In commemoration of the bicentennial of Stamford Raffles’s establishment of an East India Company settlement on Singapore in 1819, the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (NSC), at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, has organised a special lecture series entitled ‘1819 and Before: Singapore’s Pasts’. This seminar series aims to introduce the premodern and early history of Singapore and to locate it in the broader region.
This is the seventh instalment of a special lecture series commemorating Singapore’s bicentennial anniversary, “1819 and Before: Singapore’s Pasts”. Dr Iain Sinclair, Visiting Fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (NSC), deliver a lecture on “The Inception of Lion City”.
Dr Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, a political scientist from the Chulalongkorn University, stressed that the 24 March elections made clear that Thai politics was more complex and exciting than a straightforward contest between elites and democratic forces.
This seminar travelled between Peninsular Malaysia and the eastern states of Sabah and Sarawak to explore the main issues faced by Malaysia’s indigenous communities. Much of the session focused on land rights and conflicts that arise from the disregard of indigenous rights to customary and ancestral lands.
Dr Katewadee Kulabkaew’s seminar addressed the enduring but complicated role of Buddhism in Thai politics.
This seminar is the first in the series of seminars on Industry 4.0 policies in Southeast Asia.
Social media is increasingly playing a vital role in Indonesia’s 2019 Presidential Campaign. Two prominent experts in the field, Mr Yose Rizal, founder of PoliticaWave.com, and Dr Ross Tapsell, senior lecturer and researcher at Australia National University, were at ISEAS to discuss the impact of social media on the election.
Dr Prajak Kongkirati, Assistant Professor, Head of the Department of Government and Associate Dean for Research and Academic Services in the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University Bangkok, delivered a highly engaging seminar on Thailand’s elections scheduled for 24 March 2019.
23 Niigata University students visited ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute for their Spring Seminar this year, under the ISEAS’s Outreach Programme for University Students (OPUS).
Organised by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in partnership with Temasek Foundation Connects, this 3-day seminar took place at the National Reconciliation and Peace Centre Meeting Hall in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.