Reflections on the future of Myanmar Studies
This paper was first drafted for the Myanmar-Europe Research Network conference held at the University of Turin, Italy, in October 2019. A previous version was published, in Italian, as Nicholas...
View ArticleIntroducing the New Mandala Flickr group
Welcome to the new, visual frontier of New Mandala: our newly installed Flickr group. We invite authors and readers alike to share their Creative Common licensed photographs from research fieldwork,...
View ArticleLetter from the editor: Will Australia’s “place” in Asia seem like history...
Recent months have seen dreadful attacks on the value of knowledge about, and from Asia in Australia—indeed in recent days on the pursuit of knowledge in general. While our politicians defend...
View ArticleIdentities, institutions, and intellectual aspirations: the praxis and study...
Identity permeates the work of political science. It intertwines with political praxis and structures—the what that political scientists study—even as political scientists’ own identities colour their...
View ArticleTraumatic Pasts in Asia: The editors’ account
Mark Micale and Hans Pols, eds. Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma, 1930 to the Present. New York: Berghahn, 2021. You can also read a review of the same book, by Jason...
View ArticleAlatas and autonomous knowledge
This article is based on seminar titled “Alatas and Autonomous Knowledge” which will be presented in the ANU Malaysia Institute Seminar Series 2021 on Thursday, 30 September, 2021 – 16:00 to 17:10...
View ArticleSalvaging Southeast Asian history: shipwrecks and Chinese blue-and-white
The recent discovery and salvage of two wrecks in Singaporean waters, tentatively dated to the 14th and 18th centuries, exemplifies the potential of sunken ships to transform our understanding of the...
View ArticleCoercing mobility: Territory, displacement & SE Asian Muslim Movements
Mobility, circulation, and cosmopolitan connection are increasingly important themes in Southeast Asian history and historiography. Fuelled by strategic investments in studying inter-Asian connections...
View ArticlePeople’s power and resistance in Southeast Asia in comparison: a roundtable
In cooperation with the convenor, Nhu Truong, New Mandala is pleased to share a series of articles based on papers presented at the People’s Power and Resistance in Southeast Asia Roundtable at the...
View ArticleWatch: Deepening the Australia-Indonesia relationship through study abroad &...
ANU is world renowned as a centre for excellence in Indonesia-focused research and engagement. Through short study tours, the extensive ‘Year in Asia’ program, and extended postgraduate degrees, ANU...
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