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Southeast Asia Digital Summer School
This week-long Digital Summer School is especially designed to support Early Career Researchers with insights, networking, and support as they begin their academic careers.
The event will take place over three days (Thursday 20, Monday 24, and Wednesday 26 May) from 12-2.45pm BST each day, and will feature 6 sessions covering a wide range of topics such as: succeeding in publishing; decolonising research; and post-academic and alt-academic career paths; alongside a networking event for ASEAS members and SEAC’s ECR Network members.
Early Career Researchers and students can get £5 off ASEAS membership in the run up to the event.
Review of: Sabina Lawreniuk & Laurie Parsons, Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020
Going Nowhere Fast explains why inequality persists at a time when so many people are on the move in search of a better life.
Review of: Sabina Lawreniuk & Laurie Parsons, Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020
This is a slim book – just 140 pages – but an important one for scholars interested in contemporary processes of social and economic transformation in Cambodia, and Southeast Asia more widely.
ASEAS(UK) Annual General Meeting
This year the ASEAS AGM was due to take place during September’s conference, however following its postponement this year’s AGM will now take place online at 1pm on Tuesday 3 November 2020. All … Continue reading ASEAS(UK) Annual General Meeting
Review of: Wasana Wongsurawat, The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019
The Crown and the Capitalists provides a notably de-nationalized, trans-nationalized, and inter-nationalized account of modern Thai history, with implications well worthy of consideration and further exploration over the years to come.
ASEAS(UK) 