This seminar discussed an inscription that recently surfaced in Paris, arguing that it is changing the history of the ancient Khmer Empire at its apogee in the 12th century. Numbered K. 1297, it shows that Angkor reached its ultimate sway as one of the world’s great empires under Buddhist kings. – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
The seminar attempted to demonstrate, through textual and discourse analysis, that Teo’s poems, although falling into oblivion during Malaya’ s era of decolonisation, constituted a significant part of the post-war Malayan poetry – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
The seminar attempted to discuss issues such as the suspicions about China’s agenda to dominate Indonesia through its participation in Indonesia’s infrastructure projects, and in collaboration with the ethnic Chinese big businessmen and politicians, especially among those who resent the Indonesian government’s close relations with China – Click on to learn more about the seminar.
The seminar attempted to address the following questions – How do IS elements infiltrate and develop in Malaysia? What propaganda and narratives do they use? Why are some Malaysians attracted to IS narratives? And how is Malaysia dealing with the increasing from IS? Click on to find out the answers to these burning questions.
The seminar provided a background of the implications of the Arbitral Tribunal Award in the Philippines vs. China Case on the South China Sea.
The seminar provided an analysis of Malaysia’s capitalism form the perspective of the Régulation framework, which is used to assess two major changes since 2009, namely, ambivalence of the changing State-Business ties and the China-oriented shift of international integration.
The National Gallery’s inaugural exhibition on Singapore art, SIAPA NAMA KAMU?, which opened in November 2015, pushes the beginnings of art in Singapore back to the nineteenth century. This seminar presentation builds on an essay which Mr Kwa Chong Guan was invited to contribute to a forthcoming National Gallery publication.
This lecture discussed the philosophy of the historic Nalanda University and the challenges of transmitting its philosophical praxis in the revived Nalanda University. Dr Anjana Sharma shared about the ways which the university planners impart the Nalanda spirit and philosophy to its curriculum, from the design of the new campus to the crafting of a conference concept.
Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were successfully concluded on 5 October 2015. The free trade agreement has potentially far-reaching economic and geo-political consequences for member and non-member countries. Two distinguished scholars will examine these consequences in the seminar.
As part of the annual Southeast Asia Study Abroad Program, students from Georgia Institute of Technology attended a roundtable discussion with ASEAN Studies Centre to learn more about community-building in ASEAN in the 21st Century.