May 15, 2017

IN THE NEWS: "China Wants to Dynamite the Mekong River to Increase Trade"

May 15, 2017/ CSDS Chula

By Liam Cochrane [ABC, 15 May 2017]

Environmental groups in Thailand are concerned about China's plan to blast shallow parts of the Mekong River to allow heavy shipping...But the Mekong blasting, like the One Belt One Road summit, is about more than just trade....

April 22, 2017

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "The Politics of the 2011 Bangkok Floods" by Dr. Danny Marks [4 May 2017]

April 22, 2017/ CSDS Chula

Using a case study of Bangkok in the 2011 floods, Danny Marks shows that vulnerability to the floods in Bangkok were a combination of exposure to floods and capacity to cope with them. Although heavy rainfall in 2011 inundated the Chao Phraya River Basin in central Thailand, a number of human activities interacted to multiply the impacts of the floods. The impacts were not always evenly felt or distributed at local to national scales or across geographical and social landscapes. The talk explores how state actors together with unequal socioeconomic processes caused vulnerability to be unevenly distributed before, during, and after the floods.

April 21, 2017

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Web of Relations: The Way of Giving, Taking and Reciprocating in the Moken’s World" by Dr. Narumon Arunotai [28 April 2017]

April 21, 2017/ CSDS Chula

Through looking at the web of relations, especially the way of giving, taking and reciprocating in the Moken’s world, we can understand the mode of thinking, practicing, and policying of other units and groups undertaking their “duties” on the Islands as well.

February 22, 2017

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Understanding an Active Volcana: Animism and Naturalism in Central Javanese Society" by Adeline Martinez [24 February 2017]

February 22, 2017/ CSDS Chula

CSDS and IRASEC are pleased to host the seminar “Understanding an Active Volcano: Animism and Naturalism in Central Javanese Society” by Adeline Martinez on Friday 24 February 14:30. All are welcome to join.

January 10, 2017

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Politics of Nature Conservation in Thailand" by Dr. Pinkaew Laungaramsri [20 January 2017]

January 10, 2017/ CSDS Chula

This talk focuses on the process of social production of“nature” within the changing political economy of modern Thailand.

January 09, 2017

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Building Infrastructures. Monitoring Development" by Casper Bruun Jensen [24 January 2017]

January 09, 2017/ CSDS Chula

Casper Bruun Jensen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Osaka University. He is a Science, Technology and Society (STS) scholar. His theoretical and ethnographic works cover a wide range of issues such as Practical Ontology, Symmetrical Anthropology/Amodernism, Lateral Analysis, Multinaturalism/Environment, Development and Infrastructure.

December 18, 2016

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "The Visual of Walls: Borders, Flows and Morality by Prof. William A Callahan [21 November 2016]

December 18, 2016/ CSDS Chula

The Visual Politics of Walls: Borders, Flows and Morality by Professor Dr. William A. Callahan of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

December 14, 2016

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

December 14, 2016/ CSDS Chula

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.

November 08, 2016

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

November 08, 2016/ CSDS Chula

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.

November 03, 2016

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Societies and Environments in Southeast Asia" [November 2016 - November 2017]

November 03, 2016/ CSDS Chula

A series of public seminar on Societies and Environments in Southeast Asia

October 26, 2016

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

October 26, 2016/ CSDS Chula

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.

October 26, 2016

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

October 26, 2016/ CSDS Chula

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

February 02, 2016

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

February 02, 2016/ CSDS Chula

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) .

September 02, 2015

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "2015 Constitution and Thailand's Political Reform: Solution or Dead-end" [3 September 2015]

September 02, 2015/ CSDS Chula

This event was held at the alumni hall of Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University at 1 PM. There were a number of participants from a combination of human right organization, people's freedom organization, academics and press. The key speakers are, Dr. Likit Therawekin, Mr.Adisorn Kerdmongkol, Dr. Chanthana Wankeaw, Mr. Pairoj Polpetch and Dr. Bantoon Sethasiroj who is a member of the drafting committee.

July 14, 2015

UPCOMING WORKSHOP: "Chula - Right Livelihood Summer School" [24 July – 7 August, 2015]

July 14, 2015/ CSDS Chula

To realize this mission four organizations have prepared to pioneer the co-creation of the international Chulalongkorn University – Right Livelihood Summer School. This is a proposed partnership between Chulalongkorn University and its Master Program in International Development Studies (MAIDS), the Right Livelihood College, and Sathirakoses Nagapradipa Foundation / Suan Nguen Mee Ma social enterprise. The academia – civil society partnership is planned to be inaugurated during the CURLS 2015.

July 06, 2015

UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Tell the Truth: When Freedom Becomes Crime" [6 July 2015]

July 06, 2015/ CSDS Chula

Tell the Truth: When Freedom becomes Crime", Public seminar @ Chula PolSci, 2 pm 6 July 2015

July 05, 2015

IN THE NEWS: “The problem that refuses to stay silent”

July 05, 2015/ CSDS Chula

By Achara Ashayagachat [Bangkok Post, 5 July 2015]

Making noise: Supporters of the 14 student activists, including Wiboon Bunpattaraksa, the father of detained law student Jatupat, demand their release from military detention. The students' arrest and late-night appearance in a military court has spurred a wave of dissent.

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