UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Beyond Nature and Culture of Modern Thai Water Engineering, the Ontology of Infrastructure" by Jakkrit Sangkhamanee [16 December 2016]

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UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Beyond Nature and Culture of Modern Thai Water Engineering, the Ontology of Infrastructure" by Jakkrit Sangkhamanee [16 December 2016]

The talk will explore Thailand's Royal Irrigation Department Museum for Heavy Engineering where the works and lives of engineers are displayed and narrated and their machines exhibited.

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IN THE NEWS: "Salween River Dams Intrude on Contested Land"

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IN THE NEWS: "Salween River Dams Intrude on Contested Land"

By Brett Walton [Circle of Blue, 8 November 2016]

In a HotSpots H2O interview with Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton, Dr. Carl Middleton discusses the strain that hydropower development is adding to one of the region’s most politically, culturally, and biologically diverse watersheds. Dr. Middleton, director of the Center for Social Development Studies at Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, also explores alternate futures for the Salween River.

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "2016 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food, and Energy" [9-11 November 2016]

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "2016 Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food, and Energy" [9-11 November 2016]

The Greater Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy has been planned as an annual event with the first iteration occurring in 2011. It is the largest event of its kind in the Mekong Region. 

It is a major, regional knowledge-sharing event, interfacing knowledge producers with knowledge users.

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "Mekong, Salween and Red Rivers: Sharing Knowledge and Perspectives Across Borders" [12 November 2016]

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UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: "Mekong, Salween and Red Rivers: Sharing Knowledge and Perspectives Across Borders" [12 November 2016]

The objectives of the International Conference on the Mekong, Salween and Red Rivers:

Sharing Knowledge and Perspectives Across Borders are:

  • For research fellows to present their research findings in full, and receive feedback from discussants and other participants
  • To enable networking between fellowship programs, including with alumni from past fellowships
  • To evaluate the impact of existing and past research fellowship programs, and deliberate future direction
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UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "The Mekong: Law, Dams and Development [17 February 2016]

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UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "The Mekong: Law, Dams and Development [17 February 2016]

Authors Ben Boer, Philip Hirsch and Natalia Scurrah (University of Sydney) will introduce the book, to be followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience with responses from all five authors, including Fleur Johns (University of New South Wales) and Ben Saul (University of Sydney) .

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