Friday Forum – Sirikan Charoensiri

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“The State of Thailand’s Human Rights and Democracy after the 2023 Election” Sponsored by the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab)* Sirikan Charoensiri Deputy Director and Lawyer Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) On 14 …

Friday Forum – Daniel Jackson

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Flying Brothers: The Cold War & America’s Airpower Allies in Southeast Asia” Major Daniel Jackson USAF While most Cold War histories of airpower in Southeast Asia focus on unilateral US efforts in Indochina, America’s treaty …

Friday Forum – Marie-Agathe Simonetti

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Photography as Propaganda in the Indochina War (1945-1954): French and Vietnamese Perspectives” Marie-Agathe Simonetti Ph.D. Candidate in Art History University of Wisconsin-Madison The war between France and Việt Nam from 1946 to 1954 was not …

Friday Forum – Cypri Jehan Paju Dale

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“‘We, the Twins of the Dragons’: Indigenous Multispecies Politics and Ecotourism Political Economy in Komodo National Park, Indonesia” Dr. Cypri Jehan Paju Dale Affiliated Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin Madison In Komodo …

Friday Forum – Nicolas Revire

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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“Fact and Fiction on the Advent of Buddhism in the ‘Golden Land'” Nicolas Revire Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Postdoctoral Fellow, Arts of Asia Curatorial Documentation and Research, The Art Institute of Chicago Sponsored …

Friday Forum – Sol Iglesias

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Local Anti-Crime Campaigns and the Emergence of Duterte’s ‘War on Drugs’ in the Philippines” Sol Iglesias Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of the Philippines The national anti-crime campaign under former Philippine President Rodrigo …

Friday Forum – Panel Discussion on Indigeneity in Thailand

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm

Panel Discussion – Indigeneity in Thailand: Challenges and Opportunities Ian Baird, Micah Morton, Po-Tao Chang, and TouSaiko Lee In 2007, Thailand was one of the many countries that signed the historic United Nations Declaration of …

Friday Forum – Tom Jones

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm

“Unmasking a Dictator: Amnesty International Mission to the Philippines (1975)” Tom Jones Poet, Photographer, Human Rights Activist The Amnesty International mission consisted of Asia Researcher Wen-hsien Huang, a member of Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, and …

Friday Forum – Sera Koulabdara

336 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“The Legacies of War: Physical Scars and Invisible Wounds, Past, Present & Future” Sera Koulabdara CEO of Legacies of War and Chair of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions Coalition Sera will …