UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Public Seminar on Human Rights" by Ronald L. Holzhacker and Stanati Netipatalachoochote [24 May 2017]

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9:00-11:30, Alumni Meeting Room, 12th Floor, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Co-organized by the Master of Arts in International Development Studies (MAIDS), the MA in Southeast Asian Studies Program (SEAS), the Institute for Asian Studies, the Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) of the the Faculty of Political Science Chulalongkorn University.

 

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

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

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. 

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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]

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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]

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. 

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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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]

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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