEAS from Singapore and Yayasan Pustaka Obor from Indonesia. New and used books that are double to those of SEA Junction’s Library. They include books in Thai, English and Indonesian on various…
Find out more »Class on Migration and Health Policy by Jerrold W. Hughet (open to students)
On Friday 20 April 2018, renowned migration expert Jerrold W. Hughet will give a class for the MA students of the Migration and Health Course (PR 644) of the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR) of Mahidol University at SEA Junction at 1-4 PM. In view of the high relevance of this topic the class will also be open to interested students of other universities. There is a close and multi-dimensional link between migration and health that requires research…
Find out more »Photo Exhibition Living amongst the Dead: Disparity in Manila North Cemetery by Eva Rapoport
Brief Description On 21 April at 5PM SEA Junction will address a somewhat “dark” topic giving a glimpse of the cemetery slums of Manila with the launch of a photo exhibition “Living amongst the dead: Disparity in Manila North Cemetary by photographer and researcher Eva Rapoport. The exhibition to last until 29 April at our location will expose photographs taken by the photographer in May 2017. Most of the Asian big cities represent some peculiar patchwork of luxury and extreme…
Find out more »Launch Photo Exhibition Living amongst the Dead: Disparity in Manila North Cemetery by Eva Rapoport
Brief Description On 21 April at 5PM SEA Junction will address a somewhat “dark” topic giving a glimpse of the cemetery slums of Manila with the launch of a photo exhibition “Living amongst the dead: Disparity in Manila North Cemetary by photographer and researcher Eva Rapoport. The exhibition to last until 29 April at our location will expose photographs taken by the photographer in May 2017. Most of the Asian big cities represent some peculiar patchwork of luxury and extreme…
Find out more »30 years of Work Migration from Thailand to Israel: A talk by Shahar Shoham
Foreign workers from Southeast Asia, predominantly Thailand and the Philippines, play a significant role in Israel’s overall economy. Thais have been migrating to work as temporary agriculture labourers in Israeli farms for the last three decades. The vast majority are from Isaan, a long time sending internal and international out migration region in Thailand. Many of them have been engaged in multiple cycles of migration to two or more destinations during the course of their lives, Israel among them. The…
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