The ASEAS Event Series includes a programme of in person events and webinars that bring together the latest research and debates within Southeast Asian Studies, as well as sessions on professional development for postgraduate students early career researchers.
Upcoming Events
International PhD Workshop 2026
30-31 July 2026 / Monash University Malaysia
This international PhD workshop is an excellent opportunity for current and prospective PhD students to receive an intensive review of chapters and proposals by senior advisors. Likewise, this is a great way to meet like-minded PhD students and experts working in Southeast Asia, to exchange views on cutting edge research and the most critical issues of the day. Participants will benefit from additional skills sessions on ‘career development’ and ‘how to get published’.
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Previous Events
International PhD Workshop 2025
20-21 May 2025 / Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand
International PhD Workshop
21-22 May 2024 / Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
The inaugural ASEAS international PhD workshop, hosted by the Universitas Brawijaya and sponsored by the University of Leeds, was an excellent opportunity for current and prospective PhD students to receive an intensive review of their papers and proposals by senior advisors. It was also a great way to meet like-minded PhD students and experts working in Southeast Asia, to exchange views on cutting edge research and the most critical issues of the day. Participants also benefited from additional skills sessions on ‘career development’ and ‘how to get published’.
Warwick ASEAN Conference (WAC) Case Competition 2024
Saturday 17 February 2024 / 9.00am-4.00pm GMT / University of Warwick Central Campus
Join ASEAS Chair Dr Adam Tyson at this year’s Warwick ASEAN Conference Case Competition.
The case competition is an exciting opportunity for college and university students to show off their problem solving and critical thinking skills in front of a panel of esteemed judges (including ASEAS Chair Dr Adam Tyson), with a chance to win up to £200 cash prize!
Beyond that, it is also a great platform for networking with Warwick University’s students, faculty staff, as well as professionals from the private sectors.
Teams will be given a task relating to this year’s theme ‘Colonial Tourism’ and need to work together to pitch innovative solutions to the panel of judges. Individuals will be assigned a team and tasks will be posted on 16 February.
For more information and to sign up, please visit tinyurl.com/wacinfopack.
Indonesia’s 2024 Elections: Political Brokerage and Gender Representation
Thursday 13 July 2023 / 12.00-1.15pm BST / Online
Join ASEAS for a fascinating webinar examining brokerage politics and women’s representation in post-pandemic political discourse in the run up to Indonesia’s 2024 elections.
The webinar is open to all and is free to attend.
Speakers
President Jokowi’s brokerage role in the 2024 elections
Rendy Pahrun Wadipalapa, BRIN
In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election in Indonesia, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), who has served the maximum two terms, has indicated support for possible successors. The president has given signs of endorsement for at least two candidates, controversial Defence Minister and Gerindra Party chairman Prabowo Subianto, and Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo. In what appears to be a pattern of brokerage politics, the outgoing president can use his extensive network of supporters and volunteers to swing voters and influence the outcome of the 2024 election. Jokowi has hinted also at his support for vice presidential candidates, and has arranged a series of meetings with political party leaders. This endorsement strategy arguably demonstrates Jokowi’s intention to remain a major political player in his post-tenure days. Such a strategy creates tensions between Jokowi’s political faction and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), particularly Megawati Soekarnoputri. This session will explore the ‘kingmaker’ brokerage role in the context of Indonesian politics and elections.
Rendy Pahrun Wadipalapa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). He completed his PhD in 2022 at the University of Leeds. Email: rendypw@gmail.com
Gender politics in contemporary Indonesia
Vivien Sylvina and Indra Prawira, Binus University
The COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia sparked a form of digital-based gender activism led by women related to job security and access to essential services. Despite the rise of activism, women’s representation in the post-pandemic national political discourse remains poor. As the 2024 elections approach in Indonesia, gender narratives on social media are dominated by topics such as infidelity and domestic violence, with little focus on the representation of women in politics (UN Women 2023; Google Trends March–May 2023). Female politicians in Indonesia receive minimal scrutiny from the media. This session examines the structural factors that contribute to the underperformance of women in politics, explores the disengagement of women politicians with popular culture and narratives, and analyses the 2024 elections as a pivotal landscape for women politicians to leverage digital platforms and challenge traditional power structures.
Indra Prawira is a professional journalist and lecturer specialist at Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He completed his PhD in 2020 from Northumbria University, UK. Email: iprawira@binus.edu
Vivien Sylvina is a lecturer at Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Her research focuses on media and gender, as well as political, cultural and interpersonal communication. Email: vivien.sylvina@binus.edu
‘Drive to School’ Film Screening and Conversation
Thursday 29 June 2023 / 1.00-2.00pm BST / Online
Funded by the ASEAS Research Impact Award, Drive to School is a short film that documents the motivations of young Christian missionaries Charles and Ai who are striving to bring education and hope to Cambodia’s stateless children. Moved by witnessing the vulnerability to prostitution these children face to make ends meet, they attempt to offer alternative routes to learning and employment. Not without challenges along the way.
Join the Association of Southeast Asian Studies for a free online film screening of Drive to School. After the viewing, Professor Deirdre McKay (Keele University) will be joined by film maker Dr Charlie Rumsby (University of Sussex) for a Q&A with the audience to discuss the film, the subject it raises and the making of.
Dr Charlie Rumsby is a writer, film maker and an anthropologist who has researched the issue of statelessness in Cambodia since 2013. Charlie is interested in capturing the work of those people who stand in the gap for marginalised communities, bringing peace and hope. This is her first ethno-documentary created in collaboration with friend and fellow film maker Pip Cree.
The film screening and in conversation is open to all and is free to attend.
Southeast Asia Research: In Country Experiences
Wednesday 10 May 2023 / 12.00-1.30pm BST / Online
This free roundtable discussion in collaboration with the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre will focus on the in-country research climate and future of research in Indonesia and the Philippines. An Early Career Researcher focused session, it will feature researchers sharing their experiences of operating within changing political climates, and creating and sustaining local partnerships amongst other issues.
The roundtable will take place as part of the LSE Southeast Asia Forum which includes programming over four days looking at Southeast Asia Urban, Political, Environmental, and Economic Futures.
Click here to register via Eventbrite.
Speaker and Chair Biographies
Dr. Sol Iglesias is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She has a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies and an MA in Political Science from the National University of Singapore, as well as an MA in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a BA in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines. She won the 2023 Short Residency in Southeast Asia/Social Justice award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She was an American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Asia Program fellow in 2021 and had been selected as an emerging scholar on democracy and autocracy by the APSA Democracy and Autocracy Committee in 2020. She was selected as a Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG) Fellow in 2017. Sol is currently writing a book, The Dynamics of Political Violence in the Philippines, on the central-local interactions that produced violence in the democratic interregnum between the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and authoritarianism under Duterte.
Prof. Julio Teehankee is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at De La Salle University where he served as Chair of the Political Science Department (1994-2007); Chair of the International Studies Department (2008-2013); and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (2013-2017). He also served as President of the Philippine Political Science Association (2017-2019) and the Asian Political and International Studies Association (2009-2011). He was the Philippine representative to the Council of the International Political Science Association (2019-2021). He is also the Regional Manager of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He has held several visiting appointments that include Kyoto University, Australian National University, City University of Hong Kong, Osaka University, University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In 2022, he was invited as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, the London School of Economics and Political Science. He appears regularly as a political analyst for local and international media outlets and his YouTube channel – “Talk Politics with Julio Teehankee.”
Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. He also serves as the Executive Secretary of the University’s ASEAN Study Center. His research interests are issues on the entanglements between multiple scales of governance: global, regional, national, and local. Shofwan looks at how local and national political economic dynamics continuously and mutually interact with the evolution in global and regional orders. His works have appeared in various academic and popular platforms, including Asia Europe Journal, Asian Perspective, Pacific Affairs, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Forest Policy and Economics, Asian Politics & Policy, Indonesia, Good Governance Africa, Global, Nikkei Asia, The Jakarta Post, Kompas, and Media Indonesia, among others. Apart from academic works, he also frequently assists policy makers to design better policies and strategies. Shofwan also hosts a popular podcast for Indonesian youth on Indonesian perspectives on international relations, Podcast Bebas Aktif and co-founds Kontekstual Media.
Poppy S. Winanti is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM). She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Glasgow and two Master’s Degrees (an MSc in International Political Economy from the LSE and an MPP from the KDI School of Public Policy). Her research interests cover global and regional trade relations in the global political economy; conflict and the political economy of natural resources and extractive industries; Indonesia’s economic diplomacy; and South-South Cooperation. Her recent publications include state capacity in energy transition, localizing global norms in extractive sectors, resource nationalism, regulatory framework on IPR in Indonesia, Indonesia-Australia trade relations in the Indo-Pacific Era, and Indonesia’s South-South Cooperation.
Prof. Hyun Bang Shin (@urbancommune) is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of speculative urbanisation, gentrification and displacement, urban spectacles, and urbanism with particular attention to Asian cities. His books include Planetary Gentrification (Polity, 2016), Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Exporting Urban Korea? Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience (Routledge, 2021), and The Political Economy of Mega Projects in Asia: Globalization and Urban Transformation (Routledge, forthcoming). He is Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and is also a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation.
Southeast Asia Studies Social
Thursday 11 May 2023 / from 4.00pm BST / Temple Brew House, London
ASEAS welcomes anyone who is working on or has an interest in Southeast Asian Studies to this social networking event at Temple Brew House in London on 11 May 2023. The event will be a great opportunity to meet with fellow academics, students, practitioners and activists who all share an interest in Southeast Asian research and culture.
This social is hosted in partnership with Chatham House and the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. Temple Brew House can be found at 46 Essex Street, Temple, London, WC2R 3JF. We hope to see you there!
The event is free to attend, click here to sign up via Eventbrite
ASEAS(UK) in conversation with the authors of Plantation Life
Friday 3 December 2021 1.00pm to 2.30pm (GMT)
Online via Zoom
Click here to find out more and to watch a recording of the event
ASEAS(UK) Postdoc Funding Workshop for ASEAS Members Only
Thursday 11 November 2021 12.00pm to 2.00pm (GMT)
Online via Zoom
Southeast Asia Digital Summer School
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and ASEAS(UK)
Thursday 20 May 2021 12.00pm to Wednesday 26 May 2.45pm (BST)
Click here to find out more and watch recordings of each event
Covid-19 and Political Polarisation in Indonesia
16 November 2020 – 10am BST/GMT [5pm Bangkok/Hanoi/Jakarta/Phnom Penh/Vientiane; 6pm Manila/Singapore/KL]
Click here to find out more and watch a recording of the event
Southeast Asian National Responses to Covid-19
2 July 2020 – 10am BST [5pm Manila / Singapore / KL; 4pm Bangkok]
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