Student Scholarships for ANU Asia Pacific Week 2012
The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra is offering a number of scholarships for Honours, Masters and Doctoral students to attend Asia Pacific Week from 8-13 July 2012. This year’s ANU...
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Analysing Asia books
Back in 2010 I offered a quick analysis of various issues in Southeast Asian Studies based on data from Google Books. This data helps us to examine the frequency with which particularly words are used...
View ArticleColumbia and ANU discuss Asia’s promising trends
I recently recorded a series of interviews with prominent Asia scholars from Columbia University and the Australian National University. These interviews are part of an emerging collaboration between...
View ArticleWhat keeps you up at night?
Back in March I asked a group of leading academic analysts from Columbia University and the Australian National University to reflect on the question, “Based on what you know of the Asia-Pacific...
View ArticleAustralia and the US in the “Asian Century”
In recent weeks I have drawn New Mandala reader attention to a series of interviews (here and here) with a number of prominent Columbia University and Australian National University academics. These...
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Southeast Asian Affairs 2012
Each year the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore produces an edited journal/book with a wide range of contributions dealing with recent events in the ten countries of the region. With...
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Thai Studies at Harvard
The health of Thai Studies internationally is of significant professional and personal interest to many New Mandala readers. Many of you will thus want to follow Harvard University’s plan to establish...
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Australia’s insurgent intellectual
Yesterday we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Desmond Ball’s Special Professorship at the Australian National University in Canberra. It was a tremendous occasion, and one that I was proud to help...
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BookZone 2.0: Honouring Dr Pattana Kittiarsa
We are pleased to announce the new BookZone, BookZone2.0. From now on, we won’t just introduce new books or journals, rather BZ2.0 will capture important themes – topical or historical events,...
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Coups in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Over the past year I have been working with Dr Marcus Mietzner to co-edit a special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Our focus is post-coup societies in Southeast Asia and the...
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Fieldwork in upland Asia
Extract from Chapter 1: Dilemmas and Detours: Fieldwork with Ethnic Minorities in Upland Southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos The topics at the heart of this collection interweave the professional,...
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Activated Borders: Re-openings, Ruptures and Relationships
Activated Borders: Re-openings, Ruptures and Relationships 4th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network Deadline proposals: 1 February 2014 Conference dates: 8-10 December 2014 Venue:...
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Top honour for Professor Des Ball
Many readers will want to know that occasional New Mandala contributor Professor Des Ball will next week be conferred with the Australian National University’s top honour, the Peter Baume Award. This...
View ArticleThe politics of honorary degrees
Last week, the Australian National University (ANU) conferred Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with an honorary doctorate. At the ceremony, ANU Chancellor Gareth Evans stated that “she is an exemplar of quiet...
View ArticleMore Southeast Asia commentary
The Asian Studies Association of Australia produces a regular publication called Asian Currents. It carries short essays of relevance to Asian Studies scholars and other interested groups. The current...
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Review of Personal Names in Asia
Zheng Yangwen and Charles J.-H. Macdonald, editors, Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity. Singapore: NUS Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 339; preface, notes, bibliography, index. Reviewed by...
View ArticleSoutheast Asian borders and research
Hindsight is a wondrous thing. Back in the day, once upon a time, right at the beginning, I didn’t quite realise that my own academic interests were taking root in soil that had, for many years, been...
View ArticleMyanmar Update 2015: Making Sense of Conflict
5 – 6 June 2015, Australian National University, Canberra As rapid political, economic and social change in Myanmar continues, the next Myanmar (Burma) Update conference at the Australian National...
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Happy New Year from New Mandala
2014 was New Mandala‘s busiest year on record. Thanks to everyone who has made it possible — all of the contributors and commentators, but also the dozens of people who labour behind the scenes to...
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